Random Factoid #235

20 03 2010

This factoid isn’t so much about the I, it’s about the you.  There is something that I would like you to do.

The movie blogging conglomerate that I belong to, the Large Association of Movie Blogs (or LAMB for short), has kindly featured me in their “Brutally Blunt Blog Blustering” post of the week.  They invite anyone to leave an anonymous comment with honest suggestions for how I can improve the site.

So, what I would like you to do is venture on over to the site and leave your two cents.  Do you hate that my factoids are so utterly random?  Do you have an issue with my layout?  Is my writing style for reviews absolutely unbearable?  Do I need to use a more lively font?  Anything and everything is welcome, I only ask that you be completely honest. This is your big chance to make a big difference on the way this site is run (and avoid any direct reaction from the author), so make the most of it.

CLICK on the picture below to see the “Brutally Blunt Blog Blustering.”


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Random Factoid #234

19 03 2010

I came to a realization the other day that I found rather shocking.  To my knowledge (and my memory could potentially fail me here), I have never seen a foreign language film in theaters.  I see plenty on video, but I don’t think I’ve ever slapped down the cash at the box office.

Perhaps I’ll break the streak with “A Prophet” – I intended to break it with “The White Ribbon,” but they yanked it too soon!


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Random Factoid #233

18 03 2010

For the first time in a few months, I checked my Rotten Tomatoes profile.  The last review I entered was “Nine” – and that was back in the last decade.

I decided that I wasn’t satisfied with the shady sillhouette they had so courteously provided as my profile picture, so I decided to change it.  And no, I didn’t actually use a picture of myself.

If you were to find me on Rotten Tomatoes now, my profile icon would look like this:

Why?  Because Pixar is the best, and I just want to go give this cloud a hug.


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Random Factoid #232

17 03 2010

In first grade, I was required to write in my journal for school purposes.  Usually, we could write about things that we wanted, such as our weekend.

I wrote in this journal a great many times, but the only entry that I distinctly remember is an entire section devoted to my adoration of a cup for “The Road to El Dorado” that I got at the movies.

I meant to say that it was a really cool cup, but I accidentally forgot to write the word cool.  It came back with the comment: “That sounds great, but what is a really cup?”


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Random Factoid #231

16 03 2010

The first time I had ever seen the Best Picture-winning movie on the day of the ceremony was in 2004. I had seen “Million Dollar Baby” a week or so before the show. A trend didn’t catch on until 2007; since that year, I have seen the winning movie by the Oscars ceremony.


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Random Factoid #230

15 03 2010

I have a Post It note on the dashboard of my laptop reserved just for factoid ideas. This comes in handy on the days when my brain is running pretty low on juice.

Obviously, since the Post It note itself has become a factoid, you can tell that I could use a few more brainstorming sessions. Thankfully, it’s spring break, so I have time for that.


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Random Factoid #229

14 03 2010

Back in the ’90s (strange to think that it was TWO decades ago), the Disney Store would give posters away if you brought a ticket stub for a Disney movie into the store. Naturally, I took advantage of this offer many times – although the only poster I distinctly remember receiving is one for “Toy Story 2.”


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Random Factoid #228

13 03 2010

Live update from the road! I’m somewhere in Mississippi, hoping that this momentary 3G service will stay with me long enough to post this factoid!

I’m taking a Spring Break college trip, and in my family’s typical fashion, we are driving the whole thing.

Rather, my parents are driving. I, on the other hand, am curled in the backseat of the Suburban with my Snuggie and my laptop. This is hour 8 and I’m already on my fourth movie – “Inglourious Basterds.” I won’t reveal the others because one will most likely be next week’s “F.I.L.M.”


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Random Factoid #227

12 03 2010

Because I run this blog and I get to define what on earth a “random factoid” actually is, I’ve decided to do something a little different today. It’s my artistic license, and I’m exercising it.

I am not without fault. While dunking Oreos before studying for my AP US History test yesterday, I caught a few brief moments of the 2002 movie “Mr. Deeds” on TBS (taking a study break is NOT the fault to which I referred). Suddenly, I remembered whenever I saw it in theaters.

Then I remembered one of my very first factoids: Random Factoid #5, in fact. Pay attention to the bolded section below.

My parents were very protective of the movies I saw, and I will always remember the first PG-13 and R movies that I ever saw.

The first PG-13 movie I saw was “Ever After: A Cinderella Story.” It was shown to me by a babysitter who now runs her own stationery line.

The first PG-13 movie I saw in theaters was “Legally Blonde 2: Red, White, and Blonde.” I got to see it as a reward for my days spent fighting off a viral pneumonia in the Monterrey County Hospital (that’s right, I got pneumonia while vacationing in Pebble Beach).

The first R movie I saw was “Crimson Tide.” My dad started watching it on Encore when I was in the room, and he let me watch it with him.

The first R movie I saw in theaters was “Flags of our Fathers.” The only reason that I was allowed to see it was because I had read the book for a school assignment.

I misspoke. “Legally Blonde 2” was released in 2003, a full year after I saw “Mr. Deeds.”

I admitted my faults. My confessional is complete.


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Random Factoid #226

11 03 2010

I have a special compartment of my wallet reserved for free movie tickets, and thus concludes my first one-sentence factoid ever.


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Random Factoid #225

10 03 2010

Beautiful coincidence: the day that we talked about cinema in my US History class, “The Jazz Singer,” the first motion picture with sound, happened to be on TCM that very same night.

Not so beautiful reality: too much homework leads me to forget to record it.  Blahhhh.


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Random Factoid #224

9 03 2010

I have been playing an Oscars “game,” if you will, on the iPhone app The Envelope for several weeks now.

And now that the Oscars have come to an end, the results have come out.

Be proud of your friendly neighborhood blogger, who managed to come in eighth out of over two thousand players – and better than all of the professional pundits!


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Random Factoid #223

8 03 2010

The results of Marshall’s Oscar Predictions:

My misfires were largely compartmentalized.  I missed all of the screenplays, the sound categories, all four short films, and Best Foreign Film.  I was counting on an “Avatar” sweep of the techs, but that didn’t happen.  And as for the short films, I always guess those blindly.


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Random Factoid #222

7 03 2010

It’s today!  Here’s hoping for some upsets … I don’t like predictable shows.

My little fun factoid for the day is that whenever I was 9 years old, I recorded the Oscar broadcast on VHS (what’s that, ask the young ones out there?  Go ask your search engine!) and watched it repeatedly.  I was smitten with such presenters as Halle Berry and Reese Witherspoon that I even went to such lengths as transcribing their introductions WORD BY WORD, painstakingly rewinding and fast forwarding.

Yeah, it was bad back then.  It still is.


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Random Factoid #221

6 03 2010

The first Oscars I remember watching were in March 1999.

Whoopi Goldberg was the host.  She came out in a giant Shakespearean costume and said “I am the African Queen.”  I don’t remember what I found so funny about that, but I can trace my love of the awards back to that moment.


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