h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

awww FB have a tissue haven't seen the notebook.. but i'm the same at weepy films.. infact i cry at most films... god how i bawled thru A1 and as for the green mile

I'm sad to admit that starwars got me!

which one?

Episode three, though i don't know why!

I hardly ever cry, I just well up a bit. But I welled up quite a bit after watching that tonight.

Legends of the Fall always makes me well up.

ahh episode 3....can't remember that i was over emotional on that one... well like you FB i well up but it quickly spills over into minute blubbers... the lip twitching, eyes freely running and that damn traitorous upper lip of mine.. and theres strangers all around me and really i just want to have a good sob

Schindler's list got me. When Liam Neeson is comparing his car for another handful of lives before leaving for good.

We just watched "Kitchen Stories" this afternoon- a lovely little Swedish film. It's more the slow, quiet character study type of film as opposed to in-your-face action. But at the end- and this RARELY happens- I needed a tissue. I highly, highly recommend this one.

£2.50 tuesday? Lucky you LS! Its close to £7 all the time here! see Narnia, its really really good

Saw "Crash" First film in a long time that prompted me to put it on again a few hours later. Liked the way it brought out the racial bigotry between not just between black and white, but with other seemingly similar ethnic backgrounds. The scene where the cop is trying to pull out the woman from a car about to be engulfed in flames is very powerful as is the shooting of the young child.

As a bit of an aside, I did a fire safety course the other week. The guy put on the footage of the Bradford City football stand going up in flames. It took about 7 minutes from the first hint of smoke, to the whole stand raging like the fires of hell - there were people walking out totally engulfed in flames. You see it in the movies all the time and it's never a problem, but this was real. There wasn't a sound from anyone in the room.... I couldn't have spoken if I'd wanted to....



Bassman

Going to watch "The Jacket" tonight with Adrian Brodie in.

Whenever I hear someone say they've just seen "Crash", I get a little bit excited, and think to myself that it wasn't a *great* film, but the book was incredible. Then I realize that they don't mean the 1996 Cronenberg rendering of J.G. Ballard's book, but that one from last year with the talentless Sandra Bullock and Brendan Fraser.

Watch the Cronenberg film; it's much more interesting. And it's watchable, to boot.

I finally got round to viewing Like Water For Chocolate at the weekend. I read the book 10? 15? years ago...whenever it came out (in translation). I remember the book being brilliant, and I thought I'd seen the film, but now I don't think I had.

Anyway, it's very, very good. I recommend it to you all.

RF

And quite sexy!

simpost. Cronenberg's Crash is sexy!

The book is even more so, I think.

From what I remember of the film the 'crashes' are an attempt to reach satisfying og*sm because they can't get it the usual way I really liked his eXistanZ! All thoses different realities and weird sensual objects.

Yup! You remember correctly, Redpeck. "Existens" was cool, too, yeah.

I know I've mentioned before in this thread I'm a Cronenberg fan... so maybe I should stop gushing so.

We've got that collection of David Lynch's short works at home, but it looks like we won't have time to sit down and watch it till Thursday evening.

Watched Thumbsucker, Narnia, Tarnation and Apocalypse Now Redux at the weekend.

Thumbsucker - surprising good and really funny. Keanu Reeves is hilarious.

Narnia - wonderful.

Tarnation - very hard to watch and a bit overly voyeuristic, but well made.

Redux - awful. The original cut is far better I think.