@missy and @rambo want to know what are favorite movies are, I must confess I cannot narrow it down to one so I thought I would share some of my favorites and why I like them :)
As many of you know I work in an independent movie theater in my city and I watch movies all the time. I love more movies than I could possibly talk about in one blog so I will try to keep it trim, lets start with what I saw first.
I saw Beetlejuice when I was very young, probably around age five maybe even sooner. Michael Keaton seriously amazed me as a child because I thought he must be the best actor in the world if he could be both Beetlejuice and Batman. My dad and I used to pretend we were dead and had to scare people out of our house, we used to draw pictures of how scary we would make ourselves for our "haunting". I dressed up as a combination Lydia Deetz and Wednesday Addams for most of elementary school (which probably is why kids didn't really try to understand me, their catholic school brains probably saw me as the devil). It did not occur to me how crass and inappropriate this movie was for children until I let some kids I was babysitting watching part of the way through when I was 12. I stopped it right around the time Beetlejuice came into play and switched them over to Scooby Do. If you can believe it I got fired from that babysitting position, only solidifying my anti-censorship feelings early on.
Johnny Depp in Edward Scissorhands was my first crush. He was quiet, thoughtful and best of sweet. I saw the love connection between him and Winona Ryder and thought that all I would ever need is to find someone who would love me for who I am even if I happen to be generally strange. The whole movie has an interesting color pallet, I really like when to mix muted colors with extremely vibrant ones. I find the whole movie to be visually appealing and I could probably watch it without sound or subs just fine. I still love how believable Edward is, I wish Johnny Depp still picked the best roles for himself, I miss his earlier years.
The Wedding Singer is my go to romance film. I watch it when I am happy, I watch it when I am sad and when ever I find myself at a "girls night in" it is my only movie suggestion. I find it to be sweet and it still makes me laugh like I haven't seen it more then a hundred times. I don't care for most Adam Sandler movies anymore because, I think like most people, I get tired of watching him play himself. In this he is funny, a little charming and for the first time ever kind of cute. I only know what I have learned from my parents, history and VH1 about the 80's but I like to think of the whole decade visually like this movie. So if you would like to hang out... I hope you like the Wedding Singer :)
The first time I hung out with my Husband alone we watched Sin City. I had never seen it before and he thought that was such a huge crime that we would need to change that right away. I could not take my eyes away from the screen, not even to swoon over my new crush sitting alone with me in the dark. The style and the actors made every about this move a knock out (except Brittany Murphy...I don't care that she is dead...that performance was horrible). Hot babe kicking ass and comic style fighting to extremely ridiculous proportions...who could not love it! Rosario Dawson in this movie is definitely on my internal flick file. I now own the special edition and all of the comics.
I could go on forever... but I will just do one more.
I laugh my whole way through The Men Who Stare At Goats every single time I see it. I didn't really know what to expect when it came out not having seen a trailer but I had to go see a movie because we got drinks at the mall and had to sober up before we could drive home. Every jedi joke made my grin broader and my cheeks hurt a little by the end of the film. I saw it once more in theaters with a friend who had not heard of it and bought my copy after it was out for a long time for a mere 6 dollars. Can you believe that? I spent three times as much seeing it at the theater. If you havent seen it I hope you check it out... You wont be disappointed.
