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My favourite genres are musicals and romantic comedies, so I'll start with those.
[cooldance]MUSICALS[cooldance]
*In The Good Old Summertime (1949)
*Singin' in the Rain (1952)
*A Star is Born (1954)
*Moulin Rouge (2001)
*Chicago (2002)
*My Fair Lady (1964)
*For Me & My Gal (1942)
*Hello Dolly (1969)
*The Wizard of Oz (1939)
*Top Hat (1935)
My favourite musical stars are Judy Garland and Gene Kelly.
[love9] ROMANTIC COMEDIES [love9]
*The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996)
*Love Actually (2003)
*Notting Hill (1999)
*Return To Me (2000)
*Bridget Jones' Diary (2001)
*Sleepless in Seattle (1993)
*Just Like Heaven (2005)
*Wimbledon (2004)
*Shakespeare in Love (1998)
*Ghost (1990) (this was the only place I could think of to put it, though it's not really a romcom)
h] PERIOD FILMS h]
*Sense & Sensibility (1995)
*Pride & Prejudice BBC miniseries (1995)
*Much Ado About Nothing (1993)
*Emma (1996)
*The Importance of Being Earnest (2002)
[angel] CLASSICS [angel]
*It Happened One Night (1934)
*Bringing Up Baby (1938)
*Pillow Talk (1959)
*Stage Door (1937)
*Some Like It Hot (1959)
*Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
*Rebecca (1940)
[joker] COMEDIES [joker]
*What's Up, Doc? (1972)
*Foul Play (1978)
*Snatch (2000)
*Clue (1985)
*Seems Like Old Times (1980)
*Spaceballs (1987)
*Dogma (1999)
*Death Becomes Her (1992)
*The Addams Family (1991)
*Junior (1994)
*Big Business (1988)
*Ruthless People (1986)
*Mixed Nuts (1994)
[love10] FAMILY [love10]
*Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey (1993)
*Father of The Bride (1990)
*The Parent Trap (1998)
*Home Alone (1990)
*Miracle on 34 Street (1994)
[sword]ADVENTURE [sword]
*The Princess Bride (1987)
*Peter Pan (2003)
*Hook (1991)
*The Duchess & The Dirtwater Fox (1976)
*Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
*Galaxy Quest (1999)
*Back to the Future (1985)
[sad] [white]DRAMA/white][sad]
*American Beauty (1999)
*Heavenly Creatures (1994)
*Titanic (1997)
*Pleasantville (1998)
*Little Voice (1998)
*Forrest Gump (1994)
*Finding Neverland (2004)
*The Aviator (2004)
*Amadeus (1984)
[colorful] AnImAtEd [colorful]
*Aladdin (1993)
*The Little Mermaid (1989)
*Beauty & The Beast (1991)
*Shrek (2001)
*101 Dalmations (1961)
[popcorn]FAVOURITE ACTORS & ACTRESSES
Judy Garland
Emma Thompson
Katharine Hepburn
Fred Astaire
Ginger Rogers
Cate Blanchett
Judi Dench
Maggie Smith
Johnny Depp
Kevin Spacey
Barbra Streisand
Alan Rickman
Meryl Streep
Julie Andrews
Bette Davis
[hehe] TELEVISION [hehe]
*Buffy the Vampire Slayer
*The Nanny
*Friends
*Frasier
*As Time Goes By
*Dr Quinn, Medicine Woman
*BlackAdder
*Gummi Bears
*Ally McBeal (seasons 1 & 2 only)
*The X-Files
*Once & Again
*Lost
*Desperate Housewives
*Scrubs
*The Thin Blue Line
*Good & Evil
This is just a collection of quotes I like. Have fun!
[laugh]�First of all I want to make one thing quite clear. I never explain anything.�
� Julie Andrews, Mary Poppins
[eyes]-�You don�t use make-up, do you?�
-�What�s the point? I�d still look like me, only in colour.�
- Jeff Bridges & Barbra Streisand, The Mirror has Two Faces
[love1]�I have come here with no expectations; only to declare, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is, and always will be, yours.�
- Hugh Grant, Sense & Sensibility
[roll2]- �I thought you killed the man with the scar?�
- �I did, only he killed him after I killed him � see, I didn�t really kill him, I just stabbed him with the needles! Right after we heard the cuckoo!� *cuckoo*
[tongue]- �You�re just different.�
- �I know I�m different. But from now on, I�m gonna try to be the same.�
[angry2]�Orville, if you do anything to stop this show, I won�t just break our engagement, I�ll break your head!�
- Judy Garland, Summer Stock
[love2]-�When I said I should die a bachelor, I did not think I would live�till I were married!�
- Kenneth Branagh, Much Ado About Nothing
[biggrin]-�Look at me! I�m the greatest, I�m number one!�
-�To me you look like number two, know what I mean?�
- Truman Capote & Peter Falk, Murder by Death
[giveup]-�Strangely enough, it all turns out well.�
-�How?�
-�I don�t know. It�s a mystery.�
- Geoffrey Rush & Tom Wilkinson, Shakespeare in Love
[laugh]-�We got our parts in the Nativity Play. And I�m the lobster. Chief lobster!�
-�There was more than one lobster present at the birth of Jesus?�
- �Duuh.�
[misc1] � �I'm sorry, but I thought I'd better hit you before he did. He's in better shape than I am.�
-Cary Grant, The Philadelphia Story
[sword]-�You got to stand there and read at Sodom and Gomorrah. I had to do all the work.�
- �What work did you do? You lit a few fires.�
- �I rained down sulphur, man. There's a subtle difference.�
[embarrassed]-�Hello, Springtime!�
-�Aren�t you a little out of season?�
-Gene Kelly & Judy Garland, For Me & My Gal
[gonemad]-�When they find out who we are, they�ll let us out.�
-�When they find out who you are, they�ll pad the cell!�
- Katharine Hepburn & Cary Grant, Bringing up Baby
[love9]-�Let me tell you something. Love means never having to say you�re sorry.�
- �That�s the dumbest thing I ever heard.�
[sad3]-�When we enter the Abbey, our worldly clothes are given to the poor.�
-�What about this one?�
-�Oh, the poor didn�t want this one.�
-Julie Andrews & Christopher Plummer, The Sound of Music
[sad6]�The moment I saw him smile, I knew he was just my style�My only regret is we�ve never met, though I dream of him all the while��
-Judy Garland, Meet me in St Louis
[wink]-�What�s it called?�
-�Romeo and Ethel the Pirate�s daughter.�
-�Good title.�
- Rupert Everett & Joseph Fiennes, Shakespeare in Love
[chatty]�Tell a person that you�re the Metatron and they look at you blankly. Mention something out of a Charlton Heston movie and suddenly everybody�s a theology scholar!�
-Alan Rickman, Dogma
[bigeek]-�I�m all but lame from the bite on my leg!�
-�Dorothy bit you?�
-�No. Her dog.�
-�Oh, she bit her dog, hey?�
-Miss Gulch & Uncle Henry, The Wizard of Oz
[angry]-�Oh my God!�
-�Cut out God. Stay where you�re better acquainted.�
-Renee Zellweger & Richard Gere, Chicago
[colorful] � �You going my way, Miss?�
- �That's �Miss Goddess� to you.�
- �Okay, Miss Goddess To Me.�
[devil] � �I am Jack's complete lack of surprise.�
- Edward Norton, Fight Club
[iloveu] - �You have stayed me in a happy hour, I was about to protest I loved you.�
- �And do it, with all thy heart.�
- �I love you with so much of my heart, that none is left to protest.�
[laugh] � �You'll get a new heart and before you know it, you'll be back in your garden, you'll be painting... you'll be getting asked out by fantastic
men.�
- �I'm getting a new heart, not a new ass.�
[sigh]-"A girl dancer has to be exotic. She has to be...a peach."
-"I suppose I'm a lemon!"
-Fred Astaire & Judy Garland, Easter Parade
[laugh]- "Baldrick, you wouldn't recognize a subtle plan if it painted itself purple and danced naked on a harpsichord singing 'subtle plans are here again'."
- Edmund BlackAdder, "Blackadder's Christmas Carol"
[eyes]- "I fear the words "I have a cunning plan" are rapidly marching towards this conversation with ill-deserved confidence."
- Edmund BlackAdder, "Blackadder's Christmas Carol"
[bigrazz]-"If we do happen to step on a mine, Sir, what do we do ?"
-"Normal procedure, Lieutenant, is to jump 200 feet in the air and scatter oneself over a wide area."
-George & Edmund, BlackAdder Goes Forth
QUOTES FROM DR QUINN, MEDICINE WOMAN
[shy]Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn: I know what everyone is saying about me, that I'm an old maid. But I don't need you to contribute.
Colleen Cooper: That's not what people are sayin'.
Brian Cooper: Yeah, no one's said nothin' about the maid part.
[upset]Hank Lawson: Don't worry Michaela, you're man enough for both of us.
Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn: Well, I never!
Hank Lawson: Yeah, well maybe that's the problem.
[biggrin]Hank Lawson: Sully, tell Michaela if she needs her wick trimmed to let me know.
Sully: I'd be glad to, Hank, but the truth is, you're not man enough to hold a candle to her.
[conf1]Loren Bray: We can't have a lady mayor! What's that gonna make us look like?
Hank Lawson: A town full of sissies?
[conf3]Loren Bray: Of course they're true! That's how they get to be rumors!
[love7]Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn: You mean if I were Arapaho and you were Cheyenne...
Sully: We couldn't get married, nope.
[pauses]
Sully: I'd have to carry you off in the night
[wink]Hank Lawson: Speakin' of ladies... May I?
Marjorie Quinn: No, you may not.
Hank Lawson: Pleased to almost meet you.
[winkgrin]Hank Lawson: What's wrong with Sully? You think he'd be happy to finally get to...
Rev. Timothy Johnson: Hank, I think this discussion can hold.
Brian Cooper: It's all right, Reverend. Ma told us about the birds and the bees.
Rev. Timothy Johnson: I doubt she told you Hank's version.
QUOTES FROM BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER
"Simple deduction. Ms. Calendar is reasonably dollsome, especially for someone in your age bracket. She already knows that you're a school librarian, so you don't have to worry about how to break that embarrassing news to her."
"And she's the only woman we've actually ever seen speak to you. Add it up, it all spells 'duh!'" -- Xander and Buffy
"Now is it time to have a talk about the facts of life?"
"You know, I'm suddenly deciding this is none of your business."
"You know, cos that whole stork thing is a smoke screen!" -- Xander and Giles
"I just get messed sometimes. I wish we could be regular kids."
"I'll never be a kid."
"All right, a regular kid and her cradle-robbing, creature-of-the-night boyfriend." -- Buffy and Angel
"It's weird, though. In his way, I feel like he's still watching me."
"Well, in a way he sort of is...in the way of that he's right over there." -- Buffy and Willow
"How many of us have lost countless productive hours plagued by unwanted sexual thoughts and feelings."
"Yes!"
"That was a rhetorical question, Mr. Harris, not a poll." -- Mr. Whitmore and Xander
"I'm kind of curious to find out what sort of career I could have."
"What, and suck all the spontaneity out of being young and stupid? I'd rather live in the dark."
"You're not going to be young forever"
"Yes, but I'll always be stupid.... Okay, let's not all rush to disagree." -- Willow and Xander
"Cordelia, your mouth is open, sound is coming from it. This is never good." -- Buffy
"I laugh in the face of danger! Then I hide until it goes away." -- Xander
"Why should someone want to harm Cordelia?"
"Maybe because they met her? Did *I* say that?" -- Giles and Willow
"There are some things I can just smell. It's like a 6th sense."
"Well, actually, that would be one of the five." -- Principal Snyder and Giles
"Gym was cancelled due to the extreme dead guy in the locker." -- Cordelia
"Vampires are creeps."
"Yes, that's why one slays them." -- Buffy and Giles
"I've been indexing the Watcher diaries covering the last couple of centuries. You'd be amazed how numbingly pompous and long-winded some of these Watchers were."
"Color me stunned." -- Giles and Buffy
"You were looking at my neck."
"What?"
"You were checking out my neck, I saw that."
"No, I wasn't."
"Just keep your distance, pal."
"I wasn't looking at your neck."
"I told you to eat before we left." -- Xander and Angel
"I'll just jump in my time machine, go back to the 12th century, and ask the vampires to postpone their ancient prophecy for a few days while you take in dinner and a show."
"Okay, at this point, you're abusing sarcasm." -- Giles and Buffy
"Thanks for clearing that up, 'cause otherwise we might've thought you were up to no good here at the satanic manhole cover."
Xander
"Impulsive? Do you remember my ex-boyfriend, the vampire? I slept with him, he lost his soul, now my boyfriend's gone forever, and the demon that wears his face is killing my friends. The next impulsive decision I make will involve my choice of dentures. "
Buffy
"Oh. That's okay, um... I-I figured there were all sorts of things vampires couldn't do. You know, like work for the Telephone Company, or volunteer for the Red Cross, or... have little vampires."
Buffy
"You're like my fairy godmother, and Santa Claus, and Q all wrapped up into one. (they look at her) Q from Bond, not Star Trek. "
Buffy
"Forgiveness is my middle name. Well, actually it's LaVelle, but I'd appreciate it if you guard that secret with your life. "
Xander
QUOTES FROM THE NANNY
C.C.: I couldn't put a foot out of bed this morning.
Niles: Did someone put a rock on your coffin again?
C.C.: I feel like I have died and gone to heaven.
Niles: I have that dream, too, but you go in the other direction.
C.C.: I find I can catch more flies with honey.
Niles: I always thought your tongue darted out.
C.C.: I wouldn't be caught dead in that dress.
Niles: You'd have to be dead six months to fit in it.
Fran: Question. When they shot Bambi's mother, did you find that a sad moment... at all?
C.C.: I'm sure she's mounted on a nice wall in a fine home somewhere.
C.C.: I'll never get to the airport on time.
Niles: That's true, sir, she needs at least two people on her broom to use the Express Lane.
C.C.: I find it very unseemly of Maxwell to start dating again. Isn't the customary period of mourning 10 years?
Niles: Die. Let's find out.
C.C.: What is this un-natural obsession Maxwell has with his children? I can count the number of days I spent with my father on one hand.
Niles: Seven?
C.C.: What's Maxwell doing in London?
Niles: One would hope, Miss Fine.
C.C.: Seriously, Niles, where do you keep all that cash?
Niles: Someplace you'll never get near.
C.C.: Oh, your mattress.
Niles: No.
[pointing at Mr. Sheffield]
Niles: His.
Mr. Sheffield: Miss Fine, what are you doing here?
Fran: Well, I heard moaning and screaming coming from your room and I figured... I should be part of it.
[Fran and Sylvia are held hostage by a bank robber]
Sylvia: He's not wearing a ring!
Fran: Ma, he's a thief!
Sylvia: [emphatically] Who'll be worth *millions* in a few minutes.
Sylvia: Do I smell banana fritters with fresh fruit compote?
Niles: No.
Sylvia: Could I?
Fran: You know, I've got half a mind...
Max: No argument there!
C.C.: [to Niles] Don't you have something to dust?
Niles: How about the left side of your bed?
Max: Where the devil is C.C.?
Niles: Well, Sir, it is raining outside... maybe she melted?
[pause]
Niles: Shall I look outside for a pointy hat and Chanel suit?
Brighton Sheffield: Oh, so you're pretending to be an actor?
Fran: No, you're thinking of Steven Seagal.
C.C.: Me and Max have rented a cottage right by the lake.
Niles: How convenient, Sir, should you choose to drown yourself.
C.C.: I'll bet my reputation on it!
Niles: Sorry, there's a five dollar limit.
C.C.: Well, if Doug is coming over tonight, I better go change!
Niles: [after C.C. leaves] And I thought she had to wait for a full moon...
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An error has ocurred. Please try againIn some cases I've had to pick movies that were just average for me, or that I didn't even particularly like, just because I hadn't seen anything better from that year. Good movies often clump together in one year, which is sad.
Reviews
Spice World (1997)
Much better & much funnier than you'd think
This movie is FUN. And the sad thing is that most people are too close-minded to see that. The general consensus seems to be: "It's the Spice Girls in a movie? It's going to be awful!" and either they never see the movie, or they allow their prejudices to judge the movie for them.
Firstly, let me say that I am not, and was never, a Spice Girls fan. I was way too old for their target market when they were popular, and whilst one or two of their songs had catchy tunes, some were downright annoying. They were a very cleverly manufactured girl band in a time when that market was wide-open. Giving each girl a distinctive character and style was a stroke of genius on the part of their 'creators', and while they didn't have particularly strong voices (except perhaps for Mel C), they didn't have particularly bad ones either. I've heard far worse. So I went into this movie purely out of curiosity, expecting it to be somewhere between awful and merely silly, but I ended up enjoying myself thoroughly. Also, my 65-year-old father loves this movie, and he saw it only having heard vaguely of the Spice Girls, but not knowing their music at all. Yes, Spiceworld is an exploitation movie; BUT it does an excellent job at it! What I loved most was the way it poked fun at itself all the way through. The character of the screenwriter pitching his idea to the girls' manager (brilliantly played by Richard E. Grant) saying "It's obvious to us that the Spicegirls are movie stars!", when it's obvious that they're not, and everyone knows it - there's even a scene at the beginning where he says, "Yes, but can they ACT?" and his boss responds with, 'Who cares?", or similar. I loved that. And while the girls CAN'T really act (some are worse than others; I've read that Victoria was the only one who had taken acting lessons before, but I can't say it showed since I thought she was the weakest link), it's obvious that they're having fun with the script, and they don't do too badly at all.
The script was another great surprise to me; it's full of good lines and funny characters that poke fun at themselves and their stereotypes. An example of this is the great Roger Moore playing the "Chief", who is presumably the Big Boss of the Spice Girls. We only ever see him on the phone with Clifford the manager (Richard E. Grant), and every time we do he is stroking, in pure Bond Villain (or Dr Evil) fashion, a small white animal on his lap. But every time you see him he has a different animal; first it's a cat, then a rabbit, a tiny white pig etc. I thought that was such a great way of poking fun at the stereotype of the villain always having a white pet. And then the character himself has these fantastically enigmatic, senseless, but hysterical lines, like: "When the rabbit of chaos is pursued by the ferret of disorder through the fields of anarchy, it is time to hang your pants on the hook of darkness. Whether they're clean or not." and: "The headless chicken can only know where he's been. He can't see where he's going. Do not be that chicken." I love that off-the-wall humour, and this movie is full of it. Of course, some people just don't GET that kind of humour, which is fine by me as long as it doesn't make them slam the film because of it.
Other moments I love, which elevate this film from could-have-been-dodgy to funny, are the casting of Meatloaf as the Spice Girls bus driver, and then having him say lines like: {on fixing the clogged toilets} "Hey, I love these girls. I'll do anything for them...but I won't do that!" - which is, of course, a play on Meatloaf's hit song "Anything for Love". Also the parody of the stereotypical characters of the girls, which of course were made up for them anyway, like Victoria not knowing what to wear, and Mel C saying "It must be really hard for you, Victoria, trying to decide whether to wear the little Gucci dress, or the little Gucci dress, or the little Gucci dress", and Victoria responding "Exactly!", or when Victoria falls into the Thames and continues to scream for help once she's been rescued, and yelling "This dress is dry-clean only!", or Geri saying "Calm down, haven't you ever heard of the word 'compromisation'?" There are scores of these great moments but they really work better in the film than if I wrote them down here. All I'm saying is that this movie is not ever in a million years as bad as everyone makes it out to be. Yes, it's not the greatest, but then most films aren't. It's so much funnier than you'd think, and yes it has its cheesy moments, but sometimes it's SUPPOSED to be cheesy! That's where it's funny. I really don't understand why this film, whose only aim was to be FUN, and in this it succeeded more than admirably in my opinion, is in IMDb's Worst.
Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows (2001)
I loved it!
As a Judy fan on a small scale (ie I don't purport to have seen all her films or to own all her songs, but I do love her voice) I really really enjoyed this film! The more I think about it afterwards, the more I want to cry.
In answer to the question above, I'd have thought it would be fairly obvious that Judy Davis was in fact lipsynching to the performances of the real Judy Garland...
I agree that Liza's character was not portrayed well enough, but I was very impressed at how like her the actress looked! Ditto the young Judy - she was amazing! Judy Davis was great as old Judy, but I wasn't really convinced by her performance as Judy in her twenties. However they had to do a cross-over somewhere, I suppose.
All in all, a beautiful film, never boring as some biogs tend to be. Congrats to everyone involved.