Perhaps, my favorite aspect of taking this quiz – even more than gauging my first instincts in each category – was having the opportunity to see what each of us responded and how pleased I am as a whole. I think it’s extremely cool that you could pretty much swap out my answers for the answers Macy gave on about four out of every five questions, and I’d have a hard time arguing that whatever the response is isn’t accurate. I quite enjoyed that revelation.
Cheers!
What is your favorite movie?
Justin:
Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino)
Macy:
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry)
What is the last
movie you watched?
Justin:
A War (Tobias Lindholm)
Macy:
The Eyes of My Mother (Nicolas Pesce)
What
is your favorite action/adventure movie?
Justin:
No Country for Old Men (Joel and Ethan Coen)
Macy:
Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller)
What is your favorite
horror movie?
Justin:
The Shining (Stanley Kubrick)
Macy:
Cabin in the Woods (Joss Whedon)
What is your favorite
drama?
Justin:
Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick)
Macy:
Inside Llewyn Davis (Joel and Ethan Coen)
What is your favorite
comedy?
Justin:
Dazed and Confused (Richard Linklater)
Macy:
The World’s End (Edgar Wright) / This Is Spinal Tap (Rob Reiner)
What is a movie that
makes you happy?
Justin:
Almost Famous (Cameron Crowe)
Macy:
Bringing Up Baby (Howard Hawks)
What is a movie that
makes you sad?
Justin:
Blue Valentine* (Derek Cianfrance)
Macy:
Candy (Neil Armfield)
*(sad
in all the best ways)
What is a movie you
practically know the whole script of?
Justin:
High Fidelity (Stephen Frears)
Macy:
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (Donald Petrie)
*Macy
added “Ugh.” beside her answer here.
Who is your favorite
director?
Justin:
Paul Thomas Anderson
Macy:
Wes Anderson
What is your favorite
movie from your childhood?
Justin:
White Men Can’t Jump (Ron Shelton)
Macy:
The Sound of Music (Robert Wise)
*People
may think this is a cheat on my behalf, but I really did watch White Men Can’t
Jump on what seems like a near-weekly basis when I was 12 or 13 (or at least
this is what my skewed memory is telling me now). In any case, I choose to
believe picking an R-rated movie in this category balances out my honest response
for first movie seen in theaters.
What is your favorite
animated movie?
Justin:
Fantastic Mr. Fox (Wes Anderson)
Macy:
Fantastic Mr. Fox (Wes Anderson)
What movie did you
used to love but now hate?
Justin:
The Boondock Saints (Troy Duffy)
Macy:
House of Wax (Jaume Collet-Serra)
*We
did some finagling in this category and each agreed to respond to it more as “What
is a movie you’ve seen many times – possibly more times than many movies you
love – that you hate and/or don’t enjoy nearly as much as you maybe once did?”
Macy says she’s sat through at least parts of House of Wax a dozen or so times
and never wanted to once. I liked The Boondock Saints when I was a teenager,
but my appreciation hasn’t held up as I’ve aged past my college years. That was
the one that came to mind. Something like Bad Boys or Con Air or Blade may be
an even more accurate response, but I’ll stick with my gut reaction.
What is your favorite
quote from any movie?
Justin:
“The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone
else when you're uncool.” (Almost Famous)
Macy:
“Sand is overrated. It’s just tiny, little rocks.” (Eternal Sunshine of the
Spotless Mind)
What was the first
movie you saw in theaters?
Justin:
The Land Before Time
Macy:
Beauty and the Beast
*I
hope somebody appreciates how much it bugs me that I have The Land Before Time
(which I probably haven’t thought about since I was five years old) on my list,
but I’ve had to omit most P.T. Anderson, Wes Anderson, Scorsese, Linklater,
Coppola (Francis and Sofia), Spielberg and Kubrick films I adore, not to
mention so many others.
What was the last
movie you saw in theaters?
Justin:
The Lost City of Z (James Gray)
Macy:
Colossal (Nacho Villagando)
*At
the time, The Lost City of Z was the last movie either of us saw in theaters,
but Macy skipped over it in her mind. We saw Colossal together the prior week.
I enjoy that we saw the same movies at the same times, but we were able to put
down two different answers here to spread the love.
What is the best
movie you’ve seen in the past year?
Justin:
The Broken Circle Breakdown (Felix van Groeningen)
Macy:
20th Century Women (Mike Mills)
Which movie
disappointed you the most?
Justin:
The Counselor (Ridley Scott)
Macy:
La La Land (Damien Chazelle)
*Macy
was mostly disappointed La La Land was only slightly better than average,
rather than becoming one of her favorite movies of all time. The Counselor
frustrates me because of the magnitude of monstrous talent on board (Cormac
McCarthy, Michael Fassbender, Ridley Scott, Javier Bardem, Brad Pitt, Penelope
Cruz, a totally insane Cameron Diaz role) and yet it’s a pulpy mess that I never
can decide if I almost adore or pretty much pity.
Who is your favorite
actor?
Justin:
Paul Newman
Macy:
Peter Sellers
Who is your favorite
actress?
Justin:
Marion Cotillard
Macy:
Katherine Hepburn
What is the most
overrated movie?
Justin:
The Avengers (Joss Whedon)
Macy:
The Fast and the Furious – all of them
*We
probably won’t be popular for these ones, but at least we’re being honest. Also,
I wholly support Macy’s pick here, but I’m totally on my own with mine.
What is the most
underrated movie?
Justin:
Short Term 12 (Destin Daniel Cretton)
Macy:
Rachel Getting Married (Jonathan Demme)
Who is your favorite
character from any movie?
Justin:
Bill the Butcher (Gangs of New York)
Macy: Marla Singer (Fight Club)
What
is your favorite documentary?
Justin: Searching for Sugar Man
(Malik Bendjelloul)
Macy: Mistaken for Strangers (Tom
Berninger)
What
is a movie no one would expect you to love?
Justin: Bound (The Wachowskis)
Macy: Seven Brides for Seven
Brothers (Stanley Donen)
What
is a movie that is a guilty pleasure?
Justin: Elizabethtown (Cameron
Crowe)
Macy: Mean Girls (Mark Waters)
What is your favorite
classic movie?
Justin:
Casablanca (Michael Curtiz)
Macy:
The Court Jester (Melvin Frank, Norman Panama)
Which movie has the
best soundtrack?
Justin:
Under the Skin
Macy:
Elizabethtown
*Macy
told me I cheated here, because I chose favorite score rather than soundtrack.
Honestly, you could insert any Wes Anderson or Tarantino soundtrack here for
me, and I would agree in seconds. Same goes for most Cameron Crowe movies, I’m
Not There, High Fidelity, Trainspotting and so many others. Rather than picking
a curated mixtape of songs I already own and love, I opted for Mica Levi’s
Under the Skin score that captivated and haunted me from the opening shot until
the end credits. You could also substitute Levi’s score for Jackie or Jóhann
Jóhannsson’s original scores for Sicario or Arrival, and they’d be my
favorites, too. And I’d more readily purchase those on vinyl before any other
movie soundtracks.
What is a movie that
has changed your opinion about something?
Justin:
Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee)
Macy:
Joe (David Gordon Green)
*Weird
category all around that’s kind of hard to make sense of. Anyhow, I loved Do
the Right Thing from the first time I saw it as a college kid, and I feel it
tightened my moral compass in some ways at the right time and helped me
appreciate character development and tension. Joe changed Macy’s mind that
Nicolas Cage isn’t an absolutely wretched actor 100% of the time, so much so
that she has agreed to sit through a ten-film, Cage-related marathon of my
choosing at some point in the near future.
What is your least
favorite movie?
Justin:
Cabin in the Woods (Joss Whedon)
Macy:
Battleship (Peter Berg)
*I
already hear all of you chastising me right now. I don’t care. I stand by this
response, and I can handle your wrath.
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