Some Movies and Junk

Just like Ma used to make for dinner.
I eat film.

  • Jurassic Park
    • This is one of those movies where you actually forget it’s a movie. Also, there are raptors. Lots and lots of raptors. What more could you want from a movie? Nothing–that’s the answer.
  • Dr. Strangelove: or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
    • Funniest movie ever–excluding Titanic, of course.
  • The Indiana Jones Trilogy
    • Really, what have you NOT heard about these movies? I’ll tell you what: Indiana Jones is actually God.
  • Forrest Gump
    • Robert Zemeckis, we hardly knew ye. (Note: He’s not actually dead)
  • The Graduate
    • Indescribable. Just watch it. It influenced Wayne’s World (see below).
  • Patton
    • Let’s get something straightened up right now; Gen. Patton and Gen. Bradley were not this friendly in real life. The movie is stacked in favor of Bradley. Still, great cinematography and EXCELLENT music score–also, fond memories.
  • Wag the Dog
    • This is one of the most unique movies to come out in a long time. I wonder if this is really what goes on during “wars.”
  • Clockwork Orange
    • Stanley Kubrick again, and at his best.
  • Kill Bill Vols. 1 and 2
    • OK, I will admit that these two movies are sometimes more visual masturbation than movie, BUT… I just can’t help but like them anyway.
  • Full Metal Jacket
    • An excellent Vietnam movie, although it seems to drag somewhat in the second half. Still, I highly recommend this movie. By the way, Kubrick once more.
  • Wayne’s World 1 and 2
    • Wow. I REALLY don’t have the room to list everything I like about these movies. Moving on…
  • Master and Commander: Far Side of the World
    • One of the best movies I’ve ever seen. There isn’t a love story! Finally! A movie without one! (Insert crippling joy here)
  • A Bridge Too Far
    • This is based on a book with the same title written by a man named Cornelius Ryan. I never knew who this guy was until I started working in the Archives at Ohio University. Apparently, we have an entire room in the library dedicated to him for all the papers, research, etc. he left us. Who knew? Anyway, good movie.
  • The Truman Show
    • Really, I think this movie is real and is a joke about how everyone is filming me for my own TV show.
  • Swingers
    • “You are so money,” sounds like the worst catchphrase ever. That is, until you see the movie.
  • Russian Ark
    • Yeah, I’m kind of a Russian History nerd sometimes. Watch it though. Still good.
  • The Shining
    • What?! A Stanley Kubrick movie that is nothing but a horror movie?! Just kidding–it’s about the American Indians… or something.
  • Raising Arizona
    • The BEST introduction for a movie ever. Coen Bros. first movie.
  • The Hudsucker Proxy
    • Another Coen Bros. flick. I highly recommend this because it truly rocks my world.
  • Bronenosets Potyomkin
    • The title is The Battleship Potemkin. It is one of the greatest movies ever made, has influenced countless other movies, defined a style of editing known as ‘montage’ and has one of the most ripped-off scenes ever. Have you seen it?
  • The Princess Bride
    • Really–I swear I’m not gay.

I. Introducción
II. Biographical Sketch of Shaun M. Lewis
III. Some Characters You May See
IV. Favorite Movies
V. Favorite Music
VI. The End

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