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.

as much as how it was told.

nods Got it. It's like, Dude, the holocaust manipulates enough feelings without being that manipulative.

Exactly.

It's like, Dude, the holocaust manipulates enough feelings without being that manipulative.

Totally. Of course, the guy I was with was bawling his eyes out. He's said he was totally aware he was being manipulated, but it was still sucking him in.

Of course, the guy I was with was bawling his eyes out. He's said he was totally aware he was being manipulated, but it was still sucking him in.

Well, that was me. You can spot the manipulation a mile off, but it didn't minimize the effect of what I was seeing, for me. And imagining the real people, the camps, the brutality.