My Happy Movies

There are those times that you feel really sad and sometimes, books just don’t cut it. I find it takes a lot of attention to read books and when I’m feeling particularly down, I just can’t focus. This is where movies come in for me, and today I thought I’d share with you a list of my ‘happy movies’. These are my go-to movies when I’m feeling down.

Captain America: The Winter Soldier

This is probably the biggest one. I’m sure most of you are aware of my love for Captain America, so this probably doesn’t surprise you. This movie just makes me incredibly happy – the second I put it on, I feel infinitely better. 

 (Yes actually, I'm watching Captain America...again.)

Mulan (& Mulan 2)

This is my favourite Disney film ( This and Tarzan is also my favourite! - Chami) – I love Beauty and the Beast too, but this one takes the cake for me. I love the songs, I love the story and I love the characters, especially Mushu, I mean, come on!

Anastasia

Same sort of thing here, though this isn’t made by Disney. I love the Romanov’s and Russian history, especially the Revolution. Plus, I can’t resist some good old Dimitri feels. (WHAT?! I need to watch this now.)

The Terminator

A movie about robots that are trying to kill people and people being sent back in time…How could that possibly make me happy? The thing is, this is my dad and I’s movie – in fact, the trilogy is our movie. I know if I’m having a really bad time I can go hang out with dad and watch this and then everything will be okay. (I actually posted more about this here, specifically the reboot, if you’re interested.)

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

All of the HP movies make me happy, but this one is my favourite. I saw this one at least three times in the cinema and age seven, for one reason and one reason only – Sirius Black. He’s my original fictional boyfriend and I will love him forever. 

Hana Yori Dango: The Movie

I don’t know if this is the actual title for this one – it’s a Japanese drama so I’m just guessing. This is the movie that finishes off the two seasons of this show. It’s amazing and there’s lots of feels and Chami and I just like to cry about it to each other all the time. (THE FEELS. WHAT ARE YOU DOING? - Chami)

So that’s it, my happy movies. These are necessarily my favourite movies of all-time – there are some others but those are usually the ones that make me ugly sob. One day I will do a list of those!

Do you have any ‘happy’ movies? If you do, tell me what they are and we can (probably) fangirl.

DISCUSSION: Terminator Genisys Trailer

Most of you probably don’t know this about me, or maybe wouldn’t guess, but The Terminator Trilogy (I will continue to deny the existence of that fourth one) are most definitely my favourite films. It’s sort of become a tradition with my dad to re-watch them every few months, and we’ve reached that point in our obsession that we can quote all three movies word for word (also, my dad recently changed our answering to machine to ‘Ha la vista’.)

Anyway, the point of all this is that the series is being reinvented with a new film called ‘Terminator Genisys’. I just watched the trailer (a few times) and I decided I’d share my thoughts on it. I don’t know if this will interest any of you, but I’m going to do it anyway. 

 (Firstly, here's the trailer here in case you're interested.)

Firstly- the effects. The original came out in 1984 so as you can imagine the effects were pretty crap, but we finally have some large scale, modern effects. I’m glad to see that the mechanical skeleton thingy of the terminators still looks the same as in the original.

I like that we get to see Kyle Reese being sent back in the trailer – it’s not something we ever saw in the originals. I don’t think the guy who plays him in this version is as attractive as the original, but maybe I’m biased. It’s also interesting to see some familiar scenes from the original before everything changes.

 (Not the world's best picture of Kyle Reese, but you get the point)

So Sarah Connor, let’s talk about her. Now in the originals, she’s already pretty damn badass but in this…just damn. I’m sure you all know how much I love my strong female characters and who could be better for the role than Emilia Clarke (Daenerys from Game of Thrones)? Also, I really like how she doesn’t look stunningly beautiful in the trailer – she actually looks like she’s been through hell so yay for the make-up department! As much as I love Linda Hamilton, I can’t say I’m sad to see that 80’s hairstyle go.

I love how it includes aspects of the original films – the Terminator guy from the second movie with his super metallic body that terrified me when I was younger, Judgement Day etc. And Arnold. How could I forgot Arnold? I have to say, he’s looking reallllllly old now (granted, he is almost 70.)

Basically, I’m not feeling too terrified by this new movie. I know it could still turn out to be terrible, but I’m still interested to see it.

That’s my post for today! I’ll be back tomorrow with the usual bookish stuff.