I am often asked, especially by those who do not know me very well but know that I am a movie buff, “What is it about movies that you love so much? What is it that makes you want to sit in a dark theater. Two or three movies a day?” or trying to wax a couple of philosophies about my love of machines without sounding like an idiot (self note – never worked).
AintItCoolNews.com For a regular reader of aintItCoolNews.com a movie sent over a month or so ago by one of its regular contributors (the writer’s last name escapes me now or should I fully believe him) answers the question “Why do you love movies?” Like me, he had a problem with being satisfied with the answer because it didn’t make him sound like a geek. He happened upon a movie blogger who was listing his reasons why he loved movies so much simply by using examples from movies. Especially the scenes, the characters, the lines of dialogue. Excellent. The AICn writer proudly stole this idea and made it his own article.
I now proudly steal the idea that I once stole my love for movies once and for all. I spent weeks combing through the internet and coming up with books with ideas and moments that really affected me from my childhood until now I am writing this. The AICN writer used somewhere along the lines of 50 examples but before I knew it I was well over 100 and not too keen on cutting them out. So I decided on a total of 150, which turned out to be a lot easier sounding than it actually was.
Without further adieu, 150 Reasons Why I Love Him There are a few quotes and if you don’t know them I’m sure you can Google it but if not, feel free to send me a message and I’ll be happy to help you identify the movie it’s from.
I hope you enjoy it.
I like movies……………………………..
Because one of my oldest memories is Roy Scheider crashing his car into the back of a semi and chicks just in time for ‘Seven Ups’.
Because I can remember every detail of my first viewing of “Jaws” like it was yesterday.
Because Jacqueline Bisset’s wet t-shirt in “The Abyss” shot me into puberty.
For the first time I experienced Sensurround as Los Angeles collapsed in an “Earthquake”; or the first time I heard Dolby Stereo sound as you see the city for the first time in “Logan’s Run”; or my first experience with 3-D with the otherwise memorable 1981 Western “Comin At Ya.
Because I heard the loudest scream from the audience after Rocky Balboa hit, Apollo Symbol first circled in “Rocky”.
Because the loudest screams I’ve ever heard came when Carrie’s arm appeared from beneath the rocks and grabbed her friend’s arm at the end of “Carrie.”
Because you have to listen carefully to the beauty of the dialogue written by Preston Sturges, David Mamet and Paddy Chayefsky.
Because of the opening shots in the films “Touch of Evil,” “Halloween,” “The Game” and “Boogie Nights.”
Because Gene Wilder makes me laugh just by looking at him.
Because Martin Balsam sneezed too quickly at the end of “Captive Pelham 1-2-3”.
Because of Walter Matthau in any matter.
Because of Jeff bridges into something
Because “Singin’ in the Cloud” always makes me smile.
Because “Dreams” always makes me cry.
Because Robert Wise’s 1963 “Haunting” still scares me even with the lights on.
Because of the harvest of dust, he is chased “Northern by the circus.”
Because of the way John Carpenter calmed down the audience in “Halloween.”
Because of the bridge scene in “The Witcher.”
Due to Burt Reynolds final soliloquy (in cut form) in “The End”.
Because I never saw him coming at the end of “Stimulus”.
Because I really believed the skyscraper was burning in Hell Tower.
Because of Bond. James Bond.
Because of C.C. Baxter
Because of J.J. Gittes
Because of Chauncey Gardner.
Because of Boo Radley.
Because of Biggus Dick.
Because even if a man is pure in heart and says his prayers at night, he can become a wolf when the wolf blooms and the autumn moon shines.
Because it’s weird and pissed off, whatever it is.
Because I can’t lie to you about your adventures, but… you have my sympathy.
Because Warriors! Come on and play-ayyyyyyy
Because the power of Christ urges you!
Because of all the sword fighting between Errol Volcanus and Basil Rathbone.
Because every shot in a Terrence Malick movie is breathless.
For any score John Williams commented.
Because the blind girl regains her sight and realizes the Tramp is the man who loves her in “City Lights”.
Because Klaatu, barada, nikto
Because the Red Sea division still has an amazing streak 56 years later.
Because they don’t like white people. I hate rednecks so I enjoy this sh.
Because if you want a gun, get one. I wish you would.
Because you’ll throw an eye, kid.
Because the real one will go crazy when he comes to me.
Because here is our non-negation. F*** it. Let’s go stick with the boys.
Because I am not an animal! I am a man.
Because “Do you want me to hold the chicken?” “I want to hold you between my knees.”
Because the father kept the evil from the son until the end in a beautiful life.
Because of the wrestling scene in a 1986″ Fly.
Because of the UFO show that concludes “Clostral Conclusions of the Third Kind”.
Because I was never more on edge than when I first saw James Cameron’s Aliens.
Because of Roy Hobbes
Because of T. Firefly Rufus
Because of Ratso Rizzo
Because of Smokey, the pirates and the Snowman
Because of Don Corleone
Thanks to Glenn Holland, head high school musical teacher.
Because if you haven’t seen “The Last of Sheila,” “Without Hungry,” “Blue Collar,” “One Capricorn,” “Who Killed the Great Chefs of Europe?” “Time After Time,” “In-Laws,” “Silent Partner,” “Diner,” “Local Hero,” “Consolation and Joy,” “Right Stuff,” “Brasil,” “Cop,” “Cursor de Vano, “Shocked Reason” and “Fragility” will get a huge boost by keeping you talking about them.
Because you are all human. Seven or eight lives and then you are with the boys to boast and glory. You better keep quiet!
Because Mongo was so busy… in the game of life.
Because a naked American stole my fish.
Because asps are very dangerous. You will go first.
Because I might be played with, but my mother is not a fool.
Because of how realistic John Wayne shot George Kennedy’s face with a poster in “Son of Katie Elder .
Because Tim Conway and Don Knotts still make me laugh like a ten year old.
Because James Whitmore never looked that last time in them.
Because John Travolta dances in “Saturday Night Fever.”
Because of Fred and Ginger dancing in something.
Because of the opening sequence in Woody Allen’s “Manhattan.”
Because of the end of the “City of Angels”.
Because of blood test in John the Carpenter “Res.
Because “Superman: The Movie” made me believe that man can fly.
Because the money scene in “The Reverend People” may be the most laughable ever.
Because George Bailey found the petals of Zuzu.
Because of the scene of the duel “Barry Lyndon.”
Because every word of the dialogue rings true in “The Smell of Success.”
Because he is not a bad boy.
Because we will always have Paris.
Because Mary! Just met a girl name Mary!
Because every time Mrs. Kissle breaks the wind, we beat the dog.
Because frankly, my dear, it doesn’t matter.
Because the veils? You didn’t buy it without the covers. I don’t need to know. I don’t have to show you stinkin’ badges.
Because of the famous last lines in the Billy Wilder movie – “No one is perfect”. “Shut up and do it.” “Schlemmer!!!!
Because George Lucas gave us a night out in 1962 and we were transported to a place long ago in a galaxy far, far away.
Because the opening scene from “Raiders of the Lost Ark” is better than most other movie endings.
Because of the last hand in the “Wild Bunch.”
Because of R. Lee Ermey’s introductory speech to the forces in “Full Metal Jacket.”
Because of Richard Gere rapping Debra Winger in “The Commander and the Generous.
Because of the car in “Bullitt” “The Connection” and “Live and Die in L.A” and “Live and Die in L.A.”
Because of Harry Lim’s entrance.
Because they pull a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one to your house; send one of his to the morgue. That’s just Chicago.
Because open the garage door, Ital.
Because she is my daughter. She is my sister. She is my daughter. My sister is…
Because of the guilty pleasures he never turned away including: “Airport,” “Earthquake,” “Mother, Jugs and Speed,” “Rollercoaster,” “Two Minute Warning,” “Halloween 3 – Time of the Witch.”
Because Jerry Lewis is as funny now as he was 50 years ago. Just watch “The Bellboy.”
For a moment, Kim Novak Judy emerges from the darkness, just like Madeline in “Vertigo”.
Because “The Right Stuff” reminds everyone who the real American heroes are.
for I am your father.
Because this car. Goeth bought it. Why did I keep this car? Ten people are right. More than ten people. This pin Two people. This is gold. Two people. At least. One man, Stern. Because these things. I had one man…and I couldn’t. For neither
Because he cannot deny that I will make him an offer.
Because Slim Pickens bomb.
Because Jack Nicholson’s motorcycle riding helmet was in the football helmet “Secy Rider.”
Because of the heroes of the 1970s “blaxploitation” films including Shaft, Superfly, Coffy, Truck Turner, Foxy Brown, Friday Foster, Sheba Baby, Carnage, Dolemite, Hammer and Cleopatra Jones.
Because “Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World” never fails to make the family laugh.
Because she sang Judy Garland Over the Rainbow.
Because most of the films Neil Simon wrote were very funny.
Because a fat, drunken, and stupid son is in no way a son through life.
Because Zorba, teach me to dance.
Because hey Yankees, you can take your apology and second place trophy and shove your ass right up.
Thanks to Curt Henderson, Steve Bolander, Jon Milner and Terry (The Toad) Fields
Martin Brody, Matt Hooper and Quint.
Because Martin Scorsese’s “After Hours” will make you laugh and squirm at the same time.
Because of the graduation scene where the cast does ‘I Sing the Electric Body’ at the end of “Praise”.
Because of the odd, memorable characters in the Scottish seaside community in “Hero Place”.
Because “Richard Pryor Live in Concert” makes me laugh more than any other movie ever has.
Because Ki-ki-ki, Ma-ma-ma (think Camp Crystal-lake
Because what’s in the bathroom in “The Conversation?”
Because every time the camera came back upstairs in “The Exorcist,” the anxiety grew a little more.
Because everyone who acts as a dentist hates Laurence Olivier in “Marathon Man.
Because give me a head with hair. Long, beautiful hair.
Because you feel lucky, punk?
Because they call me Tibb.
Because they come to you Barbara!
Because Julie Christie gave the best answer to what she wants, when she told the executive that she can get what she wants, in “Shampoo.”
Because of the Ferris wheel in “1941.”
Because “Cooley High” taught us about African-American teenagers in 1960’s Chicago reality with a bang.
Hansen brothers from Propter.
Because of Pinball Wizard
Popeye Doyle.
Because I’m mad as hell and I won’t take it anymore.
Because you made a time machine… out of a Delorean?
Because sometimes having nothing can be real cool-hand.
Because every once in a while I just say what the f***.
Because John Hughes understood and knew how to write.
Because of the Stargate series, the death and birth that concludes “2001: A Space Odyssey”.
Because just thinking about the fat ghost from “Magic” still gives me the shivers.
Because these are at eleven.
He was not alive. Beauty kills the beast.
Because of the Abbot and the Solemnity
Because of Orson Welles
Because of John Sayles
Because the sandy heart pours out its devotee singing without hope.
Because Kermit the Frog could actually ride a bike.
Because it took me 3 hours to figure out the F.U. Felix Unger is understood.
Because I think of relationships as sharks. They are always moving forward or dying. And what I think that we hold in our hands is a dead fish.
Because it needs a big phase.
Because you’re good, kid, but how long have you been around me the second best. To get used to it well.
Because every new Coen Brothers movie is different from everything they’ve done before.
Because “Ordinary People” was the first to teach me that life, at any age, is never easy or fair.
Because “Supercalifragilisticxpialidocious”
Because of the opening 30 minutes “Saving Private Ryan.”
Because of the world’s series of creation in the “tree of life.”
