the 10 crucial movies list

[dahlia_moon]

Everyone should post their ten most CRUCIAL CRUCIAL CRUCIAL-ASS movies, like the movies that explain everything about yourselves in your current incarnations (not necessarily your ten favorite movies but the ten movies that you, as a person existing currently, feel would help people get to know you) (they can change later on obviously).

1. The Princess Bride
2. Ever After
3. The Hunchback of Notre Dame 
4. Beauty and the Beast 
5. Star Wars
6. Harry Potter movies
7. Fight Club
8. Mrs. Doubtfire
9. Jumanji
10. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Comments

[last01standing]

Moon, you have a very interesting mix here. All very good movies (though I am attempting to figure out how Fight Club fits in with the rest... Also I should possible view Crouching Tiger at some point.)

[dahlia_moon]

Hahaha, well, if you're me, this list makes sense. Fight Club was one that I saw near the end of my teenage years so it was formative in that way. Also, I think Edward Norton is the best.

Star Wars and Harry Potter are the epic multi-parters that I've liked for so long and have grown up with that leaving them out would be blasphemous.

The Princess Bride & Ever After are the part of me who likes romance movies; The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Beauty and the Beast are for when I'm Disney-obsessed.

Mrs. Doubtfire & Jumanji are not my favorites, but they're the earliest movies I've watched of Robin Williams' and contain some of my favorite tropes.

I tend to like disparate media a lot though--all I really need is to like the story or what its message or themes are.

(I've left out a LOT of movies though--Forest Gump and Cast Away, 10 Things I Hate About You, The Notebook, Lord of the Rings, and I go through times when I'm obsessed with period dramas like Pride & Prejudice, North & South, and Persuasion. Mostly, it can be summed up that I love different styles of story-telling and genres.)