Tamora Pierce, Author, Young Adult Fantasy - Recommendationed Movies 2/24/10

ORIGINAL FAVORITE MOVIES AND TELEVISION SHOWS
(pre-2010)

Favorite Movies:

101 Dalmatians (the John Hughes one)
1776 (“Not everyone’s from Boston, John!”)
A League of Their Own (“Oo, that one hurt.”)
The Abyss
Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension (“No matter where you go, there you are.”)
Airplane! (“I never jest. And don’t call me Shirley.”)
Aliens (“Mostly they come out at night. Mostly.”)
The American President
American Gangster (except for the ending; he did not deserve to get off)
Apocalypse Now (“I wanted a mission, and for my sins they gave me one.”)
Baby’s Day Out (“We’re goin back to the tick-tock to get the boo-boo.")
Babylon A.D.
Batman (1989—“Gotham City always brings a smile to my face.”)
Batman Begins
The Belles of St. Trinian’s (the British girl’s school from Hell. Go, 4^th Form!)
Big Trouble in Little China (“I never drive any faster than I can see—and besides, it's all in the reflexes.“)
Blazing Saddles (“You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know... morons.”)
The Breakfast Club
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (the movie starring Christy Swanson)
Charlie Wilson’s War
The Corruptor (“You wanna be Chinese, you gotta eat the nasty stuff.”)
Chushingura (the Hiroshi Inagaki-directed one)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Dave
Dogma
Eight Men Out
Enter the Dragon (“Man, you come right out of a comic book.”)
Return of the Dragon (“You won’t hurt them with your Chinese boxing!”)
The Three Musketeers & The Four Musketeers (the Richard Lester version)
Fantasia
Fantasia 2000
"The Fatal Glass of Beer" (W.C. Fields short) (“Think I’ll go out and milk the elk!”)
Four Brothers
Francis the Talking Mule movies
Galaxy Quest (“Never give up! Never surrender!”)
The Ghost and the Darkness
Gladiator (“Are you not entertained?!”)
The Great Escape
The Green Mile
Henry V (Kenneth Branagh version)
House II (“I’m turnin' into an old fart!”)
Hunt for the Red October (“Next time, Jack, write a *** **** memo!”)
The Illusionist
Jaws (“We definitely need a bigger boat.”)
Jurassic Park (“You’ve got a T-Rex?”)
The Killer (John Woo)
King Solomon’s Mines
Labyrinth (“I’m tired of living up to your expectations!”)
Lake Placid
The Lone Wolf and Cub series (“And always there were the ninja.”)
Looking for Richard (“Was woman ever in this mood wooed?”)
M
Ma & Pa Kettle movies
The Seven Samurai
The Magnificent Seven (“Never rode shotgun on a hearse before.”)
Major League (“And it is off the reservation!”)
Man on Fire
Matewan (“Today he is called communist, socialist, union man . . .”)
The Mummy
The Mummy Returns
No Contest
Nosferatu
Hayao Miyazaki (one of the greatest animators of all time):
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
My Neighbor Totoro
Castle in the Sky
Princess Mononoke
Howl’s Moving Castle
Passion Fish (“You got to squeeze the Passion Fish.”)
The Producers (“You are the audience; I am the author! I outrank you!”)
The Quick and the Dead
Raiders of the Lost Ark (“I don’t know. I’m making this up as I go.”)
Red Dawn (“Wolverines!”)
Road House—until Sam Elliot leaves (“I bet that hurts, dudn’t it?”)
Ronin
Schindler’s List
Serenity (“Shiny!”)
Shakespeare in Love (“Good title!”)
Shrek 1, 2 & 3
Singin' in the Rain
Star Wars: A New Hope (before edits) (“It was a stupid conversation anyway!”)
Stigmata
The Stranger (with Kathy Long) (“Bad manners.”)
Sugar and Spice (“I see a crafts project!”)
The Sword and the Sorcerer
Superman (1978—“Actually, her hair is silver.”)
Taken
That Thing You Do!
Tombstone (“Must be a peach of a hand.”)
The Secret of Roan Inish
The Untouchables—until Sean Connery leaves (“That’s the Chicago way.”)
Yellow Submarine (“It’s no longer a blue world, Max! Where will we go?” "Argentina?")
Yojimbo (“I hate pathetic people! I’ll kill you if you cry!”)
Young Frankenstein (“My name is FRANKENSTEIN!”)
Zatoichi series (the blind masseur is a great swordsman!)
Zoolander