top ten movie blogfest

Alex is once again hosting a movie blogfest. this time it's ten instead of 12. (see, i knew i'd done this before.)  anyway...

as usual, i’m late again in participating. and again i ask, just ten?

 

 we have like a gazillion in our movie collection. the question “what are we going to watch tonight?” goes right along with “what’s for dinner?” i won’t go into how it started, but let’s just say, we’ve watched a movie almost every night for the last two years. so to pick my favorite is going to be difficult. i think, instead, i’ll pick my most recent favorites. these are in no particular order.

 1. The Legend of Bagger Vance – Will Smith and Matt Damon are great in this. we especially love Will Smith’s mystic character.

2. The Avengers – we watched this 3 times in the theater, and could hardly wait for it to come out on blu-ray. when it did, we must have watched it five times in two weeks. maybe more. i have the lines memorized now.

3. speaking of Joss Whedon… someone showed us Serenity a few years ago and i thought it was a little strange. but then we saw it on tv, rented it, loved it, and decided to buy it. and then we had to watch Firefly. yes, they were different, and i actually prefer watching Firefly (minus a few episodes that were just strange), whereas my boys prefer the movie. do i dare admit that my favorite character is Inara? Watt is a close second.

4. Inception – it took me about 3 times of watching this to figure out what was going on, but when i did, i liked it. and i love the music. Hans Zimmer is one of my favorite composers.

 5.  The Hobbit – in our small town, movies don’t last a long time, so although we’d planned to watch this a second time in the theater, we didn’t get the chance. we’re looking forward to the blu-ray release, and i’m sure we’ll watch it a few times in that first week.

 6. The Adjustment Bureau – not my kids’ favorite, but i like it because it helped me solidify a major part of the plot for my sequel. and i love the idea of two people fighting for forbidden love. J

 7. Robin Hood (with Russell Crowe) – despite the poor way they depict King Richard, i like this for the story and the medieval feel. i especially love the sweet way Robin treats Marian.

 8. Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows – who would have thought that Robert Downey, Jr. would play such a great Holmes? and Jarod Harris is superb as Moriarty. 

 9. the Jason Bourne series – as my boys watched these recently, i found i really liked the story. unexpected.

 10. Red – talk about unexpected. i keep telling myself i should not like a movie about retired assassins, but i just can’t help it. it’s funny. “wanna get pancakes?”