With the spring weather already here, the classic summer films must come out. Yeah, you know the ones. Just like Christmas, except these are the films that get you in the mood for those long summer days, with the birds chirping and those savory dinners you have outside served with all the wine you need to forget your problems. We are currently in our second week of having perfect weekend weather. As I write this, those beautiful birds are chirping, Marnie is perched by the open window as the calm wind blows and I’m on the couch with a glass of cold water as I watch The Parent Trap.
I don’t know if I told you, but I’m either a psychic or some kind of witch, because just YESTERDAY, I was thinking that this weather is perfect for writing and watching The Parent Trap. I don’t know what it is about this movie that makes me love it so much. Maybe it’s that it captures what summer felt like to me as a kid or maybe it’s because it has a great soundtrack? Whatever it is, it’s definitely a nostalgia thing, that’s for sure. Anyways, as I turned on the television, what do I find on, but this lovely film.
See, PSYCHIC.
I actually did a film review about this last year, which you can check out here!
As I mentioned, this is not the only film that gets me in the mood for nicer weather. As I go through the list, I’ve discovered a lot of them consist of people traveling to Italy — Letters to Juliet, Under the Tuscan Sun, and The Lizzie McGuire Movie are all Italian summer films that I HAVE to watch during the warmer seasons. If I try and analyze why this is, I think the easiest answer is that it’s because all of these appear to happen during the summer and it’s entails people going on a “vacation” of some sort. So, vacation + summer = perfect summer movie. Makes sense, right? Julie and Julia is also a good one, if only because it makes me want to cook, which I also associate with summer. Is that weird?
Do you have movies that you watch during the spring/summer seasons? What are they? Let me know in the comments!
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