Five Movies I Will Rarely Admit To Loving

[deird1]

(I am wearing a purple jacket, bright green socks, a beanie, and a blue and orange tshirt with "Obey Gravity IT'S THE LAW" on it. Geeky teens in high school movies could take fashion tips from me.)

A while ago I wrote about TV shows I rarely admit to loving. It occurred to me last night that I could make a similar list of movies.


5) Deep Impact

Everyone else might have been distracted by Armageddon, but I liked this version way better. Much less of Bruce Willis blowing things up in space, and much more of a serious look at what people are like.

It's probably just another hokey disaster movie really, but I watch it, love it, tear up over the teenagers getting married to save her life, and the astronauts getting schools named after them, and the mother letting her baby go, and... everything.

It's a wonderful movie, it really is.


4) James Bond

...all of them.

Yes, they're ridiculous. Granted. But it's nice to occasionally have villains who are not complex and possibly right: they're villains because they really like being evil. They have evil laughs! They pat cats menacingly! They kill Bond girls by painting them gold! They're so FUN!

Plus - explosions.


3) Little Women

The Winona Ryder version. It's sappy and probably fairly boring, but I love it.

And I cry every time I see Beth die. *sniffles*


2) Jurassic Park

This... is a special case.

You see, I love the movie. With all the dinosaurs, and the running and screaming, and the hokey jokes. It's really fun!

But even more, I love...

The "making of" special feature.

It was the first CGI animals! And they figured out how to make real-looking dinosaurs! And changed cinema history! And all the animal sounds for the roaring! And the cup of water on a guitar! And superimposed faces! WOOOOOO!

(Yes, I'm a nerd.)


1) The Parent Trap (remake, not the original)

It's my favourite movie of all time.

I could talk about how it's such a clever take on the original movie, and how they are riffing on their own scenes and using the expectations of the original movie fans to surprise them in the new movie... but that's not why I love it.

I love it because it's cute, and silly, and has the servants falling in love in such a dumb way, and Lindsay Lohan putting her hair up and pretending to be tipsy, and mistaken identities, and the evil stepmother, and lots of silly pranks, and clueless parents...

*sighs in delight*

I really do love it. And I can quote every single scene.

Also? Best screen kiss. EVER.




...and that's all.

Questions? Comments? Jeering laughter and disbelief?

Comments

[angearia]

Besides "Deep Impact" which I haven't seen, I love all those movies too!

[deird1]

Yay!

[velvetwhip]

*admits to thinking The Parent Trap is rather cute*

I have my own list, but in the spirit of not admitting, I won't.


Gabrielle

[deird1]

Hee! Good for you!

[menomegirl]

I love Deep Impact, for all the reasons you listed and more. Uh! I get such rage when Beth tries to snatch her daughter back after Jenny grabs her while fleeing for the helicopter. What kind of mother does that? grrrr.

I think it's a highly underrated movie.

[deird1]

Yay for Deep Impact!

More people should watch it.

[urania_calliope]

*takes a deep breath*

I OWN ALL OF THE CHILDREN OF THE CORN MOVIES.

[deird1]

I feel like we're in a Movie Watchers Anonymous meeting...

:)

[(Anonymous)]

I find the WR version of "Little Women" to be the best by far, certainly much, much better than the June Allyson one.

Petzi

[deird1]

*nods* Agreed.

And teeny Kirsten Dunst! She was so little!

[a2zmom]

I have never seen this version of "Little Women" so I can't guarantee it, but I suspect the best screen kiss ever is in "Notorious" between Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman. Incredibly hot.

[snowpuppies]

3) Little Women

The Winona Ryder version. It's sappy and probably fairly boring, but I love it.

And I cry every time I see Beth die. *sniffles*

YES. THIS. LOVE.

[lirazel]

You have fabulous taste, honestly. I also agree that Deep Impact is tons better than

LITTLE WOMEN OMG EASILY TOP TEN FAVORITE MOVIES EVER EVER EVER. I've watched it so many times since it came out (my grandmama took me to see it in the theater, I couldn't have been but seven or so) that I've memorized most of it. The soundtrack is also my favorite--if I get married, I'm going to have that music in my wedding.

I like the new Bond films, but the old ones are too cheesy to me, though I don't think you're at all ridiculous for loving them.

I also agree that The Parent Trap is completely delightful. I love both versions.

[watchingtheaeroplanes.blogspot.com]

I only saw the first maybe 40 minutes of Deep Impact, and it didn't really grab me, but that's 40 minutes more than I've seen of Armageddon. I'll probably give it another go at some point.

I generally enjoy James Bond, although apparently I'm not a "true" fan since I remember thinking Timothy Dalton was an excellent Bond and I enjoyed "Licence to Kill" as much as "Goldeneye", also I've only seen a couple of the old Connery ones.

Jurassic Park is great fun. I have that sort of thing — the enjoying-of-special-features — with a few films, for a variety of reasons. I love the design work on Lord of the Rings, and the historical stuff that you get with old epics like Ben-Hur and Gone With The Wind is fascinating.

And I remember enjoying the Parent Trap remake as a kid. I also enjoyed the Love Bug movie with Lohan.

I don't really have any guilty pleasure movies — I don't care enough about what people think of me. Whether that's a good thing or not is debatable.

[libco.livejournal.com]

I cried in the theatre the first time I saw the dinosaurs in Jurassic park. Tears of joy at the beauty of them so I feel you.