This is a truly awesome motion picture. It is presented as a super comedy, yet it is really an extremely serious picture. In a most amusing way, it graphically shows how extremely terrible and severely destructive it is for a person to be selfish.

Along with this major theme, it also demonstrates that when a person is racing after something that he or she very desperately wants, he or she will not even think about the petty concerns (e.g., “I gotta go change my clothes because I got a spot on my shirt!”) that people so often get all caught up in.

Furthermore, when the movie was made in 1963, $350,000 (the amount of the buried treasure that everyone was running after) was clearly an astronomical sum. Today in 2007 though, with many years of heavy inflation, it is not an earth shattering quantity at all. So when we view this picture today, we realize an additional lesson, that people often fight about and go wild over things that are quite insignificant.

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There are really eight movies that are my favorites, and I will list them here. This list is not exclusive, for I am sure that there are many other great productions out there, many of which I do not even know about. These eight though are ones that I do know about and think are very, very good.

MY FAVORITE MOVIES

1. IT’S A MAD MAD MAD MAD WORLD

2. THE MUSIC MAN
(The original 1962 version with Robert Preston)

3. MARY POPPINS
(The original 1964 screen play with Julie Andrews)

4. WEST SIDE STORY

5. OKLAHOMA!

6. BABES IN TOYLAND
(The 1961 version with Ray Bolger, Tommy Sands, and Annette Funicello)

7. COMA

8. ANNIE
(The original 1982 version with Albert Finney and Aileen Quinn)