Movie Lists Fun (Childhood Favorites, Comfort Movies, All-Time Favs) / Thursday 13

 

This is another contribution to the Thursday 13 blog hop in which participants create a post with some kind of list of 13 things they want to share. The skies the limit.

On my iPad, I found a few movies lists I started to compile last year, thinking I could maybe share them here on my blog or in my museletter (aka newsletter) for fun. Now I have the perfect excuse to finally share them.

I have FOUR lists of 13 things for you today...since they're just movie titles. :)

NOTE: So as to not repeat any movies, I only listed them once, although there is a lot of crossover from list to list.

13 Movies My Family Watched Obsessively During My Childhood:

1. Lord of the Dance (1996)

2. Twister (1996)

3. Jurassic Park (1993)

4. Sister Act (1992)

5. First Wives Club (1996)

6. A League of their Own (1992)

7. Dirty Dancing (1987)

8. Summer Rental (1985)

9. Sarah Plain and Tall (1991)

10. Fly Away Home (1996)

11. Speed (1994)

12. Volcano (1997)

13. The River Wild (1994)

Honorable Mention:

Jumanji (1995)

13 of My Personal Childhood Favorites

1. Little Women (1994)

2. Wizard of Oz (1939)

3. The Secret Garden (1993)

4. Curly Sue (1991)

5. An American Tail: Fievel Goes West (1991)

6. FernGully: The Last Rainforest (1992)

7. Sleeping Beauty (1959)

8. Mulan (1998)

9. Hocus Pocus (1993)

10. Splash (1984)

11. Now and Then (1995)

12. Wish Upon a Star (1996)

13. Prancer (1989)

Honorable Mention:

Homeward Bound (1993)

My Comfort Movies:

1. You've Got Mail (1998)

2. Julie & Julia (2009)

3. Erin Brokovich (2000)

4. Eat Pray Love (2010)

5. Joy (2015)

6. Jem and the Holograms (2015)

7. Sex and the City: The Movie (2008)

8. The Devil Wears Prada (2006)

9. Soul Surfer (2011)

10. Pride & Prejudice (2005)

11. Honey (2003)

12. Tangled (2010)

13.  Encanto (2021)

Honorable Mention:

The Help (2011)

NOTE: I acknowledge how The Help depicts white saviorism. What I like about it is the whole writing/writing a book plotline. I enjoy movies that are about writers.

13 of My All-Time Favorite Movies:

NOTE: A lot of the movies below inspired/influenced my writing in some way. That's why they will forever be on this list. Look for the *asterisks. 

1. Rocky IV (1985)

2. Top Gun (1986)

3. Top Gun: Maverick (2022)

4. Jurassic World (2025) (Jurassic Park would be on this list if I repeated movies.)

5. Maleficent (2014)

6. Van Helsing (2004) *

7. Gothika (2003) *

8. Pitch Black (2000) *

9. Ultraviolet (2006) *

10. Matrix: Reloaded (2003) *

11. Man of Steel (2013)

12. The Shallows (2016)

13. 65 (2023)

Honorable Mention:

Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)

QUESTION: Do we have any all-time favs in common? Did you watch any of the same movies as my family and I did while growing up?