Your Movie Life Meme, part 1

Swiping a new movie themed meme from Tom the Dog. Basically you pick out your favorite movie for each year you've been alive. He used wikipedia apparantly, but I'm liking MyVideoStore...

So starting with 1975:

'75: The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Almost went with Jaws, but really that one doesn't get good and interesting until the three of them get on the boat. Still a bunch of movies from this year I should see or catch again (A Boy & His Dog, The Flying Guillotine, The Man Who Would be King)...

'76: Assault on Precinct 13. Who doesn't love a movie about an inter-racial group of crazed Sabbat LARPers laying siege to a police station. Also given that I'm having it beat out Logan's Run, Taxi Driver, The Gumball Rally and The Shootist I think we'll be seeing a trend of cheesy fun over quality. Movies I Should Have Seen By Now But Haven't: Marathon Man and Rocky. Yeah, I know. I've just never got around to watching it...

'77: Oh no contest. Star Wars: A New Hope. Yeah I love Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Slapshot. And Race For Your Life Charlie Brown is my favorite of the Peanuts movies. And sure there is no greater movie about a vengeance driven whale vs. George C Scott than Orca (suck it Ahab!). But c'mon. Its fucking Star Wars. Quality Movie Thats Somewhere in my Netflix queue: Sorcerer

'78: Drunken Master. Probably one of Chan's best movies. And while I love Reeves' Superman and SCENES from the series, I'm still not the biggest fan of Superman: The Movie. Movies That Are Just Weird: TWO movies about bees. (The Bees and The Swarm). A Dr. Strange movie. Dracula's Dog? Really? I'll have to see that, because seriously I've just HAVE to know. Also, The Wiz. Oh dear god. The Wiz...

'79: This was a tough year to choose in. Alien, Escape From Alcatraz, The Jerk, The Frisco Kid, Meatballs and Mad Max? Maybe if I'd ever watched it I'd go the cinema classic route for Apocalypse Now. But I haven't. And even then I STILL might choose The Black Hole. I love scrappy robots. Movies That Shouldn't Have Happened: There are TWO movies with Reb Brown as Captain America for this year. TWO. That just can not be true. It has to be some kind of cruel hoax...

'80: A pair of enjoyable camp movies that tempted me to be picked, Hawk the Slayer and Flash Gordon. Also you've got Nicholson at his finest in The Shining and Terrance Stamp as Zod in Superman II. But holy crap, this was a good year for comedy. 9 to 5, Caddyshack, Stir Crazy, Airplane! and Used Cars. All contenders (I especially love Dabney Coleman in 9 to 5). But I have to give the nod for favorite from that year to The Blues Brothers. Funny AND one of the best musicals ever. Movie I need to check out: The Secret of Nikola Tesla starring Orson Welles. Welles was in a movie about Tesla? How did this escape my knowledge? Movie That is TERRIBLE but I Keep Telling People to Watch Anyway Because I'm Mean: The Octagon. Chuck Norris fights ninjas. You want to see it. You know it. Dooooo it...

'81: More excellent choices; An American Werewolf in London, Stripes, Raiders of the Last Ark and A History of the World, part 1. Plus some nerd movies; Clash of the Titans and Dragonslayer. But I have to go with one I saw for the first time relatively recently. Because Das Boot is both really enjoyable AND really well made. Movie That Scared the Everloving Hell Out of Me When I Was 5: Time Bandits. *shrug*

'82: I'm going to lose a bunch of nerd cred on this one. Because in a year with The Dark Crystal, Tron, Bladerunner, Conan the Barbarian, The Thing, Firefox, Airplane II: The Sequel, Poltergeist and Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan? My favorite is The Last Unicorn. Movies I Can't Believe I've Actually Seen: Megaforce, Timerider, Mazes & Monsters and Zapped!. Yes I have seen Scott Baio's finest cinematic moment. Bonus - Best Use of Ferrets in a Movie: The Beastmaster...

'83: Despite my die hard defense of the awesome fury of ewoks, I'm not giving the nod to Return of the Jedi. Instead I have to give it up for WarGames. Other strong contenders, the jr. high D&D game turned into a movie Krull, Trading Places and Canada's second greatest movie Strange Brew. Movies About People Hitting Dinosaurs With Axes: Fire & Ice and Yor, Hunter From the Future...

'84: As I was going down the list for this year's movies, one jumped out to the front and knocked down all comers. And these are personal favorites. Red Dawn, The Terminator, Ghostbusters, Footloose, The Last Starfighter, The Bear, Runaway, Firestarter. Not even my second favorite Coen brother's movie Blood Simple could displace it. Nope, all the glory goes to The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Fifth Dimension. Movie Made With the Fewest Sober People: Repo Man...

'85: Man, Michael J. Fox in Back to the Future or Teen Wolf? John Cusack in Better Off Dead or The Sure Thing? The Goonies or Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins. The Breakfast Club or Real Genius? Brewster's Millions or Spies Like Us? Nah. It has to be the most perfect "classic" Western Silverado. Most Perfect Example of What Chuck Norris Brings to the Table EVER: Invasion U.S.A.

Man, this took forever. Time for a break. More later...

New Comics Day 7/23

I just want to say that, like nearly all Marvel Event Cross-overs, the time line for Secret Invasion doesn't seem to make any sense. Maybe if I were actually trying to follow all the titles and not just putting up with it interfering with those Marvel books I do get. Really nothing in the damn Skrull mob jumping into New York works when I look at it trying to match things together...

Blah!

Anyway, this week I got Avengers: The Initiative with 3-D Man having a bad crash and Crusader choosing a side. Though I keep looking at the damn Times Square fight and I trying to make it work with the one in the actual SI book and the others. And where does the damn YA/Runaways book thats due out fit in? STUPID BAD EDITING!

And speaking of annoying Giant Events and the mocking of them, DC gives us the first issue of Ambush Bug: Year None. Its interesting. But I'm not sure if the humor of it is working for me. Maybe if I'd read the previous stuff. Or I was one of those who were deeply nostalgiac for stuff like Sugar & Spike, 'Mazing Man or Captain Carrot & the Zoo Crew. Then maybe they're cameos being used to parody the more "mature" modern DC comics would work better. Oh well, we'll see where the rest of the series goes...

Also got Image's Monster Pile-Up, which is four short stories meant to push Astounding Wolf-Man, Firebreather, Perhapanauts and Proof. Still not interested in Kirkman's super-gore werewolf super-hero but I'll try to remember to take another look at Perhapanauts. And I already get the other two. Anyway, the Firebreather short about a wanna be super-villain is my favorite of the four...

And again from Kirkman, we have a new Invincible, where Mark gets a new costume. One that matches better with that of his little brother, Kid Omni-Man! Plus more fall-out from the split in the Guardians of the Globe over Cecil's attack on Mark...

Lastly we get to DMZ which continues with the election story arc. With the Trustwell company getting up to some nefariousness while Delgado still remains in critical condition after the assassination attack on him...

Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise

Chief Stone (Tom Selleck) returns. In the A plot he's investigating a dead teen-age girl found floating in a local lake. The B plot involves an abusive husband that Jesse attempts to warn off from contesting his divorce. This is the third tv movie, and the only one I ever caught part of when it WAS on CBS. Its also the first I've watched since reading a couple of the Jesse Stone novels. This one just feels slightly off from the others. Maybe its noticing the small changes between the two mediums. Like Molly. I mean I like Viola Davis and all, but its now a little weird since in the book she's an Irish woman...

Just under the wire

Ok, so maybe its AFTER the 23rd for him on the east coast. Still a happy birthday to dunkleza!