I've been meme-tagged again. Since it's Margi who's calling ollie-ollie-ox-in-free I am powerless to resist.

Total number of films I own on DVD/video:

My SWAG* is around 100 or so tapes and DVDs. We have a number of duplicates too - items we had on VHS that we later got on DVD after we bought a DVD player.

The last film I bought:

Lemony Snickett's: A Series of Unfortunate Events, purchased as a birthday present for Lovely Wife.

The last film I watched:

Spanglish with Penelope Cruz and Adam Sandler. My one sentence review of this film: It takes an inordinate amount of time to get exactly nowhere. If that isn't enough to ward you off I'll also mention that at no time during this movie does Penelope unleash the ta-tas.

Five films that I watch a lot or that mean a lot to me (in no particular order):

The Neverending Story - The first movie ever where the hero was a little kid who read books. It validated me.

Star Wars - The real Star Wars. The first movie. What modernists have rechristened "Episode IV". Feh. Star Wars is and will forever be Star Wars.

Corvette Summer - Completely forgettable except for two things. First, it starred Mark Hamill without a light saber. I had never considered that possibility. Second, it was my first "titties at the drive-in" movie. On screen, not in the car. Hey, give me a break - I was 10!

Red Dawn - Another one where kids my age were the heroes and they gave a serious shit kicking to the Commie bastards. Wolverines!!

The Usual Suspects - This movie is a work of art. At the end of it I knew exactly how Chazz Palminteri's character felt because I was right there with him as every single thing I'd learned for the past two hours suddenly shifted.

Tag 5 people and have them put this in their journal/blog:

We must bring Lovely Wife into this one. We have similar taste in a lot of movies but some strong differences too.

Rob must pay for tagging me with the music meme.

Tiffani doesn't post nearly often enough.

Same with Clancy. Besides, he needs a break from working on the house.

Trey, because he has no cable provider or TV reception at his house so the sole use of his TV is movie watching.

* SWAG = Scientific Wild-Ass Guess