Movies like Training Day and He Got Game stick out in my head just as much as Malcolm X and Glory.
Definitely. But I think it's the movies that don't stick out in my head that give me the impression of "a [star] movie." It's the whole mushy middle.
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Jesse - Aug 08, 2004 12:17:50 pm PDT #2487 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Jesse - Aug 08, 2004 12:22:57 pm PDT #2488 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Also,
A Tom Hanks movie is probably touching and inspirational, and maybe he's not that bright.
Philadelphia? Cast Away? Catch Me If You Can?
Oh, and a PS to further above: It's KathArine Hepburn, FYI.
§ ita § - Aug 08, 2004 12:23:20 pm PDT #2489 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
But I think it's the movies that don't stick out in my head that give me the impression of "a [star] movie."
But you're typing those, right, based on something? Or am I reading your wrong? Do the movies that don't stick out have a character their own?
§ ita § - Aug 08, 2004 12:24:31 pm PDT #2490 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Philadelphia? Cast Away? Catch Me If You Can?
You will note the use of the word "probably."
And how was Philadelphia not meant to be touching and inspirational?
Jesse - Aug 08, 2004 12:24:52 pm PDT #2491 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
But you're typing those, right, based on something? Or am I reading your wrong? Do the movies that don't stick out have a character their own?
I don't know what you're asking.
erikaj - Aug 08, 2004 12:24:59 pm PDT #2492 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Love Denzel. Am also very sad to have missed a discussion about killing people with hammers! Nobody told me...have you all just met me or something?:) OK, reasons why hammers are quite common as murder weapons. 1. Almost everyone has one. 2. They are cheap. 3. People don't always plan ahead when they kill, get pissed off and whack somebody with whatever comes to hand.( I read a book with a whole section on it, but that is what I remember.)
Jesse - Aug 08, 2004 12:25:52 pm PDT #2493 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
And how was Philadelphia not meant to be touching and inspirational?
Oh, of course it was, but not in the mawkish, not-that-bright "Tom Hanks movie" way.
§ ita § - Aug 08, 2004 12:29:57 pm PDT #2494 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Oh, of course it was, but not in the mawkish, not-that-bright "Tom Hanks movie" way.
Which I never actually used as the criteria for a Tom Hanks movie, so I feel okay on it meeting my definition.
I don't know what you're asking.
You're saying the movies that don't stick out for you give you an impression, right? But obviously some give more of an impression than others, so I don't understand how they're not sticking out, at least a bit.
Jesse - Aug 08, 2004 12:31:58 pm PDT #2495 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Yeah, I don't know.
Glamcookie - Aug 08, 2004 12:34:30 pm PDT #2496 of 10001
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
I don't like Reese and I don't think there is anyone equal to, or even close to, Katharine Hepburn these days.