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Movie Cat [cont.]

Movie Likes

• Golden Oldies (especially from the 30's and 40's) & their stars.
• Musicals (except the staging of the aforementioned Brigadoon).
• British Films.
• Hollywood movies (unless they fall under the 'dislikes' below).
• Animated movies.
• Great dialogue.
• Scores that really add emotion to a film.
• Feelgood films.
• Widescreen/Letterbox format.
• Atmospheric Black and White movies.
• Watching certain films every Christmas and New Year
• A bit of everything, from classic horror, to sci-fi, to romance...
• Kenneth Branagh (especially in Much Ado About Nothing).
• Alan Rickman (in Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves).
• Kevin Costner (in Bull Durham).
• John Carpenter films (yes, even Vampires).

Movie Dislikes

• Hollywood always casting Brits as the bad guys.
• Hollywood depicting Brits as 'Hooray Henry' types (see Brit pilots in Independence Day).
• Hollywood's Brigadoon view of Scotland.
• British films being dubbed or sub-titled for their US release.
• Pan and Scan (she's never recovered from seeing a headless Christopher Plummer in The Sound of Music)
• Colourisation (why should we have to suffer through something that looks like a child has got hold of one of those 'magic painting' books and made invisible pictures appear by painting water over them. The movie picture was perfectly fine before thank you very much!)
• Dubbing foreign language films (give her subtitles every time)
• People that think you're not a true movie fan if you don't watch them all on the big screen (you try living miles and miles away from the nearest cinema).
• UK posters for Hollywood films containing quotes from obscure American reviewers the Brits have never heard of. ( Brits ain't stupid, they know it means the movie died a death at the US Box Office.)
• The media trying to blame all society's woes on movies.
• Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet not getting the recognition it deserved.
• Kevin Costner (in Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves).

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