Belated Oscars Post

So I had this idea when the Oscars were on, and I don't know why I didn't just post it then, but here it is; In honor of the Oscars, I am making a post lising my top ten favorite movies.

10. My Neighbor Totoro (The Original): What can you say about this movie? It's the most amazing children's film I've ever seen.


9. The Departed: Mark Wahlberg, Matt Damon, Leonardo DiCaprio, Martin Sheen, AND the great Jack Nicholson? My favorite scene? The rat crawling across the banister at the end.


8. All About Eve/Now Voyager: A tie between two great Bette Davis films, I couldn't decide. All About Eve is a distinguished and entertaining film, I love George Sanders in this, what a great character actor! Now, Voyager is a fantastic story, and was the first Bette Davis film I ever saw.


7. To Have and Have Not: The first ever Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall film. This is absolutley riveting and lovely.


6. Finding Nemo: I loveeeeeee this movie, how can you not? The graphics are beautiful, and the story is as well.


5. The Barbarian Invasions: A French Canadian indie film that's not about barbarians at all. Almost the entire film is in french, which I love, and I can't help but leave you with this quote:
Remy: We've been everything: separatists, supporters of independantists, sovereignists, sovereignity-associanists...
Pierre: At first, we were existentialists.
Dominique: We read Sartre and Camus.
Claude: Then Fanon, we became anti-colonialists.
Remy: We read Marcuse and became Marxists.
Pierre: Marxist-Leninists.
Alessandro: Trotskyists.
Diane: Maoists.
Remy: After Solzhenitsyn we changed, we became structuralists.
Pierre: Situationists.
Dominique: Feministis.
Claude: Deconstructionists.
Pierre: Is there an -ism we haven't worshipped?
Claude: Cretinism.


4. Where the Wild Things Are: So it doesn't follow the book, oh well. I love it for what it is, which is a beautiful story about understanding, learning, and growing up.

3. Garden State: Hooray for Zah Braff, Peter Sarsgaard, and Natalie Portman! They're all great in this. I love Sam, and Mark, and Large, and Kenny, and everyone! The characters are amazingly developed. I love the journey of getting to a better place mentally.

2. Wicker Park: I don't know what else to say about this movie other than it's beautiful. I love the story, I love Josh Hartnett(so hot!)and Diane Kruger. I love the twisty plot, and I love that he finds her in the end.


And here is some cheating from your faithful writer:
1.75. A Love Song for Bobby Long: Scarlet Johansson is amazing in this movie, as is John Travolta and the amazing Gabriel Macht. ( I remember when I was little I saw Grease and I had the biggest little-kid-crush on John Travolta, and then I got older and realized that he was old and not cute anymore and I was horrified. ) A story about finding family is always beautiful.


1.5. Blue Hawaii: I'm a sucker for an Elvis movie. I wish they were on TV more often, but then maybe I should just buy some? Anyway, it's great, you should watch it.


1.25. Fight Club: This had to be in here. I love me some Fight Club. Gotta have some Tyler Durden. "The first rule of Fight Club is you do not talk about Fight Club."


1. The Blues Brothers: All that needs to be said is
"It's 106 miles to Chicago, we have a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark, and we're wearing sunglasses."
"Hit it."



That's all folks!