Movie Confessions

I hated the following movies that everyone else seems to love:

-Star Wars

-Raiders of the Lost Ark

-Titanic

-Brokeback Mountain

-The Princess Bride

-Monty Python and the Holy Grail

-Grease (Yeah, that's right. I fucking hate Grease...I've finally admitted it.)

-Aladdin

-A Hard Day's Night

-Neverending Story

-Risky Business

-Caddy Shack

I have no interest in seeing the following movies:

-Any more of the Star Wars movies (although, I loved the last one...but I'm fascinated with villains)

-Godfather, Goodfellas, Casino, Scarface, etc. (I can't focus on mob movies...although, I love the Sopranos).

-Gone with the Wind

-Casablanca (I've tried numerous times...just couldn't do it)

-Anything with the Marx Brothers

-Anything Lord of the Rings (I missed them on the big screen. That would be the only way I'd want to see them).

-Shrek

-Moulin Rouge

-Oceans 11 through 68 (69, on the other hand...as long as Brad Pitt and George Clooney were still hot...)

-Any of the Harry Potter movies (Again, I just can't get into them)

Some more confessions:

While I love Office Space, I think it could have been funnier.

I don't like horror movies. This is not because they scare me. In fact, they don't scare me at all. I know they're fake. My friend Evy and I used to rent them when we were kids and laugh the whole way through them. The Shining...Ooooh! Creepy twins in the hallway! Old lady in the bathtub! I'm shaking. *yawn* (Note: There is an exception to this...anything with snakes. I have an irrational fear of them and just looking at pictures of them gives me anxiety. When I first heard about "Snakes on a Plane" I laughed. I thought I'd like to see it because it just sounds goofy. But after seeing the trailers...mmmmmnotsomuch...But I loved the movie "Sssssss!" for some reason, probably because it's really cheesy).

On the other hand, documentaries freak me the fuck out. This is probably because, unlike horror movies, there is a real element involved. I joked with my friends when I saw "Kurt and Courtney," that I was afraid that Courtney Love would find out through Blockbuster that I rented it and she would have me killed. Nick Broomfield's other movies are pretty dark and creepy, too. I've never seen Monster, but Broomfield's documentary about Aileen Wuornos had me pondering about death and God and damn near close to going to church. Michael Moore movies just make me sad for our future. But they freak me out a little, too.

Coen brothers movies make me sleepy. And I swear you can doze off during scenes and never miss anything.

I never found Mel Gibson or Kevin Costner attractive. And I hated Tom Cruise before he was a whack job.

I can't watch M. Night Shyamalamadingdong movies without second guessing what the twist is.

Every Christmas day, I watch "A Christmas Story," but I don't think I've ever seen the whole thing in chronological order because I'm always in and out of the room or only briefly visiting someone else who is watching it.

I have had no interest in any of the Disney movies since Beauty and the Beast, even though I saw a few due to peer pressure.

I love all of Cameron Crowe's movies, even Vanilla Sky.

I'm annoyed that they had to renumber all of the Star Wars movies. And aren't there more that come after Jedi? I hate quitters.

I'm sick of remakes. Doesn't anyone have an original thought anymore?