More Amazing Movies

To accompany THIS LIST
1. Out of Africa
2. Good Will Hunting
3. A River Runs Through It
4. Gangs of New York
5. Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
6. Winter's Bone
7. Lady Jane
8. Lonesome Dove
9. East of Eden
10. Brokeback Mountain
11. Edward Scissorhands
12. Legends of the Fall
13. Beginners
14. Last of the Mohicans
15. In America
16. O Brother Where Art Thou
17. Benny & Joon
18. About a Boy
19. Mystic Pizza

Why I Love The Film Almost Famous

1. The soundtrack, obviously. Every song is breathtaking, not just the ones on the official soundtrack album.
2. The scene at the beginning where Anita shouts, "Feck You!" and "This is a house of lies!" And goes down the list of banned things ending with the commercialization of Christmas. And the mom talking about Simon and Garfunkel looking like their on drugs.
3. The little not-a-big-deal scene of Emmylou Harris and Gram Parsons singing Small Time Blues together in the hotel.
4. The family whistle. I think we'll have one of those.
5. The movie is wonderfully cast. I read once that Russell's character was written for Brad Pitt, but he didn't get the script. His loss. But all the characters seem to be born for their roles and have great chemistry.
6. I love, love, love Penny Lane's character. She is so perfect...one of my all-time favorites.
7. That beautiful scene on the bus after they pick up Russell from the high school party when they all start singing Tiny Dancer. Russell in his towel and swim trunks and sad face. Lovely and devastating at the same time.
8. The name Ben Fong Torres is always in my head. I love the way it sounds.
9. Jason Lee's neck beard hair is righteous.
10. "Does anybody remember laughter?!" -Sapphire
11. Frances McDermott plays that mother spot on. She is respectful and never really annoying, and she delivers her crazy lines so perfectly..."Don't take drugs!" and "Rock stars have kidnapped my son." and "I know what's going on."
12. The clothes, the music, the attitude, the energy of that time...I would have been a great band-aid.
13. I just realized after years and years of watching it that Jimmy Fallon is their new manager that the label sent over.
14. I love that it's a part fiction/part true story of Cameron Crowe's teenage years writing for Rolling Stone.
15. Penny Lane dancing alone on the stage was really pretty and another favorite scene of mine.
16. I would have swiped a reject t-shirt too, just like William did.
17. Penny is my favorite character, but I am at a loss of who would get second...Sapphire (probably), William, Russell, Jeff, or Lester Bangs? They are all so good.
18. It's a great picture of life...how characters/people alone are just that, but are given purpose by their interactions with one another,..like they all need each other to survive and to mean something. Especially if you can picture "music" as a character.
19. I love rock-n-roll movies.
20. "The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what we share with someone when we're uncool." -Lester Bangs

Movies We Own

1. Bottle Rocket

2. Rushmore

3. Snatch

4. Napoleon Dynamite

5. The Big Lebowski

6. Anchorman

7. Old School

8. Meet the Parents

9. Black Sheep

10. Office Space

11. Zoolander

12. Once

13. About A Boy

14. Little Miss Sunshine

15. Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

16. Good Will Hunting

17. Training Day

18. Man on Fire

19. The Last Samurai

20. X-Men

21. Matrix (all 3 of them)

22. Fight Club

23. Spiderman

24. The Italian Job

25. The Bourne Identity

26. In America

27. Radio

28. Remember the Titans

29. Rudy

30. Rounders

31. Gangs of New York

32. Les Miserables

33. The Manchurian Candidate

34. Shanghai Knights

35. O Brother, Where Art Thou

36. The Emperor's Club

37. Runaway Jury

38. L.A. Confidential

39. The Pianist

40. Batman Returns

41. The Dark Knight

42. When Harry Met Sally

43. America's Sweethearts

44. Mona Lisa Smile

45. How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days

46. I Am Sam

47. Love Actually

48. Grosse Point Blank

49. Hands on a Hard Body

50. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

51. Twilight

52. Romeo + Juliet

53. About Schmidt

54. The Terminal

55. You Can Count on Me

56. Say Anything

57. The Man in the Moon

58. Moulin Rouge

59. Chicago

60. White Oleander

61. The Bourne Ultimatum

62. The Bourne Supremacy

63. Chappelle's Show season 1

64. Arrested Development all seasons

65. Friends all seasons

66. Dawson's Creek all seasons

67. Charlotte's Web

68. Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas

69. Christmas Set (Frosty, Rudolph, Santa Claus is Comin to Town)

70. National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation

71. Alvin and the Chipmunk's A Chipmunk Christmas

72. Elf

73. Band of Brothers

74. David Gray Live From the Artist's De

75. Seinfeld season 4

76. The Kids in the Hall

77. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy

78. Alice in Wonderland

79. The Three Musketeers

80. He-Man all seasons

81. Spirit, Stallion of the Cimarron

82. Follow That Bird

83. Ice Age Dawn of the Dinosaurs

84. The Aristocats

85. Peter Pan

86. An American Tail

87. Home on the Range

88. Beauty and the Beast

89. The Little Mermaid

90. The Lion King 1 1/2

91. Angelina Ballerina Rose Fairy Princess

92. Piglet's Big Movie

93. Lady and the Tramp II Scamp's Adventure

What's In My Netflix Instant Queue

1. Winter's Bone

2. The Kennedy's

3. Bleak House

4. Pollock

5. Precious

6. Exit Through the Gift Shop

7. The Safety Of Objects

8. Conversations With Other Women

9. Ken Burns: Civil War

10. Patton

11. The Wonder Years

12. Teen Wolf

13. All The Days Before Tomorrow

14. Crips & Bloods: Made In America

15. Reel Injun

16. Last of the Mohicans

17. Pearl Jam Twenty

18. The West

19. National Geographic: Aryan Brotherhood

My Favorite Christmas Movies

1. National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation is my all-time favorite
2. Love Actually
3. Frosty the Snowman
4. The Holiday
5. Santa Claus is Coming To Town
6. Mickey's Christmas Carol
7. Elf
8. Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
9. A Chipmunk Christmas
10. The Family Stone

Movies I Watched This Week

1. Hall Pass
2. The Dilemma
3. Crazy Stupid Love
4. The Adjustment Bureau
5. Jane Eyre
6. Turned off Bad Teacher 20 minutes in because it was so awful

Movies I've Watched This Week

1. Paper Heart
2. Lucas
3. How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days
4. Precious
5. Management
6. The Proposal
7. Revenge of the Nerds

8. Gossip

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Movies That I Would Consider Classic From My Childhood

1. The 'Burbs

2. Dead Poets Society

3. Legends of the Fall

4. Dirty Dancing

5. North & South

6. Planes, Trains, & Automobiles

7. The Last Unicorn

8. Little Women (Winona Ryder & Christian Bale version)

9. Dazed and Confused

10. Saved by the Bell: Wedding in Las Vegas

11. Can't Buy Me Love

12. Sixteen Candles

13. The Abyss

14. Mallrats

15. Karate Kid Part II

16. Fletch

17. Back to School

18. Mystic Pizza

19. Starman

20. Princess Bride

21. The Thorn Birds

22. Overboard

Top 11 Favorite Movies Of All Time

1. Lars and the Real Girl

2. Almost Famous

3. Hoosiers

4. Coraline

5. Remember the Titans

6. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

7. The Royal Tennenbaums

8. My Best Friend's Wedding

9. Zoolander

10. Big Fish

11. Moulin Rouge

Movies I Watched This Week At My Parent's House

1. Twilight
2. New Moon
3. Remember Me (triple dose of Robert Pattinson)
4. The House Bunny
5. The Man in the Moon
6. Elmo in Grouchland

Projects Filmed At The Wilmington Studio We Toured

1. Dawsons Creek
2. One Tree Hill
3. Firestarter
4. Empire Records
5. Sleeping With The Enemy
6. A Walk To Remember
7. Secret Life Of Bees
8. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movies
9. 28 Days
10. Ya Ya Sisterhood
11. The Jackal
12. Weekend At Bernies
13. Nights At Rodanthe
14. Billy Bathgate

Reasons I Love Twilight

1. Edward (even in the books) is so hot

2. I wish I were as cool as Bella when I was in high school. I was not.

3. I think they did a great job casting for the film

4. The books were addictive...I read them all on a one week vacation last year

5. I feel like liking them makes me more hip with the young MTV crowd--I needed a boost

6. The thought of vampires is really interesting to me

7. I never got into the whole Harry Potter craze, so this feels like the same thing

8. Edward is so hot

Things That Always Get Stuck In My Head

1. "To market, to market, to buy a fat pig..."
2. "She's got me spinnin', spending all your money on me..." (Gwen Stephani)
3. "Chim-chim-a-ree-Chim-chim-a-ree, Chim-chim-cha-roo..." (Bert, from Mary Poppins)
4. "Whatcha gonna do about it, girl whatcha gonna do..." (NKOTB)
5. "March" by Jackopierce
6. "You are everybody" (Charlie from Lost)

Good Movies

1. Almost Famous
2. Once
3. Lord of the Rings trilogy
4. My Best Friends Wedding
5. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
6. Lonesome Dove
7. Christian Bale Batman movies
8. Karate Kid (one and two)
9. Can't Buy Me Love
10. Moulin Rouge
11. Son of Rambow
12. Zoolander

13. Hoosiers