calculoid's Journal

Even though I am not that into movies, I got tagged twice about this, which makes me feel doublemint nice.

[1] total number of films I own on dvd/video: Not counting the ones Jordan Ziegler taped for me, which comprise the majority of films I own, less than 10.

[2] The last film I bought: A collection of David Bowie music videos (2 volumes) off the internet; I think this was two years ago.

[3] the last film I watched: American Gigolo - it's hard to see where a movie about a GIGOLO could go wrong, but this was so boring and terrible that I wasn't sorry I had to eat lunch in the middle of it.

[4] Five films that I watch a lot or that mean a lot to me:

American Beauty - I saw this in theaters when I was 14. I wore really baggy jeans that day, and then hung around the outside of Wal*Mart in a daze because I thought I'd just seen the story of my life. And then I bought the movie off eBay when I was 15, which was the first movie purchase I'd ever made. It cost me 12 dollars and I sent the payment in cash. One of my unrealized goals is to be able to quote the movie line for line, and even though the greater part of the soundtrack is instrumentals, I downloaded the whole thing and listened to it.

Lolita (1997) - This was one of the movies that Jordan graciously taped for me, on the same VHS cassette as Clue and another film whose name I have since forgotten. If I thought American Beauty was the story of my life, then Lolita was the movie I wished was the story of my life. It also provided masturbatory fodder that is as yet undiminished. I can't read the book without putting the movie characters in it. The Kubrick version is not as good, or I guess what I mean is, not as hot. I want the DVD that has deleted scenes of Dominique Swain's body double naked.

I <3 Huckabees - I also saw this in theaters, and after I watched it I thought I'd seen the story of my life again, after the unsettling introduction of postmodernism into it. The whole time I thought the movie was speaking to me, so much so that I failed to notice that it was making fun of all the philosophies it purported to push. Nevermind that, I still ask myself, "How am I not myself?" all the time, in seriousness.

Desperate Living - Actually, I don't really love this movie, but because we watched it all senior year, it's taken on a symbolic quality that overwhelms all other considerations. Also, there is a really nasty lesbian sex scene, a dog eating a penis scene, a cannibalism scene, a gay orgy scene, an eyeball stomping scene, a getting shot in the asshole scene, and so on.

The Rocky Horror Picture Show - When I saw Tim Curry go down on a woman and a man within minutes of each other, I knew that I had found a new dream to pursue. This is something we can all share, regardless of age or economic status.

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