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The Alphabet Meme

...as found at Dirty Harry and What Would Toto Watch, as devised by Blog Cabins, with these rules. My list, based solely on the mood of the moment:

Apocalypse Now - Because no one film's insanity better than Francis Coppola.

Boondock Saints - Guns, Irish accents, Billy Connolly, etc.

Cowboy Bebop - Sometimes you need a bounty hunter, and who better than Spike?

Die Hard - Yippe kay-yay...!

Escape From New York - Why we don't make this reality (i.e., Manhattan as a massive prison) is a mystery to me.

Fall - An obscure little gem that was recommended to me years ago. Far from perfect, yet hits a perfect note with me.

Ghost in the Shell - Anime can make you think. Really.

Hard Candy - Forget Juno, Ellen Page was a star right here.

In Harm's Way - John f'ing Wayne, Kirk f'ing Douglas, big f'ing naval battles.

Jaws - All other "j" films bow in worship.

Kung Fu Hustle - Buddhist Palm!

Layer Cake - Daniel Craig, a star right there, baby. "You'd be in there, too, if I didn't like you."

Monty Python's Life of Brian - My personal favorite of the Python pantheon. "You don't need to follow anybody!"

No Man's Land - A little gem of a film that perfectly skewers the United Nations (not that it's hard to do...).

Our Man Flint - I want his lighter, I really do.

Paprika - Animation done by people enjoying a night with opium.

Quatermass and the Pit - The vibrations!

Robocop - "Throw down your weapons or there will be...trouble."

Sense and Sensibility - Emma Thompson might be the star, but Alan Rickman steals the show.

Ten Commandments - I'm pretty sure I've seen this more often than any other film. Ever.

Underworld - Guilty pleasure of seeing Kate Beckinsale in skin-tight rubber. I am oh such a shallow human.

Valmont - The unsung superior version of Dangerous Liaisons.

War of the Worlds - The Gene Barry version. The sounds of those Martian machines still gives me the creeps.

X-Men - Ah, when Bryan Singer could still make a good film...

Young Frankenstein - "Put the candle back!" My favorite Mel Brooks film.

Zardoz - Another guilty pleasure, almost unwatchable at times, but there's Sean Connery, in that...outfit.

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