{"id":2153,"date":"2011-05-03T17:40:14","date_gmt":"2011-05-03T23:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=2153"},"modified":"2011-05-03T17:40:14","modified_gmt":"2011-05-03T23:40:14","slug":"100_things_i_love_about_the_movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2011\/05\/03\/100_things_i_love_about_the_movies\/","title":{"rendered":"100 Things I Love About the Movies"},"content":{"rendered":"

I noticed this semi-meme list thingie over at Michael May’s Adventure Blog<\/a> the other day and thought it looked like something I ought to do. There are no rules, really; it’s just an exercise in free association that asks you to name 100 things you love about movies. I interpreted that as things that made me fall in love with movies, or that rekindle my love for them when I see them again. Anyhow, it’s a list of movie-related stuff I like… how could I resist that?<\/p>\n


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    \n
  1. Nick and Nora Charles (The Thin Man<\/i> series)<\/li>\n
  2. Buster Keaton’s face<\/li>\n
  3. The double sunset in Star Wars<\/i><\/li>\n
  4. “My hands are dirty, too, what’re you afraid of?” (The
    \nEmpire Strikes Back<\/i>)<\/li>\n
  5. Vader’s death scene in Return of the Jedi<\/i><\/li>\n
  6. Ray Park as Darth Maul in The Phantom Menace<\/i><\/li>\n
  7. The sound of the Naboo royal cruiser and the Republic
    \ngunships in Attack of the Clones<\/i><\/li>\n
  8. Obi Wan and Yoda’s anguish at various points in Revenge of
    \nthe Sith<\/i><\/li>\n
  9. Transitioning from 1912 to 1938 in the drop of a hat  (Indiana
    \nJones and the Last Crusade<\/i>)<\/li>\n
  10. “Why me?” “Because I am too old and fat.” (True Grit<\/i>, 2010 version)<\/li>\n
  11. Humphrey Bogart and Claude Rains discussing the waters in Casablanca<\/i><\/li>\n
  12. John Milner doing his best to tolerate his unwanted jailbait passenger in American
    \nGraffiti<\/i><\/li>\n
  13. The helicopter rescue sequence in Superman: The Movie<\/i><\/li>\n
  14. The helicopter fleet racing along to “Ride of the Valkyries”
    \nin Apocalypse Now<\/i><\/li>\n
  15. James Dean’s red jacket<\/li>\n
  16. Sean Connery’s first scene as James Bond in Dr. No<\/i><\/li>\n
  17. Ray Harryhausen monsters<\/li>\n
  18. Kermit the Frog riding a bike, The Muppet Movie<\/i><\/li>\n
  19. Belle’s hair, Beauty and the Beast<\/i> (animated 1990 version)<\/li>\n
  20. Pixar<\/li>\n
  21. Passing the Argonath, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring<\/i><\/li>\n
  22. Errol Flynn’s panache in sword-fighting scenes<\/li>\n
  23. Douglas Fairbanks’ joi di vivre in every <\/i>scene<\/li>\n
  24. The “turning the page” transitions in The Sting<\/i><\/li>\n
  25. Jackie Gleason playing pool in The Hustler<\/i><\/li>\n
  26. Marlon Brando ice-skating in The Freshman<\/i><\/li>\n
  27. Marlon Brando in A Streetcar Named Desire<\/i><\/li>\n
  28. Marlon Brando playing with a kitten in The Godfather<\/i><\/li>\n
  29. Hugh Jackman as Wolverine in the X-Men<\/i> films<\/li>\n
  30. The Dude<\/li>\n
  31. The lightcycles in Tron <\/i>(original and Legacy<\/i> both)<\/li>\n
  32. The Enterprise inspection\/flyover scene, Star Trek: The
    \nMotion Picture<\/i><\/li>\n
  33. “Khhhhhaaaaaaaaann!!” (Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan<\/i>)<\/li>\n
  34. Kirk and McCoy’s banter about the promised land in Star Trek
    \nIII: The Search for Spock<\/i><\/li>\n
  35. “Nuclear wessels.” (Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home<\/i>)<\/li>\n
  36. Cary Grant running from a biplane in North by Northwest<\/i><\/li>\n
  37. Peter Sellers as Inspector Clouseau<\/li>\n
  38. Brad Pitt and George Clooney’s chemistry in Ocean’s 11<\/i><\/li>\n
  39. Catherine Zeta Jones in The Mask of Zorro<\/i> (I especially love
    \nthat smirk-and-eyebrow-lift thing she does a couple of times in     this scene<\/span><\/a><\/a>)<\/li>\n
  40. Yul Brynner’s posturing as Ramses in The Ten Commandments <\/i><\/li>\n
  41. The chariot race in Ben Hur<\/i><\/li>\n
  42. Charlton Heston chewing the scenery of the Planet of the
    \nApes<\/i><\/li>\n
  43. “That’s what I love about these high-school girls, man. I
    \nget older, they stay the same age.” (Dazed and Confused<\/i>)<\/li>\n
  44. The journey to Fort Sedgwick sequence in Dance with Wolves<\/i>.
    \nAlso, the buffalo hunt, Dunbar falling in love with Stands with a Fist, and
    \nWind in His Hair shouting that he will always be Dances with Wolves’ friend. <\/li>\n
  45. “Think you used enough dynamite there, Butch?” (Butch
    \nCassidy and the Sundance Kid<\/i>)<\/li>\n
  46. The “king of the world” scene in Titanic <\/i>(1997 version).
    \nYeah, I know, everyone hates this movie, this phrase, Leo DiCaprio… whatever. The
    \nmusic, the recreation of the ship, and the feeling of being young and exhilarated by the dazzling world around you…
    \nI think this     scene <\/a>is magnificent and if you don’t feel a tingle during it, you
    \nmust be made of stone. <\/span><\/li>\n
  47. Seeing the Spruce Goose fly in The Aviator<\/i><\/li>\n
  48. Snowman running over the motorcycles of the men who just
    \nbeat him up in Smokey and the Bandit<\/i><\/li>\n
  49. Alan Grant’s legs turning to rubber when he sees that
    \ndinosaurs are “moving in herds… they do move in herds,” Jurassic Park<\/i><\/li>\n
  50. Clancy Brown as The Kurgan in Highlander<\/i><\/li>\n
  51. Lauren Bacall’s little wiggle at the end of To Have and Have
    \nNot<\/i><\/li>\n
  52. Rita Hayworth’s hair flip<\/a> in Gilda  <\/span><\/i><\/li>\n
  53. Gene Kelly dancing in the rain (Singin’ in the Rain<\/i>)<\/li>\n
  54. Alastair Sim’s Scrooge laughing so joyfully the next morning
    \nthat he struggles to catch his breath in A Christmas Carol (<\/i>1951 version)<\/li>\n
  55. The near-sex scene (which gets interrupted) between Ellen Barkin
    \nand Dennis Quaid in The Big Easy<\/i><\/li>\n
  56. The sex scene (which does not <\/i>get interrupted) in An
    \nAmerican Werewolf in London<\/i><\/li>\n
  57. The first transformation scene<\/a> in An American Werewolf in
    \nLondon<\/i><\/li>\n
  58. The car chase<\/a> in Bullitt <\/i> <\/span><\/li>\n
  59. The truck chase in Raiders of the Lost Ark<\/i><\/li>\n
  60. The last of the late, great V8 Interceptors in Mad Max<\/i> and The
    \nRoad Warrior<\/i><\/li>\n
  61. Clint Eastwood’s signature “do you feel lucky, punk?” speech<\/a>
    \nin Dirty Harry<\/i> <\/li>\n
  62. Captain Jack Sparrow<\/li>\n
  63. John Travolta dancing in Saturday Night Fever<\/i><\/li>\n
  64. Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey dancing in Dirty Dancing<\/i><\/li>\n
  65. Seeing the Wasatch Front the way it used to be in Footloose<\/i> <\/li>\n
  66. Jenny Agutter in Logan’s Run<\/i><\/li>\n
  67. Blake and his crew standing in the church at the end of The
    \nFog<\/i> (1980 version, of course)<\/li>\n
  68. Kathleen Turner’s voice<\/li>\n
  69. Bruce Willis’ cool<\/li>\n
  70. The sheer ridiculousness\/awesomeness of The Fifth Element<\/i><\/li>\n
  71. Mom not mentioning Ralphie’s fight to the Old Man in A
    \nChristmas Story<\/i><\/li>\n
  72. Lon Chaney as The Phantom of the Opera<\/i><\/li>\n
  73. Four kids sitting around a campfire in Stand by Me<\/i><\/li>\n
  74. Martian war machines in The War of the Worlds<\/i> (1953 version)<\/li>\n
  75. Marking the passage of the years with a mannequin’s changing
    \nclothing in The Time Machine<\/i> (1960 version)<\/li>\n
  76. Malcolm McDowell as HG Wells and David Warner as Jack the
    \nRipper in Time After Time<\/i><\/li>\n
  77. Marty McFly and Doc Brown<\/li>\n
  78. Indiana Jones<\/li>\n
  79. Karen Allen’s smile<\/li>\n
  80. The Jaws <\/i>theme<\/li>\n
  81. Watching the Harry Potter<\/i> kids grow up <\/li>\n
  82. Kevin Costner’s “I believe” speech<\/a> (NSFW, in case you don’t know it) in Bull Durham<\/i> <\/i> <\/span><\/li>\n
  83. Susan Sarandon in Bull Durham<\/i><\/li>\n
  84. Susan Sarandon in Thelma and Louise<\/i><\/li>\n
  85. Lolita Davidovich playing Blaze Starr in Blaze<\/i><\/li>\n
  86. Michelle Pfeiffer’s singing in The Fabulous Baker Boys<\/i><\/li>\n
  87. Michelle Pfeiffer as Catwoman (me-ow!)<\/li>\n
  88. Jeff Bridges finally getting an Oscar<\/li>\n
  89. Robert Downey Jr. finally finding a signature role in Iron
    \nMan<\/i><\/li>\n
  90. Rutger Hauer’s death speech<\/a> in Blade Runner<\/i><\/li>\n
  91. Sean Connery playing a Russian<\/strike> Lithuanian with a Scottish
    \naccent in The Hunt for Red October<\/i><\/li>\n
  92. Sean Connery telling Eliot Ness how to beat Al Capone in The
    \nUntouchables<\/i><\/li>\n
  93. Jack Nicholson playing himself in pretty much everything<\/li>\n
  94. “It’s Chinatown, Jake.” (Chinatown<\/i>, obviously)<\/li>\n
  95. John Belushi doing his impression of a zit in Animal House<\/i><\/li>\n
  96. Clark Griswold telling his family they’re going to have so
    \nmuch fun, they’ll be whistling “Zip-a-dee-doo-dah” out their a**holes in
    \nVacation<\/i>. (True story: my uncle Louie once delivered almost this exact speech
    \nto his kids, in front of my parents and me while on a family outing, well
    \nbefore the movie ever came out, so I relate to this.)<\/li>\n
  97. “There’s no crying in baseball.” (A League of Their Own<\/i>)<\/li>\n
  98. The smell of fresh popcorn popping on a hot summer day (Hey, nobody said things I love about the movies couldn’t include things I love about going <\/i>to the movies!)<\/i><\/li>\n
  99. Ferris Bueller trying to beat his parents home in Ferris Bueller’s
    \nDay Off<\/i><\/li>\n
  100. And coming in at 100… bad action-hero one-liners!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Well, that was fun. You know, I think I could probably go on… maybe I’ll do a sequel to this entry at some point…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I noticed this semi-meme list thingie over at Michael May’s Adventure Blog the other day and thought it looked like something I ought to do. There are no rules, really; it’s just an exercise in free association that asks you to name 100 things you love about movies. I interpreted that as things that made […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film-studies","category-memes-and-quizzes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}