30.12.14

That's what the movies made me

As a celebration of the best year of my life so far, 2014, I've made a list of all the movies that have contributed to me still being a (somewhat) stable person:

1. Third Star
The movie that has had the biggest impact on me, as an adult. It made me make several changes in the way I think and the way I live my life.

2. Mortal Instruments: City of Bones
A way to re-direct my focus after I had surgery on my jaw. Total escape from reality! It really was my salvation from pain and discomfort.

3. Titanic
The first movie that touched me on an emotional level, that made me think more deeply about life and death and the meaning of everything. I was 13 at the time.

4. You've Got Mail
I grew up with four younger siblings and we were only allowed to watch movies on weekends. And only ones that all four of us could watch together. This was the first movie that was "mine", that I put on when I wanted to.

5. Ratatouille
After a very tough time in my life, this movie helped me to sleep by myself again.

6. Dirty Dancing
The first "grown up" movie I got to watch, every year on my birthday. I might have been 11 then.. It opened my eyes to the fact that there were other movies out there than just Disney.

7. 10 orsaker att hata dig
I think this is the one that made me want to direct movies (I don't anymore). It was also the first movie I watched that was meant for my age group when I WAS that age (14).

8. Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
The movie I used when I wanted to show off. I know a lot of lines from it and it really made me aware of the fact that I'm a film nerd.

9. The Lovely Bones
The first movie that gave me a movie hangover. It stayed with me for weeks after I watched it.

10. Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
Gave me a well needed boost of confidence when I had relationship problems. It did so, by making me think I could be as cool and co-ordinated as Jake Gyllenhaal.

Well, "stable person" might have been an overstatement.. ;D

16.12.14

That thing called Christmas spirit..

I'm not a big fan of Christmas movies. In December it's usually the books and the music that gets me in the spirit. On Christmas Eve, however, the movies matter again. That's when we'll watch all the BBC-romance my mom got as gifts and stuff ourselves with chocolate. THAT'S Christmas to me! (that and Karl-Bertil Jonssons julafton, a Swedish short film that's aired on Christmas Eve since 1975)

Extra memorable gifts: North and south (2004), Jane Eyre (2006), Persuation (1995) and Wives and daughters.

All we're missing is this much snow.. :D

3.12.14

Ambition for: December

I might watch some - all, or none of these things in December. What's clear though, is that I want to watch Christmas-y things:

* How the Grinch stole christmas
* Fawlty Towers
* White christmas

Less Christmas-y things:

* Perception, season 2
* Hobbit 3

And of course I want to continue with the series that I've spent the last six months working my way through:

* Vampire Diaries, season 1
* Revenge, season 2

Good luck, to me!

In the spotlight: November

I watched more new-to-me movies than I have in months. I didn't watch one of them over and over either, which happens to me more frequently than might be healthy (hellooo Singin' in the rain). These are the ones I liked the best, in no particular order:

1. Winged Migration
A documentary about the lives of migrating birds.

2. A Good Day to Die Hard
The fifth movie in the Die Hard-series, I've only seen number four before.

3. Pompeii 
Another Gladiator but with a really laughable villain.

4. Guardians of the Galaxy
Avengers plus antiheroes minus supernatural powers.

5. The Bone Collector 
Like a long Criminal Minds-episode with a hasty ending.

6. Perception, season 1
Has a more complex, vulnerable "The Mentalist"-hero.