# Let's do personality profiles on each other based on our favorite movies **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 20, 2004, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-do-personality-profiles-on-each-other-based-on-our-favorite-movies/251276 "2004-06-20T05:21:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![The\_Asbestos\_Mango](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/edb3f5/32.png) [@The\_Asbestos\_Mango](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Asbestos_Mango)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2004, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-do-personality-profiles-on-each-other-based-on-our-favorite-movies/251276/1 "2004-06-20T05:21:50Z")
It’ll be great. Everybody list your ten favorite movies, then somebody else will come along at random, read the list, and create a profile!!! Let’s see how much we can find out about each other based on what we like to watch while we eat popcorn, Sno-Caps and Jujubes!!! It should be almost as accurate as reading your horoscope in the newspaper, and lots more fun . Who wants to go first? ---
**Author:** ![Ilsa\_Lund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a6a055/32.png) [@Ilsa\_Lund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ilsa_Lund)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2004, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-do-personality-profiles-on-each-other-based-on-our-favorite-movies/251276/2 "2004-06-20T06:14:00Z")
After the Thin Man (1936) Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961) Lady from Shanghai, The (1947) Night of the Hunter, The (1955) Notorious (1946) 10 Passion de Jeanne d’Arc, La (1928) Sjunde inseglet, Det (1957) Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) Intolerance (1916) Ox-Bow Incident, The (1943) ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2004, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-do-personality-profiles-on-each-other-based-on-our-favorite-movies/251276/3 "2004-06-20T06:14:37Z")
Wow the OP didn’t want to list any? Okay here are my 10: 1. Forbidden Planet 2. Airplane 3. Naked Gun 4. Time Machine (original) 5. Body Heat 6. The Net (Sandra Bullock) 7. The Godfather 8. The Man With 2 Brains 9. The Profeesional (Jean Reno, Natalie Portman) 10. Videodrome ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2004, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-do-personality-profiles-on-each-other-based-on-our-favorite-movies/251276/4 "2004-06-20T06:32:52Z")
Ilsa - it’s funny you chose **Sjunde inseglet, Det (1957)**. I was torn between that and “Videodrome” for number 10 on my list !!! Truly, Ingmar Bergman’s Sjunde inseglet, Det (1957) is an honest introspective vision of Kierkegardian existentialism as portrayed against the backdrop of a plague-ridden Europe. No doubt you found it (as did I) to be a thinly-veiled autobiography of the Director’s struggling to find meaning and fulfillment in a morass of hypocrisy, materialism and corruption such as the world was then as it is now. But then I said "Bergman ? Shmergman!!! " I’m going with “Videodrome”. (Figured I’d add that addenda just for another peak into the complex personality of the wolf\_meister. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Ilsa\_Lund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a6a055/32.png) [@Ilsa\_Lund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ilsa_Lund)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2004, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-do-personality-profiles-on-each-other-based-on-our-favorite-movies/251276/5 "2004-06-20T06:39:28Z")
> [@wolf\_meister](#): > > Ilsa - it’s funny you chose **Sjunde inseglet, Det (1957)**. I was torn between that and “Videodrome” for number 10 on my list !!! Truly, Ingmar Bergman’s Sjunde inseglet, Det (1957) is an honest introspective vision of Kierkegardian existentialism as portrayed against the backdrop of a plague-ridden Europe. No doubt you found it (as did I) to be a thinly-veiled autobiography of the Director’s struggling to find meaning and fulfillment in a morass of hypocrisy, materialism and corruption such as the world was then as it is now. > > But then I said "Bergman ? Shmergman!!! " I’m going with “Videodrome”. > > (Figured I’d add that addenda just for another peak into the complex personality of the wolf\_meister. 😃 Well, that’s the difference between you and me. I like good movies. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2004, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-do-personality-profiles-on-each-other-based-on-our-favorite-movies/251276/6 "2004-06-20T06:44:40Z")
LOL **Ilsa** - I deserved that !!! True story - many year’s ago, I was over a neighbor’s house, someone was surfing though the TV channels and stopped at a movie. Everybody said they didn’t know what the movie was. I said “I don’t think I’ve ever seen this movie” to which someone quickly replied - “then it must be good !!!” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Cinnamon\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@Cinnamon\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cinnamon_Girl)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2004, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-do-personality-profiles-on-each-other-based-on-our-favorite-movies/251276/7 "2004-06-20T06:45:29Z")
1. Terms of Endearment 2. Steel Magnolias 3. Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner 4. Pulp Fiction 5. On Golden Pond 6. Gone With the Wind 7. Close Encounters of the Third Kind 8. Some Like it Hot 9. The Graduate 10. Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me Gosh, that was really hard. I know I’m leaving something out that going to make me go :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Improv\_Geek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b3f665/32.png) [@Improv\_Geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Improv_Geek)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2004, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-do-personality-profiles-on-each-other-based-on-our-favorite-movies/251276/8 "2004-06-20T06:46:27Z")
> [@wolf\_meister](#): > > Wow the OP didn’t want to list any? > > Okay here are my 10: > > 1. Forbidden Planet > 2. Airplane > 3. Naked Gun > 4. Time Machine (original) > 5. Body Heat > 6. The Net (Sandra Bullock) > 7. The Godfather > 8. The Man With 2 Brains > 9. The Profeesional (Jean Reno, Natalie Portman) > 10. Videodrome The Freud in me reads your movie list and realizes you must have an intense desire to sleep with your mother. The Eliza in me wants me to ask if you are sure these are your top ten movies. The fortune cookie in me promises a fruitful day in your relationships with these ten movies. However the rest of me thinks this is a very sound list of favorite movies showing a depth of character and charm rarely matched. Or some equally worthless bs. – Ronin ---
**Author:** ![Improv\_Geek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b3f665/32.png) [@Improv\_Geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Improv_Geek)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2004, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-do-personality-profiles-on-each-other-based-on-our-favorite-movies/251276/9 "2004-06-20T06:49:54Z")
> [@Cinnamon Girl](#): > > 1. Terms of Endearment > 2. Steel Magnolias > 3. Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner > 4. Pulp Fiction > 5. On Golden Pond > 6. Gone With the Wind > 7. Close Encounters of the Third Kind > 8. Some Like it Hot > 9. The Graduate > 10. Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me > > Gosh, that was really hard. I know I’m leaving something out that going to make me go :smack: Reading over this list I find an intense contradiction in your personality, loving the epic story of Gone with the Wind yet also finding joy in Pulp Fiction and Austin Powers, it is my supposition that your personality often conflicts over love and humor, never sure to make the sexy comment or crack a joke. Looking at your choices of The Graduate and Close Encounters, I realize both lead actors are relatively short and can obviously draw a lure to power over men, as exhibited by your love for Dreyfuss and Hoffman. And the Freud in me is absolutely positive you should seek help for your lusting after your mother. Yours in service, Dr. Ronin ---
**Author:** ![Improv\_Geek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b3f665/32.png) [@Improv\_Geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Improv_Geek)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2004, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-do-personality-profiles-on-each-other-based-on-our-favorite-movies/251276/10 "2004-06-20T06:53:47Z")
As for my favorite 10: 1. Lord of the Rings, Return of the King 2. The Matrix 3. The Godfather 4. Shrek 5. Shawshank Redemption 6. Seven Samurai 7. Fight Club 8. Kill Bill Vol 2 9. Almost Famous 10. Pirates of the Caribbean ---
**Author:** ![Ilsa\_Lund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a6a055/32.png) [@Ilsa\_Lund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ilsa_Lund)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2004, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-do-personality-profiles-on-each-other-based-on-our-favorite-movies/251276/11 "2004-06-20T06:53:48Z")
**Cinnamon Girl** is Jack Valenti. No, wait! She is a member of a close knit family with deep seated differences in a small Louisiana parish where her black boyfriend iced a hood after throwing a fight and getting raped by the boys from _Deliverance_ who had strained relations with their fathers in the Deep South, where the locals are mysteriously drawn to a rural location by a large mountain where cross dressing jazz musicians are trying to seduce their daughter’s boyfriend, a swinging 1960’s hipster with bad teeth. ---
**Author:** ![Hot\_Buttered\_Toast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b38774/32.png) [@Hot\_Buttered\_Toast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hot_Buttered_Toast)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2004, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-do-personality-profiles-on-each-other-based-on-our-favorite-movies/251276/12 "2004-06-20T07:18:14Z")
Okay, right. These aren’t in any particular order. 1. Lord of the Rings: Return of the King 2. Finding Nemo 3. My Neighbour Totoro 4. Spirited Away 5. Spider-Man 6. Pirates of the Caribbean 7. Raiders of the Lost Ark 8. Hellboy 9. X-Men 2 10. The Iron Giant …I still can’t help feeling that I missed something out. ---
**Author:** ![peri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/67e7ee/32.png) [@peri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peri)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2004, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-do-personality-profiles-on-each-other-based-on-our-favorite-movies/251276/13 "2004-06-20T07:22:06Z")
Young Frankenstein (1974) The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (1976) The Ritz (1976) Near Dark (1987) Labyrinth (1986) Aliens (long version) (1986) My Sister Eileen (1942) The Great Escape, (1963) In the Name of the Father (1993) Closet Land (1991) ---
**Author:** ![Cinnamon\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@Cinnamon\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cinnamon_Girl)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2004, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-do-personality-profiles-on-each-other-based-on-our-favorite-movies/251276/14 "2004-06-20T07:51:42Z")
> [@ronincyberpunk](#): > > Reading over this list I find an intense contradiction in your personality, loving the epic story of Gone with the Wind yet also finding joy in Pulp Fiction and Austin Powers, it is my supposition that your personality often conflicts over love and humor, never sure to make the sexy comment or crack a joke. Uncanny! Being on your couch leaves me feeling all psychologically nekkid and exposed-like… :eek: > [@](#): > > Looking at your choices of The Graduate and Close Encounters, I realize both lead actors are relatively short and can obviously draw a lure to power over men, as exhibited by your love for Dreyfuss and Hoffman. How you doin’? 😉 > [@](#): > > And the Freud in me is absolutely positive you should seek help for your lusting after your mother. Now that’s just gross, you freak! 😛 Many thanks, Dr. Ronin. You’ve done a fine job at turning me into a loose, silly, domineering, Oedipal lesbian. Now, if you’ll kindly just keep it to your damn self! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Cinnamon\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@Cinnamon\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cinnamon_Girl)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2004, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-do-personality-profiles-on-each-other-based-on-our-favorite-movies/251276/15 "2004-06-20T07:53:59Z")
> [@Ilsa\_Lund](#): > > **Cinnamon Girl** is Jack Valenti. > > No, wait! She is a member of a close knit family with deep seated differences in a small Louisiana parish where her black boyfriend iced a hood after throwing a fight and getting raped by the boys from _Deliverance_ who had strained relations with their fathers in the Deep South, where the locals are mysteriously drawn to a rural location by a large mountain where cross dressing jazz musicians are trying to seduce their daughter’s boyfriend, a swinging 1960’s hipster with bad teeth. Brava, Ilsa! Brava! I’m choking on my spit, that’s so goddam funny! ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2004, 9:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-do-personality-profiles-on-each-other-based-on-our-favorite-movies/251276/16 "2004-06-20T09:42:44Z")
**Ilsa** , why must you torture me like this? After the Thin Man (1936) Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961) Lady from Shanghai, The (1947) Night of the Hunter, The (1955) Notorious (1946) 10 Passion de Jeanne d’Arc, La (1928) Sjunde inseglet, Det (1957) Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) Intolerance (1916) Ox-Bow Incident, The (1943) It is obvious to me that you are my first husband. Everything on your list is a double entendre! _Breakfast at Tiffany’s_? You whore! You think I will ever forget what you did to my cat or what you and Madge were doing in the powder room at the party? Or the affair with Joan? You mumbled her name in your sleep for months…“Zhoan, Zhoan…” in that stupid fake accent. :rolleyes: I remember how you stalked Marlene like a hunter until she refused to even open her curtains or answer her phone. And I remember how after she died you won’t come off of the train for months and months until interpol recognized your disguise in that black dress. How could I – a mere American woman – ever be good enough for you? It was the Belgians, the Germans, the French, the Swedes… But finally, you’ve become nothing but a morbid necrophiliac in your old age, deary! I’ve out lived them all!! Your final reference using your usual derogatory taunt for me along with the year of my birth was the dead giveaway. You beast. ---
**Author:** ![Shade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@Shade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shade)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2004, 10:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-do-personality-profiles-on-each-other-based-on-our-favorite-movies/251276/17 "2004-06-20T10:13:26Z")
My favorite book is **Cryptonomicon**. I think this says everything anyone would ever need to know about me. ---
**Author:** ![Kitchen\_Wench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f08c70/32.png) [@Kitchen\_Wench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kitchen_Wench)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2004, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-do-personality-profiles-on-each-other-based-on-our-favorite-movies/251276/18 "2004-06-20T13:52:07Z")
M’kay, here’s my list (no particular order): 1. Goodfellas 2. Young Frankenstein 3. Pulp Fiction 4. Moonstruck 5. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory 6. Billy Elliot 7. The Usual Suspects 8. Contact 9. My Fair Lady 10. L.A. Confidential What say you? ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2004, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-do-personality-profiles-on-each-other-based-on-our-favorite-movies/251276/19 "2004-06-20T14:54:30Z")
With the expected disclaimer as to the semi-randomness of the order: [ol] [li]All That Jazz[/li][li]Hedwig and the Angry Inch[/li][li]The Producers[/li][li]The Godfather, I[/li][li]The Godfather, II[/li][li]The Gay Divorcee (Fred and Ginger)[/li][li]The Boy Friend (Ken Russell; Twiggy and Tommy Tune)[/li][li]Sunset Blvd.[/li][li]All About Eve[/li][li]Ball of Fire[/li][/ol] ---
**Author:** ![SanguineSpider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SanguineSpider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanguineSpider)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2004, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-do-personality-profiles-on-each-other-based-on-our-favorite-movies/251276/20 "2004-06-20T15:07:57Z")
**twickster** likes control (_Godfather I, II_\*) and can get gangsta’ when angry but when you look at all the older films on the list, you’ll realize she really wants life to be like it used to be; simple, easy, and with values that mean something. An old-fashioned gal at heart is our **twickster**. My list: not in order except for the LOTR films 1. Equilibrium (Bale is GOD) 2. Labyrinth 3. Lord of the Rings: Return of the King 4. Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship 5. Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers 6. Excalibur 7. Blade Runner 8. The Color Purple 9. Life of Brian 10. The Holy Grail [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-do-personality-profiles-on-each-other-based-on-our-favorite-movies/251276.md?page=2)