There are those movies I can watch over and over...those movies that I can find great comfort in, can laugh at, or just amuse myself from reality for a few moments. My top 5 movies are not unique or special for any reason other than the fact I love watching them. They have earned bragging rights into the rotation of my dvd collection. If I broke my favorite movies into genres the list would differ, but at the top of my lists would be these movies.
Gone With the Wind is my favorite movie. I could watch this movie and soak in the southern hospitality without any reserve. I have read the book many times, and never tire of the antics of one Miss Scarlett O'Hara. I would love to act as naughty as Scarlett, or tell someone how I felt about them with little care in the world. If things go wrong, she just keeps moving. The romance between she and Rhett is one of my favorite movie romances - partially because she does not realize what she has until it is gone, and frankly, he didn't give a damn to take her back! I love the Civil War time period - find the story so much a forgotten way of life that escaping into this is a much needed relief.
'Til There Was You is a story of girl, and a story of a guy. They cross paths every once in a while, but never really know each other or how dynamic they could be. The lead character, Gwen, is always searching for the one. The lead male, Nick, is too afraid to find the one. How familiar does this sound. But it is the story of how life offers unexpected surprises, and many different paths to our happiness. When watching this movie, it reminds me of my true prince will arrive, after having similar situations occur.
Breakfast at Tiffany's...this is my favorite rainy day movie. Not rainy day as in my world is crashing, but weather related. I love seeing Audrey Hepburn portray this slight of a woman who offers her wild fascinations and fancies to the world. Her happiness of going to Tiffany to buy something for under a certain dollar amount, then stealing a mask from the 5 and Dime store...the clothes, the style, the vulnerability that every girl feels, but we are all too afraid to admit. Her style and grace make this movie, and the story that follows is a lesson to us all.
Eternal Sunshine on the Spotless Mind is one of the saddest movies ever to watch. Maybe that is why I like it so much. I am not a big Jim Carrey fan. There are few movies with him I actually enjoy...and of those I like they are all on a more serious role for him. This movie reminds me of all I have in my life that is hard, great, indifferent, lost, and gained. Here is a woman who erases someone from her mind. Here is a man who attempts to erase someone from his mind. But yet, fate still ushers them together again. I have had that feeling...that despair of wishing I could erase someone from my mind. If I erase them from my mind they will no longer affect my heart. But in the end, I want to remember everything (just not focus on it). I want to remember how I was loved; it opens possibilities to future love and what I want. I want to remember how I was hurt; it opens possibilities for improvement on my own choices, and what I truly desire and don't desire. My heart can heal from a breakup. A new person can fill my heart with joy. But the place in my heart where I had loved someone else cannot be replaced, only stored as a memory I may enjoy from time to time but never want to relive. I like watching this movie because we have all struggled with this. We have all thought "If I had never met that person..." But in the end, you can't change your past. You can only move forward, try better, and do more.
Back to the Future Trilogy is the absolute best series to watch when you are sick. Or, at least, I really enjoy them when I am sick. How could you not like movies that offer a glimpse of the 1980's suburbia to the 1950's days of innocence to 2015 (hard to believe that date is not too far away) back to the 1880's...I loved these movies when they originally came out in the theaters. I loved them on VHS, and now have them on DVD. I typically only watch them when I am sick - this is why they are my "sick" movies, but they make me smile, laugh, and remember when things were much simpler (days before a computer could be held in the palm of your hand via a smart phone) and I could dream of hover boards and time machines.
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