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honeylikewords · 5 years ago

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ten movies

i was tagged in a post to list my 10 favorite movies using a gif from the film! i believe i’ve done something similar in the past, but i thought it was time for an update on the list!

so, without further ado, here are some gifs from the movies i’m feeling an intense fondness for right now!

i know i’m also supposed to tag others but i feel far too shy to right now so please instead just enjoy some pretty gifs from my favorite movies and do ask me about these films or tell me others you enjoy!

#feel free to ask me anything about these movies (ie why i like them for their technical or narrative aspects etc)#long post #tag games #about k #gif warning #i wonder what this says about me as a person?#probably something stellarly embarrassing HAH #but also this isn't a list of films that are my favorites for actual film study reasons these are films i like on a personal level #or because they're comforting or satisfying i suppose?#or they have oscar isaac in them so *throws myself in a lake*#also im not even being ironic or funny when i say i genuinely admire napoleon dynamite as a work of art because it really captures something #something distinctly midwestern and poor and y2k that really a lot of other films can't do well #something that is so isolated in and of itself that the only way you can understand it is by having lived it really?#idk that's a lot to put on a goofy movie but i'm not in it for goofs im in it because 'oh god yeah oh god i remember what that was like'#i spent my early childhood as a poor kid in rural indiana so i absolutely look at that movie and go 'that is precisely the aesthetic of it'#like? the way people were just. Stuck in the 2000s or early 90s they were just STUCK even as time WHIPPED forward and everything changed #there was this clinging to the old-new as being the current-new and bleh anyway i'd have to do a whole essay on the validity of it #i also want to acknowledge that HMC isn't TECHNICALLY my faaaavorite of the ghibli movies and that i take UMBRAGE with some elements #of how it was adapted (namely in how howl's character is portrayed)#but this whole summer i've been stuck on that scene where sophie gets so angry with howl (in his moment of overblown vanity) that she bursts #into tears and screams at him about how 'some of us have never been beautiful in our entire lives!'#and how that just resonated and that ACHED #i also had a hell of a time making this list because 1) i promptly forgot every film i ever watched and 2) i can't choose favorites easily #much less tell other people my favorites because your favorites say SO MUCH ABOUT YOU and far be it from me #to submit to the mortifying ordeal of being known #and yes i was going to put napoleon dynamite on here but i figured no one would take that very seriously despite my very serious feelings #i also didn't include hard hitters like us or get out or blackkklansman because they're not films i rewatch for pleasure or comfort #they're works of art and some of my favorites in that regard but not films i circle back to frequently enough to count #most violent year and operation finale are on here because they actually do sort of strangely comfort me despite their intensity and im 100%#sure it's because of oscar but note the distinction of those two roles

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