The problems with the story are many. Suffice it to say John Cusack and crew should have had the Superman 'S' emblazoned upon everything they wore. There were so many close escapes – and impossible escapes – that even Roger Moore’s James Bond would have been embarrassed (a difficult feat, to say the least). Worse yet, the story gets a lot of the facts wrong too.

That got me wondering about my favorites - for now anyway - and what sort of list I would have.

So here it is - my favorite movies that have over the years provided me reasons to laugh and think. There's no particular order.

Kids come from all over to use the park. There are four year olds and high school seniors, and the occassional 40 year old with his kid.

The most amazing thing isn't the out of control jumps and flips, or the speed and the crashes. It's the environment. Boarders have a bad rep.

It's imprtant to Wooden that he hasn't cussed in 76 years. (That's not a value I give a damn about.) He believes coaches and players yelling at the referees is a sign the are out of control. I can't argue with that.

There are 150 smaller chateaus in the north and west of France that have beeen turned into Bed and Breakfasts. But these places, while wonderful to stay and spend time in, are only launching points. Throughout the Loire Valley region are massive castles that have dominated this region since the 1400s. These massive complexes are surreal in their appearance and grandeur for a native mid-western boy. The quality of their craftsmanship, the intricacy of design, and the completeness of their grounds bely their age. Moats and gardens, drawing rooms with ceilings two stories tall, spiral staircases that allow two people to traverse them opposite each other (thank you Leonardo Da Vinci!): these mamouth structures seem to be quietly waiting their rediscovery by the modern world that is in desparate need of its own renaissance (at least in the U.S.).

At first the question seems self-apparent in the issues it raises. But thinking deeper I realized that there was more, much more, to the query being posited and that the answers lie within the question itself.