I’m a movie junkie. It’s a flaw, yet at the same time helpful whenever I’m playing a game of Scene It. (Not that anyone wants to play with me.) Over the weekend, when I should have been working on a quilt block (which I made and it totally sucked), I went to see Amazing Grace.
This movie has all the elements of a Hellion movie.
1) It was a period piece. I love period pieces. I have quite a collection of PP movies. Dangerous Beauty; Braveheart; Rob Roy; Elizabeth; Pride & Prejudice (the long and the short versions); Sense & Sensibility (with Alan Rickman and his Voice, “Hello”—which subliminally says “take off your clothes and lie on the couch”); Pearl Harbor; The Notebook; The Patriot (Braveheart in America); Titanic (yes, I own Titanic—the ironies abound); Shakespeare in Love; and undoubtedly eons more.
2) It rips your heart out. I love to start crying at Hollywood manufactured, totally manipulative emotional scenes. I sniffle like I have a bad allergic reaction and my eyes get all teary, and if someone dies I was real partial to (see: Braveheart), I start crying like mad. Not shaking sobs though, but the real painful, silent, devastated crying where you want to curl up in your seat with your blanket and cry, cry, cry.
3) It’s inspirational. After Braveheart, I was little Miss Freedom. And I was almost Anti-England. “No, no, I love Scotland, not…” hiss “England.” Right, whatever. After The Patriot, I was all “England sucks” again—and America rules. And after this one, I sat in my seat going, “I really need a passionate cause because I’m not doing anything great with my life.” Mind you, I have as much desire to become a missionary and assume a missionary position as I do to scrub a toilet. Actually I’d rather scrub the toilet—it wouldn’t last as long and it wouldn’t require me going to a questionable third world country where I might die of dysentery. (Yeah, I know Amazing Grace isn’t about missionaries, but being that there aren’t any more slaves in America or England—I was speaking of a passionate cause that would be available to me.)
4) The lead-guy is so totally hot. (I’m really amazed at myself that I didn’t put this as my first element. I feel like I’m growing as a person.) Ioan Gruffudd (YO-an GRIFF-ith) was a hottie as Horatio Hornblower, and he’s a hottie as a bible-thumping near-preacher-now-politician. Those curls, that romantic brow, those melting dark eyes—hello fellow Welshman!
So what are you favorite kinds of movies, why, and what is possibly your most favorite movie of that genre?
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OMG...favorite movies (period pieces) Immortal beloved is my all time favorite what a hunky Beethoven Gary Oldman makes...and he was uber hot in Bram Stoker's Dracula too...Another period fav...The Piano..and I love the movie..and I don't mind the nude scene one bit...he was all dominant and bend over bitch (well not that extreme) but hot enough for me, though I don't find him in the least attractive! LOL!
Okay we are talking about movies and I still manage to talk about naked men?
I love period flicks most and then some paranormals...Underworld anyone?? Come on Scott Speedman? Hubba hubba...
Hellion I love tear jerkers, I think when I saw braveheart in the theatre~and this is when it first came out and there was hardly anyone in it cause it hadn't been 'recognized' yet...anyways (along with every other female in the audience) I was BALLING and it wasn't quiet, it was such a beautiful love story...think about it makes me wanna cry.
I know I have to argue with people about Braveheart being a love story--I'm like it's the ultimate love story! And they're reunited at the end! Whenever I see it on USA or TNT, I have to watch it...it's totally crazy. I was so devastated at the end of that film--just bawling--and my friend Mac is pumping his fist in the air as we're leaving, going, "FREEDOM!" I nearly smacked him. (However, Mac got me a Braveheart collectable that Christmas so I forgave him for his callous manner.)
I have Robin Hood too (and I'm also liking the new series on BBC America on Saturdays at 8/9).
I also love Immortal Beloved. The 9th symphony is my favorite of his stuff--and the whole bit at the end where they're showing the carriage trying to hurry to her and everything...it was so tragic and beautiful--and the girl is crying at the end as she realizes how he actually felt about her, when he'd spent all this time treating her like shit!
Yes, I loved the bagpipes at the end...I knew Amazing Grace had been around as a bagpipe song since practically forever...but I didn't realize how the words had come about. It was a wonderful movie. *sighs*
Just to let you know, Ioan is mine. He's looking at me right now on my bulletin board. Actually, he's gazing off in the distance, but a girl can dream. I love all the HHs, Dangerous Beauty, Casanova, Emma, Little Women w/ Winona, a movie I can't remember w/ Liv Tyler and Angelina Jolie's first husband Jonny Lee Miller as a gentleman outlaw...something and MacLean? Plunkett? Dangerous Liasons, every Edith Wharton adaptation except Ethan Frome (didn't like the book; no reason to like the movie), Robin Hood, Vanity Fair, etc. Am a sucker for the costumes.
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