March and Movies

Well, Ang and I had another wonderful weekend together, but it is getting harder and harder not having her around during the week. It'd be nice doing some of the everyday, little things together. We have so much to plan for our future, but it's tough to discuss those things over the phone. Since I only see her about every other weekend, I want our weekends to be special and not wasted with tedious tasks like studying, planning wedding stuff, and figuring out future finances. It's difficult planning this way and I wouldn't recommend long distance engagements to any one, but I know it'll all be worth it in the end. We'll get it all planned out some how.

I can't complain with life though. March is really a great month! The sun is coming out already and the weather's getting better--I was even able to run outside this week. My birthday is this month too. Plus, the greatest sporting event of the year is about to kick off. I can't wait for March Madness. The tournament is flawless, except for that weird 64-65 play-in game that no one really knows why it's there. Yeah, it adds one more team in for an at-large bid, but I don't think that's really needed. You also hear a lot of analysts and coaches complain they should expand the tournament even more for more of these at-large, bubble teams to get in; but what they are always forgetting is that it is already a 300+ tournament that just starts a couple weeks before. It's win or go home starting with the conference tournaments. If these teams really want to get off the bubble, then don't lose in their tournaments. The NCAA tournament is win or go home, so if they can't win in their conference tournaments, they probably don't have a good chance of winning anything in the regular tourney either. It's merely flawless as is; you just can never please some people. I'm extremely excited for it though!

Last of all, in honor of the Oscars, I thought I would return to my top 5 lists. Here are my best actors and movies.

Actors (with my favorite of their flicks)

HM. Ed Norton - (American History X)

5. Leo - (Catch Me If You Can, Blood Diamond)

4. Tom Cruise - *Crazy, but he makes good movies (Minority Report, A Few Good Men, Jerry Maguire, Last Samurai)

3. Denzel Washington - (Glory, John Q, Man on Fire, Deja Vu, Training Day, Great Debaters, Remember the Titans)

2. Will Smith - (Independence Day, Men in Black, Hitch, Pursuit of Happiness, Seven Pounds)

1. Matt Damon - (Bourne movies, Ocean's movies, Good Will Hunting)

Actresses

(This was hard to make - I don't really have a lot of favorite actresses... some of them may have to do with just crushes at one point)

HM. Jennifer Love Hewitt (Can't Hardly Wait, Heartbreakers)

5. Jordana Brewster (Fast and Furious)

4. Catherine Zeta Jones (Zorro, Entrapment, The Terminal)

3. Keri Russell (August Rush, Bedtime Stories, Honey I Blew Up the Kid)

2. Sandra Bullock (Blind Side, While You Were Sleeping, The Net, Crash)

1. Claire Danes (Little Women, Brokedown Palace, Stardust, Romeo + Juliet)

Comedy/ Romance films

(honorable mention - Airplane!, Ocean's movies, Shanghai movies)

5. Ferris Bueller's Day Off

4. Billy Madison

3. Win a Date With Tad Hamilton

2. Fletch

1. Hitch

Drama/ Inspirational

(Glory, Gladiator, American History X, Good Will Hunting, & A Few Good Men...all edited of course; John Q & Finding Forrester)

5. Seven Pounds

4. October Sky

3. The Last Samurai

2. The Pursuit of Happiness

1. Braveheart

Sports Movies

(Might Ducks I &II, Forever Strong, Pride, Rudy... Still gotta see Invictus)

5. Remember The Titans

4. Blind Side

3. Cool Runnings

2. Hoosiers

1. Rocky (1 - 4)

Action/ Sci-fi

(Star Wars, The Rock, Back to the Future movies)

5. Chronicles of Narnia

4. Avatar

3. Batman (the original and the 2 latest)

2. Lord of the Rings

1. Bourne Series (Ultimatum tops the list)

Others

(Big Fish, Ray, Blank Check, Airborne, Willow, August Rush)

5. Goofy Movie

4. Forrest Gump

3. That Thing You Do

2. Catch Me If You Can

1. The Count Of Monte Cristo