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Rules: Don’t take too long to think about it. Fifteen movies you’ve seen that will always stick with you. First fifteen you can recall in no more than fifteen minutes.<\/span><\/p>\n NB: Ask me this on a different day and I’d probably give you a different list.<\/p>\n ~CKL<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" (Dear Facebook friends: I appreciate the thought when you “tag” me in your “notes,” but instead of wrestling with Facebook’s user-hostile interface and hiding my content inside their walled garden, I choose to post my omphaloskepsistic lists on the public…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
Khaaaaaan!<\/span><\/li>\n
Confused me for a long time until I realized the entire film was all about food and eating. Watch it again, you’ll see what I mean.<\/li>\n
The first movie I can remember seeing in a theatre.<\/li>\n
A simple story told in a complicated way.<\/li>\n
D and I saw this movie because we ran into some friends of ours in line at the theatre, and it’s what they were going to see. We were very pleasantly surprised.<\/li>\n
Still M. Night Shyamalan’s best film.<\/li>\n
Bogie was always at his best when playing antiheroes.<\/li>\n
Not an entirely successful modern film noir<\/span>, but I love the atmosphere.<\/li>\n
I still wish someone had bought the pilot and made a TV series out of this, but I guess House<\/span> is an acceptable compromise.<\/li>\n
Old-school noir<\/span> laid on so thick it’s like butta<\/span>. Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Third Rock from the Sun<\/span>) acts the hell out of this role (and his character in The Lookout<\/a>—kid’s got some chops).<\/li>\n
How I met my wife.<\/li>\n
Another pleasant surprise. D and I saw this on Christmas Day, not expecting much, and we got a grand adventure. Also the film debut of young Justin Long (“I’m a Mac”).<\/li>\n
Watched in half-hour increments during high school lunch periods. After the climactic battle, I made a comment about a “phallic victory,” when I actually meant to say “Pyrrhic victory.” Eh, I was a teenage boy. I blame the hormones.<\/li>\n
RIP, Adriennne Shelly.<\/li>\n
RIP, John Hughes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n