Oscar!!!

I love movies. I love the Oscars because I love movies. I easily have a couple hundred movies in my library. I could have more but I do have some self restraint!

This afternoon at work, we were talking about movies. It started with a simple question, "what's your 'go to' movie(s)?" I have several; Dirty Dancing, Pretty Woman, Remember the Titans, Sound of Music, K-Pax, Outbreak, Contact, Steel Magnolias and of course, Gone With The Wind. I also love all the Die Hard movies and National Treasure and Harry Potter. Oh, and Camelot and Jesus Christ Superstar! Oh, and ANY Disney movie. All those movies you could watch a hundred times.

Then we started talking about movies we love that we wouldn't watch again. You know, those movies with such a twist or a surprise at the end that it spoils it to know the ending. Like “The Usual Suspects” Once you KNOW that Kevin Spacey is the dude, you can’t really watch it again. Or “Primal Fear”, with Edward Norton and Richard Gere. I totally didn’t see the end of that movie coming! Whoa! Another one is “Presumed Innocent” with Harrison Ford. That one keeps you guessing until the very end. And once you know his wife killed her?!?! Shut UP! I loved that movie but now that I know the ending, it would take away the fun of watching it again. BUT, that doesn’t apply to every movie with a surprise ending. “Sixth Sense” for example. That was a big surprise but I’ve watched that one several times. Same for the old Hitchcock movie, “Rebecca” with Laurence Olivier. Maybe because it was so well crafted.

Yep, I’m just a fan of movies!