'Lessons'
A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
I like Shawshank very much, and I still love GWTW. I grew up loving it, and I still watch it once a year or so. (The book is not only much more racially biased, but a lot more complicated. Scarlett actually had three children!)
A *classic* I don't particularly like: Apocalypse Now, although I will admit I never got through the whole thing. Never wanted to. But there is my freakish loathing of Martin Sheen to consider.
freakish loathing of Martin Sheen
It's like I don't even know you.
cries at the loss of a good friend
Didn't like AN either. But Bartlet rules. Though I still think it should be two t's like the pear.
Then they couldn't have used the connection to the real Bartlet guy that signed the Declaration of Independence. Sillyhead.
There was one? For real? Did not know this.(maybe now that I do, I can train my brain to think it's not typo-riffic.) I did know that one of the signers from RI had a mild form of cerebral palsy, which I bet even my know-it-all Not-secret boyfriend KO doesn't know. But of course, he wouldn't think he found a brother if he found it.
Ok, I am full of shit.
The signer WAS spelled with two t's. [link]
Stupid Aaron Sorkin. Spelling it wrong.
Josiah Bartlett is one of the New England representatives in 1776, and I liked how Sorkin gave Jed that rather formidable ancestry.
Edited to add a "t" to be correct.
Well, I gotta stand by the Brainy Jewish Guy's misspelling at this point...maybe he'll let me have a Josh Lyman of my own, sometime. It'd be nice to have somebody to hang with when I'm feeling all hand-wringy.
Seeing it in a theatre is no guarantee that you'll love it, but seeing it on a TV is a near-sure bet that you won't.
Echoing, but: yes. I'd seen bits of 2001 occasionally on TV when I was younger, and it was edited and had commercials, and meh. Then, I think in high school, we went to go see it at the Uptown. On a 70 foot screen. And then I fell in love with Kubrick.
I liked Bull Durham, but I'm normally bored by sports movies. So maybe that's why people who do like sports movies don't like it.
Then, I think in high school, we went to go see it at the Uptown
Love the Uptown! (It's saying something that I can't remember if I saw 2001 for the first time there, or at an IMAX theatre. BIG fucking screen!)