I'm waiting for a train.

A train that will take me far away. I know where I hope this train will take me, but I can't know for sure. Hopefully it will be away from people who talk during movies.

I love movies. I watch them all the time. I quote them all the time. I try to make my life one as much of the time as possible. Every afternoon, when I come home from school, I do two things, always: get a snack and start a movie. If it's a movie I know very well, I can just listen and not watch. This makes it perfect for background noise as I do my homework. If it's a movie I don't know that well, or that I'm watching for the first time, I tend to sit there transfixed for two hours. No work gets done, but it's definitely an enjoyable experience.

I can't start a movie and not finish it. I feel sad, lonely, and incomplete. I can't handle people talking during movies. I'm trying to hear the dialogue for possible quoting opportunities, okay? We agreed to watch this movie, not to have a conversation during this movie. I can't concentrate on other things during a movie, unless I know it very well. I sit in my chair, hugging my knees, focused, with my mouth ajar, for two hours. Sometimes I might even drool.

I'll watch any type of movie. Action, drama, romcom, horror, animated, foreign films, anything. If you were to ask me what my favorite movies were, it'd be one of the most random collections. The only kind of movie I cannot stand, however, is one where everything goes wrong. They all usually follow the same pattern: start out promising, there's a misunderstanding -- or something trivial like that, and then the entire movie just flops for me. There's a very simple solution to this problem. It is not to wait until the end of the movie to reveal that there was a misunderstanding so that everything can magically return to normal. It is to admit the misunderstanding immediately and save an hour and thirty minutes of my time. I tried to think of a popular example, but I must have suffered through them so badly that I blocked them out of my memory once they were over.

My favorite place to watch a movie is, of course, in a theater. In a perfect world, I would visit a completely deserted movie theater every day after school. It would be great; I could get Sour Patch Watermelons, sit in the best seat (a middle row, a little to the right), laugh and cry as much as I wanted without anyone around to see. Unfortunately, I hardly ever go to the movie theater by myself, as that has been deemed "lame" by nearly all of my friends and family, nor do I have the 9 dollars to spend every day after school. The movie theater is never deserted, and I have to sob obnoxiously with everyone around me. This is particularly frustrating -- the Dobby death scene WAS sad, and that was NOT an overreaction.

If I see a movie, and I like it, I will watch it repeatedly. No exceptions. I saw Inception in theaters 8 times. I've watched it at my house many more than that. I'm watching it right now! Lord of the Rings, Spirited Away, The Prestige, Labyrinth, Pride and Prejudice, Clue, Help!, The Sting, Marie Antoinette, Ocean's 11... only a few examples of movies that I've seen upwards of 10 times. A lot of things can draw me to a movie. The most important thing would probably be the storyline, but in addition to that, the cast, the soundtrack, the costumes. There's even a period of time where I like every movie that I see. Eragon included -- and before Edward jumps on me, I'm not proud of that one.

Man, did this one get long, and I had so much more to say! I am beyond crushed, but I have made the decision not to continue this any longer. To sum it all up in three words, I love movies. The end!