songbird's crazy world

what movies can you watch over and over again? where you've seen them so many times you can recite pages of dialogue by heart? where, if the movie happens to be on TV, you choose to watch it no matter how well you know the ending? I have a few movies I can put in that category. The first, and my favorite, is Casablanca . Exotic locale, wartime tension, interesting characters, a complicated love story and no happy ending. The Wizard of Oz also comes to mind.I even paid to see this at the multiplex last fall, though I have most of the film memorized. Ghost always makes me laugh, and cry. And Men in Black is a guilty pleasure.

George Clooney could hold my interest just reading a phone book.  How much better iti is when he's doing more than that! But I really liked this movie.  Clooney's character is an anti-hero, and the movie is both funny and bittersweet.  Definitely worth the effort to see it in the theater.

Let's talk about movies and movie theaters. I recently upgraded to Verizon Fios, with about a gazillion movie channels, and as I was cruising through the channels and the dozens of movies being offered...including many from the 1970's...I thought about a time before cable television, when you had to actually go to the movies if you wanted to see a movie. we're spoiled now, with our stadium seating and buying tickets on line before we go, but back in the 70's the idea of a "multiplex" was something new and exciting.My boyfriend and I would hang out at the Sunrise Multiplex, in the Sunrise Mall. We must have seen Star Wars at least a dozen times -- only paid for it the first time, snuck in many additional times after seeing another movie. It was much easier then. With the advent of the multiplex, neighborhood movie theaters had the change their approach or close their doors. In 1976 the Farmingdale Theater became known as "the 76 cent theater" bec...

Suzanne is my inspiration tonight, though I did see one of my friends do this on facebook too. SUPPOSEDLY if you've seen over 85 films, you have no life. Mark the ones you've seen. There are 239 films on this list. Copy this list, check which ones youve seen, paste this here. (x) Rocky Horror Picture Show (x) Grease (x) Pirates of the Caribbean (x) Pirates of the Caribbean 2:Dead Man's Chest ()Boondock Saints ( ) Fight Club ( ) Starsky and Hutch ( ) Neverending Story (x) Blazing Saddles (x ) Airplane Total: 6 (x) The Princess Bride ( ) Anchorman (x) Napoleon Dynamite ( ) Labyrinth ( ) Saw ( ) Saw II ( ) White Noise ( ) White Oleander ( ) Anger Management () 50 First Dates (x) The Princess Diaries (x ) The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement Total so far: 10 () Scream ( ) Scream 2 ( ) Scream 3 ( ) Scary Movie ( ) Scary Movie 2 () Scary Movie 3 ( ) Scary Movie 4 ( ) American Pie ( ) American Pie 2 ( ) American Wedding ( ) American Pie Band Camp Total so far: 10 ( x) Harry Po...