When I was researching the Holocaust, I watched Schindler's list two times. And couldn't sleep for days.

But ultimately, that movie relates back to the SS officer pictures. The people doing evil and the people doing good could be anyone, could be us. The two men, Schindler and Ralph Feinnes charcter are sort of the same kind of men-- weak, liking nice things, and decent enough blokes in fair weather, but not too evil and not too good. What makes one do very evil thhings and one do very good things? Either one of them, in a way, could be us.

When I was a kid, it was pretty graphic -- we were shown films of bulldozers pushing over piles of naked dead bodies when we were around fourth grade or so.

I didn't cry at Schindler's List, and I think a lot of it had to do with being overexposed to real Holocaust footage throughout years of Hebrew school before the movie came out. There was just nothing in there quite as graphic as the stuff I'd been seeing for years already.

I don't remember a lot of education about the Holocaust as a kid. When I saw Schindler's List, it really broke me. It's one of those I wish I could watch again because it's such a good film (the performances, the cinematography especially) but I just can't.

I will say it was quite an experience to be in a theater and see it, though. The silence and the sounds of crying were really powerful.

Schindler's List destroyed me. It's on that list of movies I can never ever see again, even though it's a magnificent film.

I will say it was quite an experience to be in a theater and see it, though. The silence and the sounds of crying were really powerful.

Yes, this. When it was over, and I could talk again, I looked at my best friend (who saw it with me), and said "I feel like everyone in this theater should go out for a drink together."

t edit And I'm with Amy and Aimee on never seeing it again. I'm glad I saw it, and it was stunning and powerful (and I'm always amazed that Spielberg made it in the same year that he made Jurassic Park), but I never want to see it again.

I will also never buy Em a red coat.

Schindler's List made me angry. The more emotionally manipulative and anvilicious it got, the angrier I got. I couldn't believe that Steven Speilberg was turning the Holocaust into entertainment. I am not a Steven Speilberg fan, and I probably should never have gone in the first place.

Sue, the movie followed the book, Schindler's Ark pretty closely. The book is classified as fiction, but was based on the real events that were depicted in the movie.

Which doesn't negate your feelings about it at all.

Sue, the movie followed the book, Schindler's Ark pretty closely. The book is classified as fiction, but was based on the real events that were depicted in the movie.

It wasn't the story, Aimee, as much as how it was told. That red coated girl made me practically roll my eyeballs out of my head. I so saw where that was going and couldn't believe that Speilberg would be so obvious. Anyway, that's why cranky young theatre geeks shouldn't go to Speilberg movies.

That red coated girl made me practically roll my eyeballs out of my head.

This, this and more this. And probably a good dose of Jess's "seen all the real stuff a million times already". It felt to me like it was trying really really hard to make me cry a whole big huge lot, with a kind of obvious manipulativeness that ended up pissing me off instead.

Private Ryan? Same damn thing. Dude should stick to Indiana Jones.