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Day 31 - Scene that made you stand up and cheer.

Two spring to mind. One is in Superman II, after Supes has removed his powers, the villains take over, and Clark goes back to the Fortress of Solitude to find a piece of Kryptonite... At which point there's a sequence where we start hearing a muted rumble of the theme, newspapers on the street are blown around by something passing over, people look up - and that was enough to get the whole cinema audience cheering.

This is the other one, though it was only myself and one othr Scottish guy in a Leeds cinema who were actually cheering...

Day 29 - Movie you have watched more than ten times. Well, trying to avoid anything with the words Star Wars or James Bond involved...

Day 27 - Best villain

Well, there are a lot of great villains I really love for various reasons: Hans Gruber, Keyser Soze, Guy of Gisburn, Francisco Scaramanga, etc - in fact I may have to make or find a villains’ month meme for October.

But, for those of us of a certain age, there is one figure more iconically villainous than any other... Darth Vader, Dark Lord of the Sith...

Day 24 - Quote you use most often

Day 22 - Favourite final scene/line

Well, since I already used the end scene of The Usual Suspects as an answer, I’ll pick a final line here.

“This may be the beginning of a beautiful friendship.”

Day 20 - Favourite kiss. Oh, easily that one I had at the end of the first Nine Worlds with-

Oh, wait, favourite kiss in a *movie*? Right....

I'm going to cheat a bit, and interpret this as the favourite kissing *scene*, and go a bit different, with (spoilers here, but it's been 28 fucking years, come on) the end of Cinema Paradiso, in which, as the cinema is sold to be demolished and replaced by a car park, the now-adult who used to be the kid helping the old blind projectionist finally sees the reel of screen kisses that the village priest had cut out of all the classics shown there back in the day...

Day 18 - favourite title sequence
Well, I’m going to offer up a podium finish of three contenders here.
In third place, because it;s the most recent, and so may be stuck in my head to an unfair degree: Deadpool. In second place, Casino Royale (2006) - aside from loving the song, I like the ay the animation style is both modern but also reflects an aesthetic of the time when the original novel was published. I love how the various kills Bond makes in the movie are prefigured in the titles too.

But the winner is Watchmen here. (Be warned, the video has a cover version of the song, and so overwrites the sound effects, but is the most complete version of the visuals I could find on Youtube.) It does offer a big problem for the film, actually - especially if you know your history and the graphic novel - because it's such a great sequence, almost an arthouse movie in its own right, that nothing else in the film can or does quite live up to it... But that still makes it my favourite title sequence.

(Insert shoutout to the Pink Panther movies here...)

Day 16 - your guilty pleasure movie. Well, lots - often featuring cheesy action or comedy. But today, and just because it's so ill-regarded, I'll go with this...

Day 14 - Favourite film in black and white

Well, this is a complete no-brainer

31 Day Movie Meme - Day 12 - Best soundtrack/background music in a scene.

There are a lot of great soundtracks, and a lot of great scenes, but one small piece of matching music to visuals.... This has always stuck in my head.