Scribblings from the Mitchy Side

Here ya go :)

1. Favourite movie (or Top 5 Faves, Top 10 Faves, Top Oops I Got Carried Away)?
2. Actor(s) you'd happily watch reading the phone book?
3. Actress(es) you'd happily watch reading the phone book?
4. First movie you remember seeing at the cinema as a child?
5. Favourite Disney movie?
6. Preferred cinema snack?
7. First movie that made you cry like a baby?
8. Comedy movie that still makes you cry with laughter?
9. What movie is the most over-rated? (i.e. that one movie everyone claims is a classic but you just don't get it?)
10. What movie most deserved the Best Film Oscar and was cruelly robbed?
11. First horror movie you remember watching?
12. Scariest movie you've ever watched as an adult?
13. First 18 certificate movie you saw (legally or otherwise) at the cinema?
14. Movie you wished you'd never paid money to see?
15. Most underated film actor, past or present (male or female)
16. Most over-rated film actor, past or present (male or female)
17. Is there one film you've watched more than 20 times?
18. If you could make a movie, what sort of movie would you make?
19. Any film(s) that you'd like to rewrite? (change the ending/tweak a character/remove annoying gaping plot holes, that sort of thing)
20. If you could be any movie character, who would you be?
21. Movie character you'd dearly love to smack. Hard. While wearing chainmail gloves?
22. Most romantic movie you've watched and enjoyed? (Or ran screaming from?)
23. Favourite animated (non-Disney) movie?
24. What genre of movies do you prefer?
25. What genre of movies do you avoid like the plague?
26. Is there a specific movie you really cannot stand to watch?
27. Is there a particular actor/actress you cannot stand to watch?
28. Movie that surprised you by being better/worse than you expected?
29. Favourite special effects scene? (CGI or traditional)
30. Your choice of outstanding directors of your generation?

2. Actor(s) you'd happily watch reading the phone book?

Oooh! My all time favourite actor is Paul Newman. Mostly because I fell deeply in love with him in "Somebody Up There Likes Me" which I watched when I was about 5 or 6. First movie that made me understand what movies could do. I can't watch Cool Hand Luke any more because I cry so hard at the end :P I was in hospital when he passed away back in 2008 which was annoying because I wanted to watch all the tributes that would have been on TV. Sniff. Unsurprisingly, I will also watch Robert Redford in practically anything. Which reminds me, MUST put some of his movies on my "I NEED these movies for my collection!" list, I have far too few.

Of the modern crop, I will watch George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Will Smith, Matt Damon, Russell Crowe and Leo Di Caprio in practically anything (although I'm behind a bit with George's stuff, need to catch up). And (with reservations) Tom Cruise. (Yes, I know, he's a grade A jerk but I happen to think he's a damn good actor, with the right project and director. Let's gloss over Eyes Wide Shut and Far and Away, hmm?)


Talking of films, I saw thalinoviel on Friday for dinner, movie and a good ol' gossip. The dear girl is delightfully pregnant and there may have been girly squeeing :) We saw The A Team which I'm pleased to report is thoroughly enjoyable nonsense. Bradley Cooper IS Face, and it helps that he spends a lot of the movie half-nekkid. Mmmm. There were enough nods to the past to keep the fans happy but the movie's forged its own identity and if it's the start of a franchise, it's promising, very promising. Perfect light summer movie watching :) Still not sure about Jessica Biel though.....kinda hoping her role gets recast.

In other news, the office is still blissfully quiet and as there was absolutely no-one in the office sitting behind me today, I was able to loaf in peace :D I love the summer!

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Photographer has been taking WWII photos and superimposing them over shots taken of the same places today. Very beautiful, very moving.