darlingfox

Another 'Top 100" list, this time AFI's list of 100 most romantic movies of the last 100 years (very heavily skewed to the 30s-60s era of Hollywood).

Bold the ones you've seen, italicize the ones you mean to see, underline the ones you couldn't make it through.

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day 01 → your favorite song [Poets of the Fall - War]

day 02 → (one of) your favorite movie(s)

I'm sure I've mentioned somewhere that I really, really love Billy Elliot.

Against the background of an increasingly bitter miners' strike that his elder brother and father are involved in, young Billy Elliot finds he prefers joining in the girls' ballet class at the local hall to the boxing he's there for. The ballet mistress soon realises he has real potential, but no-one, least of all his family, is likely to go along with a lad doing dancing.

I've never been interested in ballet, but that doesn't stop me from enjoying this. The plot, characters and the set all feel very real.

Billy wants to dance ballet and you can understand why it's a problem in their world (1984, a mining town in northern England). And it's not just Billy's story, it's about his father too. One of my favorite scenes is about him and what he does is heart-breaking considering what happens soon after it (could I be more vague? :P).

Bonus points: a gay, crossdressing character who isn't treated as a freakshow. Or rather, no more than Billy is.

In conclusion: it's a coming-of-age story with heaps of I'm-different-itis, and it's so lovely that I always go awwwww.

I just watched WALL-E, and it's quite possible that it's the most adorable movie ever. It made me go "awwwwwww" and "nooooooo" from the beginning to the end, and I really want to show it to everyone who hasn't seen it yet. I can even bring the tissues! ...I wasn't the only one who was a bit teary, was I?


♥

I'm trying to resist reading the Deathly Hallows scans I have, mostly because I don't have the last part and because reading bad scans from laptop screen isn't all that fun. However, I've been reading spoilers as much as I can (because I have the will power of a wet towel. I always read the end of a book first) and if the book is real, I think I'll like it.


Something less spoiler-ish (depending on your point of view): I saw Order of the Phoenix yesterday.

( My brief thoughts on the movie. )

Aaaaaand I should be getting ready for my godson's birthday party. I hate situations where I have to actually act like a responsible adult because people are paying attention.