Bumpkin's Favorite Movies

This photo accurately shows what Bumpkin's butt looked like in the recent past.

Ladies, gentlemen, and groundhogs, Mistress Bumpkin, for your pleasure, and hers, has compiled a list of her very most favorite movies to peruse. They are Groundhog Day, The Godfather, Jaws, Schindler's List, Saving Private Ryan, Raging Bull, The Aviator (2004), Halloween (1978), The Omen (1976), Dawn of the Dead (1978 & 2004, but she likes the 1978 version better), 28 Days Later, Evil Dead, Evil Dead 2, A Clockwork Orange, Dead Alive, Joe Versus the Volcano, Big, The Best of Times, The Shining (1980), Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974), Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart, The Straight Story, Courage Under Fire, Affliction, Box of Moonlight, Raising Arizona, Miller's Crossing, Fargo, Office Space, Manhattan, Bananas, Sleeper, Love and Death, Bullets Over Broadway, Play It Again Sam, Casino Royale (2006), Predator, Raw Deal, The Terminator, Commando, Die Hard, Drugstore Cowboy, Barfly, Lethal Weapon, Mad Max, The Road Warrior, Road House, Pootie Tang, Godfather Part II, Crash (1996), Raiders of the Lost Ark, Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, Witness, The Fugitive, Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal, Seven, American Beauty, Glengarry Glen Ross, Sin City, Welcome to the Doll House, Happiness, Goodfellas, Spider-Man (2002), Frailty, Platoon, Full Metal Jacket, Barry Lyndon, Taxi Driver, The Train (1965), Kiss of Death (1995), Scarface (1983), Pink Floyd-The Wall, Blow Out (1981), Runaway Train, Wall Street, U Turn, Any Given Sunday, JFK, Infernal Affairs, Fulltime Killer, Avalon (1990), Psycho (1960), North by Northwest, Meet the Parents, Along Came Polly, Wedding Crashers, Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle, Club Dread, You, Me, and Dupree, There's Something About Mary, Bound, The Matrix, Apocalypto, Braveheart, This Boy's Life, Passion of the Christ, North Face, Carrie (1976), Zoolander, Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, Caddyshack, Star Wars: Episode 3-Revenge of the Sith, The Jerk, The Last Waltz, Night of the Living Dead, Zombieland, The Social Network, The Dark Knight, Batman and Robin, Batman Forever, Batman, Batman Returns, Blade, Daredevil, Donnie Darko, Return of the Dragon, Game of Death, Shaolin Soccer, Kung Fu Hustle, Spun, Manhunter, Heat, Minority Report, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, There Will Be Blood, Gangs of New York, Deliverance, Midnight Cowboy, Fido, Planet of the Apes (1968), Rosemary's Baby, Clear and Present Danger, The Hunt for Red October, Crimson Tide, Das Boot, The Perfect Storm, King Kong (2005), Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, Aliens, The Assassination of Richard Nixon, The Prestige, and Tin Cup.
These are her favorite TV shows: Hill Street Blues, 30 Rock, The Office, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Seinfeld, Arrested Development, Reno 911, NBC Nightly News, Get a Life, Three's Company, The Brady Bunch, Chips, Justified, Cops, Jail, Dateline, 20/20, 60 Minutes, Dog the Bounty Hunter, The Soup, Gangland, Talk Soup, and To Catch a Predator.
She and I have a lot in common.

I Hate Remakes

They can't remake this original: Bumpkin.

I really do.  It's such a shame that, apparently, there's so little originality left when it comes to making movies.  At this point, I can't imagine being surprised upon finding out about any given remake in the works.  Citizen Kane, starring Zac Efron, sure, why the hell not?  I'm not going to watch it anyway.  I mean, they remade Footloose for God's sake!  Footloose!  Was that really necessary?  And as a fan of horror movies, I'm sickened by the vast majority of the remakes of genre classics.  I like Rob Zombie, but his Halloween wasn't half as good as the original.  That's what happens when you take on one of the very best horror films of all time.  It's the same thing with Texas Chainsaw Massacre and The Omen.  When The Omen came out, a coworker of mine saw it and raved about it. 
"They really didn't change it much at all," he said gushingly.
Really?  Then what was the point of remaking it?  If you want to see The Omen, then why not just watch the original?
"I love this movie.  They should remake it," I've heard a coworker of mine say that several times.
Why?  If you love that movie, then watch it when you feel like it.  When people are fed shit often enough, I think they begin to like it.
Occasionally, a remake is pretty good: like Dawn of the Dead.  It's good, but as far as I'm concerned, George Romero's original version is better.  So, ultimately, what was the point?  Undoubtedly a cash grab.  They pump out the remakes for the same reason why people have attempted to make hit songs using other people's hit songs.  You take a proven winner and try to make it win again.  I don't go to the movies anymore anyway.  When I did, I always seemed to be sitting in front of the jerk off who liked kicking the seat in front of him for the duration of the film.  Additionally, I hate cell phones.  If I heard one go off in a movie theater, then they might be making a movie about the guy who killed someone in a movie theater because he didn't turn his cell phone off.  Perhaps De Niro or Bruce Willis would play me.  At least it would be original material.