10 of my favourite movies!
Up!
Yeah, this list needs ten movies and Up! does not need an explanation. Up! is my number one. The rest is not in order and may not even be my top ten. Who knows? You will have use for a full box of tissues before the movie hits the ten-minute mark. And then you will laugh solidly until the you need another box of tissues for the end. Bonus: searching for UP! on Pinterest and tearing up again when you see the fans still talking about it.
Titanic
The year was 1997. Many things changed for me that year. It was a year of ‘lasts’. I will give you an example: 1997 was the last year that I weighed more than 70kgs. It was the last year that I cut my hair shorter than my shoulders. It was also the year that Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet graced our screens with a chemistry that won the movie eleven Oscars. Eleven Oscars… I have only seen it twice, both times at the cinema and I have a confession. I can even stand listening to Celine Dion when I watch Titanic. You will laugh, you will cry, your heart will break more than once. Titanically….
Flatliners
A young Kevin Bacon, a suave Kiefer Sutherland, a sexy William Baldwin and a sultry Julia Roberts. And the other guy. And a blue screen… Dark, sexy and twisty. And that’s just the way I prefer my psychological thrillers.
A Scanner Darkly
Read the book too. Watch the movie. You will feel your brain melting slowly, like it started doing when you watched the Matrix for the first time. A Scanner Darkly features RDJ, Keanu Reeves, Wynona Ryder, and a very under appreciated Woody Fucking Harrelson.
Kung Pow: Enter the Fist!
Please do not watch this stoned the first time. This is so funny it does not require weed. The first time I ever saw this, I ended up watching it THREE TIMES THAT NIGHT. That is how funny it is. Oh, and if you are not convinced, there is a chick with a uniboob. ‘Nough said.
The Wall
I will say it again, don’t think this is a stoner movie. Maybe I am old fashioned, but I feel as if this movie and its message deserves better. Yes, it is weird, and not everyone will appreciate it. You may think you are too old to acquire a new taste, but watch it, just in case it changes your life. And Pink Floyd. Pink Floyd makes it worth it if you don’t get it.
Adjustment bureau
You know I love getting my scififreak on. And yes, I do believe I have read everything Philip K. Dick has ever written. I really love two things especially about this movie adaption: nr1, they didn’t take out the romance just because it is scifi. And nr2, the chemistry between the leading actors is reminiscent of Kate and Leo’s chemistry in both Titanic and Revolutionary Road. Was it acting? Not all of it.
Big Fish
One of Tim Burton’s more ‘normal’ movies. And yet, even though I can see it coming every single time, the ending just gets to me as if every time is the first time I am seeing it. Jim Caviezel is one of this generation’s most underrated actors, most likely because of his true faith and belief system. But like I always say, if Caviezel is in it, it’s a good movie.
Ratatouille
It’s so sweet! And funny! And I always cry at the end when Peter O’Toole’s wicked food critic (Yes, that was me name-dropping) starts a company that invests in small businesses. That is a plot twist for me, because they could have taken the other road and made him start his own restaurant or get fat. But the food critic really had a great storyline and the character development made sense. And it always inspires me… To go home and cook my own dinner where I know it’s clean!
A Single Man
Sophistication in a suit. Colin Firth should have gotten an Oscar for this. I leave you with this movie, the most intensely sad thing I have ever seen, the only other film getting close being Gavin Hood’s Rendition. Be warned, it will leave your heart strings exposed and vulnerable.
