Making meaning and delight.
Two things killed me about the 10-Day Movie Challenge, which I got sucked into on Facebook: presenting the films without explanation, and selecting only ten movies.
But, as I said way back when, I have a blog, which means I can ignore those rules. So I explained each of the ten films — and now, since ten films was just too hard, here are my 10DMC Honorable Mentions.
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I love movies. When I sit down to watch a film, I expect to enjoy myself, and my standards are low enough that I’m rarely disappointed. Often, I’m wowed. But I can think of only three films that have made me feel genuine awe. I’ve written about two of them in this 10-day movie challenge series: the original Star Wars, and Blade Runner.
The third is The Matrix.
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I’ve seen Midnight Run all the way through only three or four times. But—way back when—I had a roommate who subscribed to HBO, and, for the month or so that it was showing, I watched it from whatever point I stumbled up on it—ten minutes here, an hour there… in terms of accumulated minutes, I’ve sat in front of that film more than any other except, perhaps, The Matrix.
I couldn’t get enough of it.
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Very few movies even approach what is, for me, the gold standard of science fiction: Blade Runner. One of those is Ghost in the Shell.
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There are only two movies that I saw at least a dozen times in the theater. Star Wars is one of them.
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On Day 4 of the 10 Day Movie Challenge, I was accused of having lost focus. I was supposed to be listing movies that impacted me, but, one commenter said, “This seems more like the women who impacted you, Greg.”
I should be careful about protesting too much, methinks.
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If I’d listed this “10 Day Movie Challenge” in order by greatest impact, Blade Runner would have been first, hands down.
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