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1. Movie you hate but everyone else loves:
2. Movie you love but everyone else hates:
3. This scene makes you cry EVERY TIME:
4. This scene makes you laugh no matter HOW MANY TIMES you see it:
5. This scene still scares you:

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Re: About movies: 5 questions for you. - RGA 14:06:00 02/27/04 (2)
1. Movie you hate but everyone else loves: HATE RIGHT? As in 1 star
or less?
Lolita, Eyes Wide Shut, Crash, Excalibur, Ace Ventura - both, Star Wars Episode 1, Bad Lietenant, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Cliffhanger(which wasn't), Cujo, Damage, Death and the Maiden, Devil in a Blue Dress, Die Hard 2, Dune, The Evil Dead, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Independence Day, The Outsiders, The Patriot, The Piano, Trees Lounge,
2. Movie you love but everyone else hates:
The American President, Awakenings, Grand Canyon, Invasion of the Bodysnatchers(1978), The Money Pit, Notting Hill(exellent performance by Julia Roberts), Oscar and Lucinda, The English Patient, Outland, A Perfect World, Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, Red Dragon, The Rock, Splash, Star Trek: Nemesis, Starship Troopers, Sunshine, Terminator 1&2, V: The original miniseries and the Final Battle,
3. This scene makes you cry EVERY TIME:
Spoiler for Planes, Trains and Automobiles:
When Neil Page goes back to the train station and finds out Del Griffith is homeless and his wife has been dead for 8 years. You see it coming a mile off but john Candy is so strong in this movie that well it verclemps me every time.
Schindler's List - the whole movie practically,
The final sequence in Mr. Holland's Opus, when E.T. leaves Elliot, and on and on.
4. This scene makes you laugh no matter HOW MANY TIMES you see it:
Ohh there are many. Young Frankenstein "What Hump", Abe someone...Abe Who Abe normal - yes I do think that was the name on the jar" "Wait! I was going to make Espresso" "What knockers" "Frau Blugher", YES YES he was my .... Boyfriend" ("Wearwolf?..."There wolf...there castle" ... Why are you talking like that? I thought you wanted to, no! Suit yourself then.
Airplaine. Ted Striker's drinking problem as he throws the drink into his own face. And of course the blow up co-pilot.
Pulp Fiction makes me smile all the way through but the watch scene is absolutely hilarious.
Sprigtime for Hitler sequence in the Producers as well as all scenes with Gene Wilder's blue Blanky.
Dr. Strangelove...there's no fighting in here this is the war room."
5. This scene still scares you:
The Scene with Regan answering the doctor's questions in the Exorcist. The make-up effects in that film still unnerve me ... despite all the fun people make of it --- alone late with the lights off that movie still creeps me out.
- Re: About movies: 5 questions for you. - rico 06:55:45 02/28/04 (1)
  Many of the fims you cite as "everyone hating" are beloved by many.
  - Re: About movies: 5 questions for you. - RGA 18:06:07 02/28/04 (0)
    Yes and of course the English Patient Did win best picture. I listed the ones that a lot of people I personally know or critics I discuss films with despise.
    For instance most everyone I know hated Monster's Ball and In the Bedroom - both are in my top 100.
    And many people think Crash and Eyes Wide Shut are masterpieces - where as I file them under the eventual tv series -- "When good Directors go Bad"
Re: About movies: 5 questions for you. - padreken 13:36:00 02/27/04 (0)
Movie you hate but everyone else loves: Glengarry Glen Ross, American Beauty.
Movie you love but everyone else hates: Brazil.
This scene makes you cry every time: Jimmy Stewart in Harvey....the one where he is in the alley out back of the tavern, explaining Harvey to Dr. Sanderson and Miss Kelly (well, maybe not out and out crying-but I always tear up, anyway).
This scene makes you laugh every time-Return of the Pink Panther, when Clouseau goes to the home of the Phantom "disguised" as a telephone repairman "I have fixed your doorbell...there is no charge"
This scene still scares you-the last 20 minutes or so of Wait Until Dark, with Audrey Hepburn.

"A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them".
-P. J. O'Rourke
Re: About movies: 5 questions for you. - mvwine 10:03:06 02/27/04 (1)
1. Movie you hate but everyone else loves: Gone With the Wind
2. Movie you love but everyone else hates: Boorman's "Excalibur"
3. This scene makes you cry EVERY TIME: Many in the movie "Iris"
4. This scene makes you laugh no matter HOW MANY TIMES you see it: Love and Death: "No, YOU must be Don Fransisco's Sister!"
5. This scene still scares you: Martin Sheen receiving a "gift" while a captive of Brando in "Apocolypse Now" (Not really scary, just creepy).

In Vino Veritas
- Re: Creepy - rico 12:14:41 02/27/04 (0)
  The second time, of course, that Chef "lost his head".
Re: About movies: 5 questions for you. - mishmashmusic 19:09:14 02/26/04 (0)
1. Movie you hate but everyone else loves: Top Gun
2. Movie you love but everyone else hates: Citizen Kane (OK, not everyone hates it, but a lot of people do---maybe even you.)
3. This scene makes you cry EVERY TIME: I don't cry, but I am always affected by the end of Bridge On The River Kwai .
4. This scene makes you laugh no matter HOW MANY TIMES you see it: When Chevy Chase is under the bed in Seems Like Old Times . Billy Crystal's scene in Princess Bride . The music reviews in Spinal Tap . The parade scene in Ferris Bueller's Day Off .
5. This scene still scares you: The Oompa-Loompas in Willy Wonka
Re: About movies: 5 questions for you. - dwill123 16:25:24 02/26/04 (0)
1. Movie you hate but everyone else loves: Anything with Jack Nicolson
2. Movie you love but everyone else hates: Driving Miss Daisy
3. This scene makes you cry EVERY TIME:
4. This scene makes you laugh no matter HOW MANY TIMES you see it: History of the World Part 1 - "F*ck The Poor!"
5. This scene still scares you: "Village of the Damned" (original 1960) - scene where a man blows his brains out with a shotgun.
5 Answers - Troy 16:15:05 02/26/04 (3)
1. Rocky. Titanic. Chicago. Oscar winners, all.
2. Death Race 2000. Amazingly relevant today. Don't know how to break it to you guys, but I like most of the movies you thing everybody else hates. Stange Brew? Starship Troopers? Princess Bride? Loved 'em.
3. The climax of Cinema Paradiso.
4. You guys have already taken the best ones! Mr Creosote, Franks and Beans. Hmmmm. The misspelled stick-up note in Take the Money and Run. "Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!" in Holy Grail. Lauren Bacall saying "it's better when you help" in To Have and Have Not.
5. Having a hard time with this. The Alien chest-popper is obvious. The mother slowly poisoning her daughters in 6th Sense is a major creep-out for me too.
- Re: 5 Answers - Harmonia 20:30:14 02/26/04 (0)
  How cozy. I hate those three too. (I also hate A Beautiful Mind, another Oscar winner - but does anyone besides Ron Howard and his stars actually *love* ABM?)
  Chest burster scene - even in re-release - creeps me out. Never forget the first time!
- Stange Brew? - Hepcat 16:27:45 02/26/04 (1)
  I've had several people mention that movie to me lately. Guess I'd better check it out.
  - Downing a few brews just prior will definitely enhance the experience :) nt - padreken 09:05:42 02/27/04 (0)
    nt
    
    "A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them".
    -P. J. O'Rourke
Re: About movies: 5 questions for you. - Pjay 10:24:27 02/26/04 (1)
1. Movie you hate but everyone else loves: Godfather I II III IV V VI, all Rocky's, Citizen Cane, Shawshank Redemption.
2. Movie you love but everyone else hates: Princess Bride, Postcards from the edge.
3. This scene makes you cry EVERY TIME: ?
4. This scene makes you laugh no matter HOW MANY TIMES you see it: "I have a vewy good fwend named Bicus . . .He has a wife you know . . ."
5. This scene still scares you: Alien

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- Er...in the crowd that I hang with... - Harmonia 20:15:39 02/26/04 (0)
  ...Princess Bride is much loved. I've never run into anyone who hates it. It was even farily well-reviewed when it was released.
  I like Postcards too.
Re: About movies: 5 questions for you. - sjb 07:34:19 02/26/04 (2)
1. Movie you hate but everyone else loves:
Hate's a strong word...Austin Powers
2. Movie you love but everyone else hates:
Ishtar (seriously...I think it's hysterical)
3. This scene makes you cry EVERY TIME:
Eric Liddell winning the gold medal in Chariots Of Fire ("God made me fast, and when I run, I feel His pleasure.")
4. This scene makes you laugh no matter HOW MANY TIMES you see it:
Raising Arizona, when the guy' asking the clerk if the balloons blow up into funny shapes and the clerk says, "Not unless you think round is funny."
5. This scene still scares you:
The ball rolling down the stairs in The Changling.
- Re: About movies: 5 questions for you. - padreken 15:20:58 02/26/04 (1)
  I love that scene in "Chariots" too-the other scene that gets to me is Ian Holm as Sam Mussubini, alone in his hotel room as learns of Abrahams' victory. A wonderful bit of acting from one of my favorite character actors (loved his portrayal of Bilbo Baggins).
  Director Hugh Hudson was a true one hit wonder-his other films are pretty poor.
  
  "A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them".
  -P. J. O'Rourke
  - Re: About movies: 5 questions for you. - sjb 17:51:09 02/26/04 (0)
    Ditto on on the Mussubini scene. Also, just before Liddel's race when the American racer hands him the note with the "He who honors me..." quote.
    Hugh Hudson's treatment for a dog food commercial was left where I work by someone from an ad agency. It talked about things like "celebrating a unity of dogs." or some such thing.
    He didn't get the gig. It was kind of sad.
Re: About movies: 5 questions for you. - rico 07:11:19 02/26/04 (0)
HATE: Something About Mary
LOVE: The Hudsucker Proxy
CRY: The Bridges of Madison County
LAUGH: Any early Woody Allen comedy
SCARES: Alien
Re: About movies: 5 questions for you. - ToshiroMeyers 05:52:02 02/26/04 (1)
1. Movie you hate but everyone else loves: Pretty Woman - unleashed one of the worst Movie Stars in recent memory.
2. Movie you love but everyone else hates: Talk Radio - I burned out the motor on my LD player watching this film over and over.
3. This scene makes you cry EVERY TIME: The buzzer beater in Hoosiers. I just love the underdog.
4. This scene makes you laugh no matter HOW MANY TIMES you see it: The first time the Hanson brothers take the ice in Slap Shot. It was like waking up in Pee Wee hockey.
5. This scene still scares you: Kathy Bates sitting naked in About Schmidt. How did Jack not throw up?
Tosh
- No. 5: UNFAIR! nt - clarkjohnsen 13:35:33 02/27/04 (0)
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5 answers for you. - Harmonia 00:16:55 02/26/04 (0)
1.) Everyone loves it, but I HATE Jaws.
2.) Everyone hates it, but I love Oscar & Lucinda.
3.) These scenes always make me cry: the endings of The Ghost & Mrs. Muir and City Lights; Boromir's Death in FOTR; Merrick's death in the Elephant Man. (These are just for starters, I could name lots, LOTS more.)
4.) These scenes always make me laugh: "David & Goliath" in The Pilgrim; the final minutes (especially the last line) of Some Like It Hot; Barbara Stanwyck playing cards & footsie with Henry Fonda in The Lady Eve; the "I don't want to sell anything" scene from Say Anything.
5.) This scene still scares me: the "door" scene in The Haunting of Hill House.
I could give a bunch of different asnwers tomorrow.
Re: About movies: 5 questions for you. - Audiophilander 22:50:37 02/25/04 (0)
1) Hate: Moulin Rouge (musical version)
2) Love: Starship Trooper
3) Cry (or almost): LoTR (several scenes during the trilogy); Finding Nemo (several scenes); Chicken Run (hatchet scene); City Lights (silent; Chaplin; several scenes); Sunrise (several scenes); AI Artificial Intelligence (several scenes)
4) Laugh (every time): The Kid Brother (silent; Harold Lloyd); Duck Soup (several scenes); Antz (several scenes); Monsters Inc. (several scenes); Chicken Run (many scenes); Red Ryder (serial; scene where muscular stunt man rides up on horse and cuts to Little Beaver, small kid, dismounting the horse); Spy Smasher (serial; scene of two brothers climbing on back of motor cycle, then cuts to mid-distance shots where an obvious dummy is strapped on behind the stunt driver).
5) Scares every time: Psycho (A. Hitchcock, dir., shower scene; staircase scene; basement scene); Freaks (Tod Browning, dir; deformed side-show anomalies; more disturbing than scary); Haunting of Hill House (Robert Wise, dir.; door breathing scene, et al); Alien & Aliens (several scenes); The Sixth Sense (several scenes); Seven (several scenes); The Exorcist (several scenes)
These are all I could come up with off-hand, but I'm sure that there are quite a few more in each category that I'm just not thinking of at present.
AuPh
My Answers - wik 17:43:07 02/25/04 (0)
1. Movie you hate but everyone else loves: Pulp Fiction
2. Movie you love but everyone else hates:
Twin Peaks-Fire Walk With Me
3. This scene makes you cry EVERY TIME:
Field of Dreams- catch with Dad at end (anyone who played ball with his father or son will probably agree)
Elephant Man- I am not an animal!
Sam picking up Frodo and continuing up the mountain in ROTK
Ordinary People-The scene with Timothy Hutton and Judd Hirsch where Hutton's character is reliving the boating accident
4. This scene makes you laugh no matter HOW MANY TIMES you see it:
There are a lot of these. Here are a few:
National Lampoon's Vacation- scene where everyone in the car is sleeping including Chevy Chase who is driving
Christmas Vacation- When the old man sets the tree on fire
The Holy Grail- The tale of Sir Galahad "Let's not bicker and argue over oo killed oo!"
Something About Mary-The bathroom scene. "What do we have here, the franks or the beans!"
5. This scene still scares you:
Final scene in Blair Witch Project
Wizard of Oz-Flying monkeys (just kidding. Freaked me out as a kid though)
Jurassic Park- when the Raptor leaps up at the ceiling
Re: About movies: 5 questions for you. - dan.boz 15:05:00 02/25/04 (1)
1. Movie you hate but everyone else loves: Prizzi's Honor
2. Movie you love but everyone else hates: Strange Brew
3. This scene makes you cry EVERY TIME: The end of The Captive Heart
4. This scene makes you laugh no matter HOW MANY TIMES you see it: The Naked Gun - "Nice beaver"
5. This scene still scares you: When the head drops out of the bottom of the boat in Jaws - gets me every time.
- LOL! - padreken 21:35:12 02/25/04 (0)
  Good to know I'm not alone...my rational brain knows just how dumb Strange Brew is, but it still cracks me up every time.
  Judge: "You cannot split pleas like that"
  Doug McKenzie: "Give me two bowls of split pea soup to go, eh"
  I hated Prizzi's Honor, too.
  
  "A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them".
  -P. J. O'Rourke
My answers (to start it off.) - Hepcat 14:35:02 02/25/04 (0)
1. Movie you hate but everyone else loves:
Dances with Wolves
2. Movie you love but everyone else hates:
Everyone loves my movie picks.
3. This scene makes you cry EVERY TIME:
Playing catch with dad in Field of Dreams
4. This scene makes you laugh no matter HOW MANY TIMES you see it:
Mr Creosote in Monty Python's the Meaning of Life.
5. This scene still scares you:
When Dana Wynter opens her eyes in that cave - (Body Snatchers)

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