Typing One Handed is a Pain

Blogging will still be sparse this week, as my right hand is pretty much useless until at least Friday when I go back in for my post-op check-up, when they will, with luck, put me in a much less obtrusive splint. So, until I can resume my full range of typing motion, try to enjoy the followings survey which I created right before my surgery; feel free to fill it out yourself and post it on your own blog (Diva, consider youself tagged), or in the comments below.

Cap'n Neurotic's Movie Watcher Survey Part 1

Thanks to inspiration from comments by both Cap'n Disaster and PigPen's pal Homeless Bob, I have finally broken down and made my own survey. Naturally, it's about movies; also naturally, I made it too long, and so have split it up into at least three parts, of which this is the first.

1. Where do you like to sit at the theater? Front row, back row, or in between?
With stadium style theaters usually the first row of the second section of seats if for no other reason than to put my feet up on the bar there

2. Foreign language films – subtitles, dubbed, or not at all?
All about the subtitles, most dubbed films drive me crazy

3. Favorite movie watching snack food?
If I’m in the mood for chocolate, Bunch’a’Crunch; if not, Hot Tamales

4. What thing will turn you off of a movie almost immediately?
Humor based on people lying for no logical reason

5. Movie you’re most upset you paid full price for?
Bad Girls

6. Movie you didn’t have to pay full price for, but which was still a complete and total waste of your time?
John Carpenters Vampire$

7. Movie you loathe with the fiery white hot passion of a thousand suns?
Batman and Robin, with the ending of Do the Right Thing ranking a close second

8. What was your first R rated movie?
the first I really recall was Conan the Barbarian; the first one I saw when I was old enough to get in without supervision was Misery

9. What movie did you go to see the most times at the theater?
Toss up between Raiders of the Lost Ark and Return of the Jedi

10. Most overrated movie?
Titanic

11. Most underrated movie?
at the time, The Cable Guy, although it has gathered a following over the years

12. Movie that you always get sucked into when it comes on TV no matter how many times you’ve seen it?
Summer School

13. What special features do you usually watch on DVDs?
almost always watch deleted scenes and gag reels, and will often watch commentaries

14. Widescreen or pan-and-scan?
Ever since Dr. Leff demonstrated how pan-and-scan totally butchered the screen composition and intent of a scene in Rebel Without a Cause, it’s widescreen all the way for me

15. Most disappointing film sequel/prequel?
Star Wars Episodes 1-3, especially 3

16. Biggest pleasant surprise?
Drop Dead Gorgeous which was much funnier and darker than I had anticipated

17. Whose taste in movies is closest to your own?
probably Li’l Random; nobody else I know loves the dark and twisty humor as much as he does

18. Whose taste in movies is furthest from your own?
probably M.J.; anyone who loves SoulPlane as much as she did *has* to be on the opposite end of the movie loving spectrum from me ;)

19. Movie adapted from a book: do you read book or watch movie first?
I will generally read the book first if possible

20. Movie you’re almost ashamed to admit you like?
Beaches

21. Biggest tearjerker?
having never seen any of the acceptable “guy” answers to this question (Brian’s Song, Old Yeller) going to have to go with Steel Magnolias, since even though I knew it was coming, the death made me tear up

22. Scariest movie?
Don’t really get scared by movies on the whole, although walking through a dark parking lot after watching several Friday the 13th films does add to the paranoia a bit

23. Obscure movie you love but which almost nobody else knows of?
Lost Skeleton of Cadavra

24. What’s the biggest factor in making you decide if you want to pay to see a movie in the theater or wait for the DVD?
A movie has to either (a) have awesome special effects, (b) be an atmospheric horror flick which is enhanced by the darkened theater, or (c) be so filled with twists and surprises that I want to see it before it all gets spoiled.

25. What do most of your favorite movies have in common?
Dark, twisty, dialogue-driven (occasionally absurd) humor