It's Monday once again, time to be a couch potato again. :) Before I go on talking about my movie for this week, I just wanted to say that I panicked a bit mid last week, when I couldn't find the embed codes for YouTube videos. I thought it was because of Google Chrome, which my cousin installed after reformatting my net book and switching the OS to Windows 7, but when I downloaded the newest Firefox and Internet Explorer, the YouTube page kinda looked the same. I really thought I can no longer join this meme, but thankfully, I found the embed button. If you're like me and you wanna know where to find the embed code for YouTube videos, just click the "share" button, and under the link code, you will see the "embed" button.

On to my movie. This week, it's about "age-swapping" movies, and I think the best movie for me of this genre would be:






Big (1988). Watching the trailer gives you the gist of the story, but if for some reason you can't watch the trailer, the story is about a boy named Josh Baskin, who was tired of being a "kid." One night at the carnival, he wished for himself to become big, and the next day, he woke up in a 30-year old body, played by Tom Hanks. Being the man that he now is, he must live an adult life through the mind of a young boy.

I remembered watching this movie through betamax when I was grade 4 (pretty much the time the movie was released), and Tom Hanks became my first celebrity crush because I really loved his portrayal of the movie, and I loved his "happy-go-lucky" nature, though at that age, I also felt awkward with certain scenes involving kissing and "sleepover," because as a viewer, I knew Josh was still a kid. Anyway, I think the main reason for me loving this movie is that when I was young, I also daydream about becoming "big," as I was tired being in school and be the object of bullying, I even daydream that my whole childhood was a dream and I would wake up as a woman having to go to work, but yes, just like what was said in the movie, "we were only young once." Funny that when we were kids we hoped to becoming adults, and now that we are adults, we hoped we could be kids again.

*** Jenn ***