Well...Hello! It's been a while since I've added another Top 5 List to this blog. On this day after Christmas, I find myself on the couch watching one of my all-time favorite movies (something I VERY, VERY rarely get to do) and I thought---blog post!
So here we go...I will stop dead and watch any of these movies if they
happen to be on TV.
#5 Favorite Romantic Comedy-You've Got Mail. Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, Greg Kinnear-what's not to love! "Oh, she's beautiful; but she's a pill!" "What's with guys and The Godfather, hello?" "I wanted it to be you so badly."
#4 Favorite 80's Movie-Real Genius
I have come to realize that I've always been a geek/nerd. I took computer programing in high school. My dad had a Commodore 64 and I remember playing one of those text based games "You are lost in forrest and a troll jumps out at you. What do you do?" I also remember writing computer programs using BASIC-I thought I was so cool when I got the Commodore to run an IF...THEN loop! Wow, I'm so nerdy! This movie just appeals to me. I'd like to think that I'm like Chris Knight (Val Kilmer's character), nerdy but seriously overflowing with sarcastic cool-ness! (yea, I know...you don't have to say it.)
Anyway, I love this movie-a goofy group of misfit geniuses are tricked into designing a secret military weapon by their college professor. They win in the end by hacking the testing of this secret weapon and filling their college professor's house with popcorn! You have the see the movie. And I'd really like to know where they found Kent? He's the guy you love to hate. He's constantly tattling and getting everyone in trouble.
#3 Favorite John Hughes Movie-Pretty In Pink
Yes...I'm a product of the 80s. What can I say? Madonna's "Like A Virgin", neon everything, leg warmers, headbands, ugly shoes and in my opinion the BEST era for movies AND music!
John Hughes was a genius at capturing that teen-age angst that we all felt! Oh, the heartaches! The crush on the beautiful Blane, ("His name is Blane? That's not a name-it's a major appliance!") and the faithful but goofy Duckie. I love the ending where Andie tells her dad that she's going to the prom alone because she wants the "richies" to know that they didn't break her! That's right Molly Ringwald, you go girl!!!!
#2 Favorite Musical-Grease 2
Now, I don't know if you'd really classify this one as a "true" musical, but I can sing EVERY single song in this movie! "I'm a cooo-ooool rider..."
How can you not like Michelle Phiffer and her crush on the mysterious motorcycle rider dressed all in black? Throw in the T-Birds and the Pink Ladies and you got yourself a darn good movie for a Saturday afternoon! Not to mention cuties like, Maxwell Caulfield and Adrian Zmed.
#1 Favorite Movie of All Time, you know the one I've seen a thousand times! Casablanca. Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Burgman meet, fall in love, separate and then meet again. So romantic. A movie that has it all: a little mystery (who is Rick, really?), romance, the struggle between what is right and what the heart wants (should Ilsa run away with Rick or stay with her husband, Victor Lazlo?) iconic music and dialogue and triumph over the Nazis. I love the scene where Lazlo gets the band in Rick's to play the French anthem, much to the disgust of the Nazis who are trying to party it up. So defiant!
An interesting fact about the actor (Conrad Veidt) who played top Nazi, Major Strasser; he was NOT a supporter of the Nazi regime. In fact, he was once detained by the Nazi's when he refused to turn down a certain movie roll in a British film. He was trying to return to England when the Nazis declared him "ill and unable to travel". A British studio had to come to his aid and with the help of the British government, secured his release. Interesting, huh?
I love that the movie is in black and white. To this day, I absolutely love black and white photographs. It just wouldn't be the same if it were in color.
Well, there you have it...my Top 5 all time favorite movies.
