If you spend any time with me you’ll come to realize that I love movies. Old movies, new movies, DVD’s, movie theater, I just love the medium. I’ll watch almost anything as long as it’s decent, but bad movies are bad movies no matter what genre or budget they had. I can cheer triumphantly at a great sports movie and I can laugh until it hurts at a good comedy. I can even shed a tear with the best of them at a good romance or moving drama. For me, movies stimulate my thoughts and emotions like no other art form. Of course, being a guy and somewhat of a geek (okay, really geeky), sci-fi, war or action adventure flicks tend to be at the top of my list often. One genre that you’d think I’d get tired of quickly (with a 5 and 6 year old) are children’s stories, but I don’t. I actually really like them. I often find that children’s stories have a very simple profound wisdom that as hard as directors try to top it in complex themed mature movies they never can really get past the essence communicated so wonderfully in so many children’s movies.
My Top 5 feel good personal growth movies are:
5) Toy Story 1 & 2 (& 3 in anticipation)
4) Wall-E
3) Land Before Time
2) Cars
And ….
1) Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium
We, as adults, tend to over complicate things. I don’t know why, because really when you get right down to it things can be pretty simple if we’ll let them be. That’s why I love the movies I listed above. They are all about personal sacrifice, love for one another, courage and so much more. If you’ve never seen these movies or it’s been a while take an evening and sit down and watch them. You won’t be sorry and maybe, just maybe, they’ll make your top 5 list too.
So what would be your top 5?
P.S. I would have added Horton Hears a Who, but I already had 6 movies in my top 5 so I didn’t want to completely blow it.