My Quest For My Favorite Movie

OK I have a confession to make. I have been lie about my favorite movie. I haven't really had a favorite movie up until now so I would tell people that my favorite movie was a movie I think they would like or one that I have like for a long time. The other day I was asked by a stranger (a guy I meet on a tour of the earthquake affected areas of Sichuan) about my favorite movie. I gave him some of my old stand by and then Amber mentioned her favorite movies and I realized I need to discover what my real favorites are.

Here are my criteria.
1. It needs to be re-watchable.
I think a favorite movie needs to be able to be watched a million times and hold up under the strain.
2. It needs to have inspire emotion.
I have never been a big fan of mindless movies so the movie needs to make me think or laugh or cry or all off the above not just pass the time.
3. Really I was kind of done with criteria after number.

So I have started to repeated watch movies I like to see what happens. My candidates so far are; "Pursuit of Happyness", "The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" and "Elf" which I hadn't seen until the start of this endeavor but was hilarious.

Pirate Radio

I really loved this movie.

Terms of Endearment

I hated this movie. The production values where good. But pretty much ever character was contemptible. I didn't like the mom, I didn't like the daughter. I didn't like the daughter's husband, and I thought their older son was a complete brat. I did relate to the older son as an oldest son my self of parents that fought, but he was so selfish. The only character I actually like was the younger son. This is not to mention that the plot relied too much on sentimentalism. So I thought the movie was junk and it is the type of movie that made me hate the Academy Awards.

The Hoax

I am a sucker for movies about con-artists, so my judgment is a little skewed when it comes to this movie. With that said I thought The Hoax was a great movie. I thought Richard Gere was excellent in his role. The con-seemed so believable and the way it ended with the con-man's desires being played against him and Hughes using him as a pawn was awesome.