My favorite movies and why i love them

the title says it all doesn't it?

1. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Never in a million years would i have guessed that my all time favorite movie would be a musical. It has the perfect blend of dark humor, drama, and blood. And it doesn't hurt that it has my favorite actor and director (Johnny Depp and Tim Burton). I was going through a weird anti social time when i first saw this movie and the message about greed, corruption and revenge really touched me (:weirdassmyle:). Even though that phase of my life is over (sort of) I still really appreciate it. And i have to say, this movie has what can only be described as the greatest final scene of any movie ever made.

2. Tropic Thunder An extremely funny and weird film. I've seen it well over 30 times and i always nearly die from laughter. It's kind of hard to explain. It's just one of those you have to see. It has Robert Downey Jr in one of his most amessing roles: an Australiain actor who gets the role of a black man in a movie and dons black face. Robert and the movie got a lot of flack and criticism for the protrayol but it was unnecessary. People are just too damn sensitive! I do think it's funny how it was only white people complaining. I haven't heard a single black person complain about it at all. That's all I have to say about that. And this movie has more funny one liners than any movie i've ever seen.

3. American Beauty A quirky masterpiece. It's about a depressed middle aged father who's trapped in a loveless marriage who falls in love with his high school daughter's friend. It's a haunting story that deals with many social issues including homophobia.

4. Ed Wood Another Burton/Depp masterpiece. I wasn't sure what to expect when I saw this movie so was I was pleasantly surprised. Martin Landau completely steals the show as Bela Lugosi.

5. Milk My favorite Sean Penn movie. It's about Harvey Milk, the American gay activist who fought for gay rights and became California's first openly gay elected official. An extremely sad movie but powerful. I think about inequality often but this movie made me think about it even more. What causes people to hate other people so much? I'll never understand it.

6. The Boy In The Striped Pajamas A story about an 8 year old boy, Bruno, whose father is a commandant at a Nazi concentration camp. He befriends another young Jewish boy on the other side of the camp fence. Another very powerful film. Bruno is innocent and completely oblivious to all of the horrors going on around him. This movie has the most heartbreaking ending I've ever seen.

7. Bad Santa Not all of my favorite movies are depressing! Bad Santa is unbelieveably hilarious. 2 con men pose as Santa and an elf and rob malls. Willie, the Santa, is a drunk. Yeah they way i'm describing this probably makes it seem not very funny but trust me, it is. An actual line from this movie is "You are by far the dumbest, most pathetic piece of maggot eatin' shit that has every slid from a human being's hairy ass." Need i say more?

I love lots of movies but these are my absolute favorites. :fallinluv: