movies:
27 dresses (2008)
28 days (2002)
500 days of summer (2009)

common themes:
addiction: to weddings, drugs & a girl, respectively.
learning that those things are not actually everything.

favorite quotes:
I feel like I just found out my favorite love song was written about a sandwich.

Tonight's lecture: "What's wrong with celebrating sobriety by getting drunk?"

Tom, just because she likes the same bizzaro crap you do doesn't mean she's your soul mate.

the one i recommend the very most:
'500 days of summer' is one of my very favorites ever.

my thoughts:
'27 dresses' is one of those typical chick flick,
girl in love with someone unattainable
& then (spoiler!) falls in love with the cute guy who is annoying  at first...
it's totally fun & there are some super funny lines.
the scene where she tries on all of the bridesmaids dresses that she ever wore
is really fun & a great twist on the 'dressing room' montage...
& the last scene is really perfect.
oh!
& the poster is a favorite of mine!
love the handwriting in the shape of a dress
so cute!

'28 days' is one of my favorite movies (too bad it had to be in the same set as 500 days)
i love that it's a comedy but also really serious but also really goofy...
it's about a totally serious topic (drug & alcohol addiction) but it finds the humor in it,
but not so much that it makes you think that being an addict looks like fun.
there are some really emotional scenes & it just hits all of the right points...
plus sandra.
i mean really.
she's just the best.

i so love the nonlinear-ness of '500 days of summer'
& how awesomely different scenes are rendered
the 'how he hoped it would be/reality' split screen
& the dance scene:

& of course jgl.
always love him...
zooey deschanel is always great...
one of my most favorite young actresses, chloe grace moretz
(have you seen 'kick ass'? go. go now.)
is really perfect in it
(side note: she has been in quite a few movies where she has to swear, it will be interesting to see as she grows up if she will be a 'bad girl' or if because she's just being normal(ish) (& not trying to be mousketeer sweet) she'll just grow to be a regular person.
if i was smarter or talked about this with someone i might be able to figure out what i'm thinking about it...i guess it goes along with letting my kids listen to popular music, even when it mentions things we might not love for them to talk about just yet... will we regret it or will they just grow up thinking it says 'i'm in the club so i'm gonna do, just what the folks came here to do' just like i had no idea that 'billy jean' was about some lady telling michael that she had his son & he was like 'no way!' but then, those eyes! until i was like 25...
anyway
i love this movie & think it is a masterpiece of storytelling &
so perfectly how some relationships feel...

up next:
A's & B's!
hint: Dear Mr. Vernon, we accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole Saturday in detention for whatever it was we did wrong....

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alphabetical chick flicks is a series wherein i watch all of the chick flicks that i own on dvd in numerical & alphabetical order (i suppose the description is in the title, isn't it?)...
click here to read other parts of the series

since i'm at home alone a little more this fall
i have decided to watch all of my chick flicks in semi-alphabetical/numerical order
they are already organized that way...
don't laugh, it makes it much easier to find meg & tom & jennifer & zac!

i have to take a quick second to tell you that we organize our dvds in books
so we don't have shelves & shelves of dvd cases...
the ones we use are by case logic & i love them!
they have a spot for the dvd cover on the front of the page & a place for the dvd on the back,
super easy to flip through...
we have our books arranged by genre/who watches them:
chick flicks
action, vampires & zombies
drama & comedy for adults ('meet the parents' & 'cast away', not the 'other' kind of adult movies)
kids, stay at home
kids, to go (the one we take on longer trips (& sometimes just across town depending on how much arguing i want to listen to on a given errand run)
four of them are the kind you can add pages to which i love...
i have ordered cases & extra pages from amazon
& we also stop into the container store when we are in portland & need extra pages...
highly recommended!

alrighty
so
i can't even say how happy am to be doing this!
i am a complete movie dork & i also love doing things as a 'project'
so this is like heaven to me!
also, also, i tend to watch the same movies over & over
& i forget how great some movies are so this is forcing me (such a burden!)
to watch them all!
i love it!

alphabetical chick flicks, part one:

the movies:
13 going on 30 (2004)
17 again (2009)

common themes:
appreciating the age you are (after trying out a different one)
great dance numbers (thriller & bust a move)

favorite quotes:
Arlene: Eminem's on the phone; he wants an answer now.
Jenna : Umm... plain. Peanut? Plain!

Ned: It's a classic transformation story. Are you now or have you ever been a Norse God, Vampire, or Time Traveling Cyborg?
Mike: I have know you since what, first grade? I think that maybe I would have told you!
Ned: Vampire wouldn't tell, Cyborg wouldn't know.

the one i recommend the very most:
i can't choose. please don't make me.

'13 going on 30' came out the year Q was born
& brian took me to see it because i had been talking about it since the first preview
(i was a hug 'alias' fan & just love jennifer garner).
i just saw that it came out 2 days after Q was born
but i remember seeing it in the theater
so it may have been Q's first movie
(he slept through many in those first few months :)
when it came out on dvd brian bought it for me
& i watched it so many times.
oh my goodness!
i love jennifer garner still so much
& mark ruffalo is so perfect in this role (as he is in most of his roles)
they have the best chemistry in this, so, so, so sweet!
the pitch that she makes in the last part of the movie is
always how i picture myself giving a pitch for my little dream <3
i adore this movie...

okay i admit it, i had a crush on zac ephron
i loved 'high school musical' so much i should have just bought a trapper keeper & re-memorized my locker combination
(side note: miss m is a huge hsm fan now, too & oh boy, she LOVES troy :)
so when '17 again' came out i was all about going to see it
& it did not disappoint
(unlike pretty much every movie he has done since...
go back to cute comedy, zac! it's okay, you can be leonardo decaprio in a few more years!)
it's just so funny & silly
every person in it is perfect in their role.
i love leslie mann & she is so great
thomas lennon is awesome as the geeky friend
& matthew perry! just love.
there are some really original, fun scenes
& i just love it...

up next: more numbers!
hint:
It's official. I'm in love with Summer.

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alphabetical chick flicks is a series wherein i watch all of the chick flicks that i own on dvd in numerical & alphabetical order (i suppose the description is in the title, isn't it?)...
click here to read other parts of the series