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Thursday, November 13, 2008

Movies! Movies! Movies!

Can Michelle even name 26 movies?

1. Pick one film to represent each letter of the alphabet.

2. The letter “A” and the word “The” do not count as the beginning of a film’s title, unless the film is simply titled A or The, and I don’t know of any films with those titles.

3. Return of the Jedi belongs under “R,” not “S” as in Star Wars Episode IV: Return of the Jedi. This rule applies to all films in the original Star Wars trilogy; all that followed start with “S.” Similarly, Raiders of the Lost Ark belongs under “R,” not “I” as in Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark. Conversely, all films in the Lord of the Rings series belong under “L” and all films in the Chronicles of Narnia series belong under “C,” as that’s what those filmmakers called their films from the start. In other words, movies are stuck with the titles their owners gave them at the time of their theatrical release. Use your better judgment to apply the above rule to any series/films not mentioned.

4. Films that start with a number are filed under the first letter of their number’s word. 12 Monkeys would be filed under “T.”

5. Link back to Blog Cabins in your post so that I can eventually type “alphabet meme” into Google and come up #1, then make a post where I declare that I am the King of Google.

NOTE: Movies in parenthesis I have not seen, but couldn’t think of a movie I had seen starting with that letter.

Arsenic & Old Lace
Boondock Saints
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
Dogma
Ed Wood
Fifth Element
Good Night & Good Luck
Hero
Iron Monkey
Johnny Dangerously
Kingdom of Heaven
Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Matrix, The
Nightmare Before Christmas, The
Once Upon a Time in Mexico
Princess Bride, The
Q – (Queen, The)
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Stardust
Tombstone
U Untouchables
V - (V for Vendetta) Victor, Victoria
What’s Eating Gilbert Grape
X-Men
Y – (You Can’t Take It with You)
Z – (Zorro)

(via Nathan and Eric and Ilya…)

ADDENDUM the First:
Janiece’s List reminded me I had, in fact, seen and enjoyed a ‘V’ movie.!

4 Responses to “Movies! Movies! Movies!”

  1. Eric Says:

    An awesome list! There are several there I haven’t seen, and the ones I have seen are all awesome movies!

    A worthy entry to the club!

  2. Ilya Says:

    Yes you can! Yes you can!

    Great list, Michelle. I’ve seen over half of these, which makes me feel considerably better than after seeing Eric’s list. :)

  3. Ilya Says:

    You make someone a compliment and – boom! – realize that you’re being moderated. Arrgh!

  4. Michelle Says:

    Well, lemme know which ones you haven’t seen.

    Several are kung fu movies, and I could have put up several more, but had others I liked better.

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