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God, please no. Well, maybe The Goonies, but I will shoot you on sight if you try and make me watch Rudy.

Really? Ok, No Rudy (is it a football movie thing?).

No, it's a tearjerking trailer thing.

I know, with the whole "Pippin does good!" crypoint I have, one might think that short people overcoming might be my cup of tea. But the earnestness the trailers had put me right off my food.

I loooooved Sean Astin in Rudy. Really. I wouldn't see that movie for years for the same reasons as ita, and then I happened upon it and just loved it.

t /big sap

I agree that Dom is doing the Hollywood thing more than any of them, but I also think what will save him, if he doesn't overindulge in his own fame, is that he has a good sense of humor, people seem to enjoy working with thim, and, more importantly, he has been a part of a weekly television series and several long-running plays so he has the whole work ethic thing going for him (in other words, it's not like he just got famous and thinks it's really this easy). Hopefully, anyway. I would love to see him have a decent go at a career.

t /big crush on Dom

I will shoot you on sight if you try and make me watch Rudy.

The end of Rudy makes me cry every single time. He works so hard! And they all band together to make sure he gets to play once! And then he makes a tackle! And everyone cheers for him!

And they carry him off the field. Which NEVER happens at Notre Dame. And he's so small once he gets out on that field with all those players. It's like Lucas but without Waif-Winona and the bleeding head.

You had to mention them carrying him off the field!

Weeping a little now.

tina - don't forget his entire, non-believeing, non-supportive family all GETTING OFF THE BUS in South Bend to watch him play. His father in tears from the stands.

The movie (and true story) of Rudy has been summed up thusly (unkindly): he whined until they let him into Notre Dame, then he whined until they let him onto the football team, and then he whined until they let him suit up for a game, and then he whined until they let him play. Moral of the story: persistence will get you everywhere. (It was a fun movie, not least watching these gigantic bruisers throw Sean Astin around like confetti, and he kept getting back up again.)

Not many opinions on the fates of actors in Hollywood; although I imagine it's a strike against one if one isn't terribly tall, being famous doesn't hurt. Agreed that eventually the world will discover that Orlando Bloom has the IQ of a vacuum cleaner, but as noted that has not stopped other people from staying famous and well-paid for nice long careers.

don't forget his entire, non-believeing, non-supportive family all GETTING OFF THE BUS in South Bend to watch him play. His father in tears from the stands.

Wahhhhh!!

ignoring Nutty's Rudy-as-whiner summation, even though, yeah, that pretty much sums it up