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Day One Hundred Thirteen:  Thursday, April 25, 2013

A Few of my Favourite Things Series #2:   Movies

If you don’t know already movies are another pastime of mine, I enjoy watching the same ones over and over or exploring different ones.  I watch just about anything, but my favourites are below.  I protect these films with my heart, so I’d appreciate no slack on these.  Here goes:

The Daparted –

This film, with Leonardo DiCaprio, Jack Nicholson, and Matt Damon encompasses my love of suspense, thriller, drama, brutal comedy, and sophistication in a beautiful fashion that is written so well.  It’s a mafia movie, and without spilling the beans on the plot it is basically fantastic.  My sister and I usually watch this one on movie nights, you know, to keep it light.  IT’s just so well done I can’t even describe the fascination I have with the ability of the plot to fold into itself and still remain relevant and interesting.  Just a fantastic story.

Finding Nemo—

How can anyone not like this movie?  Is there anything bad about it at all?  The animation is fabulous, characters are fabulous, story is great, I couldn’t watch it everyday but I watch it relatively often and never get tired of it.  I could recite you the entire thing, and I still laugh every time.  I have fallen for each character at the perfect moment, and will be skeptical of Finding Dory in 2015 but I will of course go and see it with bells on.  If you haven’t seen this movie I don’t know what you’re doing with your life.

Almost Famous—

This film is the reason I am the way I am today.  I can’t describe the fascination I have with the characters, the plot, soundtrack, every single inch of this movie makes me so incredibly happy and worthy that I..I can only say that it is worth every minute it takes to watch it.  It’s about wonder, and adventure and music and love, and friendship and just all of the most incredible things in life that some people miss out on by focusing on the wrong things.  See this, now.

St. Elmo’s Fire—

It would be hard for me to include a list of movies I enjoy without throwing in my favourite Eighties cast-based film, and that is this little beauty.  It’s so well crafted and the characters are so likeable and developed that I just…I want to know them.  IF it were up to me it would be mandatory for everyone to watch this movie just to get an understanding, again, of why I am the way I am, but who can enforce that rule, really?  It’s so funny so beautiful, and it leaves just enough for me to guess and piece things together about the left out details.  My favourite kind of story.

Honourable Mentions:

Fight Club

Sex and the City Movie

My Big Fat Greek Wedding

Beauty and the Beast

Eight Crazy Nights

Perks of Being a Wallflower

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

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