cackling because you and deedeecontroversy both sent me the exact same thing, so, in no specific order. you get 12:
The Losers - i could watch that movie repeatedly and never get bored with it. i have, in fact.
Overboard - i more than recognize the SEVERE issues with this movie now that i'm older, but that doesn't really change the fact that it was always a favorite of mine since i was super little and i get fuzzy nostalgic happiness whenever i watch it.
Tangled - okay, i'm going to be honest. i put off watching this movie when it came out because i'd been out of the disney thing since after the incredibles, but i kept getting hounded by everyone about how amazing it was, how i had to watch it, so i did. and i'm quietly fucking glad that i downloaded and watched it at 3 in the morning isolated in the living room because i ended up quietly horrified and bawling 10 minutes in, the second mother gothel showed up. the second she said 'then i don't know why it takes so long' after rapunzel minimized her own efforts at getting her up into the tower and then waved it off quickly as teasing, i just... there's some movies you love for how good they make you feel. and there's other that you love for how grounded and reassured and how -not crazy- they make you feel.
Wild Target - ridiculous black comedy with John Cleese, Emily Blunt, and Rupert Grint playing hapless yet endearing people on the run from smarmy psychotic hitman Martin Freeman (whose fake teeth in this movie will never not fail to creep me the fuck out) and blunder from one escapade to the next while on the run. this is one of the few movies i can still watch without wincing at martin freeman because you're SUPPOSED to hate him here.
Pacific Rim - do i really need to explain?
Megamind - it's like dr. horrible but not heart-shatteringly tragic, and the hero isn't a raging douchebag, and there's actually an optimistic narrative about overcoming obstacles and seeing yourself as something more than what other people see you ask and loving someone for who they are inside and allowing someone to change for the better if they make the effort instead of a hahaha everything's fucked life sucks what you love dies now in order to fulfill your lifelong dream narrative. so basically if dr. horrible had been written by someone who actually wanted to send positive messages to people watching.
Fireball - omg this movie is so bad it's good. schlock sci-fi excellence, and i cannot recommend it more highly. headlined by a pretty evenly matched reluctant partners in crime pairing of lexa doig and ian somerhalder (sshhh, i know there's issues, but trust me, lexa more than makes up for it), they transverse a seriously bizarre case of 'roid rage that results in some impressive fireworks, quite literally.
Hanna - let's just pretend this is the Black Widow Avengers Prequel. Pretty sure it'll mostly work.
Captain America 2 - again, do i need to explain?
Iron Man 3 - ditto to the above, particularly as Tony isn't the hero in the narrative of this movie at all, and ilit.
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World - i don't think i will ever see a movie that was so loyal to its source material at the risk of alienating the wider audience. i am POSITIVE when i saw it in theaters, i was the only one who had any clue what was going on. i heard so many 'what the fuck?'s around me.
Hellboy II - i'm still super upset about the fact that kate corrigan, panya, and so many of the main cast were left out of the movies and that liz and hellboy's relationship was re-written from sibling to romance, but i definitely think hellboy ii (and the original hellboy) both hold onto the spirit of the series. but i definitely prefer the underlying message of hellboy ii that everything has its time, and everything will eventually pass out of this world in order to make way for the new is just as uplifting as it is devastating with the conclusion of the plotline as it runs. i love this movie so much...even if it ultimately leaves me that much angrier at humanity than i usually am.
