Mal: Inara, think you could stoop to being on my arm? Inara: Will you wash it first?

'Heart Of Gold'


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DavidS - Dec 31, 2008 8:04:54 am PST #9288 of 10000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Sue!

I have Tivoed Play It As It Lays.

And I have committed it to VHS tape (watching most of it too).

Hit my profile addy with your mailing address and I will send it to you.

Here's my brief review: reminded me a lot of A Woman Under the Influence and Altman's 3 Women except Tuesday Weld isn't nearly as good as Gena Rowlands or Sissy Spacek. Also, Tony Perkins looked beautiful and unrecognizeable with longish, early 70s hipster hair. He was very good. There were a lot of striking images in it.

It also reminded me of the LA scenes in Annie Hall.


beekaytee - Dec 31, 2008 9:17:54 am PST #9289 of 10000
Compassionately intolerant

I have never seen Old Yeller, Red Ferns or Yearling...for all the reasons mentioned.

I have however, relied on Project X as my go-to flick when I need to blubber. God. It just rips me up and leaves me on the floor.

It came out while I was a professional peace activist (working on nuclear disarmament issues, no less) and absolutely KILLS me with the inhumanity.

Animals in peril = no go for bonny


Sue - Dec 31, 2008 9:22:29 am PST #9290 of 10000
hip deep in pie

David, you're my hero! Address insent.


Connie Neil - Dec 31, 2008 9:26:46 am PST #9291 of 10000
brillig

The toy battle in Toys makes me sob. You know that the soldiers in war movies aren't being killed, but it's OK to blow up a teddy bear. And, god, the one dancing toy circling aimlessly around the wreckage of its partner as the tinny music plays . . .

And I thought The Fisher King was brilliant.


Sue - Dec 31, 2008 9:31:37 am PST #9292 of 10000
hip deep in pie

Okay it would be insent except that your email address has been replaced by your username. I pulled your Gmail address off of buffistarawk, so it's now sent there.


Atropa - Dec 31, 2008 10:37:54 am PST #9293 of 10000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

I have never seen Old Yeller, Red Ferns or Yearling...for all the reasons mentioned.

Same here. I don't feel I need to put myself through that, for movies that I probably won't be that interested in anyway.

Besides, if I feel that I need to watch a movie and cry, I've got loads of other choices. Edward Scissorhands, Big Fish, Lilo and Stitch ...

(I LOVE Big Fish. It's one of my favorite movies ever. But I don't watch it very often, because it turns me into a weepy mess.)


Connie Neil - Dec 31, 2008 10:41:06 am PST #9294 of 10000
brillig

Lilo and Stitch is a safe cry-trigger because it ends well. So I can wallow in emotion knowing I'll get to snicker and smile as I leave the theater, instead of in a melancholy haze. I don't drink enough absinthe to properly appreciate melancholy hazes.


Atropa - Dec 31, 2008 10:44:44 am PST #9295 of 10000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

Lilo and Stitch is a safe cry-trigger because it ends well. So I can wallow in emotion knowing I'll get to snicker and smile as I leave the theater, instead of in a melancholy haze.

Yep, same for me. And the same goes for Big Fish.

I don't drink enough absinthe to properly appreciate melancholy hazes.

I suppose I do, but I still don't really appreciate melancholy hazes.


Steph L. - Dec 31, 2008 10:51:42 am PST #9296 of 10000
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

Confession: Bolt made me weepy. I knew I was being manipulated, damn it, and I still got weepy.

But The Boy did, too, so it was okay.


Typo Boy - Dec 31, 2008 12:01:02 pm PST #9297 of 10000
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

Lilo & Stitch, on my list of all time favorites.