BROKEN TRAIL was a made-for-TV production, directed by Walter Hill.

Yes the same Hill who gave us THE WARRIORS, 48 HRS., JOHNNY HANDSOME, EXTREME PREJUDICE, and other good shit.

My grandpa was actually a POW in that camp.

Bogey!!!!

Lead!

Yes, Duvall was in Sling Blade. He played Carl's looney father who was babbling incoherently in a chair when Carl visited the house he grew up in. Pretty crazy scene when they showed the house - inside and out. If any of you have family in the south, I know that house and its "imenities" brought back memories!

I just watched "The Wrestler" with Mickey Rourke and Marisa Tomei. Pretty good movie if you like wrestling but an even better movie if you like Marisa Tomei playing an exotic dancer!

I'm not really into wrestling but it seems like all the movies that were up for awards were short lived at the theaters. I heard them advertise Benjamin Button on video and Slumdog was a flash in the pan, now The Wrestler.

I don't know. I think I trust my instinct more on some films than the academy's.

TIS

Holy crap! The ghost of Bogey!

I would love to talk to your grandfather about that POW camp! Wow.

Don't forget that the public is easily swayed toward the usual Hollywood garbage. Which means it's all about money. So the movies that are nominated for best picture, deserved or not, are often times overlooked by the public, so the theaters are quick to replace it with big money makers.

Big money (usually) doesn't always = quality.

No shit...and not exactly new shit either.

I think that's rather dismissive if one only likes it for the wrasslin or the titties. And really, I think the point of Tomei wasn't to be erotic but...sad?

Sure I'm a wrestling afficiondo, but THE WRESTLER was fucking great. No narrative/filmatic fat, everything and everybody with a purpose and doing their job, Rourke showing again how he was a great actor who pissed his career away for too many years, and Tomei getting a chance to rebuttal some of those who won't let go of that MY COUSIN VINNY win.

Of course Darren A. the director himself said that THE WRESTLER was a boxing melodrama, just made at a time when that sport was dead, so he picked another physical beat-down profession.

Thanks for the shit response

You know what I said wasn't aimed at you because obviously you understand that already. But the casual movie viewer like TIS is looking for big Hollywood star power, and unfortunately miss out on good films that don't get a huge release.

This isn't FCM, so consider who I'm talking to.

Well yeah, of course.

Thing is, would TIS like the same stuff as you and I do?

Of the three movies she mentioned she might like Slumdog Millionaire. I haven't seen Benjamin Button or The Wrestler yet.

It's not necessarily star power for me. It's just that some of the films don't capture my interest. I saw the English Patient (or started to). Talk about boring. Never had a desire to finish it. I didn't mind the Full Monty, but didn't think it was academy award material. Oh and the one about the transvestite who you think is a woman throughout the movie, until.... Damn, can't think of the title. Again, not award material IMHO, although man did that freak me out. RR you know your movies. Which one am I'm talking about? Can't remember the title.

Even in the 60's, I walked out on 2001 Space Oddesy (is that the correct title? with Kier Duella (sp)?

On the other hand (and this is going way way back), a small little foreign film called "A Man And A Woman" I found to be very good even with subtitles.

Of the films I mentioned, the one that I can see myself seeing one day is Benjamin Button (and no I'm not really a Pitt fan, although I don't dislike him). It subject matter captures my interest.

It would appear I don't get out much judging from how far back I went to mention Academy movies I've seen. Yet, really, I do enjoy the movies from time to time.

TIS

Agree on SLUMDOG.

Maybe BENJAMIN BUTTON too.

THE CRYING GAME, same one that critic Gene Siskel spoiled on national TV.



I'm sorry TIS, but I'm afraid I can't do that.

Of course I've never understood walking out on a movie, especially after you paid.



For some reason, Pitt under director David Fincher seems to kick ass in acting. Otherwise Pitt has a bad tendency to coast on his physical charisma (i.e. SPY GAME), though he was also good in Tony Scott's TRUE ROMANCE, Ridley Scott's THELMA & LOUISE, and Coen Brothers' BURN AFTER READING (which you would quite enjoy TIS.)



I think a good question to ask you is, what genres do you enjoy most?

The Nightmare Before Christmas is the only movie I've fallen asleep on while in the theater, and I didn't wake up and leave. I just wiped the drool from my chin and went back to sleep. I paid, couldn't get through it, and instead enjoyed some good nap time.

I could never walk out on a movie either but I know so many people who have.

watched the hurricane last night, and i have to say this is a great film. denzil washington is truely one of the best actors in hollywood.

Actually that's not easy to answer. In a nutshell, I guess I'd say I like drama, but that covers so much (suspense, action, mystery). I am a big fan of crime/courtroom drama, but also love action/espoinage type films like the Bourne series (keep me updated as I hear talk of a 4th.) I love some blockbusters like Titanic; then again I enjoy action in the Die Hard films.

I watched only a couple days ago "The Notebook" which I thought was so sweet and sad. Usually, the only genre film I don't pay to see is comedy. IF it's something I think I'll like, I'll wait for it to go to HBO or rental. Don't know why. I find some comedy very corny/oddball, and yet I find others that are to actually corny, like a couple Jim Carrey films, quite hilarious. Go figure!

I like horror films too, but not so much the slasher films that are slasher just for the sake of it. I don't cringe at blood but don't like guts flying all over necessarily.

Well, not that it means anything, but that's my taste in a nutshell.

TIS

Like you TIS, I liked A Man and A Women (especially the song) amd I like movies that hold my interest, not necessarily the blockbusters. I tend toward historical movies and chick flicks. Of the latter genre, I like The Man in the Moon, Steel Magnolias, Now and Then, the Ya Ya Sisterhood, the Traveling Pants, and Tender Mercies. Maybe that's because I have so many daughters. Anyway, can't wait to see Angels & Demons.

I agree one of his best films in my opinion...

Last night at work i watched MR. 3,000 with Bernie Mac,a baseball movie which wasn't too bad!

Passed the time a bit anyways

just got done watching pet sematary, and man this was good...not as scary, but hey entertaining.

I love Pet Sematary. The little kid was creepy. "I wanna play with yooooooooou" One of my favorte Stephen King movies.


TIS

Just finished watching 'Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison' with Deborah Kerr and Robert Mitchium.

It's a story about a Nun and a Marine who are stranded on a Japanese-held island during WWII. Robert Mitchium is a well trained Marine who is washed ashore on the island and finds a Nun, Deborah Kerr, all alone on the island. As he and Kerr begin to get to know each other a romantic tension begins to build between them. While there is a contrasting set of commitments by each character to their respective voacations, his to the Marine Corps. and hers to God and the church, it is a set of commitments that somewhat parallel each other.

Eventually the Japenese overtake the island and Mitchium and Kerr are forced to hide out in an underground cave.

One of the most suspenseful scenes is when Mitchium has to infiltrate the Japanese camp because he needs to steal food from it for he and Kerr's survival.


A very enjoyable movie with excellent performances by Kerr and Mitchium.

I love Pet Sematary.


"GAAAAAAAGE!!!"

We just watched "Valkyrie" with Tom Cruise. Good flick. Like him personally or not he is a pretty fine actor.

It's been years since I've seen that movie. I remember it though.

I believe the first time I saw it was way way back when they had "Saturday Night At The Movies" on tv. Maybe you're a little young DC to remember, but I'm sure SC, TB and others will remember. Mitchum/Kerr of course are my parent's generation and we'd watch many movies as a family (no video/DVD's back then of course.) When the big blockbusters aired, it was quite a treat. You simply waited until your favorite movies showed on tv.

We've come a long way baby!!! (another old expression taken from a Virginia Slims ad)... ha ha And the youngsters will say, "what's a Virginia Slims?"

TIS

".....To ge where you've got to todayyyyyy! You've got your own cigarettes now baby, you've come a long long wayyyyyy!"




Don't recall the 'Saturday Night at the Movies' show on TV , but I do remember the 'Million Dollar Movie' show on TV. If memory serves me correctly, the opeining theme from The Million Dollar Movie show was 'Tara's Theme' from GWTW.