My Movie Pals

Here are some of my favorite movie characters. Embrace them. Love them. Pet them. And tell me yours. Let's begin. Or, as number one would say, "No more yanky my wanky. The Donger need food."

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• Long Duck Dong, Sixteen Candles. What a laugh on this guy.
• Jake Ryan, Sixteen Candles. Do I need to give reasons?
• Keyster Soze, The Usual Suspects
• Tommy Devito, Goodfellas. Funny how?
• Johnny Castle, Dirty Dancing. You just put your pickle on everybody's plate, college boy, and leave the hard stuff to me. 
• Noah, The Notebook. 
• Rocky Balboa. So iconic an entire city considers him a real hometown guy.
• Lester Burnham, American Beauty. I love when he embraces the fuck it attitude. 
• I'm not sure if I can pick just one favorite from Revenge of the Nerds...Lewis Skolnick, Booger Dawson, Takachi. How do I choose? I can't. Hair pie for all.

Excuse please, but why do they call you "Booger?"
"I don't know."
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• Dr. Peter Venkman,Ghostbusters. What a lovely singing voice you must have!
• Veronica Sawyer, Heathers
• Mary Poppins, Mary Poppins. Practically perfect in every way.
• Jason Bourne, Bourne movies. He kicks total ass. All the time. 
• Paul Finch, American Pie. I love a good smart ass. 
• Will Hunting, Good Will Hunting. Brilliant. Rough around the edges. I love him.
• Yoda, Star Wars. Awesome he is.
• Elle Woods, Legally Blonde(s). She's a great person to have in your network.
• John Bender, The Breakfast Club. Eat...my...shorts.
• The Bride, Kill Bill. She kicks ass. 
• Clark Griswold, Vacation movies. I basically married him. His zest for life is lovable. 
• Styles, Teen Wolf. Douchey as a friend but amusing nonetheless.
• Ouiser Boudreaux, Steel Magnolias. 
• Jack Butler, Mr. Mom. 220, 221...whatever it takes. 
• Louden Swain, Vision Quest. When he climbs that pegboard, man. Nothing but heart.

Movie characters I don't like:

• Luke Skywalker, Star Wars. Whiny baby! Whiniest whiner of all freaking whiners
• George Bailey, It's a Wonderful Life
• Harry and Sally, When Harry Met Sally. Am I the only person who hates this movie?
• Dorothy and crew, The Wizard of Oz. More whiners. 
• Mike Damone, Fast Times at Ridgemont High. Complete douche. Zero redeeming qualities.
• Penny Lane, Almost Famous. I adore absolutely everything about this movie except for Kate Hudson.
• The kid in The Princess Bride. He's a little butthole.
• Grandpa Charlie, Willy Wonka. How dare he be the one to go with that fool Charlie, when he's bedridden? He can magically get up and go? Meanwhile Charlie's mom is killing herself picking up after all the bedridden people. Preposterous. 

I could go on for an eternity, and I probably meant to...I think this post has been in draft for two years. As you might imagine with a title like this one, there might be some crossover between this list of my movie pals and this list of people I'd like to have as neighbors. I guess a TV character friend list will be forthcoming.

Tell me some of your movie favorites. And tomorrow, don't forget to link up for the Choose Your Own Adventure Challenge!

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How do I love Dirty Dancing? Let me count the ways.

-Amazing music
-When Doc Houseman is wrong, he says he's wrong
-How ridiculous Lisa is throughout
-Newman as the Kellerman's announcer
-When Johnny breaks the window in his car and Baby says YOU'RE WIIIILLLLD
-When Baby gets told to go back to her playpen
-The two old ladies throwing off their fur stoles and dancing together at the end
-When Johnny tells Robbie the creep he's not worth a punch
-The dance scene in Johnny's room
-It made references to melons something that didn't involve boobs

-When Baby mocks how Johnny was as a teacher in the Sylvia/Mickey scene
-How I can feel my hatred for Dr. Houseman burn in me with the fire of a thousand suns when Baby is making her impassioned speech and he is staring stubbornly at the lake like a curmudgeonly hypocritical douche
-Johnny's hands in pockets pose and when he does this

-At Kellerman's the friendships last long as the mountain stands
-How Robbie refers to it as The Penny Situation
-Max's lisp
-How cute those thieving Schumachers are
-How you can't tell Jennifer Grey hated The Swayze before filming
-How Baby's mom finally gets some ass about her and tells her husband to sit down when Johnny is making his I always do the last dance speech
-The lift
-I love it as much today as the first time I saw it many moons ago

I've obviously spent a lot of time watching this movie. It's my favorite! Much to MFD's chagrin, I watch it every time it's on TV even though I own it.

What's your favorite Dirty Dancing moment? When it's not on doesn't count.

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