21st Century Paladin tagged me with the movie meme. I'll play along to the extent of answering the questions. I won't tag anyone - unless you feel really strongly that someone should suffer. If so, leave their name in the comments and I'll consider it.

1. Total number of films I own on DVD/video:
I don't have an exact number my wife loves movies. The kids love movies. Let's just say more than two hundred and leave it at that.

2. The last film I bought:
Well, my wife does most of the buying. The last DVD I paid for was the Justice League for my son. Not really a “film” just a collection of campy animated super-heros with and overly dramatic voice over. “Later at the Hall of Justice...” Some day I'll do a whole post on the enormous stupidity of the Wonder Twins. But not today.

3. The last film I watched:
I took my daughter to see Madagascar. It was amusing in the way that all of those kids animated movies with double entendres for the adults is amusing. The jokes were clever - entirely expected and predictable - but clever. I only fell asleep once or twice.

4. Five films that I watch a lot or that mean a lot to me:
I don't think I could say that any film means a lot to me. I don't watch movies for meaning. I watch for entertainment. So there are some I have watched a lot. (note I am excluding any of the kids movies which I have seen and seen and seen and seen.)

1. The Lord of the Rings trilogy. I read the books when I was young. So young that we had an 8-track tape player in our bedroom. I started with The Hobbit then the Trilogy. Throughout the entire course of the books, the same tape was playing in the background. Who Are You by The Who. It was interesting to watch the movies which of course had a much different sound track. When I watch them, I don't hear the Who. But when I hear any song from that album it still invokes images from the stories.

2. Star Wars - all of it even though the first prequels kind of sucked and I haven't seen Sith yet.

3. October Sky. The closest any film has come to having meaning for me.

4. The Matrix. I really only loved the first one. The second two seemed a little too self involved. I've seen the first one at least 10 times. The second and third only three or four each.

5. The Usual Suspects. The whole Verbal Kint/Kaiser Sose twist was great. It is one of the few twists in a plot I didn't see coming. Back in the OS 9 days I had a shut down sound of Kint saying “And like that... he's gone.”

5. Tag five others with this meme
Like I said, I'll take requests.

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