QUESTIONS
And Week 2's prompt is . . .
Favorite Movies!
Ah well this is easy for me because I already have a list. ^___^ I make lists of everything! I'll give you a little explanation of what each one is.
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- (A)sexual (documentary about asexuality--I was interviewed in it!)
- Anastasia (animated family film about a girl looking for her family)
- Anchorman (very silly comedy about a news station full of quirky characters)
- Adaptation. (drama about a writer trying to adapt a book to the screen and wrangle his brother)
- Amélie (drama about an odd young woman searching for significance and connection)
- Arise! (capsule understanding of SubGenius culture and propaganda)
- BASEketball (comedy about guys struggling to invent a new sport)
- Beetlejuice (comedy/supernatural about a dead couple whose house gets bought by new owners)
- Being John Malkovich (comedy about what a puppeteer does with a portal into actor John Malkovich's head)
- Benny & Joon (drama/comedy about a guy taking care of his mentally unstable sister)
- Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (ridiculous comedy about time-traveling valley guys who have to save the world after they die)
- The Birdcage (comedy/drama--a newly engaged young man has to introduce his gay parents to his conservative fiancée's family)
- The Brave Little Toaster (animated adventure about household appliances trying to find their owner)
- The Breakfast Club (drama about five socially disparate characters having to share a Saturday detention)
- Brokeback Mountain (drama about men who fall in love with each other during a summer job)
- Chasing Amy (comedy about a man who falls in love with a lesbian)
- Chicago (musical about a woman who kills her husband and thrives on the fame)
- Choke (comedic drama about a sex addict and con artist with mom and relationship issues)
- Clerks (comedy about twenty-somethings who work in retail on the worst and weirdest day ever)
- Clerks II (comedy about the same guys later in their lives, working in food service and learning about settling down)
- A Clockwork Orange (controversial drama about the moral implications of a man's criminal punishment)
- The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) (Shakespeare-inspired comedic skits)
- Contact (science fiction about alien contact and the drama surrounding building a travel vessel to meet them)
- Dancer in the Dark (drama about a musicals-obsessed woman going blind who sacrifices everything for her son's eyesight)
- The Dark Crystal (animatronic fantasy featuring gelflings on a quest to save their world)
- Dead Poets Society (drama about an inspirational teacher who encourages students to seize the day)
- Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (mom/daughter drama about lifelong friendships and family)
- Dogma (comedy about a team of misfits' quest to stop renegade angels from unmaking reality)
- Dragon Half (silly fantasy anime about a half-dragon girl in love with a dragon-slaying celebrity)
- Drop Dead Fred (comedic drama about a grown woman's imaginary friend helping her in her relationships)
- Dune (science fiction about a messianic leader who revolutionizes the population of the desert planet)
- Enchanted (a naïve Disney heroine gets transported into our world while looking for her prince)
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (comedic drama about a man who tries to have his ex-girlfriend erased from his memory)
- The Fantastic Mr. Fox (stop-motion animation about a fox who can't resist risky burgling)
- Far and Away (drama about coming to America for a new life and a new romance)
- Ferris Bueller's Day Off (comedy about a high school boy who gets away with everything in style)
- Fiddler on the Roof (musical about how far tradition can bend before it breaks)
- The Fifth Element (science fiction action featuring the Supreme Being saving the world and the cab driver who gets roped into helping her)
- Fight Club (psychological drama about a man who finds a way to buck the system until it starts to buck him back)
- Finding Nemo (animated undersea adventure featuring a protective dad fish trying to find his lost son)
- Flight of the Navigator (science fiction about a boy who traveled in time trying to get back to where he belongs)
- Forbidden Zone (bizarre musical about a family trying to rescue its members from the sixth dimension)
- Galaxy Quest (science fiction about a man who plays a character on a sci-fi TV show finding out aliens are real)
- The God Who Wasn't There (documentary about the historical Jesus)
- The Goonies (family action featuring kids trying to find a treasure to save their neighborhood)
- The Green Mile (science fiction about a prisoner with healing abilities and the guards whose lives he touches)
- Groundhog Day (loopy comedy about a reporter who keeps living the same day over and over)
- Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle (silly comedy about stoners with the munchies)
- Harry Potter (fantasy about kids going to wizard school and fighting a dark wizard)
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (science fiction about an Englishman who has space adventures, much to his own dismay)
- The Hobbit (both the animated movie and the live-action; about a halfling on a great adventure to help his dwarf friends reclaim their homeland)
- Holes (children's story about a boy with bad luck solving a treasure mystery with the help of a friend at a punishment camp)
- Hook (family film about when Peter Pan grew up and had to save his own kids from Captain Hook)
- I Married a Strange Person (fantasy animation about a guy whose imagination starts coming to life)
- The Incredibles (computer-animation about a superhero family fighting a villain who hates their kind)
- Into the Woods (musical about fairy tale characters and what happens after happily ever after)
- Jeffrey (drama about a man who is about to give up on dating when he finds the man of his dreams--but he's HIV positive)
- Jerry Springer: The Opera (opera about Jerry Springer's show and its guests)
- Juno (offbeat comedy/drama about a teen girl's pregnancy and her relationships with the baby's dad and her baby's future adoptive family)
- Kiki's Delivery Service (anime about a child witch who starts a broom-flight delivery service as part of her coming of age)
- Kung Pow: Enter the Fist (silly martial arts parody featuring a nameless Chosen One and hilarious dubbing)
- Labyrinth (fantasy adventure wherein a teen girl has to rescue her baby brother from a compelling Goblin King)
- The Last Unicorn (animated fantasy where a unicorn has to find out what has become of the rest of her kind and liberate them)
- A League of Their Own (sports comedy/drama about the first women's baseball leagues and the rivalry/relationship between two sisters)
- The Legend of Bagger Vance (sports drama about an ex-golf pro who has to sober up and win with the help of a mysterious caddy)
- Life of Brian (silly Monty Python story about a contemporary of Jesus)
- Lilo & Stitch (animated tale of a Hawaiian girl and her sister adopting an alien posing as a dog, who helps them keep their family afloat)
- Little Shop of Horrors (musical about a gardener who must defeat a plant from space that lives on blood)
- Lord of the Dance (dance production featuring Irish dance and folklore on various themes of good vs. evil)
- Lord of the Rings (fantasy trilogy about a hobbit who must save Middle-Earth from the Dark Lord, and the fellowship that supports him)
- The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra (SF/horror parody about a scientist whose quest to study atmospherium has him crossing paths with an ancient evil and some silly people)
- Mallrats (comedy about a guy trying to get his girlfriend back and many other hijinks that happen at the mall)
- Man of La Mancha (musical about Don Quixote and his quest to put right all that is wrong in his world)
- Matilda (whimsical tale of a smart girl who develops unusual abilities and uses them to fight injustice on behalf of herself and her teacher)
- The Meaning of Life (Monty Python's interwoven skits about existence in our nutty world)
- Megamind (computer animation about two aliens: one's a superhero, and one's an evil genius who's surprisingly sympathetic)
- Memoirs of a Geisha (drama about a woman who finds power and agency in her journey toward being a geisha)
- Monsters, Inc. (computer animation about monsters who scare kids for energy getting saddled with taking care of a child)
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Monty Python's crew is a silly group of knights looking for the holy grail)
- Moulin Rouge! (musical about a man who falls in love during the process of putting on a play)
- Mr. Holland's Opus (drama featuring a teacher who struggles all his life to focus on his compositions)
- Mulan (animated tale of a woman who posed as a man to take her father's place in the Chinese army)
- My Big Fat Greek Wedding (comedy about a woman who marries a non-Greek man and deals with family hijinks)
- My Girl (drama about the special friendship between a boy and a girl as they question life, love, and death)
- The NeverEnding Story (fantasy about a book being a window into another world where a warrior fights The Nothing that's devouring his land)
- Newsies (musical about newsboys fighting the corporate news machine)
- The Nightmare Before Christmas (stop motion musical about the hero of Halloweentown finding Christmastown and Halloween-izing it)
- Office Space (comedy in which a working stiff finds out what happens when he stops being a working stiff)
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (drama featuring a man who pleads insanity to avoid prison and ends up revolutionizing the institution he's committed to)
- Orgazmo (comedy about a Mormon who accidentally gets cast in a porn film while trying to make money for his wedding)
- Phantom of the Opera (musical about a young woman rising to fame as a singer with the help of a "phantom" who gets jealous when she loves another)
- Phenomenon (SF drama about a man who mysteriously develops unusual powers and finds himself the odd one out in his small town)
- Pirates of the Caribbean (nautical adventure of a cursed pirate ship that needs cooperation from various characters to lift its curse)
- The Point (animated story of a boy with a round head born in a pointed-head society going into banishment to find his point)
- The Princess Bride (comedy about a farmhand turned pirate who has to rescue his princess from being married against her will)
- Project A-ko (anime movie series about a super-powered schoolgirl and her hijinks with aliens and mean girls)
- The Rage in Placid Lake (comedic drama about a guy with hippie parents who rebels by getting a job as an insurance agent)
- Rain Man (drama about a man who tries to use his autistic brother in a selfish plot, only to develop a better relationship with him)
- Rat Race (comedy about a race between various quirky parties attempting to reach the prize first while gamblers bet on them)
- Read or Die (anime about a book-obsessed woman with paper powers fighting resurrected cyber-geniuses from the past)
- Rent (musical about friends battling illness, addiction, isolation, alienation, and inner demons)
- Rise of the Guardians (computer animation about a group of imaginary beings recruiting Jack Frost to fight the boogeyman)
- Robin Hood (Disney version--animation about an anthropomorphic fox version of Robin Hood stealing from the rich to give to the poor)
- Rocky Horror Picture Show (musical comedy/horror about a couple who gets a flat tire and stumbles upon a bizarre party with a bizarre host)
- Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (comedic drama featuring Hamlet's best friends having an existential crisis)
- The Sandlot (inspirational sports story of boys playing baseball and nearly losing an important ball to a dog)
- Saving Private Ryan (military film about a team of soldiers out to rescue a soldier whose three other brothers have already perished)
- Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (comedy in video game style about a guy who has to defeat seven even exes to win the girl)
- The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (drama about four lifelong friends who battle big problems while sharing a pair of jeans)
- Slumdog Millionaire (drama about an orphaned kid from the slums making it big on a game show because of his incidental knowledge gathered throughout his phenomenal life)
- South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (silly animation featuring vulgar kids who want to stop the USA from going to war with Canada)
- Stranger Than Fiction (comedic drama about a man who discovers he's a character in someone's novel . . . and he has to stop her before she kills off his character)
- Sweeney Todd (musical about a barber who kills people in the chair so his business partner can have meat for her pies)
- Swing Kids (drama about rebellious boys from Germany during the WWII era, rejecting the evil of their regime by embracing swing music)
- Talladega Nights (silly comedy about race car drivers and their charming family drama)
- Tank Girl (comedic post-apocalyptic adventure featuring a girl who gets imprisoned for stealing water and teams up with mutants to fight the evil regime)
- Team America (computer animation about an offensive group of Americans who try to save the world from a dictator)
- Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny (comedy about how a rock duo met and decided to steal a special Satanic guitar pick that would assure their success)
- To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything! Julie Newmar (a comedy featuring drag queens who face culture shock when they get stuck in a small town as their car is being repaired)
- The Tune (animated movie about a man who goes on an existential journey while trying to write a song to save his career)
- 12 Monkeys (science fiction about a man who must time travel to the past to get a sample of the virus that ruined the future)
- UHF (comedy about a man who inherits a radio station and makes it popular, only to incur the wrath of the big stations)
- Unbreakable (science fiction about a man who is guided to discover he's a real-life version of comic superheroes and must protect others)
- Up (computer animation about an old man who honors his wife by going on a final great adventure with a pesky but lovable tagalong)
- V for Vendetta (dystopic science fiction about a woman assisting a mysterious anarchist in plots against an evil government)
- Waiting . . . (comedy about the food service industry and all the frustrations of working in a restaurant)
- Watership Down (animation about rabbits driven from their home trying to find a new home)
- Waterworld (post-apocalyptic science fiction adventure about a world that's become almost complete ocean and a mariner who helps a woman and child find paradise)
- The Whale Rider (drama about a Maori girl trying to become a leader while struggling against sexist beliefs her grandfather holds)
- Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (musical about kids who win a ticket to a candy factory competing to see who will inherit it)
- Wizards (animated film about twin wizards with different agendas in a post-apocalyptic wasteland)
- X-Men (science fiction adventure series about mutants with unusual abilities battling prejudice and each other)
- Zoolander (comedy about a model who has to team up with his rival to fight an evil clothing designer)
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