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Hannah’s Top However Many Movies Are my Favorites of All Time!

(In very random but somewhat particular order)

1. Steel Magnolias
2. Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
3. P.S. I Love You
4. Mr. Holland’s Opus
5. Simon Birch
6. A League of Their Own
7. The Princess Bride
8. Monty Python: The Holy Grail
9. Ferngully: The Last Rain Forest
10. Shortcircuit
11. Star Trek (2009)
12. Patch Adams
13. Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit
14. Fiddler on the Roof
15. Newsies
16. Remember the Titans
17. Life is Beautiful (in Italian)
18. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe
19. Julie and Julia
20. You’ve Got Mail
21. Dead Poet’s Society

So what makes a movie one of my favorites?

• A good story is always a good start. Many of my favorites have strong stories with a lot of heart, and a message of courage or redemption.
• I love history, so historical stories are also a plus, especially when you add musicality to them.
• I love to laugh, but crudeness is not funny to me, so if you are going to make me laugh it has got to be good, clean, witty humor. Am I offended by a few sh*ts and SOB’s now and then? Nah. I don’t let that ruin things. But I also don’t think they are necessary. Humor that requires swearing to be funny isn’t really humor in my mind.
• A good movie has to be quotable! Some of my cult-classic favorites are favorites for no other reason than at any given time I can pull at least 20 good one-liners from them.
• Re-watch-ability is essential. My absolute favorites I can watch over and over and over again. When it’s over, I want to start it over AGAIN!
• Any combination of the above.

How about you? Do we share any of the same favorites? Wanna have a movie night sometime?

Blessings!

Hannah

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