Well, now I can't sleep. Damned "Bridge to Terabithia!" **SPOILER**

[jobycom]

I rented this film from Netflix to watch with my kids, but watched it on my own tonight first. I thought from the trailers it was some movie about some fantasy world--those seem to be trendy right now--but it's about a couple of smart kids with vivid imaginations growing up in a rural area where they don't fit in. Kind of like where I grew up. So I was just getting into the characters and their relationships, and opining to myself that AnnaSophia Robb is one of the best child actresses I've ever seen, when, catching me completely off guard, her character drowns and breaks the heart of the male role--the one I was identifying with.

ARGH! Now every time I close my eyes, I have this image of something happening to my own kids. I can't sleep, and I can feel a mild depression creeping in. You know the type, where you remember childhood friends who died and start obsessing on the inevitability of everyone around you dying? I knew I should have watched "Casino Royale" again instead!

Okay, sorry to bother youse. Back to the fray. :)

[Danger Mouse]

1. I take it you never read the book as a kid?

:)

[jobycom]

2. Never even heard of it.

And I read a lot of books.

[Danger Mouse]

4. Seriously? It's a pretty well-known book.

I mean, most people my age had read it (or at least heard of it) when they were in elementary school. I'm 26.

[jobycom]

8. Seriously.

I'm 42, so maybe it peaked when I was past the stage where I'd have encountered it.

[Danger Mouse]

9. Ah...that'd do it...came out in the late 70's...sp it was a staple of kids' education

throughout the 80's...at least, round these parts it was.

[jobycom]

12. I'm from Mississippi.

A staple of my education was learning when to use worms for bait, and when to use shrimp.

Has to do with whether you are fishing on a bayou or a stream...

[Maddy McCall]

3. Did you ever see the movie "My Girl?"

I didn't think that I would like it, so I only rented it 10 years after it was released. It was a really good movie. In the movie, the little girl Vada's friend Thomas--her childhood soulmate--was stung by bees and had an allergic reaction and died. It was sooo sad--haunted me for days after watching it, how little Vada was left all alone after her best friend died. :(

[jobycom]

6. No.

That one never interested me, for some reason. Probably because I didn't have kids when it came out, and I was a rather serious grad student.

[Maddy McCall]

10. Yeah...

I had no kids when it was released, and I only watched it after I had my son, and he was about the same age as Vada in the movie.

If you get a chance to watch it, it's actually a good movie.

[jobycom]

13. Yeah, sounds like it will cheer me right up!

I think I'm sticking with Bond for a while. :)

[wildhorses]

5. have you seen pan's labrynith?

like an adult version of bridge to terabrithia...

[jobycom]

7. Well, I guess I'll take that one out of my Netflix queue until I'm in a better mood then!

:)

I think this started with Spike Lee. I've been watching his New Orleans film, and since I'm from that region, it's depressing enough. Plus, my father is in bad health, so I guess this is a bad time for me to indulge in feelings of grief. :)

[wildhorses]

11. ~

:hug:

[jobycom]

14. Thanks.

:hug: