My name is Grace Randolph, and I love movies too!
When it comes to picking your favorite movie
I don't think you CAN pick just one!
I think you need to pick your top THREE
to truly triangulate your profile as a moviegoer!
And my top three are:
Rear Window, The Dark Knight and Saving Mr Banks.
Rear Window, because it's the first film I appreciated
not just as entertainment BUT as a work of art!
I wrote a paper on Rear Window in film school
and I still remember being so proud that I figured out
that each apartment in the courtyard depicts a different romantic situation.
Then, until The Dark Knight, people viewed comics books as something for kids - or immature adults!
Which was not only UNTRUE
but kind of offensive to comic book readers like myself!
Then Christopher Nolan comes along
not a comic book reader
and takes the source material as seriously as if he were adapting a novel or a play!
The Dark Knight went on to become the first comic book movie
to make a billion dollars at the box office
and be a serious awards contender!
If it wasn't for The Dark Knight we wouldn't have movies like Mad Max Fury Road
my favorite movie for 2015.
As for Saving Mr Banks
that's a movie about two creative geniuses
Walt Disney and PL Travers
forced to compromise, the result being the movie Mary Poppins.
Now when I was little, my dad watched Mary Poppins like on a loop
and I couldn't understand why
until I saw Saving Mr Banks!
And I realized that Mary Poppins is actually a movie about saving fathers
who can also have a really rough time
and that movie helped my dad
when he needed it.
Rolling...
Rear Window, because it's - hmm.
Also, um
a little less purposeful with the turn - it's looking a little, like, movie villain.
I need a cat!
A little Blofeld there.
Sorry to disappoint you Mr Bond
but you're not on my list!