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30 Day Movie Challenge Day 30 – Your Favorite Movie Of All Time


As we wrap up the 30 Day Movie Challenge ( which started on May 9, 2011, a little more than 30 days ago), we get our one and only duplicate film.  On Day 3, I wrote:

For reasons that I can’t explain, mostly because I’m not the teenage girl who created this challenge, it never asks for your favorite movie.

Well, apparently my reading comprehension wasn’t too good back then, since that question was the last on the list.

It’s been a few years now since I’ve watched Clue: The Movie.  It’s quite possible that I don’t even remember all of the words now.  I was thinking of watching the new Blu-Ray that was recently released, but there was a complete lack of new extras that would make purchasing the film for the third time a good investment.

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30 Day Movie Challenge Day 28 – Favorite Movie From Your Favorite Director

So, I spent a lot of time trying to figure out who my favorite director might be.  Kevin Smith?  Maybe at one time.  Quentin Tarantino?  Possibly.  Someone else I’m not thinking of at the moment?  Quite likely.  I decided to go with the current it-boy and summer box office champion Joss Whedon, who I’ve been a big fan of for years, dating back Buffy the Vampire Slayer (the series, not the movie).  Given the enormous success of the Avengers, Joss can do pretty much whatever he wants going forward, and I can’t wait to see what comes next.

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30 Day Movie Challenge Day 26 – A Movie You Love But Everyone Else Hates

OK, so the emotions in this one may be a little off.  While Daredevil was not a smash hit like its superhero brethren, I don’t think it is fair to say that everyone hated it.  And, to say that I loved it would also be a bit of a stretch.  That said, it’s been over 2 years since I’ve started this little challenge and I haven’t come up with anything better in that time, so I’ll go with it.  One of the places this film got hammered in the nerdier portions of the interwebs was for casting Michael Clarke Duncan as the Kingpin.  Duncan, who died on Monday, certainly filled the party in every way that mattered and brought some nobility to the role.

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30 Day Movie Challenge Day 25 – The Most Hilarious Film You Have Seen

It’s been quite a while since I’ve watched Kevin Smith’s second film, so who knows if it holds up at all, but it was certainly a laugh riot back when I was in college.  While the critics savaged the film, the tale of two slackers who spend the day at the mall trying to win back their girlfriends, which introduced Jason Lee to the Askewniverse, had many laugh out loud moments.

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30 Day Movie Challenge Day 24 – Favorite Animation

Between the second and third seasons of the TransFormers series, this film came out and didn’t just shake up the status quo, but oblitterated it.  Many of the existing characters were killed off with new ones introduced, a move that makes sense now looking back, as the point of the cartoon was to sell toys.  As a fan of the cartoon, comics, and toys, this movie was a groundbreaking event.

I didn’t see the movie when it first came out, so my first exposure to the new characters was the new season of cartoons, along with the movie adaptation comic from Marvel.  I eventually found a VHS copy of the film at Sears of all places, and still have that copy to this day.

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30 Day Movie Challenge Day 23 – Favorite Documentary

Imagine a world where the most important thing a man can accomplish in life is setting the world record for the high score in Donkey Kong?  King of Kong takes us into that world, where newcomer Steve Wiebe tries to break in to the old boys club at Funspot, taking the record of Billy Mitchell, who originally set the record as a child and has made it his life’s defining moment.  It is an intriguing look at human nature and the obsessiveness of the nerd sub-cultures.

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30 Day Movie Challenge Day 22 – Favorite Action Movie

80s action films had followed a pretty standard routine, with either a stone-faced Arnold Schwarzenegger or Sylvester Stallone fighting off some foreign threat.  That all changed with 1988’s Die Hard, which introduced both Bruce Willis and a sense of humor to the action genre, changing the formula for the 90s and beyond.  This also could double as my favorite Christmas movie.  Ho.  Ho.  Ho.

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30 Day Movie Challenge Day 21 – Favorite Movie From Your Favorite Actress

My favorite Scarlett Johansson film is the first I saw her in. Based on the graphic novel by Daniel Clowes, Ghost World follows 2 high school graduates, one who is ready to move on with the rest of her life, and one who is determined to make the most of her life, regardless of where it takes her.  It’s a little odd to see the career trajectory of the two, as star Thora Birch has seen her career stall in the decade since Ghost World, while Scarlett’s has exploded.