September Film Challenge 🎬

[vagrantx]

Day 18: A movie with your favorite ending.

This is an odd choice, maybe, but the only ending to a film I've seen in the theatre where the entire audience collectively went "vad i helvete (what the hell)" and gasped so hard I thought we'd all suffocate, is SAW.

Say what you will about the torture-porn subgenre of slashers, they're gory and fucked up, but holy shit what an incredible twist it was. EVERYONE was buzzing about it on the way out. Considering how good the special effects were for such a low budget flick, and how awful the gore was, nobody said a word about it - it was all about that one story element.

You know the one.

 

[Grant55]

Day 19: Mr Belvedere Goes to College

I've always loved the character of Mr. Belvedere in these movies. He could do anything!

 

[Whiskeyjack]

Day 19: A movie with your favorite character
Any answer to this question that doesn't include Robin Williams is, at best, incomplete.

 

[Bry1313]

Day 19 - Favorite character
Walter, from Big Lebowski, deserves recognition here.

 

[vagrantx]

Day 19 - Favorite character
Walter, from Big Lebowski, deserves recognition here.

Shut the FUCK up Donnie, you are OUT of your element!!!

 

[vagrantx]

Day 19: A movie with your favorite character

 

[Bry1313]

Day 19: A movie with your favorite character

I’m so happy Tim Curry is getting recognition today.

 

[UnquietDreams]

Day 19: A movie with your favorite character

I was the understudy for Frank on a stage version of The Rocky Horror Show. Learned to dance in heels (and lingerie).

 

[SalaciousMonkey22]

Day 19: A movie with your favorite character

I’m pretty sure I used this last time but whatever. Spider-Man is my favorite. This is the best Spider-Man.

Also, great Doc Ock too.

 

[curious_slut]

Day 19: A movie with your favorite character

Since I didn't see a day for favorite couple, I get to go with The Addams Family Does it get any better than Morticia? No. My answer is always no.

 

[DirrrtyDanny]

Day 19 -- a movie with your favourite character. (I used Mad Max 2 / Road Warrior a few days ago for something else in this list, so I'll say Mad Max: Fury Road for this one... but the picture is still from Road Warrior. Iconic.)

 

[BreukelenAnima]

Day 19: A movie with your favorite character

"Yeah, well... sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand"

 

[Girly_girl]

Day 19: A movie with your favorite character
Robin Williams as Professor Maguire in Good Will Hunting

 

[ny_m_teacher]

Day 19: A movie with your favorite character

Porter

After seeing this movie I read the whole series of books with this character (Parker in the books). AMAZING!!! Bad guy you root for...sign me up!

 

[UnquietDreams]

Day 19: A movie with your favorite character

I like not knowing what the day's prompt is, so I don't read ahead. If I did, I would have saved Evy Carnahan from "Favorite movie from a franchise" as my choice was based on her. Oh well, there are so many other good characters to chooes.

The Prophecy (1995) is an odd piece of religious horror, not a genre often seen. It has Christopher Walken as the Archangel Gabriel, who is a leader in the Second War in Heaven between loyalist angels and angels angry God gave humans salvation. The rebels want to put it back "the way it was before," before us talking monkeys. He is on Earth searching for the hidden soul of a deceased war criminal, which he thinks will win the war for him. It is an weird little film, with odd theology, but the dialog is excellent and, on the whole, is worth watching. I mean, you have Christopher Walken as an Archangel. How do you top that?

Two words: Viggo Mortensen.

No, sorry, four words: Viggo Mortensen as Lucifer.

Lucifer is a big character, one of the biggest, and most actors play him not just big but huge, over the top. Mortensen takes it in a different direction. His Lucifer is quiet, smooth, charming and disgusting in turns. And frightening. Very frightening. It isn't a huge role - he is in the last third of the movie. But he owns it, and taking it back from Walken is impressive.

The Prophecy (1995)

 

[vagrantx]

Day 20: A great movie you will never watch again

There isn't even a snowballs chance in hell that I will ever watch Grave of the Fireflies again. An autobiographical tale of two children living through the second World War, it is....harrowing. One of the greatest films ever made, but... No, never again.

 

[Whiskeyjack]

Day 20: A great movie you will never watch again

There isn't even a snowballs chance in hell that I will ever watch Grave of the Fireflies again. An autobiographical tale of two children living through the second World War, it is....harrowing. One of the greatest films ever made, but... No, never again.

I just watched this movie for the first time last week. It was brilliant and beautiful and absolutely gutting.

 

[Grant55]

Day 20: The Prime if Miss Jean Brodie

My first exposure to Maggie Smith. Good movie but haven't seen it a long time and probably will never watch it again.

 

[Whiskeyjack]

Day 20: A great movie you will never watch again
This was also brilliant, but gutting.

 

[lavendersilk]

Day 19: A movie with your favorite character

I've been on a Streisand kick since I've started listening to her bio, which she narrates and if you have the book get the audio too... she adds music and little extras to it.

Funny Girl (1968)

 

[lavendersilk]

Day 20: A great movie you will never watch again

 

[Bry1313]

Day 20 - Great movie you will never watch again

This book and film are both so good but so brutal

 

[curious_slut]

Day 20: A great movie you will never watch again

A beautiful movie directed by a fashion designer (makes sense) but I doubt I'll ever watch A Single Man again. It features several of my favorite actors but too depressing for me.

 

[curious_slut]

Two words: Viggo Mortensen.

No, sorry, four words: Viggo Mortensen as Lucifer.

Putting this on my watchlist immediately.

 

[SalaciousMonkey22]

Day 19: A movie with your favorite character

I like not knowing what the day's prompt is, so I don't read ahead. If I did, I would have saved Evy Carnahan from "Favorite movie from a franchise" as my choice was based on her. Oh well, there are so many other good characters to chooes.

The Prophecy (1995) is an odd piece of religious horror, not a genre often seen. It has Christopher Walken as the Archangel Gabriel, who is a leader in the Second War in Heaven between loyalist angels and angels angry God gave humans salvation. The rebels want to put it back "the way it was before," before us talking monkeys. He is on Earth searching for the hidden soul of a deceased war criminal, which he thinks will win the war for him. It is an weird little film, with odd theology, but the dialog is excellent and, on the whole, is worth watching. I mean, you have Christopher Walken as an Archangel. How do you top that?

Two words: Viggo Mortensen.

No, sorry, four words: Viggo Mortensen as Lucifer.

Lucifer is a big character, one of the biggest, and most actors play him not just big but huge, over the top. Mortensen takes it in a different direction. His Lucifer is quiet, smooth, charming and disgusting in turns. And frightening. Very frightening. It isn't a huge role - he is in the last third of the movie. But he owns it, and taking it back from Walken is impressive.

The Prophecy (1995)

One of the best portrayals of Lucifer ever.