My Favorites Dramas

Stated here are my favorite movies in the drama genre. They are also must see recommendations I make, in case you didn’t watch them.

My favorite Dramas of all time in order of preference:

1. The Godfather: Part III (1990)

All the power on earth can’t change destiny.

1. The Godfather: Part I (1972)

It’s Not Personal, It’s Strictly Business.

Real power can’t be given. It must be taken.

1. The Godfather: Part II (1974)

1. Legends Of The Fall (1994)

The men of the Ludlow family. A woman’s grace brought them together. Then her passion tore them apart.

1. Once Upon A Time In America (1984)

As boys, they made a pact to share their fortunes, their loves, their lives. As men, they shared a dream to rise from poverty to power. Forging an empire built on greed, violence and betrayal, their dream would end as a mystery that refuse to die.

1. Carlito’s Way (1993)

Favor gonna kill you faster than a bullet.

1. Meet Joe Black (1998)

Sooner or Later Everyone Does.

1. Phenomenon (1996)

Some things in life just can’t be explained.

1. Scent Of A Woman (1992)

Col. Frank Slade has a very special plan for the weekend. It involves travel, women, good food, fine wine, the tango, chauffeured limousines and a loaded forty-five. And he’s bringing Charlie along for the ride.

1. A Few Good Men (1992)

You don’t need a patch on your arm to have honor.

1. Les Miserables (1998)

The Legend Comes To Life

1. Dances With Wolves (1990)

Inside everyone is a frontier waiting to be discovered.

1. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free.

1. The Family Man (2000)

What if you made different choices? What if you said yes, instead of no? What if you got a second chance?

1. Memento (2000)

Some memories are best forgotten.

1. The Emperor’s Club (2002)

In everyone’s life there’s that one person who makes all the difference.

1. Jerry Maguire (1996)

Show Me The Money!

1. The Merchant Of Venice (2004)

Love is Blind!

1. Pay It Forward (2000)

#1 – It has to be something that really helps people.

#2 – Something they can’t do by themselves.

#3 – I do it for them, they do it for three other people.

These are the rules when you pay it forward

1. The Postman (1997)

It is 2013. War has crippled the Earth. Technology has been erased. Our only hope is an unlikely hero.

1. The Green Mile (1999)

Paul Edgecomb didn’t believe in miracles. Until the day he met one.

1. Crash (2004)

You think you know who you are. You have no idea.

1. Tape (2001)

Some things can’t be erased.

1. Scarface (1983)

In the spring of 1980 the port at Mariel Harbor was opened, and thousands set sail for the United States. They came in search of the American Dream. One of them found it on the sun washed avenues of Miami… wealth, power and passion beyond his wildest dreams. He was Tony Montana but the world will remember him by another name… Scarface.

1. Patch Adams (1998)

Laughter is contagious.

No, Thank You

First of all, you gotta watch the movie, “Thank You For Smoking.”

It is pretty interesting and pretty funny.

And well, you’re welcome, thank you for providing me with the smoke and keep the supply coming.

كتير بنعشق

كتير بنعشق ولا بنطول،

و كتير بنعشق ولا بنقول،

و مفيش حكاية بتستمر، زي مبدئت ليه على طول…

في عشق بيستانانا،

و عشق بنستناه،

و عشق بينسينا العشق اللي عشقناه…

القلب اللي بيجرحنا،

في حاجة أكيد جرحاه،

و جراحنا بتفكرنا، بالجرح اللي جرحناه..

These words are the lyrics to the Soundtrack of the latest Ahmad El Sa’a movie which I will wait to watch when shown in theatres here in Dubai, something that I am disgusted with. For some reason I have already set my mind to think of Ahmad El Sa’a as more of the action actor, also a thriller actor but I am not a fan of his in the romantic department and if not that clear via the name of the movie عن العشق و الهوى then I have been told it is a romance.

Yet the song and the scenes that are shown within the song’s video clip make me wanna watch it asap, somehow the song’s words got to me so badly, deep inside, touched some soft spot in there, and held on to something of my history in the same department. What I have done, how I felt, how I made others feel, the good moments and the bad moments.

The question is: Why doesn’t anything continue, go on, the way it started especially when it is good, specially when it is romantic, when it is love?

I think once I can watch that movie, well I will somehow relate to it…

Four Recommendations

I just watched ‘Click’ today, starring Adam Sandler and Kate Beckinsale, and the always brilliant Christopher Walken… Anyways the thing is the movie is not just a Sandler Comedy like we are used to, it has a point, a good one, you would love it so that goes as a recommendation…

Superman returns is worth watching, not a Batman Begins though, or even an X-Men 3, yet it was interesting through out plus I perceive Kate Bosworth as hot and Kevin Spacey is one of my favorite actors so the movie must interest me anyways.

Over The Hedge, watched it for the second time and loved it all over again, the movie is very funny and I couldn’t stop laughing. Bruce Willis can be real funny…

Silent Hill goes under the category of horror. It is an amazing movie although there is one surprising and annoying dilemma about it, why does Sean Bean take minor roles in movies although he is a talented actor, you can watch the Lord Of The Rings if you doubt that.

Well I recommend these movies for now… Watch them only if you are willing to risk your own time and end up finding my taste in movies awful…

American Pie Trilogy

A few funny things about the three movies:

1. How since I saw Shannon Elizabeth in American Pie 1 for the first time I could never remember her and picture her dressed.

1. How Finch kept calling Steve’s mother, ‘Stifler’s Mom’

How I keep watching the three parts again and again and laughing again and again every time like I am watching them for the first time.

Yacoubian Building

Sometime ago I got to watch the great screwed up movie of Yacoubian Building and I can’t manage but ask one question. What the fuck does the author, director and all the actors in this movie aim at?

So apparently everyone who read this book went crazy about it, the great book, the great story, the what the fuck were they all talking about? This is simply a porno in disguise. Apparently the great Egyptian movie should not be allowed for people above 50 and not above 18, apparently this is not a movie to be shot in Egypt, apparently this is everything against customs and traditions. Let’s see.

First of all this movie is the kind of movie that tells the viewer that the Egyptian community is a community of horny, drunken idiots who care about stuff of minor importance, idiots, sex addicts, something that does not hold true, and something that people in other Arab countries seem to think of Egypt all the time cause the Egyptian media and what it injects in the minds of those people. I have never seen the media of a community working so hard on tainting the image of that community except for the Egyptian media and the idiots in Egypt he applaud for no apparent reason whatsoever.

I will not ruin the despicable, joke of a movie for you but I will just say in the loudest voice I have: I fucking object to this….

Absolutely Nothing

If you are busy and you have something better to do than check out this blog, then I advise you to turn around and go do it cause you are about to witness a post about nothing. This is a post about various and random statements I am about to make that apparently do not relate at all. If you don’t have anything better to do then read this but also you gotta see a therapist for that and try your best to get a life:

1. Last night, I watched the Lake House and apparently at some point in the movie I had a couple of tears. I don’t see why but apparently I am developing a freaking huge soft spot that shouldn’t be on me. I hate that.

1. Apparently Sandra Bullock is one of the best actresses to convince you of sadness when she looks all uncomfortable and her eyes are red and sad, didn’t know that, I used to think of Sandra Bullock as better at comedy.

1. Hate Keanu Reeves in most of his movies except for the Matrix and the Devil’s advocate and apparently I did love sweet November only for the sexy Charlize Therone yet I liked his acting in Lake House.

1. I tend to work a lot these days I only noticed today that I have had a bad headache for two weeks and I have done nothing about it and have not felt it being that horrible until I came to be really free and not for long.

1. I keep criticizing relationships and women in relationships and keep saying that I don’t wanna go into one ever again and wanna concentrate on my career which is my most important dream and yet when I dream of career I am thinking career that will make a wife and kids proud of me. Guess I want what I say I don’t want after all. Yet that does not mean that I will stop making fun of women and relationships just so you know and never come back telling me I contradict myself.

1. I lost an interview at a very great TV station for a consultative position, not because I don’t have the skills necessary.

Apparently, the feedback I got was, “He has the skills necessary to perform the job, he seems excellent at what he does. The problem is he was relaxed during the interview and so confident for someone being interviewed.”

Apparently this is always a problem, people want you to be scared like shit when you are proposing to parents or interviewing or whatever. They want your level of confidence to be zero. What if I know I a doing the right thing and what if that gets me all confident and relaxed. People are totally abnormal.

1. I tend to try to do everything perfectly to an extent that I get all tense when things don’t go as I expect.

1. I am so active and yet for some reason I feel so lazy. What is it that I have got to do in excess of what I do in order to feel really active and full of energy?

1. What really interests me most in women’s looks are their legs followed by the chest area which is weird, I guess usually people go the other way round.

1. I tend to act like an activist at times when I start talking about problems in Egypt and in the Arab world, but indeed I am not an activist it is just that whatever it is that is happening is what makes me for starters live away from Egypt in order to be able to make a better life and many other things in process. I also hate what is happening around me cause I love to see things in perfect shape. Being patriotic to me is about wanting to live a good life cause that would in the end lead to wanting to see a good surrounding environment and hence working for it.

1. I hate to criticize people directly so I always tend to mention my flaws before them in the conversation and work my way to mentioning their flaws from that point.

1. I believe love is not about finding the perfect person, it is about seeing an imperfect person perfectly, yet I think people shouldn’t abuse the fact that you have to see them perfectly by trying to act like total asses.

1. I have been a jerk in many relationships when I was younger and I honestly apologize for that and I know I seem like a nice guy but well, you become nice by starting off weird or so I believe.

1. I really believe I have to taste the sour to taste the sweet but it is getting so sour over here I am starting to believe the sweet doesn’t exist.

1. My eyes get filled with tears every time I think that someday I may wake up and my dad would be dead. I hope he has the longest life possible and I hope I do die before any of those I love and care for.

1. I am so addicted to sitcoms and comedy shows to the extent I have started lately to spend more time watching those on my free time and less time watching anything else.

1. I tend to be scared every time I walk into a new class to lecture a new batch of CMA candidates yet I act in total confidence I look them in the eye and when they ask about my age I tell them I am 26 like it is normal that everyone there would be 1.5 times my age.

1. I miss having my best friend around so badly I usually feel so lonely and unable to talk to anyone even though I may be surrounded by a lot of friends.

1. Sometimes I feel I had something on my mind and I keep trying to remember what it was although deep inside I am 100% confident I wasn’t thinking about anything and there was absolutely nothing on my mind.

1. I tend to worry a lot, I try my best to hide it and I succeed at most times and it is very hard to bottle up.

1. I act in arrogance or so people think I do although I am only overly confident, why shouldn’t I be?

1. I don’t believe I am that much of a good person like I claim to be.

I keep talking about the importance of hope although I usually feel I am never gonna make my dreams.