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In the same vein as High Fidelity, we give you our
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Five Films Of All Time: 1. Clerks (Kevin Smith) 2. Go (Doug Liman) 3. The Shawshank Redemption (Frank Darabont) 4. Leon (Luc Besson) 5. Chasing Amy (Kevin Smith) |
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Miserable Records: 1. Travelling Light (Tindersticks) 2. There Is A Light That Never Goes Out (The Smiths) 3. Love Will Tear Us Apart (Joy Division) 4. This Is A Low (Blur) 5. Why Does It Always Rain On Me? (Travis) |
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Worst Films
Of All Time: 1. Mission: Impossible 2 (John Woo) 2. Grease (Randall Kleiser) 3. Titanic (James Cameron) 4. Mortal Kombat: Annihilation (John Leonetti) 5. Jaws: The Revenge (Joseph Sargent) |
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Records To
Incite Violence: 1. Firestarter (Prodigy) 2. Search And Destroy (Iggy & The Stooges) 3. Kill All Hippies (Primal Scream) 4. Anarchy In The UK (Sex Pistols) 5. Anything By Westlife (They just have that effect on me) |
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Five
Overpaid
Actors: 1. Tom Cruise 2. Mel Gibson 3. Leonardo DiCaprio 4. Tom Hanks 5. Bruce Willis |
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Five
Best/Worst
Band Names: 1. Half Man Half Biscuit 2. Prefab Sprout 3. Crispy Ambulance 4. Throbbing Gristle 5. Gorky's Zygotic Mynci |
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Films To
Get Drunk To: 1. From Dusk 'Til Dawn (Robert Rodriguez) - go on, YOU try and suppress the laughter 2. Desperado (Robert Rodriguez) - is it my imagination or is there a theme here? 3. Mallrats (Kevin Smith) 4. Star Wars (George Lucas) - only through strong liquor do you become one with the Force 5. The Blair Witch Project (Daniel Myrick & Eduardo Sanchez) |
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Friday
Night Out Records: 1. Come Out 2Nite (Kenickie) - "She drank all that we had / then she threw up and I was glad" 2. Out On The Floor (Dobie Gray) 3. Wake Me Up Before You Go Go (Wham) - just because, OK? 4. Stuck In The Middle With You (Stealers Wheel) - the one (and only) record which invariably results in me being no 2 5. Hey Boy, Hey Girl (Chemical Brothers) (Plus an honourary mention for Pulp's Monday Morning - the enforced ending to a Friday night out) |
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Five Life Changing Films: 1. Clerks (Kevin Smith) - I should really do something with my life... 2. Titanic (James Cameron) - I've just lost more than two hours of my life. Never again 3. The Matrix (The Wachowski Brothers) - I must learn Kung-Fu 4. Go (Doug Liman) - I've got to get into film making. 5. Any Tom Cruise film - I've got to hire an assassin |
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Five Worst
Boy Band Names: 1. Bad Boys Inc - they're dangerous, you know 2. Orange Orange - nee Upside Down - that was bad enough, surely? 3. North and South - how many Svengalis did it take to think of that one? 4. New Kids on the Block - only in America 5. E17 - named after their postcode? Please. |
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Overused
Lines: 1. "Sorry, I thought you were somebody else." 2. "Why? Because I can!" 3. "Bob?" "Yeah?" (pause) "Nothing." 4. "There's one thing you forgot..." 5. "Looks like I picked the wrong day to give up smoking / coffee / crack cocaine." |
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Five Teenage Records: 1. Teenage Kicks (The Undertones) 2. It's Lulu (Boo Radleys) 3. Teenage Angst (Placebo) 4. Drive (REM) - "hey kids, rock 'n' roll/nobody tells you where to go" 5. Jubilee (Blur) |