Favourite movies

I recently wrote about movies I've seen countless times and not-so-delicately hinted that I would write a list about my favourite movies. However, while I contemplated this, I realized that a lot of movies I've seen have been in weird circumstances. And that a lot of movies I consider to be my "favourites" I've only seen once.
Back to the weird circumstances, because when I say "weird" people always want to know more about what I mean. So I shall explain.

First off, a few examples of said circumstances:

• The first time I saw my favourite movie was alone, in my room, on my laptop, having rented it from Blockbuster (woah, remember when that still existed?), but I still knew it was my favourite as soon as I finished watching it.
• Watching favourite #2 happened, naturally, when I was in its country of origin, and didn't understand what I was getting myself into by watching a movie with three other random girls - whom I'd just met - crowding around a computer, but am certainly glad that I did see it.
• The first time I saw Mean Girls was in the theaters with my grandma, who was subsequently horrified and demanded to know if people were really like that at my school, to which I insisted there were not (even though there kinda were) to keep her in happy-grandma land.
• I would tell people I had "seen" Star Wars even though I had really only seen the same middle part of it on TV about thirty times, but I knew enough about it that people believed me, which was really cool at the time (a.k.a. in middle school).

And those are just a few examples! I guess watching movies on your computer is not as weird now as it was about six years ago, because of Netflix. But I find it to be a crappy way to experience something as awesome as your favourite film. Except... if it is your favourite already, then you don't really care... and if it's destined to become your favourite, then nothing else really matters. I'M JUST SAYING that movies were not meant to be watched on 15" screens!

Where were we? Oh, right, a list of my favorite movies. Well, here you go! Remember, no judging, but yes a few of them are silly.

26) Inglorious Basterds
25) It's A Wonderful Life (mostly because I've seen it so many times)
24) Citizen Kane
23) Paper Moon
22) Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
21) The Wizard of Oz
20) The Notebook
19) Casino Royale/ Dr. No (tie)
18) The King's Speech
17) Little Miss Sunshine
16) 2001: A Space Odyssey (which I watched on the last day of the year 2001!)
15) Finding Nemo/Wall-E (tie)
14) The Incredibles
13) The Devil Wears Prada
12) Bridesmaids
11) Monty Python and the Holy Grail
10) Pirates of the Caribbean (I do love me some Johnny Depp)
9) 27 Dresses
8) Star Wars IV: A New Hope (but it was originally just Star Wars so can't we just call it that?) 
7) The Departed
6) The Ghost Writer (go watch it)
5) The Hangover
4) Ferris Bueller's Day Off 
3) Forrest Gump (^^because who doesn't love these two movies?!)
2) Jeux d'Enfants
1) Catch Me If You Can

Ta da! The top twenty six. If you haven't seen one (or more, but I can't even fathom that!) then that is what Netflix is for! Unfortunately, you'll probably have to watch it on your computer which brings us back to that whole thing again... but really, isn't that just where cinema is headed anyway? Unless you're watching old movies fo' free somewhere (a-hem, Bryant Park, Mondays, in the summer). Really, I just encourage people to watch more movies because they are so cool.

xxo, S