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Sep. 11th, 2009
Some movies you just get excited about. You can’t help it. Maybe the trailers just get you hyperventilating, maybe it‘s a film of a book you really love, maybe there‘s an actor/actress in it that sends you in spasms of joy, whatever. It happens. And it’s especially cruel when it happens and you are nowhere near a theater. But, as I am about to prove, fangirliness finds a way.
So here they are, my Top 10 Movies I Could Not WAIT To See….
1. The most recent: Watchmen. I was damn near delirious. I live in a town with no theater or roads to other towns. Barrow, Alaska, folks. So, I had to buy a plane ticket to a town with a theater (Fairbanks) and get a hotel room and rental car for the weekend, and the rental car didn’t work out so I had to take a cab everywhere. Probably my most expensive fangirliness to date, but I saw the movie. I regret nothing.
2. The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Hoo. Theonering.net was sick of me. Thankfully, those came out when I was living in North Carolina and could go see them. It’s for the best. What a bad, sad time it would’ve been for those who would’ve had to listen to me if I hadn’t been able to see them when they came out. I’m just sayin’.
3. Beetlejuice. I don’t know how it happened. But one day, I simply could not rest unless I was watching the movie, listening to the soundtrack, drawing fanart, writing fan fiction, and scouring the internet for copies of the animated series. I was obsessed! One might even say possessed…
4. The Hellsing anime. I bought the first volume late one evening just before Best Buy closed. I had been having a pity party for myself because my roommates had hurt my feelings and decided I’d make my own fun. Cartoon vampires? What’s not to love? Loved it so much I could barely stand to wait until Best Buy opened the next morning so I could go get the other three and they didn’t have #4 so I had to wait! Aughh.
5. The 10th Kingdom. NBC advertised it well, because by the time the mini-series was on, I was all but frothing. I admit, a lot of it had to do with Wolf, but the whole concept was so fun!
6. Desperado. It was at the dollar theater for three weeks, and I saw it at least six times. Ridiculously violent, absurdly fun, awesome soundtrack, and Antonio Banderas all in one. For a mere $2 a viewing.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
dizziness came with me on quite a few of those.
7. The Crow. I was in Barrow when The Crow first came out, so I didn’t get to see it in theaters. I happened to be working at the Video Bank after school, so I was hyperventilating over the ‘Coming Soon’ dates on the posters. When it was finally available on video, my poor boss, sick to death of hearing my teenage ramblings on Brandon Lee, the nature of revenge, the nature of death, the mythological symbolism of blackbirds, and the possibility of a curse, sold me a copy for $10.
8. Batman. The first one. I watched that movie after school every day for a month after we first got it. Had weird dreams with Michael Keaton in them for much longer.
9. The Last Unicorn. It was only available in a movie rental in a different town across state lines, but I begged and pleaded and sighed and longed until my kindly mother gave in and rented it. The frantic need to see it a thousand more times forced my folks to tape a copy of it until we actually found a legit copy for sale somewhere.
10. The Black Stallion. I don’t know how old I was, but it wasn’t very. I couldn’t stand it until I could see this movie, and then I couldn’t stand it until I could see it again. Who knows how many times my poor parents had to go through their daily lives with the score of this movie in the background.
Honorable Mention goes to The Lion King, which I spazzed about after I saw it. I wasn’t any more excited to see it than I was any other Disney movie beforehand, so it doesn’t really count.
So here they are, my Top 10 Movies I Could Not WAIT To See….
1. The most recent: Watchmen. I was damn near delirious. I live in a town with no theater or roads to other towns. Barrow, Alaska, folks. So, I had to buy a plane ticket to a town with a theater (Fairbanks) and get a hotel room and rental car for the weekend, and the rental car didn’t work out so I had to take a cab everywhere. Probably my most expensive fangirliness to date, but I saw the movie. I regret nothing.
2. The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Hoo. Theonering.net was sick of me. Thankfully, those came out when I was living in North Carolina and could go see them. It’s for the best. What a bad, sad time it would’ve been for those who would’ve had to listen to me if I hadn’t been able to see them when they came out. I’m just sayin’.
3. Beetlejuice. I don’t know how it happened. But one day, I simply could not rest unless I was watching the movie, listening to the soundtrack, drawing fanart, writing fan fiction, and scouring the internet for copies of the animated series. I was obsessed! One might even say possessed…
4. The Hellsing anime. I bought the first volume late one evening just before Best Buy closed. I had been having a pity party for myself because my roommates had hurt my feelings and decided I’d make my own fun. Cartoon vampires? What’s not to love? Loved it so much I could barely stand to wait until Best Buy opened the next morning so I could go get the other three and they didn’t have #4 so I had to wait! Aughh.
5. The 10th Kingdom. NBC advertised it well, because by the time the mini-series was on, I was all but frothing. I admit, a lot of it had to do with Wolf, but the whole concept was so fun!
6. Desperado. It was at the dollar theater for three weeks, and I saw it at least six times. Ridiculously violent, absurdly fun, awesome soundtrack, and Antonio Banderas all in one. For a mere $2 a viewing.
dizziness came with me on quite a few of those. 7. The Crow. I was in Barrow when The Crow first came out, so I didn’t get to see it in theaters. I happened to be working at the Video Bank after school, so I was hyperventilating over the ‘Coming Soon’ dates on the posters. When it was finally available on video, my poor boss, sick to death of hearing my teenage ramblings on Brandon Lee, the nature of revenge, the nature of death, the mythological symbolism of blackbirds, and the possibility of a curse, sold me a copy for $10.
8. Batman. The first one. I watched that movie after school every day for a month after we first got it. Had weird dreams with Michael Keaton in them for much longer.
9. The Last Unicorn. It was only available in a movie rental in a different town across state lines, but I begged and pleaded and sighed and longed until my kindly mother gave in and rented it. The frantic need to see it a thousand more times forced my folks to tape a copy of it until we actually found a legit copy for sale somewhere.
10. The Black Stallion. I don’t know how old I was, but it wasn’t very. I couldn’t stand it until I could see this movie, and then I couldn’t stand it until I could see it again. Who knows how many times my poor parents had to go through their daily lives with the score of this movie in the background.
Honorable Mention goes to The Lion King, which I spazzed about after I saw it. I wasn’t any more excited to see it than I was any other Disney movie beforehand, so it doesn’t really count.
