what does blockbuster even mean?

I always wondered that. Are blocks being busted? Is it that the 'blocks' that have been set up by previous movies are now being 'busted' by the new movies that are so popular? I think that sounds like a reasonable explanation, so I'm going to stick with it.

I was going to make a post about this girl I saw today, because she looked pretty damn stunning...but, I digress. THIS post was kind of spurred on by my previous post about Thor, but that got me thinking...what ARE my favourite movies? I have seen a LOT of movies, and I consider myself to be more of a movie buff than a video game buff, if only because I have definitely seen way more movies/can name way more actors/even filmed a bunch of short films with friends in high school. There are other reasons, but...yeah, movies are great.

So, my favourite movies. I've spoken about my favourite tv shows, and my favourite music...even my favourite childhood shows! I never really spoke about my top list of movies, though, so here it is. Note: I kind of cheat a little bit with this, as while I have individual movies listed here, I also just list favourite movie series as well. Whatever, though, we'll look at them as we go.

The top four is a concrete list:

1) Empire Strikes Back

2) Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

3) Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark

4) Back to the Future

Honestly, after that, I couldn't really tell you where the other movies might fall. The other ones depend on how I feel on a given day, hehe, but those four never ever waver in their order. They are, quite simply, masterpieces. There are no films made currently that I feel are better than them, and I love them so much. I have seen these movies so many times I know all the dialogue for every scene, and every little detail I can remember without much effort, haha. It's honestly great, and these films are a part of my childhood in pretty much every imaginable way.

Afterwards, though, I would have the following movies in no particular order:

Ghostbusters 1 and Ghostbusters 2

Star Wars

Return of the Jedi

Back to the Future 3 (BTTF 2 was just weird, I'm not a huge fan of it other than the fact that it's another entry in the BTTF series)

Iron Man (with Robert Downey Jr., in what is IMO the best comic book movie ever....The Dark Knight can suck it for all I care)

3:10 to Yuma (the remake with Christian Bale and Russell Crowe, I love Westerns)

Diehard (1, 2 and 3)

There are a few more, I'm sure, but those movies are my absolute favourite movies. I will not put any other movie above them, though I hold out hope that there will be movies someday that can be ADDED to the list. The Birdcage (with Robin Williams and Nathan Lane) is a movie that is absurdly funny, and I recommend it to all of you....it follows Robin Williams as the gay owner of a drag club, where Nathan Lane is the gay star of the club, who is also his partner/lover. Williams' biological son from a previous heterosexual relationship comes home to announce that he is getting married, to the daughter (a young Callista Flockhart, who is now married in real life to Harrison Ford!) of a prominent Republican/ultra conservative senator, and of course, hilarious hijinks ensue when the parents of both kids want to meet. Tropic Thunder is a more recent film, starring Robert Downey Jr., Jack Black, Ben Stiller and a host of others, and it pokes fun at the way actors make movies, much like Anchorman (another ridiculously funny movie with Will Ferrell) pokes fun at the way news is reported.

I also love Disney movies! I mentioned this before, but I've seen almost all the major movies, and they're all great. Pixar really just smashes every movie they make right out of the park, and even the 'less' successful ones are still leagues better than every other animated (and even sometimes live-action) film out there.

This summer, to return to the 'blockbuster' aspect of the post for a moment, promises to have some massive hits out there. There's Thor, which I spoke about last night; Captain America comes out on July 22nd, Pirates of the Caribbean 5 on May 20th, Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon on July 1st (Canada Day!), Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II on July 15th, along with Green Lantern, Cowboys and Aliens, X-Men: First Class, and a host of others that are also waiting to captivate the public's attention (and lighten their wallets).

I confess I never really liked the Harry Potter movies. I admit that the most recent one (HP7: Pt I) was easily far and away the best of the movies, and I only say that because it had more action and less dialogue, because apart from Ralph Fiennes and Alan Rickman, every actor in that movie was stiff and uninteresting. Even the two I just mentioned didn't get that much dialogue...it was just a lot of special effects, haha. Even so, it was very good, and I was impressed. The other movies were pretty much just a step above garbage every single time, and I will never defend the movies. The books are wildly entertaining, and they allow your imagination to run wild in any direction you want; the movies just try and recreate the same magic on screen, and so far, 6 out of 7 times, it's failed. I've said this so many times, but Part II of HP 7 is going to absolutely destroy every single box office record known to man, and I want to be a part of that by going to see it at midnight. Having read the books extensively, and being able to call back a lot of the detail of said books, I (and every other HP fan in the world) know that Part II is going to have a ludicrous amount of action in it. Riding dragons out of bank vaults, blowing up the Room of Requirement, Snape being bitten by Nagini, a huge battle in Hogwarts (will Mrs. Weasley actually yell 'NOT MY DAUGHTER, YOU BITCH', in Helena Bonham-Carter's face?)...it definitely promises to be an action-packed movie, which is something I expect from my huge summer releases. The less dialogue it has the better, but goodness knows we're going to have to deal with Harry-Ginny and Ron-Hermione at some point, but I hope that it will be mercifully brief.

Anyway, those are my favourite movies, and some of my thoughts on the subject. I have yet to do this, but, I would be thrilled if you guys would post in the comments section your OWN top list of movies! Even if you don't have a concrete list like I do for my top four, just list some of your own favourites! It's always interesting to find out more about these things, so...gogogo and tell me! Maybe we can even have some interesting discussions about them! =D