Snape, Snape, Severus Snape.

I have a one track mind currently.  24 hours from right now I will be sitting in a theater, probably surrounded by classifiably psychotic people dressed as everyone from Hagrid to Voldemort, watching Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part One.  Yes I bought tickets for the double feature because it seemed like an easier way to stay awake than actually waiting until midnight to see Part Two.  And in about 28 hours, the series that has defined my generation will have come to a close, and I will probably be laying in my bed sobbing at the thought that I will never again go to another midnight showing of Harry Potter.

Day 6 - A Film That Reminds You of Somewhere

She's The Man.

Guaranteed, this movie will forever remind me of my dorm room in Shirley.  My freshman year at TCU Julie and I had a 13-inch TV that we used to cram around to watch movies when we wanted to procrastinate.  "She's the Man" was one of those movies and became a cult classic between me and my friends.  I can still remember the first time I saw the poster for this movie.  It had the plot synopsis on it and I noticed all the different names (Viola, Duke, Sebastian) and screamed for Julie to come look.  Low and behold someone had come up with the surprisingly brilliant idea to modernize Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night," which Julie and had just finished reading a loud in our English class.

This movie introduced me to two things that defined my college experience: the song "4-Eva" by the Veronicas and of course, Channing Tatum.  Was it cheezy?  Yes.  Was it contrived?  Absolutely, because there's no way that Amanda Bynes could pass for a boy.  But the important thing was that it was entertaining as hell, due in large part to the very attractive actors.

Oh, and it had "Tobias" from "Arrested Development."  Reason #567 that this movie is awesome.

Three for Three. Go Frogs.

Let it be known that Caroline Keith has updated consistently for three whole days.  Never before has this happened, and although it's not likely to happen again, I will rejoice and be glad in it. :)

Day 5 - A Film That Reminds You of Someone

Ok this one's easy.  When I was in Kindergarten I went to Lakeside Elementary and our school song was "Seize the Day" from the Disney classic "Newsies."  Our music teacher showed us the clip of that song from the movie in an effort to teach us the words and, unbeknownst to her, introduced me to a very young Christian Bale.  Needless to say, I have a larger attention span than most 5 year olds so of course I was hooked, but alas, no one I knew had the video.  Enter Megan Mathis, best friend of 17 years and owner of "Newsies."  So now every time I watch "Newsies" I think of Meg and wonder why Christian Bale doesn't do more musicals.

And yes, that's the kid from "Big" singing.

What kind of question is that?

Ok, this post is dedicated entirely to the stupidity of the task ahead of me.  I've been asked by "tumblr" to name a movie that I "watch when I want to feel down."  What kind of crazy is that?  Who would want to watch a movie deliberately to feel down?  Screw alcohol, you want a new depressant, just turn on this movie.

Dumb.

Well, I find Schindler's List depressing.  I find Titanic poorly made an depressing.  And I find most romantic comedies unrealistic and depressing.  I'm just gonna go out on a limb, and probably get shot in the process, and just say any Nicholas Sparks film adaptation I watch knowing I'll be "down" at the end.  These are the types of movies where you go into the movie expecting to feel slightly less happy about the life you're living when it's all over.  Why?  Because guys like Noah Calhoun and Landon Carter simply do not exist.  I'm a cynic, plain and simple, but that crap he writes is bordering on science fiction in this day and age.  Does that mean I'm not holding out for a Ryan Gosling look-a-like?  Of course not. I just am anticipating waiting a while to find him.




I want it to be Thursday at 9, please.

I Think My Indian Name Would Be "Night Owl."

Ok, this one's gonna be short sweet and to the point, mainly because I'm tired and am determined to hit the gym in the morning.

Ok, day 3, which is in all actuality day, like 7 or something.

Day 3 - A Film You Watch to Feel Good

My mother and I have a BUNCH of these ranging from slasher musicals to romantic comedies, but most of them seem to have one thing in common: they take place in London or have British people in them.  I'm fairly confident my mother would say hers is "Julie and Julia," which partially takes place in Europe, so YES, it counts.  I however am going to go out of the box and not name, "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet...Street," because in my opinion that movie transcends this category.  My current "feel good movie" of choice would have to be "My Best Friend's Wedding."  At this point I'm going to go ahead and blame my recent month-long marathon of "wedding-ness."  I was in 2, attended 4, and low and behold, during this time, Starz decided to play this Julia Robert's classic at least once every 48 hours.  I have wedding on the brain and therefore came up with this movie, however my choice is not completely unfounded.  This movie has one of the most iconic scene's in all of movies.  While in a "Joe's Crab Shack-esque" establishment Rupert Everett is discussing his whirlwind, and completely fabricated, love affair with Julia.  Now for those of you who don't know, Rupert's character is flamboyantly gay and Julia has lied to her BFF to make him jealous because she's just found out he's getting married and has discovered that she's in love with him.  Enter very in depth plan to break up impending marriage.  Regardless, at "Joe's" Rupert explains their "Doris Day/Rock Hudson Extravaganza" (if you get that reference I will seriously buy you a gumball) and then he breaks out into "Say a Little Prayer for You."  Before you know it, the entire restaurant, including a claw-wearing piano man, erupt into this massive rendition of the song while you watch Julia Roberts die of embarrassment.

If that's not reason enough to claim this is a "feel good movie" than I don't know what is.

Evidently I Still Suck At These.

Ok, I remembered today that I had forgotten to post about my "Least Favorite Movie" yesterday.  I could conceivably blame any number of different things for my lack of post: the Casey Anthony verdict, the fact that it feels like Hades every time I walk outside, or even the fact that I'm about to have what could be the meeting that will change the rest of my life in about 3 weeks.  Regardless, considering my track record with these things I refuse to admit defeat just yet.

Day 2: Least Favorite Movie

This one actually may be harder than yesterdays.  The problem with it is that there are so many different factors that come into play when picking out one's LEAST favorite movie.  Now see picking out what I deem to be the WORST movie of all time would be somewhat easier.  I could pick out the worst director/writer: M. Night Whatever (post "Sixth Sense) or the worst actor of all time: tie between Keanu Reeves and Nicholas Cage, or even worst performance by an actor: Sofia Coppola in "Godfather III."  But here they're asking me to pick my least favorite movie EVER.

I'm going back a few years for this one but I'll just go with "Old Yeller."  Yes, the one from the 50s where the dog gets rabies and they have to shoot it.  Basically anything where a dog dies is a horrible movie.

"I Am Legend" also qualifies in this category, my mother and I decided to watch that about 2 months after the dog I'd had since I was 4 died.  Needless to say we were both bawling and I contemplated walking out of the theater.

I hope I was able to distinguish to you the difference between "worst" and "least favorite."  Because the fact is that not all movies where dogs die are poorly made, I just think that they should never be mass produced.

Till whenever.

A Challenge I Can Get Behind.

Ok, so remember my feeble attempts at doing one of those Tumblr (still have no idea what this is) challenges?  Well, good news, I found one that I'm going to actually finish.  Why, you ask?  Because it's about movies.  Duh.
I found this because one of Facebook friends/film majors posted it to her page.  I however am not going to fill up Facebook news-feeds world wide with my 30 day film challenge that they don't want to know about.  If my calculations are correct, I should be done with this somewhere around December.  Notice I said I would finish it, I just didn't say it'd be in the allotted time frame.  That being said, here we go:

Day 1 - Your favorite film:

Now there's a shocker.

Ok, I'm gonna cheat on this sucker.  If you remember back to when I started this blog and attempted the 30 Day Challenge, I had two favorite movies.  Good news, it's now gone up to 3.

I won't go in depth on the first two, but if your that interested go look back through some of my posts, my reasoning is in there somewhere.

1) Beauty and the Beast (obligatory favorite movie)
2) Sweeney Todd (comfort movie)
and 3) Inglourious Basterds (legitimate favorite movie)

I get weird looks when I say that I love that movie, mostly from people who haven't actually seen that movie.  The ones who have seen it tend to agree with me on the epicness of this film.
I think Tarantino's a genius.  Plain and simple.  For those of you who don't know, the movie is about a group of soldiers during WWII whose main purpose is to scare the bajeezus out of Hitler by killing and then scalping as many Nazi's as possible.  There are other fantastically ingenious subplots thrown in there and they all mesh together seamlessly, it's really quite incredible.  Of the 2 and a half hours of dialogue, only about half is in English, but you really don't even notice the subtitles.  The rest of it is in either French or German and Tarantino wrote the entire script.  He also managed to create one of the most beautifully filmed, miraculously scored, and brilliantly executed films that has ever graced the screen.  Another reason this movie rocks: the cast.  I will forever be grateful to Quentin Tarantino because he introduced America to Christoph Waltz.  His performance is of the same caliber as those of Olivier, Peck, Hanks, Penn, and of course Firth.  His performance ALONE, is reason enough to see this movie.

The ensemble that Tarantino brought together will go down in the books as one of the best of all time.  "To Kill a Mockingbird" caliber guaranteed.

Ok I've exhausted myself and gotten off my soap box.

Needless to say, go see it.