Sometimes the absolute best thing is a movie. No
question. Add popcorn and lots of butter. And a blanket, a pillow, chips, some chocolate.
Or in a theatre with a crowd, each and all fixated, the light flickering in our
eyes. Sometimes it’s all a person really needs to feel whole again.
So Hollywood! Stop making the same bad movie again and
again. Sure, what makes movies great is very subjective and yet I believe that
a truly great, unforgettable movie must contain at least ten of the following
things:
1. a
surprise
2. some
kissing
3. a
character with lots of good and a little bad too, a character to like and an
unlikeable character (and sometimes maybe they switch places)
4. a
laugh out loud moment or a moment that breaks your heart (or both)
5. something
one’s eyes want to hang on to
6. somewhere
and something lovely and somewhere and something loathly
7. something
on fire (but not necessarily any smoke)
8. something
simple, something complex
9. something
to feed or stretch or snap the imagination
10. some
music and sound effects and special effects and when and only when it’s really
needed: some silence.
11. someone’s
eyes yelling and someone’s eyes whispering
12. something
to absorb and something to reject
13. something
uncomfortable
14. someone
so so so determined to fix what or whom is broken
15. something
shocking, something soothing (shivers and thumps)
16. sincerity,
honesty, vulnerability
17. an
advance and a retreat, an attack and a surrender
18. a
quotable quote
19. something
that doesn’t belong, something not seen before
20. a
cow but only if there’s a twister too (aka something impossible to forget)
21. something
to think about when it’s over
22. something
to talk about afterwards
23. a
mirror
24. a
mistake…
But mostly,
25. an unforgettable movie must have a partner to share it with.
3 comments:
You know what makes a good movie!
Agreed. I'll just hop on my soapbox for a sec just to say that those the really big-budget blockbusters really need to rely more on good storytelling & not so much on the sensory overload of special effects.
S'a really good list, although I don't know If I want Hollywood supplying my movie watching partner. End up with Katherine Heigl.
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