Sweet Geebus I just saw

[MichaelHarris]

the movie "House of Sand and Fog" for the first time. What could the moral possibly be? Pay your property taxes on time? I was so depressed I had to watch "Rudy" 3 times in a row. Rudy, the only movie that makes dudes cry tears of joy.

[Abelman]

1. I had

a retort before I saw the "of joy" part.

Because everyone knows that if you want to make a dude cry in general you have them watch "Brian's Song."

[MichaelHarris]

2. awww man thanks

now I'm crying tears of sadness for Brian Piccolo

[Mojambo]

3. You guys are a couple of sissies man...

:cry:

Just kidding, you'd have to be a cyborg to not cry at Brian's Song.

[MichaelHarris]

4. ya know

another movie that made me cry was "The English Patient" I cried tears of 'what the f&$* am I still sitting here for'

[Ruffhowse]

5. I felt the same way after seeing "The Hours", a more aptly named movie

there never was. It went on for hours and hours and hours......

[MichaelHarris]

6. I never saw that one

but if it's like The English Patient then I'll make sure and miss it. Wonder what the boyfriend suicide rate was after that movie came out. I would truely slit my wrists in the aisles if I had to sit through that again.

[Ruffhowse]

7. Nicole Kidman as Virginia Wolf with Julianne Moore and Meryl Streep.

Basically a high brow chick flick about Virginia Wolf that is VERY talky. I found it really dull, dry and boring, but my wife loved it.

[MichaelHarris]

8. see that's the thing

wives and girlfriends talk us into these kinds of movies but when you want them to watch like a all day 3 Stooges marathon they freak out. More women should get in touch with their "stooges" side.

[Ruffhowse]

10. Hehehe, I know what you mean. I am always trying to get my wife to go

with me to the latest special effects laden action/adventure movie, but she always balks. Many times I end up going alone. I mean, how can anyone not like Spiderman? He is just so cool. :bounce:

[MichaelHarris]

12. I was all hyped to see National Treasure

it was very good but I wanted more. There is such a good story about Masons and knights templers. I hope someday we get that story.

On another note I like thrillers, zombies, chainsaw totin', ski mask wearin', wet your pants thrillers. Haven't had a good one in a while but I hope that new one about the missing kids will fill that void.

[Ruffhowse]

17. I love the thrillers too, the more lurid the better. I just watched

Gothika on DVD and it was pretty good.

[MichaelHarris]

18. I have a couple of "oldies" you may like

First is the original "Carnival of Souls", the 1962 one. If you can find the Criterion DVD with the funky green tint all the better. The backstory on it is cool also. The director, Herk Harvey taught at some University, Kansas I think and made industrial films. Those cool ones we remember as a kid with titles like, "Simple Techniques in Shaping Glass" and "How Plants Reproduce". His only mainstream film was Carnival of Souls, shot with like 20 bucks or something. Cheesy as all get out but some creepy moments.

The second one is "The Last Man on Earth". This is the movie "The Omega Man" is based on. Vincent Price rocks in it and if ever a movie needs to be remade it's this one. The one thing I never got was why in both movies The Heston/Price character fights vampires. Seems to me if you're the last man you would be fighting zombies. Borh movies are based on an earlier Italian movie so you know those Italians dig vampires so maybe the theme just carried over.

[MichaelHarris]

19. LOL check this out

I don't know how old you are but when I was a kid we had to sit through these films, some were pretty cool like seeing sausage squeeze out of a tube.

Movies by Heck Harvey
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0367547/


cool titles like:
Your Table Manners
Cindy Goes to a Party
Street Safety is Your Problem

Man those kill me, I'm ordering some of them

[RadicalMom]

14. Well I liked spidey...

And I'm a female. But then I'm also a left-wing semi-socialist artist-type married to a cartoonist/animator for 25 years, which makes me weird in the first place!

[MichaelHarris]

16. Welcome to DU

and I bet your a Marx Bros fan also, I can tell.

[RadicalMom]

20. Thanks for the welcome!

I'm not what you'd call a Marx Bros. fanatic, but what's not to love? And my favorite Lucy bit was the "mirror" moments with Harpo. Not of the same genre, but another beloved film, not a well known is "Rustler's Rhapsody," starring Tom Berrenger, with some priceless moments by Andy Griffith and Patrick Wayne, and the best dancing horse you'll ever see.

[tekriter]

13. Exactly! Just a couple of years ago my wife wouldn't go with me to see

Gumbymania!

Two hours of classic Gumby episodes on the big screen. I went anyway and it was great!
The crowd was really into it except for one guy with a board up his ass a mile long. In one episode Gumby was going to walk through a door that the Blockheads had booby-trapped to catch Gumby in a net. Some guys behind me started yelling to the screen "GUMBY - DON'T GO IN THERE!!!"

(Did I mention that this was a midnite show at a college theater?)

Anyway, the guy with the board up his ass gets up and comes back near me and starts yelling that we should all shut up, he's trying to WATCH THE MOVIE.


But I did pay 7 bucks a ticket to see The Hours.

[MichaelHarris]

15. 2 hours of Gumby???

my nipples are hard just thinking about it.

I went one time to a midnight showing of "Tales from the Crypt" in a predominatly black neighborhood. Man I never laughed so hard by the comments from the crowd during the movie. In one scene after this lady chops up her husband and wraps him in butcher paper his parts come back alive. his thigh, wrapped in that white paper is wiggling across the floor and the guy behind me says, "watch out for the hamhock" man I blew coke about 3 aisles.

[NJCher]

9. the "grey" in life

I thought it was about "grey." In this movie, neither person was right or wrong.

This is a movie dumbya would never "get."

The woman had a character flaw--she wasn't perfectly organized. The new owner of the house needed money. The movie does a beautiful job of developing sympathy for his position. He is a man underemployed, a refugee from a former life of wealth and privilege and his wife does not understand the new circumstances.

This movie is about loose ends, ambiguities and all the other aspects of life that are unsettling.

I think one motivation for watching movies is that they do allow us an "ending," per se. There is a resolve of the conflict. So often in life we do not get that.

This movie, however, is about ambiguity and matters unresolved. "Sand" and "fog" are perfect metaphors for these conditions.


Cher

[MichaelHarris]

11. it was a very good movie, just depressing

I think every character in it had redeeming qualities put into a situation that, in real life is unsolvable. I think the point of Jennifer Connelly's mom coming to visit sets up a time frame that makes it impossible for it to be solved. Without that a legal solution may have been reached. That is quality story telling. The guy who played the cop is one of my favorite character actors. His character drives the story to its conclusion, if he had made a different choice, such as trusting Ben Kingsly then we may have had a different outcome. I'm not sure how many people saw that lack of trust betrayed them all.

I don't want to give anything away but for me the final thought was one of trust. If you watch it again see if the outcomes would have been different if all the players had trust and been honest with each other.

[Red State Rebel]

21. After reading the book I decided not to see the movie for that reason.

The whole thing was tragic!