Cabbages and Kings

A diary by the authors of the Louis Kincaid series

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Monday, June 09, 2008

Day 15: Intermission!


This was a good day. Got a chapter finished and so did Kelly. In honor of that, we deserve a break. Let's have some fun. I saw this little quiz on one of my fave blogs and I have to admit, I had trouble figuring out my answers.

So I thought I'd ask you guys. Go get some Sno-caps and fill in the blanks:

1) Worst well-regarded film
2) Most overhyped film (note that this is slightly different from above; the first measures the absolute badness level, while the second measures the delta between reputation and actual quality)
3) Worst film to win a best picture Oscar
4) Most disappointing film (ie should have been good but wasn't)
5) Worst movie, full stop. (Must have been a major motion picture release--no direct-to-video, or film festival torture tactics, please)
6) Worst movie with good direction (ie terrible script, awful acting, producer interference, etc)
7) Biggest unknown treasure

Here's my picks:
1. "Unforgiven" (sorry, Clint)
2. "Cleopatra" (Even Richard Burton couldn't save this toga dog)
3. Vintage: "The Greatest Show on Earth" (Jimmy Stewart as a murdering clown!) Modern: "Crash" (a total wreck)
4. "Godfather III"
5. "Staying Alive" (John Travolta as a loincloth-clad Broadway gypsy; a crass sequel attempt to cash in on "Saturday Night Fever")
6. "2001"
7. "Cinema Paradiso" (okay, it won best foreign film but it's still my fave "little" movie. I also have a soft spot for "Downhill Racer" (Robert Redford going against type as a bastard Olympic skiier)

What say you?

4 Comments:

Blogger pattinase (abbott) said...

1. Forest Gump
2. Titanic
3. Around the World in Eighty Days
4. New York, New York
5. Xanadu
6. 1941
7. Pelle, the Conqueror

7:34 PM  
Blogger Jude Hardin said...

Around the Bend would be my Biggest Unknown Treasure. If you haven't seen it, you simply must.

8:29 PM  
Blogger Unknown said...

I saw this little quiz on one of my fave blogs and I have to admit, I had trouble figuring out my answers

1:58 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I'd have to vote for the Merchant & Ivory films for good direction and bad scripts. They surely were visual chocolate cake, though...

10:27 PM  

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