likethebeer

1. What is your favorite action movie?
_The Mummy_. Smart, funny, creepy, and Brendan Fraser is really cute. There are some chop socky movies, but I don't know if those can really be said to be the same thing. If that's so, then _Heroic Trio_--Anita Mui running across telephone wires and doing a split; Michelle Yeoh kicking up a manhole cover with her boot while wearing this fantastic red outfit; Anita and Thief Catcher on a bicycle spinning horizontal to the ground while a crazy cannibal is chopping off people's heads with this ancient Chinese head-chopping cage; the women fighting the Lord of the Underworld, who has been reduced to a skeleton with a brain! _Iron Monkey_--Little Wong Fe Hung kicking people's ass with an umbrella; Wong Fe Hung's father and the Iron Monkey FIGHTING THE BAD GUY ON BAMBOO STICKS WHILE EVERYTHING IS BURNING ~~AROUND~~ UNDER THEM. Or _Fearless Hyena_. Jackie Chan trying to get out the door while not touching the ground so he has to walk on bowls while his uncle fucks with him with their family's kung fu! Jackie Chan fighting--really fighting--3 guys at once with machetes and he has no weapon!

2. What is the worst movie you've ever seen?
_Patty Rocks_. The only movie I ever walked out on. There was a lot about women's genitals in it, and they wouldn't stop talking about Patty's genitals, and I found myself staring at the EXIT sign, contemplating its color to take my mind off the talk about Patty's genitals. I was in college and I realized I'd be willing to lose my $5--that's how bad I thought it was. There's also _The Reflecting Skin_, but that was fun to make fun of. "Smells like fish," is a saying from our friends now as a result of that movie. Interestingly, my sister Moe has it listed as one of her faves on friendster. We really are different.

3. Do you prefer comedy or drama?
Comedy. Drama often incapacitates me for days. I don't want to put myself through that without a real-life reason. But the comedy has to be really good. No simple slapstick, unless it's old slapstick.

4. Recommend a good tear jerker: tear jerker. Hmmm.
_The Killing Fields_. That always gets me. "Can you forgive me?" "There is nothing to forgive." Gives me goosebumps. And when they're at the embassy and Dith Pran has to leave despite everything they've tried to do to save him. Those 2 moments get me every time. _Creator_ (thanks to IMDb). The young guy falls in love with Virginia Madsen, whose has a brain hemorrage for no reason and she collapses without a word and he hangs out by her hospital bed while she's on life support and talks and reads to her for days while everyone tells him they're going to pull the plug and I cried like a big, huge, damned baby. Could have been the fact that I hadn't slept the night before, though, but that part made me cry like nobody's business. Oh, and the Virginia Madsen thing has almost nothing to do with the rest of the plot.

5. What movie are you looking forward to seeing soon?
Nothing, really. There's stuff. It's out there. I know I should see it. I know I probably will, but I'm not really hankering for anything.