A Movie Quiz for Today: My Answers

1. Name your top five favorite movies of all time. The Bourne movies, Joe vs the Volcano, Apollo 13, All the President's Men and Pride & Prejudice.
2. Name three movies you think were genuinely awful. Waterworld, The Day After Tomorrow, Die Hard 2. I have to add a few truly awful films to this list: Nothing but Trouble, Speed 2 and Miss Congeniality 2. Whoa... terrible, hideously bad stuff!
3. Name a movie you walked out of before the end because it was unbearably bad. Die Hard 2.
4. Name any three movies co-starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan. This pair only made three movies together: Joe vs the Volcano, Sleepless in Seattle and You've Got Mail.
5. What’s your favorite action movie? The Bourne Ultimatum.
6. What’s your favorite chick flick? The Holiday.
7. What movie makes you laugh out loud no matter how many times you see it? Plan 9 From Outer Space.
8. Which is the worse Kevin Costner film, The Postman or Waterworld? It's a toss-up... and I mean my lunch! Bad, bad, bad!
9. What is your pick, Zanadu, Grease or Princess Bride? I like all three... for different reasons.
10. If you were stranded alone on a lush tropical island (why do they always say ‘desert island’?) that somehow has electricity, with only a DVD player and an endless supply of popcorn, what DVD movie would you want to have with you? Pride and Prejudice.
11. Have you ever seen the same movie three times in one day? Which one? I saw Chicago three times the day it was released in SLC.
12. "Tis but a scratch!" Name that film. Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
13. Name this film: "Why are you dressed like Jungle Jim?" Joe vs. the Volcano.
14. Name a movie about baseball that features Susan Sarandon, and explain why all copies of the film should not be destroyed immediately. Bull Durham. All movies about baseball should be destroyed. They are almost as boring as the game itself!
15. If you were a prisoner and were forced to watch the same movie over and over all day every day, which film would drive you insane most quickly? From Justin to Kelly.
16. What movie have you seen the most times, and why? I saw Joe vs. the Volcano 14 times in the theater and numberless times on video since. That movie just gets me where I live. :o)
17. What movie scared you most when you were a kid? When I was very young it was Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein; later one it was Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
18. What is your favorite musical? Chicago... with Phantom of the Opera a very close second.
19. Which version of King Kong was the dumbest? The one with Jack Black darting in and out of the legs of a herd of stampeding brontosaureses (brontosauri?) So dumb!!
20. Who played Vampira in the film "Plan 9 from Outer Space?" Trick question. The actress known as Vampira actually played the part of "Vampire Girl". This movie is so very bad it's a complete hoot. Everyone should see it!
21. What was the most awful western film to win an Oscar for best picture? (Hint: "The Unforgiven") There is no forgiveness for this terrible movie.
22. Who played Pharoh in "The Ten Commandments" and also starred in "The Magnificent Seven" and "The King and I"? Yul Brenner.
23. What film starred Peter O’Toole as King Henry II and Richard Burton as the Archbishop of Canterbury? Becket. The best movie I saw while I was on my mission in England.
24. Name the most boring Disney film ever made. Bambi, hands down! Zzzzzzz....
25. Which box office blockbuster had two people from Grantsville in it? Independence Day! Sharon loved watching it with her cousins in England and pointing out, "Hey, that's my English Teacher!"
26. What is the worst movie theater you have ever been to? The worst by far was a dump in Warrenton, Virginia that Sharon and I went to. After sitting in the scuzzy stink for half an hour with the hilliest-billies from West Virginia, we demanded our money back. Incredibly, the manager asked, "How have we failed you?" to which I replied, "You failed to show us the movie we paid to see!" Duh! Soooo bad!
27. What is the name of the movie that starred ABBA. "ABBA - The Movie" It's really quite a lame movie that follows their tour of Australia in 1976. Movie bad, music terrific!
28. Name the film with this line: "So let it be written; so let it be done!" The Ten Commandments.
29. What is Indiana Jones most afraid of? Snakes.
30. Which outrageously stupid disaster movie required the actors to outrun extreme cold? I'm sorry, The Day After Tomorrow is a stupid movie. But then, it's a message picture about global warming. How could it not be bad?! (Emmy Rossum is cute though.)