Day #12 of the 30 Day Film Meme

[shadowkat]

Day #12 of the 30 Day Film Meme.

I don't like this prompt - it's a film that you hate from your favorite genre. What if you don't have a favorite genre? And I don't tend to "hate" films, dislike maybe. Life is too short to hate movies. If I don't like a movie? I don't watch it or I tend to forget about it. I hate the thing in the white house, but I don't hate movies. Books...well, that's another matter.

So I'm making up my own prompt. You're free to play along. If you prefer the previous prompt - you can do that in your own journal.

What is a film you like with a color in the title?

Saw this film in London in 1986, and adored it. It's a beautiful film.

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Comments

[wendelah1]

It's been many years, but I remember liking The Hunt for Red October.

[cjlasky7]

David Lynch's "Blue Velvet" was Lynch's breakthrough from midnight movie cult phenomenon to mainstream success. It brought Laura Dern and Kyle MacLachlan to stardom and was the big comeback for Dennis Hopper, who devoured the screen as helium huffing Frank Booth.

(Lynch would use MacLachlan and the music of Angelo Badalamenti again for Twin Peaks. Blue Velvet also brought Roy Orbison out of obscurity for the first time in 20 years.)

https://youtu.be/k_BybDB_phY

[petzipellepingo]

I'm going with Fried Green Tomatoes where I enjoyed the backstory more than the current one.

[atpo_onm]

I mentioned before that overall I'm not this big-time sports fan, but of the sports I do enjoy watching, I lean towrads ones that require craft and/or precision as apposed to simply brute strength and/or aggression.

Then there are the ones that some people pursue that are also more than a tad scary. Here's a movie about one of those sports:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xS6HmLPemWI

Sadly, also a reminder of how much I miss seeing flicks in a quality theater with a great sound system, as when those waves come crashing over top of the surfers, you're feeling like you're right there with them. I actually used certain cuts from this film back in my retail A/V days to show people that a good surround sound rig could be about other things than explosions and car chases.