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Misty:
- What is one of your earliest movie memories? The first movie I remember seeing, and then seeing over and over again would be The Beastmaster. It's phantasmagorical. Still to this day, one of my favorite movies, and I'm still just as terrified of those things with the big wings. Good times, yo.
- List movies you like that give a good idea of your cinematic tastes: The Beastmaster The Blues Brothers Slither The Wizard of Oz E.T. Dirty Dancing The Devil's RejectsPsycho CluelessDude, Where's my Car? Wall-E
- Remakes are generally lame, but if you could remake any movie - what would it be, and what would you do different? Take any movie with Keanu Reeves or Nicolas Cage. Remake it without them. It's bound to be better.
- Name one of your greatest movie geek possessions: Either my Star Trek fleet academy ring, or my Corey Haim autograph.
- If you were a secondary Star Wars character, which one would you be? Eh, I'm not a big Star Wars geek, I'd rather be a secondary Star Trek character. The little mini-skirt uniform is totally awesome. I'd rock that.

Jay
- What is one of your earliest movie memories? Seeing Star Wars, The Private Eyes, Jaws, and Mary Poppins' at the Preston Drive-in.
- List movies you like that give a good idea of your cinematic tastes: The Wizard of Oz Star Wars Psycho The Wild One Rebel Without a Cause To Catch a Thief Vertigo The Birds Fall of the House of Usher House on Haunted Hill
It was really hard to narrow them down to just ten. I could go on to Twenty, But these are the movies that I love and feel make a good "Base" to which I judge all other movies.
- Remakes are generally lame, but if you could remake any movie - what would it be, and what would you do different? Blood Rayne. That was such a dissapointment of a movie. I was such a big fan of the Video games. How could they ruin this? It had the perfect geek formula! A. Hot scantily clad, blade wielding, Vampire chick B. Nazis! C. Top secret Nazi experiments gone wrong. D. lots of guns, blood,and gore! E.an interesting back story. None of these were in the Movie! What happened?!? The movie sucked! BIG TIME! So, what would I do different? I would stick to the Video game formula!
- Name one of your greatest movie geek possessions: My trunk of Brandon Lee/Crow Memorabilia
- If you were a secondary Star Wars character, which one would you be? Porkins

Rodger:
- What is one of your earliest movie memories? Really if I think back hard enough It’s more like a T.V. and movie but I’ll share both. Friggen Robotech! This cherished moment in time I think also coincide with hitting puberty my balls dropping and my first and only premature ejaculation. Boy did that show do it for me. The only bad part was we never got Robotech in Louisville. Or in the whole state of Kentucky for that matter. So I would always look forward to family vacation that much more knowing I could see it weekdays ANYWHERE else in the US. As for my first movie memories. Watership Down was one of them. The feeling of my heart breaking for the first time and the confusion of just how to deal with that at 8 years old. Another was the Never-Ending story. How much I hated the dude reading the book with his damn brown bag lunch was in stark contrast to how bad ass I though Atreyu was. Also how madly in love I fell for the childlike Empress and at the same time fell in a different kind of love for G’mork and the idea of the Nothing. Last but not least and most definitely my strongest memory was for an animated movie I knew then as warriors of the wind but came to find out was actually Kaze no tani no Nausicaa. Nausicaa of the valley of the wind.
Seems all I did when I was young was fall in love with movie characters but with none did I fall as hard as I did for her. For Nausicaa. She was so strong and independent she changed her world mearly by caring passionately for her people and the giant insects that were consuming the land. Though she was not all smiles and sugar. She was wicked tight with a blade, deadly with a rifle and could pilot the wings off of her glider or gun ship alike. She was a cartoon but I was in love anyway. What qualities to find in a woman who does not even exist . I am doomed.
- List movies you like that give a good idea of your cinematic tastes: Lets see.... 1.Aliens 2.FLCL 3.Wall.E 4.Dragonslayer 5.Bad Boys 2 6.Heat 7.Basquiat 8.High art 9.Any Godzilla movie! 10.Terminator
- Remakes are generally lame, but if you could remake any movie - what would it be, and what would you do different? O.K. I gotta shorten this somehow or it will turn into some freak show grad students thesis paper. Ummm... Godzilla VS King Kong. First off Godzilla would not lose. That was completly implausible not to mention retarded. Godzilla would totally cook that fucker Kong with one jet of his NUCLEAR FIRE breath. Godzilla would then skin the big dumb gorilla and feast on his mutilated monkey meat while he wore his tight new Kong skin jacket. After the banquet he would trounce on over to the Kirin lager beer factory and get wasted. The movie would end with a huge mega kegger taking place on monster island. Mothra would get gang banged by Gigan and king Ghidora. Rodan would take Minilla (a.k.a. baby Godzilla) for a ride to the upper stratosphere where he would drop him. Godzilla, now completely bombed, would arm wrestle Space Godzilla. Lose, vomit toxic waste and pass out in it. The credits would roll with all the monsters singing karaoke over load speakers so load that the earths population is driven mad! THE END
- Name one of your greatest movie geek possessions: 12" Kanti figure from FLCL
- If you were a secondary Star Wars character, which one would you be? IG-88

Bryan
- What is one of your earliest movie memories? It's cliche among geeks, but it still has to be seeing "Star Wars" in the theater. It was amazing, and inadvertently changed my life. It was probably when the movie geek in me was created. It was the first, and still one of the few times I went back and saw a movie a second time in the theater. I went with my dad, and I remember really enjoying that day. It then led to buying the toys, and probably what caused my "collector mode" to switch on. Posters, t-shirts, under-roos, books, collector's cards, Halloween costumes and countless other items were all collected as part of my childhood. Many, many other movies would affect me over the years. But this is the first one I really remember, and I don't think any other had such an impact.
I also remember as a kid, buying my first blank VHS tape specifically to record "The Beastmaster". One of my favorite movies then, and still to this day it's pretty damned awesome. Perhaps this was the unspoken bond that cemented Misty and my friendship so many years ago.
- List movies you like that give a good idea of your cinematic tastes: First off, anything Hitchcock. I could have done the whole list of just Hitchcock, but I was trying to come up with other movies for a good range. So...
The Sweet Hereafter, The Thing (Carpenter's), Faster Pussycat Kill, Kill,The Secretary, Citizen Kane, Crumb, Rebel Without a Cause, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Let the Right One In, Deathrace 2000, City of Lost Children, Aliens, Spider Baby, Freaks, Star Wars (the whole original trilogy), Night of the Comet, Planet of the Apes, Lolita (At first the original, but I've really come to like the remake more), Chasing Amy, The Beastmaster, Dawn of the Dead (Both versions are great in different ways), 12 Monkeys, Back to the Future, Alien, Evil Dead, Pulp Fiction, Heathers, Viva Knievel!, The Dark Crystal, The Player, Metropolis, The Muppet Movie, Beetlejuice, Ed Wood, Cool Hand Luke, old Godzilla movies that have all run together now into one movie, Coppola's Dracula, King King ('33 and '76, yes I'm the only one that likes the '76 version), Animal House, Some Kind of Wonderful, Big Trouble in Little China, Die Hard, The Jerk, Vacation, Casablanca, Reservoir Dogs, Clerks, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, Night of the Living Dead (Romero), The Usual Suspects, The Professional, Jesus Christ Superstar, History of the World pt. 1, Cannibal, the Musical, pretty much all of the Universal Monsters movies and of course Pump up the Volume.
- Remakes are generally lame, but if you could remake any movie - what would it be, and what would you do different? I'd remake "Planet of the Apes", only in my version, all of the apes would be played by Muppets. How awesome would that be?? Well, I think it'd be fun.
- Name one of your greatest movie geek possessions: Hmmm, many to choose from. I'm kind of partial to my "Scream" Jiffy Pop. It's just a promo, with an advertisment for the movie slapped on the front. Most people with sense, just took it home and ate it that night. But of course, not me. I liked it because it seems to sum up movies all together. It's popcorn, with a cheesy horror movie ad right on it. It ties it all together nicely.
And I'm also pretty proud of my photo signed by Siskel and Ebert. It hangs proudly on the wall in our movie geek recording studio. Right next to the one of Joe Bob Briggs.
- If you were a secondary Star Wars character, which one would you be? Wampa. He sits in his cave - cold and alone. And even in a universe of weird creatures, he manages to still be a hideous monster.

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