Sometimes I Crave A Good Movie

Sometimes I crave a good movie. Its one of those things that every now and then I just want to sit down and watch a movie that when I walk away, I’m pleased. I’m pleased because it made me laugh, or it made me sad, or it made me sit on the edge of my seat with my heart racing. But most of all it has to make me think. Not think about how much of a waste of time it was or how it could have been completely different, which would have made it better. I want to think about the people in the movie. I say people because I want to feel that the characters are real humans, not some fabricated segment of somebody’s mind. I want to think about the decisions that these people made, I want to think about how they could have affected the outcome. Movies that leave me with different emotions and thoughts are good movies. I know then that I did not waste my time.

Sometimes I crave a good movie. I might be sitting in Spanish class thinking about nothing in particular and then the thought about wasting my time runs across my mind. I think about all the ways that I could possible be wasting my time: watching TV, reading, cleaning my room, the rest of the day at school, watching a movie…

When the thought of watching a movie wanders through, I pause, and think about some of the movies that I have just thought “why am I watching this?” But I also think about the movies that have not been a waste of my time. I think about Little Miss Sunshine, about Donny Darko, about Memento, about Son of Rambow, and about many more. I think about ways that I could possible sneak out of Spanish and get into some comfortable clothes and sit in my basement and watch these movies the rest of the day. If only.

Sometimes I crave a good movie. But sometimes all I have is 45 minutes. So sometimes I settle with the Nothing But Trailers show. This show is non-stop movie trailers and I love it almost as much as I love movies. I love it because I see new movies that aren’t out yet, and I also get to see trailers of movies that are classics and movies I have already seen. This was where I saw the original trailer for The Shining. It creeped me out so much, I couldn’t not watch the movie. I can say that I was pleased because The Shining made me think.