I couldn't let Tuesday pass without a tearjerker clip. And damn, this one (like last week's) features members of the main cast in old people makeup. Still, if it makes me cry within a few seconds, it's got to be posted.
Don't forget to post your own with the tag "tearjerker tuesday."
]]>In the car Ben and I got to talking about Raising Arizona -- it was on television the other night, apparently. I've never been able to watch the final scene (H.I.'s dream) without crying. I don't even think I can describe the dream without crying.
So I decided to subject all you Voxers to it and christen today "Tearjerker Tuesday." What movie scene brings you to tears every time? Tag your post with "tearjerker tuesday."
Easy. The Godfather Part II is certainly a great movie, but is it better than the first Godfather? I'm not sure. As far as a sequel being better than the original, I'd have to say Kill Bill 2. Of course, Kill Bill 2 isn't exactly a sequel since Kill Bill was originally meant to be one movie. Still, it is my favorite of the two and it's a cleary distinct film.
A fun little Comet sidenote. It was so great to insert this movie cover into the post since it was already in my library and has already one comment..
Is a "favorite movie villain" the villain you love to hate? Or, the villain who is most evil? Or, is it the scariest?
I'm not a big fan of scary movies so I'm not going to waste my answer on the obvious: anyone with a chainsaw, knife, face mask, doll part, puppet face, etc...
Before I give my final pick, here's a taste of some of my contenders.
I'll get you my pretty
As a child, I was terrified of The Wicked With of the West, particularly when she first appears as Dorothy's house travels in the tornado. You think you're going to see Miss Gulch again (which is bad enough) and then... BAM ... you get the Wicked Witch looking into the window. Pure childhood fear gets her on my list.
Honorable mention goes to the Mombi/Nurse Wilson character in Return to Oz, who scared me completely shitless when I was 8 years-old. A producer probably said "Hey let's make a kids movie about Dorothy Gale getting shock treatment!" Cool. "And let's add these characters called Wheelers that are pure evil!" Sounds good. "Oh and there are severed heads in it too!" Umm. A kid's movie? I hate that movie.
Criss-Cross
The Birds in The Birds. I'll root for animals most of the time, assuming that they're main objective isn't to pluck out eyes and trap people in houses. Hitchcock's villains should be be strong representatives on any best of list, particularly Norman Bates in Psycho and Bruno Anthony in Strangers On a Train.
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled...
Verbal says it best: "'Keaton always said: I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of him.' Well I believe in God, and the only thing that scares me is Keyser Soze."
Candy Colored Clown
But the best movie villain, in my humble opinion, is Frank Booth from Blue Velvet. Insane, perverse, sadistic and creepy beyond belief, he is completely irredeemable but for the fact that he knows music and he realizes that Roy Orbison's In Dreams is probably one of the best fucking songs in the world.
Considering all of my favorite movies -- ones I've seen in the theater and ones I've only seen on a television -- there are two I feel like seeing right at this moment: A Room with a View and The Godfather II. Since, I'm pretty sure that when Ben answers this question, he's also going to say The Godfather II (and I figure I could just go to his movie with him), I'll pick A Room with a View.
A Room with a View happens to be one of my favorite movies, and one that I can't remember seeing in a theater. My mom may have taken me, but I don't remember. I doubt it because I remember the year that it won all of its Academy Awards, I was annoyed since I
didn't even know what it was at the time -- 1985.
And, I figure I was pissed because it was the same year that Back to the Future came out and I didn't want any other movie taking BTTF's glory.
Which makes me wonder: should I just pick Back to the Future as the movie I want to see in the theater? It was the first film I saw more than once on the big screen and it's probably higher on my favorites list than A Room with a View.
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