Day 7-Favorite movies

I define my favorite movies as film I could watch repeatedly and never grow tired of.

"Gone with the Wind" is one of my most favorite movies.  Scarlet is like the original she- bad-ass.  A little dramatic, but she gets the job done, for the most part, until she pretty much blows it with her antics at the end.  Even a guy like Ret can only take so much.  Ret Butler, *not* Clark Gable, okay fine a little but Clark Gable is... ::swoon::.  Wow, what a hunk.  "You should be kissed, and often, my someone who knows how."  I love the fact that Scarlet is so stubborn.  She doesn't take no for an answer and she has a temper.  Show me someone who doesn't have a temper and I'll show you a liar.  If I could write out in words the score for this movie, I would it is playing in my head.  Every year my mom and I sit down and watch this movie in it's entirety.  One day I will tackle the book.  I've also been to one of the homes the Clark Gable lived in.  It's filled with Gone with the Wind memorabilia and is advertised as the home he was born in, but it's not true, he just lived there as a baby or small child, I can't actually remember.  It's in Pennsylvania *EDIT: Cadiz, Ohio* if you want to go!  (Don't ask me for directions for anything, because I don't know where anything is!)


"Toy Story" 1 & 2.  Although I liked 3, Toy Story 2 is my very favorite, because Bullseye is in it!  Am I six?  No, I am not.  I just think these movies are adorable.  Tonight, Toy Story 3 won an Oscar, and even though I saw the Academy Awards, I can't remember for what or who was accepting the award, but I do remember he said something about the film being about talking toys who have something human to say.  That pinpointed why I liked the movie so much.  


Judge if you must, but I like "Knocked Up".  Actors are funny, writing is funny.  A little slapstick, sarcasm, and some real life humor.  Plus, I just had a baby, so I think it's funny.


Last, but  certainly not least "You've Got Mail" is one of my most favorite movies.  I can recite almost any line.  That's not why it's my favorite though.  I love it because it tells a "simple" love story of two "strangers"/business enemies, Joe Fox and Kathleen Kelly, who initially meet online, in a chat room, during the days of dial up.  In real life they are business enemies, but online they are intrigued with each other.  Online they reveal no details of their personal lives, so they do not and cannot know that shopgirl is Kathleen and ny152 is Joe.  It's witty and cute and simple and involves my favorite things, coffee, books, cute New York apartments, a dog, Meg Ryan, Tom Hanks, and Ballerina Shoes.

Unforgettable lines: 

"The whole purpose of places like Starbucks is for people with no decision-making ability whatsoever to make six decisions just to buy one cup of coffee. Short, tall, light, dark, caf, decaf, low-fat, non-fat, etc. So people who don't know what the hell they're doing or who on earth they are can, for only $2.95*, get not just a cup of coffee but an absolutely defining sense of self: Tall. Decaf. Cappuccino. "

*Here, the coffee price has the same effect on me that gas prices do in movies.  One that stands out is Jurassic Park 2, when they're in San Diego driving around with the baby T-Rex in the back of the convertible.  The gas prices are significantly low, it depresses me more than a child's dog being eaten by the mama T-Rex.*

and to close...

"Sometimes I wonder about my life. I lead a small life - well, valuable, but small - and sometimes I wonder, do I do it because I like it, or because I haven't been brave? So much of what I see reminds me of something I read in a book, when shouldn't it be the other way around? I don't really want an answer. I just want to send this cosmic question out into the void. So good night, dear void."