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If you always do as you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten.

My Big Fat Greek Wedding", my wife and I lived that movie, sans spitting for good luck (that was an Athenian custom, he family was from the island of Chios, and my father in law did not use windex....oh and the lamb was roasted on a spit in the back yard, not the front. Fortythree years later, the younger generation of Greeks are all marrying non-Greeks, but all in the Greek church. I guess my wife and I "broke the ice"

I really would like to say Enchanted where you have cute fluffy creatures singing to you and helping out. Prince Charming, making elaborate ball gowns from curtains and bursting out in song every other minute but lately its more like a stressed out horror flick where I am driven to work out my homicidal urges. Sigh, I really have to meditate more or learn how to hide the evidence better. I have no idea what picture that is.
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"Enjoy life, it's ungrateful not to." - Ronald Reagan

Top Gun, of course. I love flying and my life is the highway to the danger zone.. Yuuuup.

Right now all I can think of is The Wedding Date. It doesn't really represent my life, but the part towards the end where Dermot Mulroney tells Debra Messing that she'll hold on to this hurt just long enough to ruin her next relationship. That was a notable line for me because it reminds me that you can carry the same hurts a very very long way if you don't let go of them.

This weekend I watched an old black and white movie, Madame Bovary. Madame Bovary was never happy with what she had, always wanted more, and in the end it ruined her. So, don't be Madame Bovary I guess is the moral of the story.

I was thinking Debbie Does ... Oh wait, my life not my fantasies.

Simpsons Movie. Homer messes up, but tries to do the right thing.

Shoot I don't know.
That's a tough one.
I would have to say "Fools Rush In" (minus the getting married quickly 'cause she's knocked up).
The fiesty Latina that marries the sweet white guy.

Garden State

I'm still trying to think of mine, you all came up with yours SO easily! LOL

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If you always do as you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten.

Oh and Dave? I doubt your wife would like to be thought of as "Debbie..."

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If you always do as you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten.

Damn, how old are you guys? That movie has got to be at least 30 years old.

You're movie is almost older than I am Grandpa.

I'm gonna need some time to think about this one...good question Mykie!

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Hope is no basis for a defense policy. ~ Margaret Thatcher

Grandpa, I'm pushin' 40. Pushin' it hard too so it keeps ahead of me and I never get there.

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If you always do as you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten.

I know what My life is! "When Harry met Sally!"

SO Totally me! My husband and I were friends for a LONG time before we were together, we were both attendants in the others first weddings which ended badly. We lost touch for a while, and then reconnected, and I've actually sat on the couch and cried that "I would be 40 some day!"

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If you always do as you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten.

So what did you order in the Deli? Corned beef or Pastrami?
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"Enjoy life, it's ungrateful not to." - Ronald Reagan

I had what she was having.

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If you always do as you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten.

I have no idea what movie my life resembles. But it would have to be something more like a soap opera with all the crap that has gone on with my step-daughters.

My first impulse is to say "Wizard of Oz" because I think I'll always be young at heart, but I'm really questioning if I picked it because it is one of my all-time favorites...

I'm leaning toward Funny Face - with the whole dorky bookshop girl, but I hope I'm not as annoying as Jo (Audrey)... and that my husband isn't as far apart in age with me as Dick (Fred Astaire). Ok... now that i just said all of that I realize that Funny Face definitely does not represent me

Third time's a charm --- here goes --- the movie that represents me is Finding Neverland. Reason being is that I have such a wild and vivid imagination and when I'm around children it always comes out. Plus, I'm a writer so I try to harness that dreamlike imagination into words, and while it doesn't always work, the process is always interesting.

That was tough and took up entirely too much of my work time

skb...what about Stepmom with Julia Roberts?

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Hope is no basis for a defense policy. ~ Margaret Thatcher

I am going to skip the obvious. I would say High Fidelity pretty much nails me and my friends. Mostly the music know-it-all/snob part. I would say that was pretty much my college experience, sitting around debating the top five b-sides of 1968 with my friends, and then belittling each other relentlessly for our selections. All of us holding himself as the supreme musical being in the galaxy in terms of knowledge and taste, while holding a great pity and disdain for the musical peons listening to "top 40" radio that surrounded us. "You don't have it? That is perverse. Don't tell anybody you don't own f-ing Blonde on Blonde. (Sigh) It's gonna be okay. (Hug)" I think the first present I bought my wife was "Blonde on Blonde." Ultimately, we were just a bunch of underachieving slobs that spent way too much time and effort searching out every obscure band/film/novel in the known universe, but we thought we were cool. If we had devoted a little of that time and effort towards maybe school or something we might actually be useful humans.

I almost dumped him when we were dating because he gave me such a hard time for LOVING old Metallica. He is a jerk about music.

I think Saw 3 best describes me life....and hobbies.

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Hope is no basis for a defense policy. ~ Margaret Thatcher

No, for my college years it would have to be Dazed and Confused mixed with Reality Bites. The drugs, the music, the friends, the questioning everything, etc. Now, I don't know. I will have to think about it. At the same time that I was sitting stoned talking about the movie Tron, Dude was playing chess in a coffee house with a guy in a cardigan and pajama pants. We soooo wouldn't have dated then.

Roman Holiday. Mostly because of the stellar acting ability and it's honest. They don't end up together,she chooses her career, that was unheard of at that time.

Dude, you so have to meet my hubby. You two can sit and BS about obscure music and stuff while I go out with your wife and we pick up other men.
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"Enjoy life, it's ungrateful not to." - Ronald Reagan

dang you all are making me laugh! and for that I THANK YOU!!!

Mine is Bridget Jones progressing to Pretty Woman (well not exactly entirely! lol) and ending with a bang with me starring as Annie Oakley!

her career as a princess? I'd most definitely choose that over love any day!

btw, what a FUN post Mykie! plus we are learning a LOT about each other -YIKES! --- wow! lol!

I'd love to be the girl in 'The Ring' though...that whole Christian thing gets in the way.

syako...I agree. Too bad I'm not a princess *but it doesn't mean you can't be just as dignified*

"Dude, you so have to meet my hubby. You two can sit and BS about obscure music and stuff while I go out with your wife and we pick up other men."

I don't think it would be a very long conversation. I have submitted. All I listen to now is Fergie and Britney. Wink emoticon thingy.

When I was younger, it was definitely the movie, "Clueless". All I really cared about was my family, clothes, my friends, boys, and what we were doing on the weekend...and what would I wear. I seriously was that character Cher, before the film came out and after the film came out. I was/and still do...always unknowingly having 'blonde moments' & getting into strange situations, yet I always landed on my feet. (My family is still amazed I get through life, like a cat). A few examples throughout my life....the time when I accidentally hit the drivers ed car (I was driving), into the other parked drivers ed car. I told the teacher I had never parked before (he didn't listen). Only I didn't grow up in a mansion...just middle class. Then, I got a little older (mid-20's) my car broke down on the interstate in Atlanta....and who offers me a ride, a guy whose driving a limo (and then sat there while I tried to figure out for 5 minutes whether I should get in or not. I got in and it was fine...but I don't advise anyone to do it). My most recent moment was when I had jury duty...and I swear every time I left the courtroom, I would get turned around and the guards and the policemen, standing there at their posts....would envitably point which direction I needed to go, in order to get to the ladies room or just outside (they we're all really nice and got a good chuckle). Then, they would have to direct me back to the courtroom. (I have no sense of direction at all...except in a mall.) Actually, I think that movie still fits me.

I would say its an amalgam of a couple different:

Terms of Endearment-my relationship with my mother/grandmother, the death of a parent at a young age, a father who was unfaithful

Parenthood-My family is just that crazy.

Dawn of the Dead- Oh wait thats what I wish life was like, zombies, malls, george romero all day everyday.

Pam, you're welcome, but thank Grandpa. He was the one that put the idea in my head. LMAO

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If you always do as you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten.

ok! thank you Grandpa--

Mykie is too kind, but sure turned to be a fun thread to follow.

This is a great question and thread! I have to think on it for mine. Will report back later...

This is fun, but I change moods at random intervals.

Army of Darkness

Michael Douglas in Falling Down, or maybe Jack Nicholson in Anger Management.
Sometimes, more like Betty White in Lake Placid.
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The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money. -- Alexis de Tocqueville

ROTFL Laine! Betty in Lake Placid huh? That is one of mine and hubby's FAVORITE movies, and I ALWAYS crack up laughing at Betty White's foul mouth. I LOVE her in that movie!

And I think we ALL have a little Michael Douglas in falling down in us.
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If you always do as you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten.

I just love her character because it's so unexpected.
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The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money. -- Alexis de Tocqueville

Unexpected is right. LOL I was mad at her for sacrificing the cows though!

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If you always do as you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten.

Okay I'm de-lurking again. I like your posts mykie. Reality Bites is a good college one. I definitely went through a Forces of Nature period of time (with Sandra Bullock and Ben Affleck). I love that dumb movie so much. It represents the freedom of youth to me. Kate Winslet's character in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless mind comes the closest to my personality as I've ever seen on screen...no blue hair though. I also LOVE Baby Boom. I think that's where I want to end up.

HF, I'm not surprised by the fact that you'd choose Eternal Sunshine!

You know my so well sy!

You know ME...ME so well.

CG - Are we related? Parenthood definitely represents my life. Lots of kids, lots of nutty family members.

Oh and I forgot....when I was a kid it was all about the labyrinth. I loved getting lost in fantasy stories.