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I watch a lot of movies and I like almost all of them. My favorite genres are horror, exploitation, and movies made for teenage girls.

I post weekly-ish reviews of the movies I watch, and rate them on a numbered scale. I refuse to differentiate between how much I like a movie and how good it is. I also don't believe in "so bad, it's good."
Here is my rating scale broken down:
1 - Really fucking hated it
2 - Hated it
3 - Didn't like it
4 - Not that into it
5 - Neutral
6 - Liked it ok
7 - Liked it
8 - Really liked it
9 - Loved it
10 - Really fucking loved it

Here is my Reviews Archive.

Here are a whole bunch of Top Ten lists:

TOP 10 FAVORITE MOVIES (not in order, except for #1)
Showgirls
Dream to Believe
Forbidden Zone
Funny Games
Troll 2
Visitor Q
Happiness
Gummo
Fear
WALL-E

TOP 10 FAVORITE HORROR MOVIES (not in order)
Funny Games
Troll 2
Sleepaway Camp
Braindead/Dead Alive
Cabin Fever
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
Re-Animator
The Ring
Silent Night, Deadly Night
Zombie (aka Zombi 2)

TOP 10 FAVORITE DIRECTORS (not in order)
Todd Solondz
Paul Verhoeven
John Waters
Lucio Fulci
David Lynch
David Cronenberg
Jack Hill
Doris Wishman
Paul Thomas Anderson
Stuart Gordon

TOP 10 FAVORITE ACTORS (pretty much in order)
Linda Blair
Jennifer Jason Leigh
Edith Massey
Rainbeaux Smith
Keanu Reeves
Crispin Glover
Mark Wahlberg
Kirsten Dunst
Bijou Phillips
Patrick Swayze

TOP 10 FAVORITE SCENES OR MOMENTS IN MOVIES (roughly in order)
Bill explains his pedophilia to his son - Happiness (1998, Todd Solondz)
Dean Stockwell lip-synchs to “In Dreams” - Blue Velvet (1986, David Lynch)
WALL-E and EVE dance outside the spaceship - WALL-E (2008, Andrew Stanton)
Rebekah Del Rio sings “Crying” in Spanish – Mulholland Dr. (2001, David Lynch)
"That's not fair." "You're fuckin' right it isn't." - Dream to Believe (1986, Paul Lynch)
The giving birth scene at the end of Gozu (2003, Takashi Miike)
A baby gets thrown out a window - Andy Warhol’s Bad (Jed Johnson)
The dancing chicken - Stroszek (1977, Werner Herzog)
The eye-gouging scene - Zombi 2 (1979, Lucio Fulci)
Sarah admits she’s an alcoholic – Sarah T.–Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic (1975, Richard Donner)

TOP 10 FAVORITE SCENES OR MOMENTS IN SHOWGIRLS (pretty much in order)
- Mama Bazoom and Al come to visit Nomi after seeing her in Goddess and it's a very sweet, touching scene, but then it ends with Al saying "Must be weird, not having anyone cum on you." and as awkward as it is, his intention is pure, and it's still quite sweet.
- Nomi has a seizure while having sex with Zack in the pool.
- Nomi finds out her suitcase has been stolen, so she starts beating up a car, and then the owner of the car, Molly, comes up and is like "Hey! Stop hitting my car." so Nomi turns and vomits, and then bolts out into the street, nearly getting hit by a car, but Molly pulls her out of the way, and then they hug and stare into each other's eyes and share a very sensitive moment and rub faces and look hella BFF. Then they have dinner (which it can be assumed Molly paid for), and Molly tries to talk to her, but Nomi is extremely rude and won't answer the questions and angrily throws her food around. So then, after Nomi has attacked Molly's car, nearly vomited on her, had to have her life saved by her, hugged her and rubbed her vomit-y face on Molly's face within like 30 seconds of knowing her, and then is rude and bitchy and throws around the food Molly bought her, Molly asks Nomi to move in with her.
- Nomi and Cristal bonding over a childhood love of Doggie Chow.
- "Thrust it! THRUST IT!!! THRUST IT!!!!!!"
- When Nomi tells Cristal "I hate you" and makes the most pathetic puppy dog eyes ever and sniffles.
- When James says the line "Man, everybody got AIDS and shit!"/When James tells Nomi "I have a problem with pussy."
- Nomi tells Andrew Carver she likes his music, and he whispers in her ear, "I like your ass. Call me."
- When Nomi, still a stripper but aspiring to be a showgirl, first meets Cristal, the star of Goddess, and yells at her "You don't know shit!", jeopardizing her future career as well as Molly's current one. Then storms outside and slams herself into Molly's car again.
- Nomi and Molly giggling and being all girly because Molly ate the chips.

TOP 10 FAVORITE BANDS/MUSICIANS (not in order)
Roy Orbison
The Carpenters
Pulp
Petula Clark
Spice Girls
Britney Spears
POLYSICS
Shangri-Las
The Kids of Widney High
Abba

TOP 10 FAVORITE SONGS (not in order)
Roy Orbison - Crying/In Dreams/Belinda
Tony DeFranco and the DeFranco Family - Heartbeat (It's a Love Beat)
Lou Reed - Perfect Day
Riz Ortolani - Cannibal Holocaust (Main Theme)
Europe - The Final Countdown
Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse of the Heart
Charlene - Never Been to Me
Olivia Newton-John - Please Don't Keep Me Waiting
Journey - Don't Stop Believin'
The Shangri-Las - Leader of the Pack

TOP 10 FAVORITE ALBUMS (not in order)
Pulp - This Is Hardcore/Different Class
Ol' Dirty Bastard - Nigga Please
Lil' Markie - Volume 1
POLYSICS - A.D.S.R.M!
Spice Girls - Spice World
Britney Spears - Britney
The Kids of Widney High - Special Music from Special Kids
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
White Zombie - Astro-Creep: 2000
Dead Kennedys - In God We Trust, Inc.

TOP 10 FAVORITE SOUNDTRACKS/SCORES (roughly in order)
Blue Velvet (Angelo Badalamenti, mostly)
Magnolia (Aimee Mann, mostly)
A Clockwork Orange (various, mostly classical)
Walk Hard (Dewey Cox and the Hard Walkers)
Suspiria (Goblin)
The Beyond (Fabio Frizzi)
Phenomena (Goblin)
CB4 (various)
Forbidden Zone (Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo)
The Royal Tenenbaums (various)

TOP 10 FAVORITE BOOKS (in order)
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
Marabou Stork Nightmares by Irvine Welsh
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Youth In Revolt by C.D. Payne
Filth by Irvine Welsh
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
Apocalypse Culture II by Various
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace
Remember Me by Christopher Pike

IMAGES I LIKE
I did a bunch of posts featuring lots of images I like, and these are my favorites of those favorites. These aren't necessarily my favorite images of all time, so much as they're my favorite images that I happen to have saved on my computer. They all get bigger if you click on them.

TOP 10 ANIMAL PICTURES