My Favorites

The other day my best friend, Sara, showed me a magazine in which it had the top 100 movies, books, albums, tv shows, and plays.  I disagreed with it strongly so I decided to make my own list that is much shorter, here it is.

Movies

1. The Hobbit

It’s about a Hobbit who unexpectedly becomes part of an adventure with dwarves, wizards, goblins, giant spiders, elves, strange creatures found in the depths of the earth (namely, Gollum), the necromancer, and a giant dragon named Smaug the great and terrible. It is FANTASTIC.

2. LOTR trilogy

It’s about Frodo’s quest to mt. Orodruin, which is known in the common tongue as “Mt. Doom,” to destroy the one ring and to hopefully end the reign of evil in Middle Earth forever.

I’d like to note that it was really hard to choose number three because I love number 3 and number 4 equally.

3. Tangled

It’s Disney’s version of Rapunzel.  If you have never heard of Rapunzel then you need to stop living with Patrick under that rock

4. How to train your Dragon

it’s about a young Viking boy named Hiccup and how he was able to befriend a dragon. This is significant because the vikings and the dragons were mortal enemies at the time.

5. Beauty and the Beast

a timeless classic by Disney, if you don’t know what it’s about then go buy it, sit down, and watch it right now.

6. Mulan

It’s about a young Chinese woman who goes to war in disguise to save her father’s life.  Also it has a song about how to be a man, if you are a man, you should take notes.

7. Lion King

It’s basically “Hamlet” but with lions.

8. Pirates of the Caribbean, The curse of the black pearl

it’s about curses, pirates, kidnappings, epic quests, love, and gold.

9. Aladdin

It’s about the street rat, Aladdin and how he came to find the magic genie and defeat the sorcerer, Jafar.

10.Sherlock Holmes

It’s about a genius detective and his assistant, Doctor John Watson.  They go around and solve crimes while Holmes is usually drunk

11.Indiana Jones (the first one)

It’s about a man who is a professor, archaeologist and adventurer.  He tries to stop the Nazis from getting to the ark of the covenant.

12. The Princess Bride

It’s about a young woman named buttercup who is in love with one man but is being forced to marry another.  It’s full of romance and adventure and is so good, it’s inconceivable.  

13. Stardust

it’s about a man’s journey to win the heart of the woman whom he thinks is his true love.  On his quest he runs into evil witches, battling princes, lightning pirates, and a fallen star.

14. The Avengers

It’s basically Marvel on steroids.

15.  The Hunger Games

It’s about a 16 year old girl named Katniss who is thrown into an arena with 23 other teens and told to fight to the death.  The way that I look at it, it shows what can eventually happen in a godless society without morals.

Plays

1. Three blind mice

It’s a murder mystery by Agatha Christie

2. And then there were none

Also a murder mystery by Agatha Christie

3. Joseph's technicolor dreamcoat

It’s the most ridiculous telling of the story of Joseph that could possibly exist.  I don’t care for the movie all that much but the play that my university put on was quite excellent.

I should have more on this list but I do not.  I am not very familiar with too many plays, and the ones that I actually know I dislike.  for example, Romeo and Juliet is stupid.  They committed suicide for no reason at all and didn’t even know each other, they were both just hot so they got married.  Shakespeare is a good writer and all but the characters in this play vexed me greatly.

TV shows

1. Doctor who

It’s about an alien time traveler who travels through all of time and space in a blue police box, that is bigger on the inside.  with human companions he tries to have fun but he usually ends up saving people and the universe a lot.

2. Sherlock

It’s a modernized version of the Sherlock Holmes novels by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.  It is exceptionally well done.

3. Parks and Rec

It’s a comedy about the parks and recreation department in Pawnee, In.  Sounds boring? think again.

4. Once upon a Time

It’s about all the fairytale characters, that you think you know the stories of, and how they all came to be under a curse that banished them to storybrooke, ME and how they lived once they had been ripped from the enchanted forest.

5. Community

It’s a funny show about 7 unlikely friends and their adventures in community college.

well, after talking about all of these amazing movies and shows I feel the need to go and watch one now!