What are your top ten favorite movies?
I have been asked this question before! Not by WordPress, but by some nosy 8th graders I was teaching one year. I made an honest-to-goodness handwritten top 10 list. It was on an index card that for some strange reason, I kept, but now I can’t find it. I’ll have to remember as best as I can. You do realize though, that I have more than 10 favorite movies, right? The ones that are on this list are just the first 10 that pop into my head. Rest assured I have watched them each at least 100 times.
In no particular order, my top ten favorite movies are:
- Signs (I wrote a whole post about this recently)
- Dirty Dancing (Since I was 8 years old. 8! My parents didn’t censor what I watched. I wrote a whole post about this too. Well, about Patrick Swayze being my boyfriend at 8. 8!)
- Coyote Ugly (For some reason, I don’t own this one on Prime yet. Come to think of it, I don’t even have it on dvd. I still have my dvd collection. What I don’t have is all of my VHS tapes. I had this movie on VHS).
- The Devil Wears Prada (LOTS of posts about this one).
- You’ve Got Mail (This was my Saturday afternoon comfort movie while I wrote lesson plans when I was a teacher. It was my go-to movie for calming my anxiety. I haven’t seen it in a while).
- Julie & Julia (I particularly loved this one last summer when I was trying to figure out what to do with my life like the two main characters. Now I watch it because of the whole writing and wanting to publish a book “thing”).
- Goodfellas (I don’t know why I like this one more than any of the other mob movies like, “Casino”. Maybe it’s because Ray Liotta is easier on the eyes than Joe Pesci and Bobby D).
- Pitch Perfect (It’s just a fun movie. The sequel was just as good! Not the third one though. I don’t ever watch that one).
- The Martian (This was always a good Sunday afternoon movie. Mainly because that’s when it usually came on tv. It’s just a really good story. The guy who wrote the book wrote another similar space book that’s about to be released as a movie with Ryan Gosling. I didn’t read the book version of “The Martian” but I do have a copy of Project Hail Mary to read before I see the movie. I think that’s what it’s called).
- The Accountant (Another one that I fell in love with because it was always on tv. And it’s a really good story. The sequel was ok. Not bad, but I won’t be watching it on repeat like I do this first one).
We’re at 10 already?! But I didn’t get to list The Shawshank Redemption, Sleepless in Seattle, Working Girl, Tombstone, or all the others! Oh well. Just know, there are at least 10-20 more that I could list as ones that I watch repeatedly. I’m telling you, it really is an anxiety cure. After that there are probably 10-20 that I don’t feel the need to watch over and over but are really good. There could also be a separate list of movies that my husband and I watch together on repeat (The Man from U.N.C.L.E., The Gentlemen—anything by Guy Ritchie, Nobody, Super 8, Super Troopers, Beerfest…).
What are your favorites? Are you the kind of person that watches the same ones over and over?
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