One of my 52 in 52 items is to watch my 5 favourite movies within 24 hours, which basically means a movie marathon. Unlike my friend Jo, whose selection of movies I believe were chosen far too easily, I’m struggling with this decision. There’s many things that need to be considered when making the final decision:

1. All movies can’t be of the same genre, otherwise it will get boring fast.
2. There are classics, and then there are favourites. Classics do not make the list i.e. I love the movie Grease, and it’s a classic, but I don’t feel any particular excitement or longing to see it any time soon therefore it hasn’t made the cut.
3. No obvious choices. It’s easy to choose truly great movies like Forrest Gump, Shawshank Redemption. They’re brilliant movies and I love them, but they don’t feel like they’re quite unique enough to make my top 5. After all, everyone loves those movies and I don’t want my top 5 to just be anyone’s list.

Based on that, the following movies are currently floating around on my list:

• Wayne’s World – a classic and yet a favourite, I could watch this any day of the week and not get sick of it. This movie kickstarted my love for Mike Myers, but based on his recent efforts I’m struggling to enjoy any of his movies anymore.
• Ferris Beuller’s Day Off – I can’t believe that I was only 2 years old when this movie was released (1986). When I saw it for the first time it still felt so current.
• Inglourious Basterds - A Tarantino movie was always going to make the cut, but it was hard to choose between this and Kill Bill (Pulp Fiction isn’t as much as a cult classic for me compared to the other two, maybe an age thing…don’t know).
• Point Break – Dirty Dancing was the movie that started my love for Patrick Swayze (then I got turned off chick flicks so Ghost doesn’t do much for me – I like the movie but I won’t go out of my way to watch it). Point Break was the movie that cemented my respect and admiration for him, along with Keanu Reeves. As a young teen when I saw this movie, I thought they were gods.
• American History X – I am yet to find a movie where I don’t love Edward Norton, and this movie has always been a beloved favourite.
• Higher Learning – Also falls under the political genre for me, and an amazing movie (even with Tyra Banks in it)
• Gone in 60 seconds – Oh how I wish I could own Eleanor

I know there’s some other movies that I have mentioned recently when chatting to friends about my predicament, so this list isn’t anywhere near complete. I just know it’s going to be extremely tough to cull the list down to just 5 movies!

What other movies have I forgotten? What movies would you add to your top 5 if you had to make a list?

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