How is it spelt? Who cares ..... a bloke in France once asked if I came from Avignon or Marseille ... I'm Welsh and for a change off the subject!! Passed to me by the wonderfully entertaining and now gorgeously purple [my favourite colour] Fi - a movie meme/mémé/même/mèmè etc!
Total number of movies I own on DVD/video: sheesh ...... I would say 50, have loads of old ones on video.
Last movie I bought: National Treasure - Nicolas Cage, very enjoyable in a "Indiana Jones" kind of way - see below!
Last movie I watched: Ella Enchanted, borrowed from a friend's daughter, quite funny in a "Princess Bride" kind of way - wouldn't buy it but I liked the music.
Five movies that mean a lot to me (in no particular order): Only 5? That's hard!
The Shawshank Redemption - oh wow! I don't know quite what to say? I think this is probably my favourite film, my desert island discs film, I don't particularly like Tim Robbins, I love Morgan Freeman - it's just that this film is mind-blowing! I cry when the institutionalized ex-convict hangs himself, I cry when Andy is raped, I cry when they meet on the beach - fantastic!
Anything with an "Indiana Jones &/or Harrison Ford" feel - e.g. Raiders of the Ark, I.J. and the last Crusade, Patriot Games, Star Wars (IV, V or VI) etc etc
Sliding doors - huge fan of John Hannah, not a big fan of Gwyneth - but this is a "on the edge of my seat film!" A "what might have been" movie! What if I hadn't ............ makes me shiver!
Dirty Dancing - first film I saw with a boyfriend! We tried out the whole Dirty Dancing thing it was fab! Shit I just realised this wasn't the first film I went to see with a boyfriend - I went to see Purple Rain with my first boyfriend. Dirty Dancing was the first film I went to see with a boyfriend who I .... never mind my mother might read this!
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers - love(d) it, favourite film when I was a kid growing up. My brother loves it [one of my nephews is called Caleb after one of the characters] .... and you thought the British army was full of big, burly, butch men - nah [you should here a whole bar full of them singing Kenny Rogers' "coward of the county."] I can sing all the songs and generally have this thing for older musicals going on. If I was allowed more than 5 I would add - Fiddler on the roof, Calamity Jane, Oklahoma (mind the new stage version with Hugh Jackman - ding dong!!), Kiss me Kate, Blue Hawaii, Singin' in the Rain, Gigi, Easter Parade etc, etc, etc
Tag three people: oh no, they've all done it - if you want to have a go .... help yourself, I did this for me!