Movie questionnaire

(Source: PopeyePete from The Deuce)


1. Name a movie that you have seen more than 10 times.
Star Trek II.

2. Name a movie that you've seen multiple times in the theater.
Batman (1989).

3. Name an actor/actress that would make you more inclined to see a movie.
Marisa Tomei, naked edition.

4. Name an actor/actress that would make you less likely to see a movie.
Actor: Steven Seagal. Actress: Zac Efron.

5. Name a movie that you can quote from.
Midnight Run. Hey Tony, Tony. Hopalong Cassidiche. Got your camera? Take a picture.

6. Name a movie musical that you know all of the lyrics to all of the songs.
None.

7. Name a movie that you have been known to sing along with.
Johnnie To's The Mission. That theme music is infectious!



8. Name a movie that you would recommend everyone see.
If you're not averse to subtitles, I recommend The President's Last Bang, a hilarious 2005 South Korean comedy about the 1979 assassination of Korean dictator Park Chung-hee. If you are averse to subtitles, I recommend the original Taking of Pelham One Two Three, one of the most underrated action flicks ever. It was Die Hard before there was even a Die Hard.

9. Name a movie that you own.
Chan Is Missing.

10. Name an actor that launched his/her entertainment career in another medium but who has surprised you with his/her acting chops.
Donnie Wahlberg in The Sixth Sense and the Boomtown TV series.

11. Have you ever seen a movie in a drive-in? If so, what?
The Goonies.

12. Name a movie that you keep meaning to see but just haven't yet gotten around to it.
Slumdog Millionaire.

13. Ever walked out of a movie?
No.

14. Name a movie that made you cry in the theater.
None, although Malcolm X nearly made me tear up.

15. Popcorn?
Yes, it is.

16. How often do you go to the movies (as opposed to renting them or watching them at home)?
I never go out to the theater anymore, unless it's an event movie like The Dark Knight.

17. What's the last movie you saw in the theater?
The Dark Knight: The IMAX Experience.

18. What's your favorite/preferred genre of movie?
Comedy.

19. What's the first movie you remember seeing in the theater?
Star Trek II.

20. What movie do you wish you had never seen?
Dancer in the Dark.

21. What is the weirdest movie you enjoyed?
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls.

22. What is the scariest movie you've seen?
Audition.

23. What is the funniest movie you've seen?
When I was a kid: Airplane! As an adult: Revenge of the Sith.

NYCC bound

From February 5 through 8, I'll be making my first visit to the New York Comic Con to get interviewed by the Comic News Insider folks and to meet other comics writers, as well as artists who are way better at this drawing thing than I am.

This will be my first trip to NYC since 2005. On my old jim.aquino.com site, I posted a gallery of snapshots I took of Manhattan when I hung around there in '05. Because jim.aquino.com is no longer on the Web, I'm reposting some of my favorite shots from my NYC photo gallery, as well as the original gallery text, which is in italics.

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From 2005:

I flew to New York in early October for a long-overdue break from work and radio projects. During my brief trip, I enjoyed my first-ever egg cream (do believe the hype) and checked out both the first annual New York Television Festival in Chelsea and a screening of the controversial Korean movie The President's Last Bang at the New York Film Festival (a terrific film--my favorite politically charged dark comedy since Three Kings). I would love to live in New York someday. It's my kind of town. I wonder if there are any Fistful fans in NYC. If you're a New Yorker who tunes in, next time I'm in town, holla at me. However, I'm an Internet radio show host, and we're not quite known for having recognizable faces, so hollering at me can be kind of tricky.

The East River, where hundreds of disobedient Mafiosos are dumped each year.

King Kong climbed this and got killed. Sixty-seven years later, that guy from Rage Against the Machine pulled a King Kong onstage at the MTV Video Music Awards, and it was his band's career that got killed.

Who's this handsome fella?

Too bad I wasn't there the day those guys in Stormtrooper costumes goosestepped all over Times Square to pimp some new Star Wars PS2 game. When I saw that Times Square Stormtrooper photo online, I thought it was some archive photo from 1999 showing how Giuliani enforced his homeless policies.

Hey, it's Robert Blake on the NBC Astrovision. And even when Baretta's face is as tiny as it is in that photo, he still creeps me out.

I don't know why I like looking at this billboard. Can someone find out why?

"In the criminal justice system, the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups: the parasites known as the tabloid press and the jurors who'd rather not be there. These are their stories."

"Shame on you when you step through to the Ol' Dirty Bastard, Brooklyn Zoo!"

The Sung Tak Buddhist Temple. Wow, I didn't know BJs are that cheap in Manhattan.

Hey, young Meredith Baxter, easy on the cigarette. It's only a Marlboro, not Tommy Lee's cock.