Having lived through the era of Myspace we all have at least a passing familiarity with questionnaires. Most are simply an amusing pastime/an opportunity to write about ourselves. But some, like the legendary Proust Questionnaire (if taken seriously) can give a real insight into the person being quizzed.
It is with this in mind that we at Cinema Nerds have developed the ultimate in pretentious film surveys...
The Cineaste Questionnaire
All faux-pretension aside, have fun with this. Please feel free to take this quiz and submit your answers as comments to this post. Feel free to include images, videos and links. We can't wait to get a greater insight into the movie mania of our readership. Now without further ado...
- What was the first R-rated film you ever saw?
- What is you favorite "F-bomb" in a PG/PG-13 film?
- What was the first film you ever saw at midnight in a theater?
- What is your favorite use of non-score music in a film?
- What is your favorite movie theater?
- What film can you not wait to show your child?
- What is your favorite silent film?
- What is your favorite movie poster?
- What is your least favorite digital effect in a specific film?
- What is your favorite Film Noir?
- What is your favorite mention of a film's title in dialogue?
- What would be your ideal double feature?
- What is your favorite director cameo?
- What film would you like to watch on your deathbed?
- What is your favorite film score?
- What film would you want your life to look like?
- What film's costumes would you wear everyday if you could?
- What is your favorite movie sequel?
- What is your favorite animated film?
- What is your favorite beginning or end credits sequence?
Have fun!
What was the first R-rated film you ever saw?
ReplyDeleteNot completely sure. Either "Cliffhanger" or "Tombstone" on VHS
What is you favorite "F-bomb" in a PG/PG-13 film?
"Nice Fucking Model!" from "Beetlejuice"
What was the first film you ever saw at midnight in a theater?
"Mortal Kombat" in its original theatrical run
What is your favorite use of non-score music in a film?
"Be My Baby" by The Ronettes in "Mean Streets"
What is your favorite movie theater?
"The Egyptian" in Hollywood
What film can you not wait to show your child?
Star Wars Episode IV (un-special edition)
What is your favorite silent film?
"The Passion of Joan of Arc"
What is your favorite movie poster?
Pulp Fiction
What is your least favorite digital effect in a specific film?
Jar Jar Binks (episode I,II, III)
What is your favorite Film Noir?
"The Killing"
What is your favorite mention of a film's title in dialogue?
"Snakes on a Plane"
What would be your ideal double feature?
"The Graduate" and "Annie Hall"
What is your favorite director cameo?
Francis Ford Coppola in "Apocalypse Now"
What film would you like to watch on your deathbed?
"Ghostbusters"
What is your favorite film score?
"The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly"
What film would you want your life to look like?
"Bottle Rocket"
What film's costumes would you wear everyday if you could?
"Clerks"
What is your favorite movie sequel?
"The Godfather Part II"
What is your favorite animated film?
"The Jungle Book"
What is your favorite beginning or end credits sequence?
"The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly"
First R Rated: Silence of the Lambs
ReplyDeleteF-Bomb: no idea!
First midnight screening: Star Wars Ep. 1
Non-score music: "These Days" by Nico from The Royal Tenenbaums
Favorite theater: Los Feliz 3
Show my kid: Disney's Robin Hood
Silent: Sunrise
Movie Poster: The Royal Tenenbaums
Bad digital effect: Unnecessary Jabba/Han Solo scene in Star Wars
Film noir: Double Indemnity
Title in dialogue: "It's anchorMAN, not anchorlady!"
Double feature: Meet Me in St. Louis & The Magnificent Ambersons
Director cameo: Hitchcock in Strangers on a Train
Deathbed: A Christmas Story
Film Score: Moonstruck
Life to look like: Midnight in Paris
Costumes: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Favorite sequel: Godfather II (isn't it everyone's?)
Animated film: Sleeping Beauty
Credits: Vertigo
Amendment!
ReplyDeleteNon-score music: "As Time Goes By" Casablanca
What was the first R-rated film you ever saw?
ReplyDeletePredator
What is you favorite "F-bomb" in a PG/PG-13 film?
-"Knock, knock".
-"Who's there"?
-"Go fuck yourself".
From Catch Me If You Can
What was the first film you ever saw at midnight in a theater?
Star Wars: Episode 1
What is your favorite use of non-score music in a film?
"Just Like Honey" by The Jesus & Mary Chain in Lost In Translation
What is your favorite movie theater?
The Arclight, Hollywood
What film can you not wait to show your child?
Back To The Future
What is your favorite silent film?
Anything with Harold Lloyd
What is your favorite movie poster?
The Shawshank Redemption 10th Anniversary by Drew Struzan
What is your least favorite digital effect in a specific film?
Everything digital in Pearl Harbor
What is your favorite Film Noir?
Memento (I'm counting it)
What is your favorite mention of a film's title in dialogue?
"I'm Howard Hughes. The Aviator".
What would be your ideal double feature?
The French Connection and Ronin
What is your favorite director cameo?
Martin Scorsese in Taxi Driver
What film would you like to watch on your deathbed?
Dead Man
What is your favorite film score?
Gattaca
What film would you want your life to look like?
Miller's Crossing
What film's costumes would you wear everyday if you could?
Ed Wood (Specifically Johnny Depp)
What is your favorite movie sequel?
Star Wars: Episode IV The Empire Strikes Back
What is your favorite animated film?
Waking Life
What is your favorite beginning or end credits sequence?
Se7en for beginning. Run Lola Run for end.
What was the first R-rated film you ever saw? Not sure...maybe The Shining?
ReplyDeleteWhat is you favorite "F-bomb" in a PG/PG-13 film? "They fucking forgot my birthday!" (Sixteen Candles)
What was the first film you ever saw at midnight in a theater? Honestly, I don't remember. You think I'd make a note of such a momentous occasion!
What is your favorite use of non-score music in a film? "I Want Candy" in Marie Antoinette, and "These Days" in The Royal Tenenbaums
What is your favorite movie theater? The Egyptian!
What film can you not wait to show your child? A Little Princess (1995)
What is your favorite silent film? Tie between The Unknown and My Best Girl! Oh, and Phantom of the Opera too!
What is your favorite movie poster? The Canary Murder Case
What is your least favorite digital effect in a specific film? Those damn gophers in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
What is your favorite Film Noir? The Maltese Falcon
What is your favorite mention of a film's title in dialogue? "Or maybe I was just a girl...interrupted."
What would be your ideal double feature? The Wolf Man (1941) and Cat People (1942). Everybody turning into cats and dogs!
What is your favorite director cameo? Alfred Hitchcock walking the dogs in The Birds
What film would you like to watch on your deathbed? Auntie Mame, because it's my faaaavorite.
What is your favorite film score? ET! *sob*
What film would you want your life to look like? Funny Face! Gorgeous costumes, dance numbers, Paris!
What film's costumes would you wear everyday if you could? 500 Days of Summer
What is your favorite movie sequel? Godfather Part 2 (and my guilty pleasure, Addams Family Values!)
What is your favorite animated film? The Three Cabarellos? Honestly, almost anything Disney before 1995 or so gets my vote!
What is your favorite beginning or end credits sequence? Kill Bill Vol. 2. So epic!
What was the first R-rated film you ever saw?
ReplyDeleteWaterworld
What is you favorite "F-bomb" in a PG/PG-13 film?
The Mighty
What was the first film you ever saw at midnight in a theater?
Star Wars II? I am not sure about this though.
What is your favorite use of non-score music in a film?
What is your favorite movie theater?
Browning Cinema on Notre Dame's campus
What film can you not wait to show your child?
Hook (so magical)
What is your favorite silent film?
Sunrise. Metropolis is also great.
What is your favorite movie poster?
E.T.
What is your least favorite digital effect in a specific film?
Prarie Dogs in Indiana Jones IV
What is your favorite Film Noir?
Sunset Boulevard
What is your favorite mention of a film's title in dialogue?
blanking out on this
What would be your ideal double feature?
Gone With the Wind; 2001: A Space Odyssey (b/c they are my favorites!)
What is your favorite director cameo?
Peter Jackson in Fellowship.
What film would you like to watch on your deathbed?
2001: A Space Odyssey
What is your favorite film score?
October Sky
What film would you want your life to look like?
Rudy (I guess this is my life - I live and work where it was filmed)
What film's costumes would you wear everyday if you could?
Marie Antionette (if I had someone to do my hair/makeup every day)
What is your favorite movie sequel?
Spiderman 2
What is your favorite animated film?
Fantasia
What is your favorite beginning or end credits sequence?
Land Before Time - love the Diana Ross song and the artwork
What was the first R-rated film you ever saw?
ReplyDeleteBull Durham--my godmother loves Kevin Costner and baseball, and now, so do I
What is you favorite "F-bomb" in a PG/PG-13 film?
Bad New Bears (the remake---soooo awful)
"you know there's no I in TEAM"
"Yeah but there's an "M" and "E"
"there should be an "F" and a "U"
What was the first film you ever saw at midnight in a theater?
sadly, I was a depraved child/teenager and a busy college student, I honestly think it was the Princess and the Frog---lol
What is your favorite use of non-score music in a film? Sam Cooke's "Your Love is Lifting Me" (Higher and HIgher) in ghostbusters II
What is your favorite movie theater? I think it's a three way tie between Bay Theater (seal Beach), the Art Theater (LBC) and the Arclight (h-wood)
What film can you not wait to show your child? GOONIES!
What is your favorite silent film? The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
What is your favorite movie poster? FOR EFFECTIVENESS and awesomeness---VERTIGO---actually gives me vertigo looking at it
What is your least favorite digital effect in a specific film? Anyone remember when they turn Chet, Wyatt's older brother in "Weird Science" into a piece of shit? that was pretty bad. but Bill Paxton is awesome and the fact that he still had a career after that is even more awesome.
What is your favorite Film Noir? Chinatown
What is your favorite mention of a film's title in dialogue? Andy, you GOONIE!!
What would be your ideal double feature?
anything starring Joseph Gordon Levitt (let's say 500 days of summer) with anything starring Jason Seigel (how bout "i love you man")
What is your favorite director cameo? Gotta be Quentin in Pulp Fiction
What film would you like to watch on your deathbed?
The Notebook, while i hold my lovers hand and he dies with me
What is your favorite film score?
Tenacious D and the pick of Destiny-Papagenu? classic!
What film would you want your life to look like?
Citizen Kane---and i'd look down on all of you from my tower and send my flying monkeys for correspondence--muah-ahahahahahaha!
What film's costumes would you wear everyday if you could?
Hottub time Machine. i miss day-glo and color-changing shirts and leg warmers
What is your favorite movie sequel?
Ghostbusters II-nothing beats the Statue of Liberty coming to life and jamming out to Sam Cooke
What is your favorite animated film?
used to be Jungle Book, now Princess and the Frog
What is your favorite beginning or end credits sequence?
end credits---the original Hangover---almost better than the whole movie combined
"What was the first R-rated film you ever saw?"
ReplyDeleteEither 'Species' or 'Blazing Saddles' -- I honestly can't remember.
"What is you favorite 'F-bomb' in a PG/PG-13 film?"
I'm going to second Craig on this one and say 'Beetlejuice.' (that and I can't think of anything else).
"What was the first film you ever saw at midnight in a theater?"
I started going to 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show' screenings when I was sixteen.
"What is your favorite use of non-score music in a film?"
'Love Letter' by Ketty Lester in 'Blue Velvet.'
"What is your favorite movie theater?"
The Art Theatre in Long Beach BEFORE it was renovated.
"What film can you not wait to show your child?"
Well, I don't plan on having kids, so I would show my nephew 'Labyrinth' or 'It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown' when my sister gives me the chance.
"What is your favorite silent film?"
Either 'City Lights' or 'Metropolis.'
"What is your favorite movie poster?"
The Italian version of 'Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me.' Absolutely stunning.
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"What is your least favorite digital effect in a specific film?"
Fake blood. It looks so tacky.
"What is your favorite Film Noir?"
You know, I haven't been too exposed to much noir, to be honest. For now, I'm going to have to say 'Dr. Caligari.'
"What is your favorite mention of a film's title in dialogue?"
'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.'
"What would be your ideal double feature?"
Hahaha, some of the themes my roommate and I come up with for movie nights are rather priceless. The most up & coming one is "Trashy Romance Night" with 'True Romance' and 'Wild At Heart.'
What is your favorite director cameo?
'Reservoir Dogs,' Quentin Tarantino
What film would you like to watch on your deathbed?
'Mulholland Dr.'
What is your favorite film score?
The opening number to 'Mulholland Dr.' by Angelo Badalamenti and "First Snow" by Clint Mansell from 'The Fountain.'
"What film would you want your life to look like?"
'La Vie En Rose.'
"What film's costumes would you wear everyday if you could?"
I loved Holly GoLightly's costumes in 'Breakfast at Tiffany's,' or anything Grace Kelly wore in 'Rear Window.'
"What is your favorite movie sequel?"
'The Bride of Frankenstein.'
"What is your favorite animated film?"
'Fantasia.'
"What is your favorite beginning or end credits sequence?"
Probably 'Enter the Void' opening credits.
Gah, I take that back. For some reason, I translated the question as "Favorite Director Debut" instead of cameo.
ReplyDelete"What is your favorite director cameo?"
John Waters as the voice of Ted Bundy in 'Serial Mom.'