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Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Promised Movies

It's Tuesday, so it's still way too early in the week for me. The only thing I'm looking forward to is my birthday this Friday. Friday! Living proof that Fridays were man's greatest idea/creation. That and the band The Temper Trap. Chances are, you'll recognize their song "Sweet Disposition". It was in my favorite movie (500) Days of Summer. Which speaking of movies, I wrote yesterday that I'd have a list of my favorite movies today, or tomorrow, technically speaking. And I do! Don't freak out, I'm not making up any excuses. At least not yet. So anyways, here they are:
1) (500) Days of Summer
2) Slumdog Millionaire
3) The Soloist
4) Spirited Away
5) Howl's Moving Castle (English Version)
6) Grave of The Fireflies (Japanese Version)
7) Harry Potter movies, and I'm sure the last two
8) Blue Crush
9) Thirteen
10) The Devil Wears Prada
11) Moulin Rouge
12) Quadam- actually a stage play by Cirque Du Solei but still great

Top 12 anyway. I'm a tough critic. But at the same time I'm actually not more than I am because I seriously like every movie I see, well, pretty much. I also really liked Inception but I'm not sure if it's a favorite. Probably because, I'm still not really sure of the plot line. Of course my parents went a couple of weeks ago and didn't like it because they couldn't follow it. Why am I smarter than my own parents. How is that even possible? I was going to only do top 10 but I decided that there were some that just couldn't not be listed. If you know who he is, you may have noticed Miyazaki movies in there. Spirited Away, Howl's Moving Castle, and Grave of the Fireflies are all Japanese anime movies by Miyazaki, who wrote, directed, and I think, actually was the artist too.
I read somewhere, recently, that his son took over and made a movie. Apparently, he didn't have the touch his father had, but I mean, come on. Miyazaki is a friggin' genius, having to follow that would be pretty tough. Besides, nothing can top Spirited Away.

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