As I mentioned a few weeks ago, my parents gave Hubby and I a gift certificate to our favorite cabin for our anniversary trip. Well, we scheduled our trip and we're trying to plan everything out. Just for the record, our cabin is not like this:
The particle board flooring would mean hours of fun pulling splinters out of my feet. AND the animals who appear to be crawling up the wall and the fold out futon do not scream romance to me. However, they do make me wonder if a college age Grizzly Adams lives here.
No, our cabin has two leather recliners, a big stone fireplace, a small kitchen a shower big enough for ten people, nice tile, a big ole bed and a wall of windows overlooking the lake. It's lovely.
Anyway, this cabin is a few miles from a little town with lots of cute shops so we will spend some time in town shopping and hanging out, but the other thing we like to do when we are there is hang out and watch movies. Why? Because we live with four needy kids who love to interrupt us while we attempt to watch a movie. It takes us 3 hours to watch a 2 hour movie at home. When we go to the cabin, we can have a movie marathon. I will take The Notebook, because it is our favorites and I own it. I also want to rent some movies to take. This is where I need your help. Rachel mentioned yesterday that she really liked IronMan and I know Hubby wants to see IronMan 2 so we may take that with us. Do y'all have any more ideas for movies I should see, that maybe I haven't? My Hubby was appalled that I hadn't seen An Officer and a Gentlemen when we met. I still haven't seen Dances With Wolves. Is it any good? What is your absolute favorite movie? What do you consider a "must see"? An old classic? A new release? I want to hear it!!! Okay, maybe not sci-fi, but anything else. HELP! I need suggestions.
All of this media coverage on the Twilight series and the release of Eclipse last night at midnight got me thinking about all the young 'uns (and not so young 'uns) that are obsessed with these movie, myself included. Movies are my favorite form of escape. Some people drink or do drugs to escape, but my addiction is the cinema.
Of course, my favorite type of movies are romantic comedies. I looooved The Proposal. I love to laugh and I'm a hopeless romantic so romatic comedies are my go to genre. I also love just straight romance chick flicks. I have seen The Notebook probably fifty times and I cry every time.
I do enjoy action/adventure as well, like all of The Bourne series. Jason Bourne rocks! Also, The Last Samuari was WONDERFUL! There are some movies that really make me want to be involved in making movies in some form or fashion. Lots of people know that I wanted to be an actress, but this movie is so beautifully shot, that being any part of it must have been amazing.
I love movies that tell a good story. I think I'm a little more open-minded about some movies that a lot of people I know. I haven't seen a lot of foreign films, but the few I've seen, I've really enjoyed. Rabbit Proof Fence is the movie that comes to mind. Very good film.
Suspense/mystery/crime movies also fascinate me , but I do not like horror movies. I am a chicken butt! I am a scaredy cat. I don't like to be scared. I have nightmares. It's not fun for me or Hubby when I have nightmares. No thank you! I can't even get through the first minute and a half of Halloween because the music is so scary. No way Hosea! I don't enjoy blood, guts and crazy psychotic/sociopath killers.
I do enjoy a few musicals, namely Grease, Grease 2 and South Pacific and of course The Sound of Music. In fact, Hubby gets tired of watching them with me, because I recite the words and sing the songs. He says, "I want to hear Olivia Newton-John sing. I can hear you sing anytime." I have been known to break into "High on a hill was a lonley goatherd, yodelady, yodelady, yodelay hee hoo" while driving down the road. I'm pretty sure my kids think I'm nuts, not to mention that guy at the redlight whose windows were rolled down. And seriously, can anybody watch Grease without doing The Handjive and The Stroll? I think not!
I will admit, I'm not a big fan of sci-fi. I don't generally like aliens and space ships and stuff. Although, Avatar was excellent!!! It was the exception for me. I don't get in to superhero movies either. Not my thing.
One thing you may not know is that I looove old movies. I love Doris Day. The Thrill of It All (with Doris Day and James Garner), That Touch of Mink, Pillow Talk, Send Me No Flowers, With Six You Get Eggroll, the list goes on and on. I also loved the original The Women and Yours Mine and Ours. I think I was born in the wrong era. On the rare occasion that Hubby and I get to have a date, you will almost always catch us at the movies. Sometimes we will go see two or three in a row. I am soo thankful that Hubby is so open-minded about movies. He has no problem watching "chick-flicks". He loves The Notebook as much as I do. Although he does make fun of me for watching too much Lifetime Movie Network.
When Hubby was growing up, his mom would go and rent four or five movies and get lots of junk food (ice cream was her fave - Blue Bell, specifically) and they would have marathon movie days. We love to do that too. The few times we have gotten to go away for our anniversary, we spend at least one day in bed watching movies. I looove sitting in my favorite jammies with a big ole bowl of Movie Theatre Butter popcorn and a Dr. Pepper and watching a few movies together. The only thing that would make it better would be watching them without having to pause them fifteen times per movies because of the kids.
So, what type of movies do you like? What's your favorite? What snacks are a must during movie time?
Just for the record, I'm team Jacob. I'm old enough to be his mother, but that boy is beautiful!
