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Do you know how some people have a soundtrack to their life? I have a movie reel as well. My father is a movie connoisseur and always had all the movies hot off the block...aka bootleg. Well, actually...he had what are referred to as "promotional copies". It's the actual DVD/tape meant for the vendor to view before purchase. He got the hook up constantly. If I wanted a movie...he got it for me. I usually watched until the tape popped and the video was no more good.


SO, tonight...I was in-boxing my sis (as per usual our routine) and I told her I was watching "Grease". I went on to tell her that I remember seeing that movie in the theater with my 2 childhood besties, their dad and their dad's girlfriend. (Except now, I'm remembering that I saw that movie with mom and her friend and kids) The movie I saw with the childhood besties was "Stir Crazy". That movie was too funny. Although, I do believe that it wasn't suitable for us kids. I saw "Beat Street" with my godsisters, their dad and their cousin. I loved that movie. I was crying when Ramo died. :(


I remember viewing "Annie", with my class. I still have the brass keychain which is an actual stamping of the tickets. I've loved Annie ever since, viewing that among other movies umpteen times without tiring. Something about Ms. Hannigan's (Carol Burnett) crazy tub shinny swigging ass ordering around a school-ful of moppets.


I remember that dad had folks in the PJ's knocking on the door borrowing movies.  He had the TV hooked up to the stereo system which made it sound like theater surround sound. When the kids and I watched Poltergeist the night of my birthday party...we felt like we could hear that creepy short chick...right beside us.


I remember that I was deathly afraid of "The Exorcist", "The Thing", "The Omen" and "The Shining". I was also scared after watching "Dracula" in the movies with mom and our crew. My cousins cracked jokes on me for a day because I cried in refusal to watch Linda Blair throw up pea soup. Hell nah...get that outta here. Today? I'm a horror flick lover. The scarier the better. I got mad when "The Grudge", "The Village", and "Hostel" were wack. O_O


On the flip side, my dad forbade me to watch "Caligula", which of course I sneaked to find and watch with my first love. I was between 14 and 15...which made him 17 or 18. WRONG MOVE. We're watching all of this explicit sexual content (one scene so unforgettable, where dude fists a man's ass on his wedding night O_O) and getting riled up. There was everything from deformities and bestiality to homosexual sex, which was unheard of then. While watching...my crush ends up feeling me up...that is, until my grandmother comes home. *insert scene of us jumping up and sitting on opposite sides of the room before she sees us*.


I have my movies that I watch ad nauseum, every time they air. I'm REALLY a movie buff, so I deplore movies aired on cable networks where there are commercials. Movies like "Color Purple", "Titanic", "The Notebook", "Last Dragon", "What's Love Got To Do With It", "Coming to America", etc...all should be viewed with no interruption.


I am the girl who wants to make it to the movies on time for previews and credits and will sit there at the end for any blooper reels, soundtrack info or to spot who played whom. If a movie I've never watched comes on and I've missed the first 15 minutes...I won't watch. I'll look for the next airing so I can catch it. The most intricate pieces to the plot happen in the first FIVE to ten minutes of a movie. Miss that and you'll be asking, "Wait...what's going on?" until the plot is revealed. LOL


Some of my faves?


Claudine
Star Wars Trilogy
Mahogany
Seven
Hope Floats
Pillow Talk (with Doris Day and Rock Hudson)
Sleepaway Camp
Steel Magnolias
Terms of Endearment
Malcolm (X)
Distinguished Gentleman
Which Way is Up?
I'm Gonna Git You Sucka
Ghost
Clue
Dr. Detroit
Howard the Duck
Sixteen Candles
Fifth Element
Dirty Dancing
...I can go on and on. I know I'm missing stuff...but, oh well. That's bound to happen when your love of movies is vast. I love obscure independent movies, classics, black and white (like "The Hounds of Baskerville"), science fiction, horror, suspense, drama...yea. You get it.


Movies along with music, TV shows and books...are key to helping time stamp your life's moments. I remember MANY things around movies, songs, what I was reading...or even where I visited. Share some of YOUR favorite movie moments with me...


...ROLL that beautiful bean footage! lol