Chain blogging. Isn’t it amazing how the chain letter has evolved? From the chain letter, to the chain email, and now to the next precipice of chain correspondence – The Chain Blog, hitherto known as the Meme.
Fellow blogger and cinematic connoisseur Jim Carter AKA The Movie Whore recently tagged me with the Alphabet Meme that began back at Blog Cabins.
The rules are simple:
1. Pick one film to represent each letter of the alphabet.
2. The letter “A” and the word “The” do not count as the beginning of a film’s title, unless the film is simply titled A or The, and I don’t know of any films with those titles.
3. Return of the Jedi belongs under “R,” not “S” as in Star Wars Episode IV: Return of the Jedi. This rule applies to all films in the original Star Wars trilogy; all that followed start with “S.” Similarly, Raiders of the Lost Ark belongs under “R,” not “I” as in Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark. Conversely, all films in the LOTR series belong under “L” and all films in the Chronicles of Narnia series belong under “C,” as that’s what those filmmakers called their films from the start. In other words, movies are stuck with the titles their owners gave them at the time of their theatrical release. Use your better judgement to apply the above rule to any series/films not mentioned.
4. Films that start with a number are filed under the first letter of their number’s word. 12 Monkeys would be filed under “T.”
5. Link back to Blog Cabins in your post so that I can eventually type “alphabet meme” into Google and come up #1, then make a post where I declare that I am the King of Google.
6. If you’re selected, you have to then select 5 more people.
Without further adue, I give you the Alphabet Meme:
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes
Braveheart
Cast Away
Dawn of the Dead (original or remake)
Empire Strikes Back, The (Episode V)
Full Metal Jacket
Ghostbusters
Happy Gilmore
Interview With a Vampire
Jurassic Park
King Arthur
Longest Day, The
Midway
New Hope, A (Episode IV)
Overboard
Patton
Queen of the Damned
Return of the Jedi (Episode VI)
Saving Private Ryan
Three Hundred (300)
Underworld
V for Vendetta
Warriors, The
X-Men
You, Me, and Dupree
Zoolander
Now it is time to play Pin the Meme on the Blogger. In addition to some blogs I was already familiar with, I recently discovered some interesting sites via the Facebook Blog Networks Application. I have met some very interesting cats this way and I highly recommend each of their blogs.
I, Man Overboard, do hereby tag those whose names are underwritten with The Alphabet Meme including all associated benefits and liabilities as such.
- Austin Z from Cows Gone Madd 3
- Art Conners from The World of Threes
- John Hood from Generation Star Wars
- Ray Cornish from Mephistos
- Cameron Schaefer from Schaefer’s Blog
~Man Overboard





2 Comments
Midway is a classic! I used to watch it all the time with my grandfather.
Gonna have to pass on this … just not my gig. Well, technically, it is my gig, but I just don’t have the time for it right now.