how about a post that isn’t about who’s sick this week ( though for the record it’s no one….yay )
over the holidays i watched die hard, in fragments. it seemed like every time i turned the tv on ( and that’s a lot when i’m nursing, i just prefer to have a quiet moment in front of the tv then to try and nurse amongst the chaos of my other children and the baby is getting to old to juggle a book over because she’s all, hey milk lady, what is that thing? let me take a look while you spray milk ALL OVER THE PLACE and then let me wrench myself off your nipple every 3 seconds to check back and see if that thing is still there…… because that isn’t annoying at all…….) die hard was playing on one channel or another. so i watched it, probably in it’s entirety, but in random bits and pieces.
anyway……it got me thinking about movies, i love movies of pretty much any kind. it was just recently that i finally admitted to myself though, if i had to pick an overall favorite genre, it’s the good ol’ action movie. i love a good old fashioned, blockbuster, action movie. action/sci-fi….even better. i mean, i love a good documentary and critically acclaimed movies….sure, but it’s action movies that are my true favorite.
and i started thinking about the small group of movies that i will watch anytime they are on tv. for whatever reason, even though i have seen them all countless times, i’ll watch them again. i mean, sure, your choices can be limited when your up at 4 am looking for something to watch with baby…….but that isn’t even it, i will just watch them again, and again. they aren’t even necessarily my favorite movies, if i had to make a list of favorites it would be different ( though some would over lap ) but i guess just because it’s a favorite movie doesn’t mean i’d watch it time and time again like these ones.
any of the die hard movies. i heart jon maclean (and bruce willis for that matter)
any of the star trek tng movies, including the first, made for tv, one with kirk in it
independence day. i also heart will smith
the day after tomorrow
the matrix ( i don’t need to clarify which one, because anyone with half a brain knows there was only ONE matrix movie and any thing coming after, that may have almost ruined it completely with it’s unbelievable terribleness, well it just doesn’t even exist now does it )
any of the xmen movies
there are undoubtedly others that would make the list given the opportunity, but these are the ones that seem to play almost constantly on tv for whatever reasons and so i know for sure i will literally watch them over and over.