Top 5 Favorite Movies

1. Anchorman

My favorite movie of all time is easily Anchorman starring Will Ferrell. I feel like everyone has seen this movie at least once. I can literally quote this movie from begging to end. The movie is hilarious in many different ways. The movie involves a news team that is ranked number 1 over all of the other news teams. Will Ferrell's character is Ron Burgandy and he is the lead anchor on channel 4 news. They cover ridiculous stories like a water skiing squirrel, a cat fashion show, and the biggest story of them all is a rare pregnant panda. A new anchor comes in named Veronica Corningstone and the whole team tries to hook up with her. Ron's life takes a turn after Corningstone reads the news because run could not make it to the studio after his dog, Baxter, was punted off of a bridge. The competition ends when Corningstone puts a vulgar message on the teleprompter and Ron reads it on live television and is then fired. This movie is relatively dumb but is a must watch.

2. The Social Network

Although some people may think this movie is boring, I am extremely interested in it and entertained by it because of my love with technology and computers. This movie is based on the beginning of Facebook, started by Mark Zuckerberg. It follows his travels through Harvard and his beginning of Facebook as just a collegiate way to communicate with other students. However, he runs into trouble with lawsuits of the Winklevoss brothers who also attended Harvard and claims that Zuckerberg stole their idea. Zuckerberg was also sued by his best freind, Eduardo Saverin, after being removed as CFO of the company because of a falling out between Zuckerberg and Sean Parker, creator of Napster. I find this movie extremely interesting and highly recommend it.

3. Forrest Gump

This movie should probably be ranked higher because it is loved by so many but I decided to put it as number 3. This movie starts Tom Hanks and follows Forrest Gump throughout his life as he is telling the stories while waiting for a bus on a park bench. The movie starts with Gump's difficulties growing up and real historical events that he was involved in. The movie covers so many events and is also a thriller, drama, and romance because of his love for Jenny. This is definitely one of the best movies I have ever seen.

4. The Shawshank Redemption

I never get tired of watching this movie. This movie stars Morgan Freeman and occurs at Shawshank prison. The plot of this movie is just prison life in general and eventually leads to Andy Dufrain's escape of the prison after he was falsely accused of a murder. This movie is exciting and just a great watch and if you have yet to see it you must take the time to watch it. 

5. John Q

I just recently watched this movie for the third time with my girlfriend and realized how much I actually enjoy watching this movie. It stars Denzel Washington, whose character is John Archibald. The movie follows John's journey to find his son a new heart after collapsing at a baseball game because of his enlarged heart. John's son's heart is roughly 3 times the size of any other 9 year old. However, because John is relatively poor, he does not have enough money to make a down payment for the heart transplant for his son so he sells everything and the whole community helps by donating as much as they can for John's son. After finding out that his son is going to be released from the hospital prior to his surgery, John holds the hospital at gun point and refuses to leave until is son is put on the list for his surgery. I don't want to spoil too much but this movie is a great tear jerker and is also a thriller and I highly recommend this film.