"Reel" Talk: Movies

To me, the world of film is magical place where anything and everything can happen, and one can witness the events right before her eyes. I watch movies the way Teddy Roosevelt read books, more frequently than most and more often than one probably should. I have a habit of watching my favorites repeatedly, which drives those around me bonkers. I could never limit myself to one, all-time, favorite movie, but I could probably cut it down to my top ten.
1. Cloud Atlas
2. Forrest Gump
3. Pride and Prejudice
4. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
5. Meet Joe Black
6. The Princess Bride
7. What Dreams May Come
8. The Wolf On Wallstreet
9. Fight Club
10. Four Rooms

While most of these movies lack a common theme, setting, and story line, they do all have phenomenal acting and dialogue. To really sell a story, you need both.

I'm usually not a fan of westerns, spy movies, or action-thriller dude-flicks with no actual plot (a.k.a. every single one of the Fast and Furious movies).

Watching movies is usually a family affair, and I almost always watch movies with at least my sister around. That's not to say that I never watch movies by myself, because I do plenty of that as well; especially when ma famille has grown tired of my frequent fliers and doesn't feel like watching Four Rooms for the ten thousandth time.

The Test Your Movie Personality Quiz says that I'm 92% open to new experiences, 83% agreeable, 67% emotionally stable and extroverted, and 58% conscientious. It suggests that I watch movies to feel miserable and aesthetically pleased, escape reality, and learn stuff. All true. 

If my life story was made into a movie, Shailene Woodley would play me. It would include the night my parents convinced me that we had super powers, the day my sister was born, my first days of middle school and high school, and my 16th birthday when I found out that I was going to France. My life has been happy for the most part, and as long as nothing devastating happened, I don't see why my story shouldn't have a happy ending.