This post is inspired by Jeff Ignatius’ My Movie Life. Jeff runs a film review website named Culture Snob and I strongly recommend you all make yourself regular readers.

On with the show.

1. The first film I remember seeing at the cinema was Santa Claus: The Movie when I was seven, so it’s a wonder I didn’t swear off the entire medium there and then.
2. Thanks to the magic of online DVD rentals, I watch an average of three films a week, sometimes more.
3. My favourite film is Blade Runner
4. I have never seen the original cut of that film, only the director’s cut.
5. The funniest film I have ever seen is Monty Python’s Life of Brian, but because I have seen it so many times and know the script, I no longer laugh when I watch it.
6. The scariest film I have ever seen is The Omen.
7. The first VCR my family owned was a Betamax. The scarcity of Betamax-format videos available to rent meant that I watched three films over and over again as they were all we owned.
8. Those films were; The Incredible Journey, The Three Lives of Thomasina and a collection of animated fairy tales.
9. The first VHS video I ever owned was a twin-pack containing Ghostbusters, Ghostbusters 2 and for some unknown reason an old episode of the black and white Batman TV series in which the villain is someone who has discovered a way to remotely control cars.
10. The last film I remember seeing with a parent at the cinema was All Dogs Go To Heaven, during which a girl nearby to me cried a lot. I thought she was a right baby.
11. I own only two DVDs; A Nightmare Before Christmas and The Royal Tenanbaums.
12. I think that Stanley Kubrick is massively overrated.
13. CGI is no match for a load of Jim Henson puppets.
14. The only film I have ever walked out of was Ginger Snaps.
15. This was because it was terrifying the hell out of my girlfriend, not because I wasn’t enjoying it.
16. I saw Ginger Snaps several years later and thought it was shit.
17. I chose to see Mr Holland’s Opus over The Crow during a ‘see a film for a pound’ special, and myself and my friend were reduced to tears of laughter at it.
18. I would rather talk about a film I hated than a film I loved.
19. For a time, I was told that I looked like John Cusack as he appeared in Being John Malkovich.
20. I wish that I did look like John Cusack, regardless of what film he’s in.
21. I can always make time for Tron and The Breakfast Club.
22. I hate crowded cinemas.
23. My definition of a crowded cinema is ‘any more than one person’.
24. Watching The Crow 2: City of Angels alone in a cinema significantly increased my enjoyment of it.
25. When I watched Attack of the Clones, I sat near a Japanese couple. The Japanese man was translating on the fly for his girlfriend, who was furiously texting plot details to someone else.
26. People who talk during a film should be ejected from the cinema, literally.
27. People who claim that it’s ok to talk during a film if nobody is talking on film should be shot first, then ejected.
28. People who laugh at the wrong bits should follow the above.
29. I never watch, or respect, award ceremonies.
30. I am disgusted when film-makers re-write important pieces of history (cf. The Patriot, U-571) and act as if it doesn’t matter.
31. I do not trust Mel Gibson.
32. I refuse to watch the updated edition of E.T., which replaces guns with walkie-talkies.
33. I don’t believe people when they tell me they saw the Sixth Sense plot twist coming.
34. I used to be able to dredge up the names of actors and actresses and various film details within a second.
35. As I’ve grown older, that ability has significantly diminished.
36. A Nightmare on Elm Street gave me nightmares.
37. Of the 100 highest-rated films on IMDB, I have seen 50.
38. Of the 100 lowest-rated films on IMDB, I have seen 5.
39. I used to think that a bad SF film still stood a strong chance of being better than a good mainstream film.
40. This was until I watched Lawnmowerman 2: Beyond Cyberspace
41. I consider Lawnmowerman 2: Beyond Cyberspace to be the worst film I have ever seen.
42. People are surprised when I say I enjoyed, and laughed out loud at, Bad Santa.
43. I love Alien3, despite its many flaws.
44. I can spend hours watching the trailers.
45. My favourite time to watch a film at the cinema is 10–11am on a Sunday.
46. I disagree with nearly everything British film critic Barry Norman says, particularly on his views on Westerns and SF genre films.
47. I don’t get Napoleon Dynamite.
48. Salted popcorn, not sweet.
49. One of the first things I do after watching a film is look up the trivia on IMDB.
50. I do not trust IMDB.
51. The ‘Hold me/I can’t’ scene in Edward Scissorhands can reduce me to tears if I’m in the right frame of mind.
52. I don’t understand why people keep allowing Paul Anderson to make films.
53. I don’t understand why Bruce Campbell is not in more films.
54. The fact that a film is a children’s film is no excuse for the film to be bad.
55. George Lucas deserves nothing.

Make of that what you will.