So, I'm on a movies-from-my-childhood-that-are-awesome kick.

Second on the list, A League of Their Own



By far one of the awesomest movies ever and the movie that made me want to live in the 40's just for how fabulous everyone dressed.

As a kid, I loved this movie for focusing on aspects of the lives of women that didn't have to do with men. I loved the focus on their friendships and the relationship between sisters and the competition therein. It's also on of the most quotable movies and my sister and I have been quoting it since she was 6 and I was 8.

Kit: You ever hear Dad introduce us to people? "This is our daughter Dottie, and this is our other daughter, Dottie's sister."

And, as a (somewhat) grown up, I like that it probably helped me overcome my "girls are weak, boys are strong" mentality. Being a strong, talented, smart person didn't mean being a boy. And you could wear a dress and kick a lot of ass while looking pretty doing so.

( Girls can't play ball! )

Now I'm trying to convince my sister to go with me as a Rockford Peach for Halloween. The costume would be easy to make and my hair would look awesome in a 1940's hairstyle.

EDIT: AND CLASH OF THE TITANS IS ON! I would make a post about how Medusa kept me awake through the ages of 4 through 10 but I think I would be distracted by how cute that owl was.


Adorable.

Maybe I'm bias but I firmly believe that some of the best movies ever made came out during my childhood.

Like A Little Princess.



As the butchiest little girl from the ages of 0-14 (and then the butchiest teenager from 14-19), I can't believe I ever got into this movie. But, as the result of being the butchiest little girl ever, I had a really close relationship with my father and it is why I think this movie hit me like it did.

Like Sara's father, my dad used to encourage my imagination since he too spent most of his life pretending. I think I got it from him to look at life as one large film with you as the central character. I've always loved my dad for making me feel like being creative and imaginative was something useful rather than stifling it like so many of my friends' parents had. It was also a trait we used to overcome some of the harder bits of our lives since all great people went through hardships and came through the better for it.

And this movie is still the only one that can make me cry just as hard as the first time I saw it.

( It's me. It's Sara )

I ended up loving the landscape and the culture of Bangladesh as the result of this movie. Being in Bangladesh was exactly how I thought being in India (as seen in this movie) was going to be like when I was a kid. The air tasted like spice and it smelled of fresh earth. The heat and the humidity were like living things and were always present even in a room we air-conditioned to death. Seeing the movie again, I've started missing Bangladesh.

I'm bored while waiting for my laundry to dry:

Lee: Did you know Kim carried a gun?
Abernathy: Yes. Now, do I approve? No. Do I know? Yes?
Kim: Look, I don't know what futuristic utopia you live in, but the world I live in, a bitch need a gun.
Abernathy: You can't get around the fact that people who carry guns, tend to get shot more than people who don't.
Kim: And you can't get around the fact that if I go down to the laundry room in my building at midnight enough times, I might get my ass raped.
Lee: Don't do your laundry at midnight.
Kim: Fuck that! I wanna do my laundry whenever the fuck I wanna do my laundry.
Death Proof

( The Girl Edition )

Quotes: The Film Edition

Stolen from kiefers because I thought it was a nifty idea.

Oh, honey, ever since you were a little baby, I knew... you would save the world from an alien invasion.
Monsters Vs. Aliens

( Random )

I saw Wolverine last night and was incredibly amused by my "HAI, DARK STRANGER" reaction to Gambit, incredibly seduced by Liev's sexy Sabretooth voice, and dying of laughter by my sister and I saying we were the only ones allowed to kill each other.

I'm up way too late watching Mary Reilly on youtube (where I do all my film watching these days apparently). Jay-sus John Malkovich was panty-melting, bite-the-pillow sexy in this bit of film with the goth black hair AND with the old man makeup on (I don't care, I would do him either way).

EDIT: ( John Malkovich looking very Snape-ish. I'm digging his frizzy old-man hair. )

I blame him and Jeremy Irons in Lolita for making me such a weirdo. No wonder I'll never want a man under 40.

It's a tie.



I was 4 when Batman came out. I firmly believe that if I hadn't seen it (and Batman Returns) I wouldn't be the same awesome person I am today. Jesus, I might have been into Barbies and then where would I be?

My love for Batman was a source of ridicule when I was a child as I wanted to go as him for Halloween when I was 4 but my mum wanted me to go as Minnie Mouse as "Batman was for boys". I whined that he wasn't just for boys and that I wanted to buy this awesome Batman costume made out of real rubber and go out as him for Halloween. My mum wouldn't relent and even bought the Minnie Mouse costume. That year, in my school photos, I am photographed without a costume at all and didn't go trick or treating because I didn't want to wear the substitute costume XD. A boy I really hated got my Batman costume and wore it for three Halloweens before he grew out of it.

My parents were annoyed with me that I insisted that every Christmas from the ages of seven to twelve we watch Batman Returns (since it was my Christmas movie). I took it to the Staff Children's party of my dad's job when I was 8 (where a bunch of us kids sat around eating popcorn and an obscene amount of Mandarian oranges while watching Christmas movies) and 75% of the kids there started crying over the scene where the Batmobile was taken over by the Penguin. All the parents gave me dirty looks as I stuffed my pockets full of oranges and made a quick exit.

And they are still two of my favourite movies even though my watchings of both have decreased in recent years due to how I can only really watch Returns during Christmas and how my mother and sister are sick to death of Batman after I watched it like 70 billion times when I was a child.