Movie list

I love watching beautiful and amazing movies. My favorite ones are those that either make me gape and say "oh, wow!" or ones that make me reflect.

No, big guns and ear-splitting booms and bangs never make a movie great for me. Hot men or cute boys? Well, perhaps, it helps to have a hottie or two in a great movie. Amazing effects and cinematography are more like it. Again, "amazing" doesn't entail being loud (e.x. Hero, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon).

Another requirement: it should touch my heart. No need to be sappy romantic (nothing romantic in White Oleander or Europa, Europa). No need for torrid kissing. In fact, Il Mare doesn't have a kissing scene (they never even got to hold hands).

I'm not even a fan of classics. Film Noir, Humphrey Bogart, Clark Gable all drive me to boredom. Nothing is more cheesy than watching two leads embrace cheek to cheek while facing the camera.

The only scene i remember about Breakfast at Tiffany's is Audrey Hepburn munching on a sugar-free baguette in front of Tiffany's. I fell into a dreamless slumber as I watched Sleepless in Seattle. I cried tears of boredom when I accompanied a friend to watch a Meg Ryan film, the title of which I cannot even remember.

Winning an Oscar award is hardly a criterion to be in my list. Most of those the movies that I adore are not even in English (Heavenly Forest, Be With You, Waterboys, Shadowless Sword and Shinobi are a few).

I'm more into the subtle, beautiful films that leaves an impression on me.