Sports Movies

Even though I'm really not into sports, there are a few sports movies that I love enough to compile a list of. With the exception of the soccer movie, all of my favorites deal with unconventional, rather extreme sports, which is cool, because there's way too many football movies anyway.

Blue Crush
Actually makes my "favorite movies" list. I love surfing, I love the actresses, and I love really good looking NFL dudes too. This, along with Point Break, really makes me want to move to the west coast and become a surfer. The cinematography is really good, and though the storyline can be a little irritating, what with NFL boy and all. Though I've stated previously that he's attractive, I'll admit that I really hated the NFL guy at first. Yeah, he's hot, but I just find something about him annoying. The first time I watched it I kept thinking "Dude, go away!". But anyway, it's a really good movie, with cool camera work, an inspiring message, and a happy ending (don't all sports movies have those?). If you haven't seen it, I definately reccomend watching it sometime.

Bring It On
This movie combines several things that I enjoy: it's an early 2000s movie with 90s music, cheerleading, Jesse Bradford and Eliza Dushku. I don't think that there's a way to get better that that. And don't you love the words that they combine with the word "cheer"? "Cheer-tator", "Cheer-ocracy", and so on. It's great. Yeah, it's a vastly cheesy, stupid movie. But it's cheesy and stupid in a really good way, and the rest of the Bring It On movies don't seem to capture that at all. Because they're cheesy and stupid in one of the worst ways possible. Yet I still watch them...why is that exactly?

GOAL! The Dream Begins
I actually read the movie novelization like three times before I saw the movie. Which was actually a pretty good thing to do, because unlike a novel that is made into a movie, it's a movie that was made into a novel. So it's practically identical, with the same exact dialogue and everything. So...to get to the point, I don't know anyone who doesn't like GOAL!. Soccer is a really fun sport to watch, and Santiago is completely loveable. There are points where you almost cry because you feel so bad for him, but things get better (as I've mentitioned before) and at the end of the movie you'll be all happy and excited. So go watch it.

The Cutting Edge
I really digg this movie, and I'm not quite sure why. Maybe it's because everytime I'm vastly bored, and it's Decemberish, it's always on to entertain me. In addition to this, I find it hilarious when chacters fight with each other throughout the entire movie, and then go and make out with each other at the end. To be honest, I'm really not that thrilled about the ABC Family version that just came out, and I don't think I'm going to watch it. Sure, you cast some pretty people, good for you, but can it ever be as good as the original? I think not. It's a pretty beastly movie.

(BTW, thought I'd add that I just found out about a movie that I believe will be the best sports movie EVER! It's called Queens of The World (one of the girls from that webshow Anyone But Me is starring in it), it's about soccer, and I'm sooo siked! Unfortunately, it's not scheduled to come out until mid 2011, so I'll just be all excited for another year. Check it! http://www.queensoftheworld.com/QUEENS_OF_THE_WORLD/HOME.html)

Documentaries

I know that everybody thinks that documentaries are boring. But they're actually pretty entertaining. There's a documentary on almost everything, and they can be about serious issues like human rights or suicide, or something completely random, like jump rope competitions.

Some that I have watched include:
*CampOUT
*EqualityU
*JUMP!
*Dealing Dogs
*Death on a Factory Farm
*I Have Tourette's, But Tourette's Doesn't Have Me
*Supersize Me
*Super High Me
*Boy Interuppted

EqualityU is a documentary shown on LOGO that deals with LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) issues in correlation with Christianity in America. It shows 33 LGBT activists on the first ever Soulforce Equality Ride, a 2 month tour across America to visit Christian colleges with anti-gay policies and peacefully protest. It was interesting to see the way that people treated them when all they wanted to do was spread their message. Their stuff was vandalized, and they were insulted and even arrested. But it was really cool that they never gave up and kept visiting schools, even if they knew that they would get arrested the next day. This documentary was very inspiring, and if they continue to do Equality Rides, I definitely want to go in a few years.
Equality U Trailer



Dealing Dogs and Death on a Factory Farm are a part of a documentary series shown on HBO that investigate animal abuse. In Dealing Dogs, an undercover animal rights activist works at a large kennel that sells and trades dogs for research. The dogs at the kennel are underfeed, beaten, and live in dirty cramped cages. Death On a Factory Farm features the same activist working at a factory farm that raises hogs. It deals primarily with the way that the animals are killed, which is often in a rather violent and unnecessary manner. Watching these two films was very interesting, because I am strongly against animal abuse, and I live on a family farm where we raise cattle and pigs. My entire family watched Death on a Factory Farm, and though we didn't agree with how the farm workers treated the animals, we felt like it cast a negative light on some of our farm practices. Overall, these were very well made movies, but they are very violent and rather offensive, and can be hard to watch if you have even the slightest bit of positive feelings towards animals.

JUMP! is a documentary about competitive jump rope, and probably the most non-intense documentary film that I've ever watched. Despite the fact that I'm not athletic in any way, shape or form, I do appreciate those who are good at sports, so this was a really interesting to watch. Before I saw JUMP!, I didn't even know that competitive jump rope existed outside of an elementary playground. As it turns out, there are actually competitions on an international level, and those jump ropers are insane! Can you do a back flip while jump roping? Didn't think so.
JUMP! Trailer


So yeah. If you've never seen a documentary, you should watch one. I highly reccomend any of the films that I have listed, and if you see any other ones, you should definately tell me.

Horror Movies

As defined by Wikipedia: Horror films are movies that strive to elicit the emotions of fear, horror and terror from viewers. Mhmm. They try to scare you. Horror movies have been around since movies were first filmed, and have evolved A LOT. To sum up the entire evolution of horror films briefly...the movies of the past used lots of psycological crap to scare people. The horror movies now use lots of gore to freak people out. So are they really that scary if the only way they scare you is by their excessive use of blood? Most people agree that the same repetitive zombie-chainsaw-ghost thing is getting old. So what is unique in horror movies? I don't do the scary thing, so my thoughts might not count. But here they are anyway.

Movies like The Blair Witch Project have pretty original, in my opinion. Why? When it first came out, people actually thought that it was real footage from real dumb college students who got lost in the middle of the woods. It might seem stupid thinking back on it, but you know that if you were in a tent and you heard a noise presumably made by a witch/goat/spirit you would be running through the woods in your socks screaming "WHAT WAS THAT??? WHAT WAS THAT!!!" I find the way that it was created to be unique as well. From my understanding, they pretty much just dumped the three actors in the middle of nowhere with video cameras and notes of what was going to happen each day. And from then on, it was all improv. Also, a website was created that furthered everyone's beliefs that it was real. Whether you think that it's a bad movie or not, you have to admit that a lot of creativity went into it. Here's the website link. There's actually a lot of pretty cool stuff on it: http://www.blairwitch.com/


The "inescapable virus" horror movie is pretty common, but to me, it's still pretty scary. In other horror films, a good general rule is "stay away from that big scary thing, and don't go outside when it's dark". Newsflash: you can't run away from a virus. A good example of virus movies would Cabin Fever. Practically everyone who has seen it thinks that it's stupid, but because of my severe emetophobia, it freaks me out beyond the normal freak out levels. I got about 15 minutes in and had to stop watching it. And then I was scared to drink water...or eat anything with water in it (which turns out to be everything...) for about 5 hours. Even if vomiting and blood and bad acting don't scare you, I'd really recommend NEVER watching this movie. Ever.

Horror movies of the past relied more of the psychological elements to scare people. And it worked. Alfred Hitchcock directed movies whose concepts scarify people to this day. Though I haven't seen any, I've heard that despite their ancientness, they're actually pretty good.


On the not-so-creative side of the spectrum, you have popular horror movies of today, such as Saw, Hostel, and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. They often include various forms of "gore-nography" (exactly what it sounds like) where the victims are violently tortured and killed. Eliminate the blood, and it's not terrifying in the least. Proof of this? I laughed throughout most of The Hills Have Eyes. And I leave you with this quote.
"Hobo munchin on a dog leg, hehehe."

Cheesy Movie Quotes

Horribly cheesy lines in movies. They're pretty much self explanitory. And most found in action movies. Still, as ridiculous as they are, they're super fun. Here are some of the worst, yet most hilarious movie quotes ever.

"This definitely rates about a 9.0 on my weird-s***-o-meter." - Will Smith in Men In Black
(Funny? Yes. Stupid. Most definately.)

"Nobody puts Baby in a corner." Patrick Swazye in Dirty Dancing.
(It is sooo bad. And I'm really not quite sure why?)

"Bodhi, this is your wake-up call man. I am an F...B...I... Agent!" - Keanu Reeves in Point Break
(Oh Keanu...you know I love you. But were the super long pauses between F, B, and I really needed? Probably not.)


"I have nipples, Greg. Could you milk me?" - Robert De Niro in Meet the Parents.
(Mhmmm...)

So...they're horrible. Yeah. Opinions? Comments? Questions?