21 posts tagged “movies”

I'm doing my own project where I watch all my comfort movies before I go back to school at the end of August, which I'll be really busy sadly since I have to take four classes on top of a correspondence class. Should be interesting but on the plus side hopefully (fingers crossed) I'll be graduating in December!

The reason I started this project is because I'm pretty sure I'm going through a bout of depression right now and I need something to take my mind off it. I've been reading to but somehow movies have always been really comforting to me. So the first movie I decided to watch is Finding Nemo:

The Art of Finding Nemo

Mark Cotta Vaz

I saw this movie a few times in the theater and I loved it each time. I remember the first time I saw it, the part where Dory thinks she can speak whale just pretty much had me rolling in laughter. I still find the movie enjoyable and funny which is why it is a comfort movie for me. This movie reminds me of living in the condo with Summer and Chris. I use to sleep with my window open there because we were upstairs and my room was in the part that was gated off. My room had a little window seat that I use to like to sit in with pillows and read. I also would set my lap top up on it. There was one night that I was watching Finding Nemo on my lap top making screen captures when Summer came in and we ended up watching it all together with Kyle and his now ex-girlfriend. This for some reason really sticks out in my mind as a comforting night.

Another memory of this movie is that I went to Washington the summer it came out and two times Jennie and I tried to go see it. The first time we went we just ended up being to late and we saw something else. The second time we brought my other cousin Jay with me and it was opening day for Pirates of the Caribbean. So while we were waiting in line I turned to Jennie and said “I really want to see Pirates of the Caribbean”. To which she said “me to” and then we asked Jay if it was alright if we went to see it instead, and so we did, which was worth it btw. Finally we got to go see it together and so I associate this movie with that time to. Just getting to be with my family and friends is a real comfort to me.

I like to watch Romantic Comedies/Chick Flicks when either I am depressed or sick. I don’t know why but they are most comforting to me so here are the top ten movies that I like to watch. It’s actually changed over the years…if you’d asked me 10 years ago what they were I’m sure the list would be very different. Also I picked from my own collection so there isn’t anything on the list that I don’t own.

Before I start I’m going to say that I’m leaving out The Notebook, which is probably the ultimate girl movie since Dirty Dancing. While I love The Notebook I just don’t watch it when I’m down because I end up just crying all over myself through the last 15 or 20 minutes of the movie and probably a couple times before that.

Here they are in no particular order

Fever Pitch – I can’t really explain why I love this movie so much. I’m not a huge Jimmy Fallon fan or anything but I do like Drew Barrymore. I pretty much like everything Drew is in with the exception of that world poker movie…I don’t know what it’s called but it was pretty boring. I don’t even care about baseball but I just love this movie. There are so many good lines like “You love the red sox but have they ever loved you back?”  I also think this is one of those stories in which the girl ends up with a guy that she never saw coming.

Legally Blonde – I have pretty much loved this movie since the first time I saw it. I was working at blockbuster when it came out, and I could get the movies a week before they were released to the public. I don’t know if they did this so that we could talk about whether they were good or not but I wasn’t complaining. I bought it on VHS as Previously Reviewed because that was back in the day that I didn’t own a DVD player.* This is one of those movies that I have watched back to back. It also is what made me really like Reese Witherspoon (well I think maybe Cruel Intentions helped). It just has the right amount of comedy to make me feel better about myself. Plus there were a few lines that I really liked in it like when she is talking about getting to Harvard and she says “What like it’s hard?” I should mention here that I don’t like the second one as much and the bend and flip scene kind of makes me cringe.

America’s Sweethearts – This has Julia Roberts, John Cusack and flash back scenes. What more could you ask for? Plus they’re flash back scenes of Julia Roberts in a fat suit which is hard to imagine.
 
Enchanted – I can’t really begin to describe why I like this movie so much but there is one scene where I love Giselle’s dress. It’s the first dress that she makes out of his curtains. I also like all the songs and Patrick Dempsy is in it. This is one of those movies that even though I own I will watch it when it’s on cable as well as the DVD. I also usually bring it on vacations.

Made of Honor – I haven’t decided why I like this one so much yet since it’s newly added. I realize it’s another Patrick Dempsy movie and the first half of the movie I am like You are idiot because he has this beautiful girl that clearly was in love with him already.

Runaway Bride – I relate to Julia in this movie. My mom always says that about me to. That is why I like this movie plus the majority of my favorite girly movies use to star Julia Roberts. Not so much anymore obviously but this one does still live on in my top ten favorite. 

Never Been Kissed – More flashback scenes! Plus it’s so funny and David Arquette  is in it, he’s married to Courtney Cox who plays Monica on Friends, who happens to be my TV doppelganger* .

You’ve Got Mail – This is another movie that has been on my list for quite some time. Actually in my house Tom Hanks is considered possibly one of the best stars along with Michael J. Fox…no really. I think Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan have excellent chemistry with each other and it totally makes the movie worth watching five billion times.

Twilight – I know this probably isn’t considered a romantic comedy but possibly a dramady…whatever it is a chick flick. I love this movie so much that I have now seen it enough to quote it or say the lines before they happen while watching. And confession I absolutely hated the baseball scene in the book. I was cringing at the thought of having to watch it on the movie but it turns out that movie did a really good job with it.  Also about 15 minutes in to the movie when I first saw it I was afraid it was going to be terrible but all of sudden I lost track of time and have loved it ever since. So that is why it makes it’s way on to this list.

The Wedding Planner – A long time ago there were a few lines in this movie that always got to me. One of them was when she thought she just wasn’t enough and then Mathew Mcconwhatever tells her that she is. Then the other one was have you ever loved someone but the timeing was off…way off. Actually to this day that line still gets me.
 

*Which side note my brother and I seriously had a conversation with my niece about how “we didn’t have DVDs back when we were little, and we had to record movies off the TV…and we didn’t even have CDs! We had walkmans and tapes!”. Seriously I dated myself with my niece I swore that would never happen!

*Actually I have two of these as Felicity Porter is also my TV doppelganger. Also Friends happens to be something that I watch when I’m feeling down, it never fails to make me laugh.

I'm done with finals week, except now I have turn around and go to summer school on Monday..bummer.

Except that once I'm done with summer school I get to go to Washington to be with my Grandma and my cousins for a whole month. A WHOLE month...all my friends here aren't really a fan of this me being gone a whole month but you see..I am! So it's always so hard for me to act all sad about it because while I'll miss them terribly, mostly just Oliver j/k, I'm still pretty excited about going.

I haven't updated in awhile because I've been to busy with studying and that is pretty much all I did the past couple of weeks. That and get over being sick...I had that flu for two weeks! But I got to Wolverine, which I loved, and I read Vanishing Acts by Jodi Picoult. And so far I have earned two A's(human sexuality and policy and law), not sure yet on the other two grades. Probably a B in abnormal pscyh. and either an A or a B in my Psychology of Spirituality and Religion class.

So now I think I'm going to have happy hour with my mom and read The Hunger Games.

Max Payne: Max Payne is trying to get vengeance or revenge on the death of his family. I think I’m going to have to go with vengeance because dictionary.com says that it is a “Violent revenge”. I liked this movie for about an hour especially because Sucre was in it and I liked him….. for about an hour. Once that hour was up I got kind of bored and started surfing the internet.

Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist: I blind bought this movie but I’m glad I did. It’s one of those movies where a whole bunch of stuff happens in one night like Go. Although it was a lot better then Go and the music was really good, which actually I have the Go soundtrack and the music was good in it to. Nick and Norah are kind of pushed together to push out Nick’s ex-bitch (sorry there's no other way to describe her) of a girlfriend Tris. There is only one part that I was like cringing and felt the need to fast forward past but it was because I was so embarrassed for her, Tris that is. I know I was embarrassed for the ex-girlfriend! As a side note, I swear I know Tris or at least someone like her and actually looks kind of like her to.

Confessions of a Shopaholic: This movie is based off the book Confessions of A Shopaholic, which happens to be a book I love. I own all of them except Shopaholic and Sister because I was seriously poor when that one came out so I had to resort to getting it at the library. I’m not dissing the library here as I go there weekly* but usually I buy the books of authors that I love. But again I was poor, like so poor that I was buying food at McDonalds with change. Also because it was the first time the Shopaholic book came out in hardback my mom would not I repeat not help me out by buying it for me. Plus she is a strong advocate of the library.

WOW I just deviated from talking about the movie to my personal problems and my lack of funds. Ok so they really Americanized the book for the movie and it takes place in New York not in London. For some reason when I read the book I didn’t really pick up on the emotional implications of Becky’s shopping problems but I did in the movie. I was kind of annoyed because they changed Luke’s character a little bit as well as a lot of the plot but I still enjoyed and probably will be buying it.

So last night I went to the Gaslight Theater with Summer, Chris and Zack. The current show was The Ballad of Two-Gun McGraw. What they do is do spoof type plays that are hilarious. The Christmas one is often the Christmas Carol and the next show is Harley’s Angels., which I think I’m going to have to see because it starts around my birthday. I always say that I want to go but we often don’t end up going but this is something I might want to do…for my birthday. You can order dessert and food! I had a chocolate shake but for some reason I wasn’t very hungry last night and didn’t eat much of my dinner or of my chocolate shake, I suck.  They also bring the audience in to the play and when they mess up or adlib it’s very funny. ANYWAY I really enjoyed last nights, I hadn’t seen that one before (I have seen the Christmas Carol several times).

Today I’m going to see He’s Just Not That Into You with my mom so maybe I’ll discuss that later. I will not be discussing Wuthering Heights because that book angered me, I did not care for any of characters. I felt they were all self-indulged and self obsessed, Heathcliffe was among the worst. Ok so I did just kind of talk about it.

* This is probably an exaggeration

"You don't have to yell...this isn't a train station. We're in a tiny car."

Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist

The Afterlife Experiments: Breakthrough Scientific Evidence of Life After Death

Gary E. Schwartz

"How can you prove to anyone that you love your husband, or wife, a child, a friend, a pet? Not by what you say-people often lie to protect themselves or others. Not by what you do-we all do some things because they're expected of us rather than because we truly want to do them.

What Reverand Joss was teaching Dr. Arroway was that there is no substitute for having the experience of love-or, for that matter, any other experience. One must ultimately have the experience for oneself. Everything else is indirect-a process of inference, of interpretation."

* I'm taking this class called Psychology of Relgion and Spirituality. My Professor is the author of this book and it is assigned reading for the class.

* Before that we had to read this book called Science of the Akashic Field...I'm not really sure  I know what I read in that book as most of it went over my head...sadly.

* However we had to watch this movied called What the Bleep Do We Know? and I found it very fascinating to say the least.

Henry: I've never been good at finding things, I'm really good at losing things.

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Henry: I've spent my whole life... wanting something... and doing my very best not to find it. Never even going near the places it might be... And suddenly, I've got the goddamn thing practically chained around my neck.
Lucy: What are you talking about?
Henry: You. You. You're the, you're the... You're, you're- you're the goddamn thing. Ahhh, uh. I mean... You're, you're. I can't describe you... uhh, I don't, I don't write that kind of s**t, I write... You know, the people who write, who write the real books, the love books, and the poems, and even those stupid little novels with the hunky guys on the cover...
Lucy: Stop...

Dedication

* = A reread
Books

1. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone – J.K. Rowling*
2. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets – J.K. Rowling*
3. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban – J.K. Rowling*
4. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire – J.K. Rowling*
5. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix – J.K. Rowling*
6. The Other Boleyn Girl – Philippa Gregory
7. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince – J.K. Rowling*
8. Peyton Place – Grace Metalious
9. The Sweet Far Thing – Libba Bray
10. Prince Caspian – C.S. Lewis
11. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay – Michael Chabon
12. Sweet Valley High #1 Double Love – Francine Pascal* (2008 Version)
    
13. Sweet Valley High #2 Secrets – Francine Pascal* (2008 Version)
    
14. Gossip Girl – Cecily Von Ziegesar
15. Anybody Out There? – Marian Keyes
16. You Know You Love Me – Cecily Von Ziegesar
17. All I Want is Everything – Cecily Von Ziegesar
18. Because I’m Worth It – Cecily Von Ziegesar
19. The Great Tree of Avalon – T.A. Barron
20. I Like it Like That – Cecily Von Ziegesar
21. What The Dead Know – Laura Lippman
22. The Last Summer(Of You and Me) – Ann Brashares
23. You’re the One That I Want – Cecily Von Ziegesar
24. Baby Proof – Emily Giffin
25. And Then There Were None – Agatha Christie
26. Atonement – Ian McEwan
27. Persuasion – Jane Austen
28. Speak – Laurie Halse Anderson
29. By The Pricking of My Thumbs – Agatha Christie
30. Queen of Babble Gets Hitched – Meg Cabot
31. Daughter of Fortune – Isabel Alende
32. The Boleyn Inheritance – Philippa Gregory
33. Swapping Lives – Jane Green
34. Water for Elephants – Sara Guen
35. Breaking Dawn – Stephanie Meyer
36. The Book Thief – Markus Zusak
37. Remember Me? – Sophie Kinsella
38. Lock & Key – Sarah Dessen
39. City of Ashes – Cassandra Clare
40. How to Find a Date Worth Keeping? – Dr. Henry Cloud
41. Marley & Me – John Grogan
42. The Secret – Rhonda Byrne
43. The Awakening – Kate Chopin
44. Me and Mr. Darcy – Alexandra Potter
45. Confessions of A Jane Austen Addict – Laurie Viera Rigler
46. Life of Pi – Yann Martel
47. 19 Minutes – Jodi Picoult
48. Airhead – Meg Cabot
49. Murder on the Orient Express – Agatha Christie
50. Harry, A History – Melissa Anelli
51. Uglies – Scott Westerfeld
52. The Tale of Despereaux – Kate Dicamillo (audiobook)
53. Gossip of the Starlings – Nina De Grammont.
54. The Shack – William P. Young
55. No Greater Love – Danielle Steel

1. Atonement
2. Fools Gold
3. The Other Boleyn Girl
4. Juno
5. Made of Honor
6. Chronicles of Narnia
7. Ironman
8. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
9. Kung Fu Panda
10. The Happening
11. Get Smart
12. Wall-E
13. Hancock
14. Wanted
15. The Dark Knight
16. The X-Files: I Want to Believe
17. The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
18. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2
19. Babylon A.D.
20. Eagle Eye
21. Nights at Rodanthe
22. The Duchess
23. High School Musical 3: Senior Year
24. Madagascar 2
25. Twilight
26. Bolt
27. Twilight
28. Bedtime Stories
    

Favorites
Books - (not including re-reads) The Other Boleyn Girl, Anybody Out There? and 19 Minutes
Movies - Juno, The Dark Knight, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2, Twilight and Bolt
TV On DVD - Smallville 1-7, The X-Files 1-8 and Lost Season 3