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whatre your favorite movies? longest list gets 10 pts!?

thanks!! and no copy and pasting other peoples, that's cheating.

i get to watch a crapload of movies this summer ---- so whatre your favorite movies??

1-Forest Gump
2-The lion King
3-how to lose a guy in 10 days
4-the perfect man
5-Tarzan
6-The hills have eyes
7-the hills have eyes 2
8-summer fever
9-american pie
10-16 candles
11-The Bourne identity
12-The Bourne Ultimatum
13-a walk to remember
14-cast away
15-Fight Club
16-Step up 1&2
17-harry potter (all)
18-Juno
19-I am legend
20-Wayne's World
21-the 5 people you meet in heaven
22-To kill a mocking bird
23-the birds
24-The shining
25-The Wizard Of Oz
26-Die hard
27-V for Vendetta
28-Iron Man
29-Little Miss Sunshine
30-Indiana Jones (all)
31-king kong
32-rosemary's baby
33-the kid
34-big daddy
35-JTMD
36-Finding Nemo
37-Narnia (all)
38-Legally Blonde (all)
39-The princess diary's
40-Ratatouille
41-The Princess Bride
42-The Eye
43-Disturbia
44-One Missed Call
45-30 Days of Night
46-1408
47-Princess Bride
48-Gone with the wind
49-the notebook
50-billy Elliot
51-Predator
52-Scarface
53-The departed
54-The Titanic
55-The nightmare before christmas
56-Aladian
57-The little Mermaid
58-snow white
50-Cinderella
60-enchanted

THERE YOU GO, 60 GREAT MOVIES!
Please pick me, this took 3125789690 minutes!

Mom's Movie Madness Moment

I watched a very scary movie a couple nights back! It has been over a decade since I viewed a flick that had me spooked beyond all reason long after it was finished. Later, as we settled into bed, I would not let my husband fall asleep before me. I edged my back so tightly against his that I am sure the rippled imprint of my backbone was impressioned upon him. I was tense, nervous and at the same time could not believe how ridiculous I felt. Similar to the movie, I awoke in the middle of the night and was terrified to glance at the clock in case the time was the same deadly hour portrayed in the "based on a true story" movie. Luckily, my fears began to subside as dawn broke and it has been smooth sailing in the sanity division ever since. The problem with this picture is that I am a mom. I am no longer a teenager who can feel fear. I am no longer simply a wife who can experience apprehension. I am a know-all facts, disbelieving in ghosts, not afraid of natural disasters, subsiding the fears of my children, Mom. No...Super-mom.

It is one thing to explain to your children that some people may believe in supernatural, it is another thing to sit down after children are in beds and fear the notion yourself. When my son has seen something on a movie that unsettles him, I am the person who calms his fears and eases his nerves. How would I ever be able to keep that status if he sees the uncertainty and beads of nervous sweat crossing my brow? As the storms blow their gusty winds on a rainy winter night, how can I soften the intensity when I too may believe that a spook lay in wait in the darkened corner? Even on the reality side, when my son hears through the schoolyard grapevine about kidnapping and other atrocities, I only reassure him that he is safe in my arms and then proceed to recheck locked doors, peer through the window when people stop too near our house and insist our bulldog check out unexpected after hour bumps and bangs.

Our children see us as flawless in the manner of protector. We irritate them dearly when they are denied extra sweets or sent to bed on time, but we are the shield of magical steel they depend on when it comes to the unpleasantries of their vivid imagination. I can remember my own childhood. One evening, I was denied the opportunity of finishing the television version of Jeremiah Johnson and was livid at my own mother for her callousness of impeding my cinematic thrill. I must have harshly cursed her in my own innocent way before falling to sleep on that particular school night. But after awaking from a dreamtime terror, I was rushing headfirst down our darkened hallway, headed for the sanctuary of the foot of her bed. There was no need to wake her. No need to turn on lights. No need to avoid laying by the notorious "underneath the bed" area. The general vicinity of my mom kept me safe from everything - safe from spirits, safe from burglars, safe from bullies, safe from mean store clerks and especially safe from any nightmare interrupting my slumber. There was no one who could break the perceived circle of protection that my mother had and when in doubt all I had to do was ask her and she assuredly would acknowledge her motherly power of anti-bad guy wizardry.

And now I have this circle of power. My circle is regularly visited from my kids, whether they are running from animals, shying away from strangers, dodging each other's feisty swipes of sibling aggression or even avoiding dad's impatient bellow and empty promise of a swift whack for not following his instruction. Now my motherly safety bubble gives my children a sense of security. And, because one day I will inevitably fall from superhero status, as long as my kids believe in my power, I will determinably live up to it.

So what do I do about this occasional flare up of vulnerable trepidation? Number one - it is good to be honest with your kids that sometime even Mom gets scared at movies. There is nothing like a little relatability to pull a young one through a troubled moment (i.e. Mom says "there are times even I get scared of stories, but I know everything will be okay, especially if I sleep with my blankie/hug my favorite teddy/etc.). Number two - realize that time heals everything. This ranges from a skinned knee to a broken heart to a frazzled mind bewildered by televised visions of piercing evil eyes. And number three, I have given my husband a fully executable right to smack me upside the head with a bunch of overly ripe, brown spotted bananas the next time I even remotely consider renting a movie that has any form of the word "exorcism" in it!

 

About the Author

Sherri Dodd has chosen a lifestyle of fitness since taking up racquetball at age fourteen. Always aspiring to teach others the benefits of exercise and eating right, she transformed her lifestyle into a career shortly after becoming an ACE-certified Personal Trainer and an ACE-certified Lifestyle & Weight Management Consultant.

Since that time, she has trained individually, at a prestigious swim and racquet club and has developed departmental fitness programs for one of Silicon Valley's most respected corporations. Combining the joy of becoming a full-time mother with her fitness goals, Sherri kept notes of her physical recovery from two pregnancies and decided to expand the notes into her first published book, Mom Looks Great. After a few years online, Mom Looks Great was re-edited and made into an ebook.

EXCITING! Most recently, Sherri was recruited as Head Coach and spokesperson to Slimvia, a new and innovative approach to food cravings through the use of natural supplementation. Sherri is also a Kickboxing Instructor, Self-Defense Instructor, and a freelance writer on the subjects of exercise, nutrition and the lighter side of motherhood.

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Looking inside from the inside
In May last year, in a moving ritual that entailed me kneeling on the floor before my Editor-in-Chief whilst he ceremoniously dropped ash on my shoulder from his hand-rolled cigarette, I was dubbed Roving Editor in the hope was that I would make some dramatic, eye-catching horological discoveries during my international roving.

Tips to Maximize Your Movie Ipod’s Battery

It is quite easy to maximize the battery life of your Movie iPod. If you follow the following two tips, they will help you gain more power to watch your favorite movies or listen to your favorite music on your video ipod. When you try them, you'll see how easy it is to achieve longer ipod battery life. This is useful because it is a an inconvenience to start an ipod movie download and then discover during the process that the ipod battery power is low, forcing an interruption with your download sometimes more than half way through.

First Tip: This tip allows you to gain over 3 hours of movie playback on your 30GB Movie iPod

According to the user’s manual, one full charge of the 30GB movie/video iPod will give you two hours of video playback. Nonetheless, if you compress your movies for iPod during playback and you do not mind giving up a little bit on image size, you would gain almost 3 hours of straight movie/video play. On the 60GB model, you will gain an extra 40 minutes.

Without question, movies with smaller picture sizes, lower bitrates and frame rates, will play longer on one charge than a larger movie file with higher settings. Using MPEG-4 compression, two hours of a full-screen movie, scaled down to only 192 x 144 and at 15 frames per second will play for three hours. Using 15 frames per second instead of 30 and a smaller scale boosts the video playback time considerably.

When using a higher scale, again with MPEG-4 compression, you will get less movie playback time. At what time you use the scale the same size as the movie iPod’s screen, 320 x 240 at 29.97 frames per second and the average bitrate set to 1000Kbps, your movie will play for about two hours before your battery goes out. Run a test for yourself using both settings and see which one you prefer. In any case, if extending your battery life for more movie playback time is your primary goal, definitely use the smaller scale and lower frames per second speed.

Second Tip: Disregard your fast forward button

Regarding saving the movie ipod battery power, the disadvantages of using fast forward button on your iPod far out weighs the advantages. If you desire to have the maximum amount to your battery power to watch your movies or listen to your music, keep your finger off the fast forward button! Remember that the life of your battery is ruled by the requests made on your video iPod’s mechanical hard drive, how many times it has to rewind and read data. This is true especially when you shuffle through your library.

The truth remains that there is very little reason to shuffle through your movie library, because the movie iPod winds through the hard drive at regular intervals, loading your next songs into its solid-state memory. What happens at the times that you shuffle or fast forward is that you actually empty the memory

Emptying your movie ipod library causes your hard drive to work harder. It must now rewind again to read ahead a bunch more movies and/or music. It is a waste of energy, which creates unnecessary wear and tear on your movie iPod. Keeping your play lists short is the easy workaround to avoid the fast-forward button temptation. Take the time to edit your play lists you do not want to have to delete them from the files.

Lastly, you should follow the manuals instructions carefully. The manual likely has maintenance tips that will help you get the most out of your ipod. You can also find helpful information that will guide you through the process of saving your memory and battery while using your iPod.

About the Author

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What are some movies about long distance relationships?

My bf and I are in a long distance relationships so I'm interested in finding some movies about long distance relationships.

So far I've got:
Cold Mountain
Mrs. Beatrix Potter

And I know I had a bunch more but I can't think of them at the moment.
Thanks soooo much for your help guys and girls!

The lake house
You've Got Mail
Sleepless in Seattle
The Love Letter
Gone with the wind
The notebook
a walk to remember

i don't know

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