I’ve been too busy to come up with a serious blog subject, much less write one. So as I sit here and watch The Color Purple, I’m inspired to write about some of my favorite movies….
My husband and I are both movie buffs. In fact we actually go around integrating random quotes from movies into our daily lives. Like, “your head has the shell on it” or “real tomato ketchup, Eddie?”. Recognize those? Yeah, you wouldn’t unless you’re a big ‘Tommy Boy’ or ‘National Lampoon’s Vacation’ fan. I love watching movies at the theater, I love watching them at home, I love movies. I’ve even contemplated starting another blog all about movies. Here are some of my all time favorites ….at least the ones that come to mind right now.
The Color Purple—there’s so much to love about this movie I can’t even put it all into words. Empowerment of women is a good way to summarize it in a few words. The top 3 scenes: 1) Sophia (played by Oprah Winfrey) telling Celey (played by Whoopi Goldberg) how she’d been abused her whole childhood but she won’t take it now that she’s a grown woman, 2) When Shug (played by Margaret Avery) is singing to herself outside and then hears the choir from her father’s church singing and she starts running towards the church, and then bursts in singing along with the choir and reunites with her father, 3) At the end when Celey curses “Mister” (played by Danny Glover) for abusing her for so many years.
Steel Magnolias-okay so it’s sort of the typical sappy chick flick but it’s so warm-hearted that you find yourself loving the characters…..and the beauty shop scenes!
Going in a completely different direction…..Knocked Up is a fabulously funny movie and it has an actual storyline. If you can tolerate crude humor then you have to watch! There isn’t anything in this movie that’s not funny. From the sex jokes, bearded roommate, and pink eye breakout to the gyno who misplaced her fingers during the exam. Hilarious.
Superbad—by the same producers as Knocked Up and with some of the same actors. Hilarious movie! Lots of teenage awkwardness, sex jokes and off the wall humor, which I love.
Back to the Future and Adventures in Babysitting—Still watch them to this day every time they come on, and I own the DVD copy of Adventures in Babysitting. Love them. What is there not to like? Who doesn’t wish they could go back in time? And wouldn’t want a cool babysitter like “Kris”?
National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation-I love all of the vacation movies but this one is my all time fave out of the set. We watch it every Christmas without fail and sometimes even in the summer. Top scene: When Clark has his usual breakdown…this time about the Christmas “bonus” he received. And of course who doesn’t love cousin Eddie?
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