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Thursday Thirteen#120 – Fav Christmas Movies

Sherry — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 15:59:37 +0000

1. My all time favorite Christmas movie is “It’s A Wonderful Life.” It’s tradition that we watch it as a family every Christmas Eve before we go to bed. Love this movie!

2. “Miracle of 34th Street”, one of the best classic holiday movies there is!

3. I don’t know if you’d call it a Christmas movie, but I think of it as a winter movie, “Narnia, The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe.” I could watch this movie over and over again! It’s magical!

4. “The Santa Clause” is one of our favorite family movies. Love Tim Allen as Santa!

5. “The Santa Clause 2″ and “The Santa Clause 3″ are also great! We make sure we watch all three each season!

6. And what Christmas would be complete without a viewing of “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation!” Need a laugh, this is your movie! This movie makes an appearance year round with our family….just don’t ask my sister to say grace!!

7. “Deck the Halls” very cute! We’ve added this one to our DVD collection of holiday movies!

8. “A Christmas Story” great movie! Best line…”You’ll shoot your eye out kid!” Love when TNT plays it non-stop all day, can’t get enough of it!

9. “Elf” and not being a huge Will Farrell fan I have to say, I love this movie!!

10. “Christmas with the Kranks”Loved this movie too…have you noticed I love a lot of these movies? LOL Big D and I tease each other that this will be us.

11. “A Christmas Carol” starring Allistair Sims as Scrooge..this is the best version ever made!

12. “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” is one of those movies that just brings you back to feeling like a kid again.

13. That’s a list of just some of my favorite holiday movies, I’m leaving #13 for you to fill. Tell me what is your favorite Christmas movie?

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Thursday Thirteen #110 – 80′s Flicks

Sherry — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:59:06 +0000

I haven’t felt very good for the last week, so I cheated for this TT and went to the archives and dug this one up…

1. The Abyss

I love this movie! Special effects were pretty good for the 80′s! One of my favorite quotes:
Virgil: When you’re hanging on by your fingernails, you can’t go waving your arms around.

2. An Officer And A Gentleman

One of the best romantic movies of all time! Richard Gere looks great in that uniform! And who will ever forget this line…
Lynette: Way to go, Paula! Way to go!

3. The Breakfast Club

One of the best movies, ever! John Hughes captured high school life to the tee!
Great lines in this movie, hard to find just one…but this one is great!
John Bender: Screws fall out all the time, the world is an imperfect place.

4. Dirty Dancing

Love, love, love this movie!! Makes me wanna dance!
Johnny: Nobody puts Baby in a corner.

5. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

Who wouldn’t have loved to have a friend like Ferris?
Ferris: Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in awhile, you could miss it.

6. Flashdance

This movie had me cutting every sweatshirt I owned!
Nick: When you give up your dream, you die.

7. Footloose

Kevin Bacon dancing in a barn….how sweet is that?
Ren: Hey, hey! What’s this I see? I thought this was a party. LET’S DANCE!

8. The Karate Kid

One of the feel good movies that went on to continue in parts 2, and 3! I would have liked to have known a Mr. Miyagi.
Daniel: Wouldn’t a fly swatter be easier?
Miyagi: Man who catch fly with chopstick accomplish anything.
Daniel: Ever catch one?
Miyagi: Not yet.

9. The Outsiders

I loved the book, read it in jr high, but the movie, now that was great! Young Swayze, Cruise (before he went nuts), Matt Dillion, Ralph Macchio, Rob Lowe, they did an excellent job!
Ponyboy: When I stepped out into the bright sunlight, from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman, and a ride home

10. Pretty In Pink

Love this movie! Duckie is my favorite! So many great lines, hard to choose, but I will….
Duckie: You know what an older women does for me?
Iona: Changes your diapers?
Duckie: Touché.

11. Sixteen Candles

Molly Ringwald, again….she kinda disappeared after these films, but she was Hughes favorite, wasn’t she? Love this movie, another one that makes me remember my teen years!
The Geek: I mean, not many girls in contemporary American society today would give their underwear to help a geek like me.

12. St. Elmo’s Fire

Great cast, good movie!!
Kevin: Never trust a woman who says she isn’t angry.

13. Top Gun

One of the great ones of the 80′s. Of course this is when Tom was BC (before crazy), and tell me, who doesn’t love a guy in uniform!
Maverick: I feel the need…
Maverick, Goose: …the need for speed!

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Thursday Thirteen #59 – “The Pirate Edition!”

Sherry — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 02:03:08 +0000

Great lines from “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest” which I’ve just watched for the fourth time! Love this movie!! And come on, Johnny and Orlando aren’t so hard to look at either!

1. Jack Sparrow: Elizabeth!
[Turns to Gibbs]
Jack Sparrow: Hide the rum.

2. Jack Sparrow: We are very much alike, you and I, I and you… us.
Elizabeth Swann: Oh. Except for a sense of honor and decency and a moral center. And personal hygiene.
Jack Sparrow: [Sniffs his armpit and looks back] Trifles.

3. Jack Sparrow: [holds up jar of dirt] Oi! Fishface! Lose something? Eh? Scungilli!
[falls down stairs, holds up jar again]
Jack Sparrow: Got it! Come to negotiate, eh? Have you, you slimy git? Look what I got.
Jack Sparrow: I got a jar of dirt, I got a jar of dirt, and guess what’s inside it!

4. Cotton’s Parrot: Awk, don’t eat me.
Will Turner: I’m not going to eat you.

5. Elizabeth Swann: There will come a moment when you will have a chance to show it. To do the right thing.
Jack Sparrow: I love those moments. I like to wave at them as they pass by.

6. Jack Sparrow: [to Elizabeth] One word love; curiosity. You long for freedom. You long to do what you want to do because you want it. To act on selfish impulse. You want to see what it’s like. One day you won’t be able to resist.

7. Jack Sparrow: Now where is that monkey? I want to shoot something!

8. Jack Sparrow: I am chief! Want big fire!

9. Pintel: You know you can’t read.
Ragetti: It’s the Bible, you get credit for trying.

10. Jack Sparrow: Have you not met Will Turner? He’s noble, heroic – terrific soprano. Worth at least four… maybe three and a half. And did I happen to mention… he’s in love? With a girl. Due to be married. Betrothed. Dividing him from her and her from him would only be half as cruel as actually allowing them to be joined in holy matrimony, eh?

11. Ragetti: [balancing a shovel] I could join the circus!

12. Jack Sparrow: How did you get here?
Will Turner: Sea turtles, mate. A pair of them strapped to my feet.
Jack Sparrow: Not so easy, is it?

13. Elizabeth Swann: You’ll have the chance to do something… something courageous. And when you do, you’ll discover something. That you’re a good man.

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The Mermaid Chair Movie!!

Sherry — Sun, 10 Sep 2006 23:50:39 +0000

Quick Post, The Mermaid Chair, one of my favorite books is a movie being shown on Lifetime tonight at 8:00!!! Catch it if you can!

Movie Review – “Memoirs of a Geisha”

Sherry — Sun, 02 Apr 2006 05:06:00 +0000

Haven’t done a movie review in awhile, so here’s one…..if you haven’t seen “Memoirs of a Geisha” see it! I read the book, which was absolutely excellent and I hated it when I finished the book. So much so that I even dreamt about the characters that night….I really loved the book that much.

So I was really looking forward to watching this movie. It was very good, but as what happens with most movies adapted from novels, it didn’t hold a candle to the book. They have to leave so much out of the movie that was in the book that I actually felt cheated. If I hadn’t read the book first, it wouldn’t have made such a difference, but I had so it did. Big D enjoyed it, though there were times I had to explain the storyline, because it wasn’t quite clear. Goes back to feeling that they left out too much from the book.

If you haven’t seen the movie, watch it. It’s really a beautiful piece of work. If you haven’t read the book, I recommend you do so also. It is something you won’t be able to put down.

Have you seen this movie yet? What were your thoughts?

(I just realized I think I say “book” a hundred times in this post….oh well, you get my point, right? LOL)

The Producers, A Must See!

Sherry — Sat, 31 Dec 2005 04:00:00 +0000

If you go see any movie this weekend, you must go see “The Producers!” Big D and I saw it this evening and I can tell you, we loved it! Now Big D is not the song and dance type of guy, so I had to do some sweet talking to get him to go see this movie. A little bat of my eyes and I won him over!

I was a little worried in the beginning of the movie, it looked liked Big D was going to be bored, but Matthew Broderick and Nathan Lane came to the rescue! These two are hilarious and they play off each other naturally. Uma Thurman is beautiful and surprisingly funny in the roll of Ulla. Her wardrobe was one to be envied in this film, the gowns are gorgeous!

Will Ferrell is a scene stealer and should win a Oscar for his role! I’m not a big Will Ferrell fan but he was great in this film. He had us belly laughing, you know those big loud laughs that you just can’t help? Yeah, those! Big D said there were times he thought he was going to have to quiet me down!! LOL I don’t think I have ever laughed so much at a movie as I did with this one. If you want to laugh, go see “The Producers!” Even if you don’t like musicals….try it, you just might like it! Big D did!