Topic Open House: movies

[sasha_feather]

livrelibre asked about movies I like or are looking forward to! I will answer both.

Some of my all time favorite movies are:

Spiderman 2. I was lonely and struggling with my life when I saw this film, and I felt like Peter Parker was struggling in similar ways-- to make ends meet, to get his relationships to work, to figure out what to do with his life.

Seabiscuit Just a beautiful film about a horse and the people who love the horse. Also a found family. It gets me right in the heart.

Harry Potter 3 Because Alfonso Cuaron! The music, the creepiness, the imagery (birds, reflections). So great.

Some comedies I own are Hot Fuzz, But I'm a Cheerleader, Tommy Boy, Office Space, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, and About a Boy. I tend to like warm, silly comedies. A few other movies I own but don't watch quite as often: Iron Man, I Love you Philip Morris, Brokeback Mountain, X2, Amelie, Gattaca, Pitch Black. (In my head canon, Pitch Black has a gender queer character.)

A movie I'm very much looking forward to (despite some issues it has) is X-Men: Days of Future Past. I am an Erik/Charles shipper, lord help me, their luuuurve really gets me, and even the movie posters have me all squeeful. The posters meld the faces of young Charles/old Charles and young Erik/old Erik. Aaaaah! Even if the movie is wretched, hopefully a bunch of new fic will come out of it! And Bryan Singer is usually pretty decent.

I love going to movies; I will go see a mediocre movie just for the theater experience. I find being in the darkened theater very relaxing and have been known to go by myself. There are quite a few movies I will re-watch, but I enjoy re-watching things more if I have someone else with me.

Comments

[livrelibre]

Thanks for this post! I like a lot of these too (and it's a good reminder about the ones I haven't seen). I'm also hoping the latest X-men installment will be good (or at least bring the fic). We can hope! :)

[sasha_feather]

The previews have me pretty excited!!!

[sophinisba]

I have similar feelings about About a Boy, the new X-Men movie, and seeing movies in theaters! Though I would probably say I find it more exciting than relaxing. I used to go to movies by myself all the time but I've done it less in the last couple years.

[sasha_feather]

I like that in About a Boy, the characters are weird outsiders who have to learn to connect with people.

One advantage of going with friends is squeeing together and then talking about the movie afterwards. :D