{"id":9025,"date":"2017-04-19T21:20:59","date_gmt":"2017-04-20T03:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=9025"},"modified":"2017-04-19T21:20:59","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T03:20:59","slug":"movie-meme-2-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2017\/04\/19\/movie-meme-2-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Movie Meme 2.0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/sunset-blvd-gif-1.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9026\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/sunset-blvd-gif-1.gif\" alt=\"sunset-blvd-gif\" width=\"500\" height=\"352\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve discovered that that meme I did earlier was actually truncated from a longer one, so I&#8217;m&#8230; doing it again. Because I&#8217;m like that. Oh, and I&#8217;m also changing a few of my answers. Because I&#8217;m also like <em>that<\/em>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Most Hated Movie: <em>Star Trek<\/em> (2009)<\/li>\n<li>Movie I Think Is Overrated: <em>Interstellar<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Movie I Think Is Underrated: <em>Star Trek: The Motion Picture<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Movie I Love: <em>American Graffiti<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Movie I Secretly Love: <em>Young Guns 2<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Favorite Action Movie: <em>Die Hard<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Favorite Drama Movie: <em>Casablanca<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Favorite Western Movie: <em>Dances with Wolves<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Favorite Horror Movie: <em>The Fog<\/em> (1980 version)<\/li>\n<li>Favorite Comedy Movie: <em>Monty Python and the Holy Grail<\/em><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"text_exposed_show\">Favorite Romance: <em>Pretty Woman<\/em><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"text_exposed_show\">Favorite Fantasy: <em>The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring<\/em> (Yes, I am fussy enough to differentiate between the LOTR films! For me, the first is the most, well, magical&#8230; )<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Favorite Disney Movie: <em>20,000 Leagues Under the Sea<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Favorite Science Fiction Movie: <em>Blade Runner<\/em><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"text_exposed_show\">Favorite Book-to-Movie Adaptation: <em>The Shawshank Redemption<\/em> <\/span><\/li>\n<li>Favorite Animated Movie: <em>The Incredibles<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Favorite Superhero Movie: <em>Superman: The Movie<\/em><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"text_exposed_show\">Favorite War Movie: <em>The Guns of Navarone<\/em><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"text_exposed_show\">Favorite Thriller: <em>Rear Window<\/em> <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"text_exposed_show\">Favorite Cop Movie: <em>Dirty Harry<\/em><\/span><\/li>\n<li>Favorite Musical: <em>Rock of Ages<\/em><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"text_exposed_show\">Favorite Chop-Socky: <em>Rumble in the Bronx<\/em> <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"text_exposed_show\">Favorite Documentary: <em>Man on Wire<\/em><\/span><\/li>\n<li>Favorite Bad Movie: <em>Flash Gordon <\/em>(1980 version)<\/li>\n<li>Childhood Favorite: <em>Jason and the Argonauts<\/em> (1963 version)<\/li>\n<li>Favorite Franchise: <em>Star Wars<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Best Trilogy: <em>Back to the Future<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Guilty Pleasure: <em>Bring It On<\/em><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"text_exposed_show\">Favorite Director: Steven Spielberg (although he&#8217;s been pretty hit-and-miss ever since <em>Schindler&#8217;s List<\/em>)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"text_exposed_show\">Favorite Actor: Patrick Stewart<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"text_exposed_show\">Favorite Actress: (tie): Scarlet Johansson \/ Dame Judi Dench<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Favorite Movie This Year So Far: <em>Logan<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Movie I Have Recently Seen: <em>Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire<\/em><\/li>\n<li>What I Thought of It: Enjoyable, but it doesn\u2019t develop Cedric Diggory enough to care when he dies.<\/li>\n<li>Favorite Movie of All Time: <em>Star Wars<\/em> (a.k.a., &#8220;Episode IV: A New Hope,&#8221; pre-Special Edition version)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For the record, this is harder than you might think. I had the devil&#8217;s own time with the romance category, for instance, because it&#8217;s not a genre that usually appeals to me, and movies I find very romantic &#8212; <em>Blaze<\/em>, for example &#8212; usually don&#8217;t fit other people&#8217;s definitions of romance. And honestly, I don&#8217;t really have a favorite director, actor, or actress; the ones I listed are just the ones I thought of whose work I generally (but not always) enjoy. Truth is, there are <em>many<\/em> directors, actors, and actresses I like.<\/p>\n<p>For the record.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c  no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 1; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer;\">Save<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c  no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 1; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer;\">Save<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c  no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 1; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer;\">Save<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c  no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 1; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer;\">Save<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c  no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 1; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer;\">Save<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve discovered that that meme I did earlier was actually truncated from a longer one, so I&#8217;m&#8230; doing it again. Because I&#8217;m like that. Oh, and I&#8217;m also changing a few of my answers. Because I&#8217;m also like that. Most Hated Movie: Star Trek (2009) Movie I Think Is Overrated: Interstellar Movie I Think Is [&hellip;]<\/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-9025","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\/9025","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=9025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}