Movies so good you never have/want to see them again

[Primula Baggins]

No, 50 is middle-aged. I will firmly believe that until my turn comes . . . next year.

[Inanna]

Thats because he is so SHORT, Prim and Trazzie!

[WampusCat]

But 50 is still young.....

I fervently agree!!!

And 51 is, if anything, even younger.

[Primula Baggins]

Well, I suppose I must concede your point, Wampus, if only because it allows me to contend that 48 and a half is the acme of dewy-eyed freshness.

[Teremia]

<babbles happily & kicks her chubby legs!>

[Primula Baggins]

<chucks the cute li'l ootsie boo Teremia under her gleeful chin>

[Trazúviel]

Youth comes from the inside. I doubt I'll ever get old.

[WampusCat]

Yeah, that's what I said, too. creak

[Trazúviel]

Oh we don't want to creak, no precious!!

*breaks out intensive care lotion and applies liberally*

[samwarg]

My aging problem is especially accute. I've been living with half a heart since age 43 (I'm now 59) but I still think like I did when I was 17. (in most ways, at least) I feel like a Corvette with a lawnmower engine under the hood!

[WampusCat]

I sympathize, samwarg! But as a 51-year-old who deals with a 17-year-old son every day, I consider the idea of a 17-year-old mind in a 59-year-old body truly scary!

[Trazúviel]

I feel like a Corvette with a lawnmower engine under the hood

A great way to put it...and I can relate!

Wampus, my kids are 22 and 26, and now that they finally passed that, erm, fun stage, I've determined to get myself a t-shirt saying "I survived two teenagers". :D

[Primula Baggins]

I have three.

I plan to survive. See, one of them turns 20 in January. Then I'll only have two.

<tries to suppress college memories of 20-year-old guys>

[samwarg]

My three sons are all spread out in age from 38 all the way down to a 15(almost 16) year-old who's still at home. When I try to tell the young one that I very much understand what it's like to be his age, he doesn't believe me. (Of course) When I pick him up at school I sometimes say "Oh, she's pretty" or something similar and he gets on to me for being a dirty old man. Then I tell him, "Son, I'm not dead or blind, I'm just old. I've also told him that if I ever stop noticing pretty girls that he should call the morgue because I've passed on.

[melianndoriath]

After raising ywo sons to become wonderful young men (thank God for His providence), I HAVE survived and am having the best time of my life.....after age 50

[Erunáme]

I just watched Requiem for a Dream. It was good and somewhat disturbing. I could watch it again, but I'd rather not do so.

[Jnyusa]

I have a lot of respect for directors who can take a topic that has in real life no glimmer of redemption (like drug addiction), cast top stars, and then resist the temptation to redeem anyone.

Requiem for a Dream was spot on in that respect.

The other movie that pleasantly surprised me was History of Violence. I rented it while in Ohio thinking my brother-in-law would probably like it, but the person who enjoyed it most was me. It was not what I expected it to be. It didn't make excuses for anyone.

Requiem for a Dream probably comes up to the level of something it would be really hard to watch twice. Trainspotting would be hard to watch twice as well, but I had a lot of trouble following it the first time because of the accents.

Jn

[Erunáme]

If anyone would have been redeemed in Requiem for a Dream, it wouldn't have been believable....except for the mother I suppose. I was surprised Leto's character wasn't treated at the hopital when he was first there.

History of Violence surprised me too. Very good movie as well, but I could definately watch that one again. It has Viggo in it. 'Nuff said.

I've not seen Trainspotting yet. I'll have to put it on my Blockbuster Queue.

[Trazúviel]

I've never seen History of Violence, but it brought to mind a documentary I watched over 20 years ago...Faces of Death. It was the most disturbing, horid and disgusting thing I had ever seen. Yet it was so fascinating, I watched the whole thing. I'll never watch it again...but it really was fascinating.


So, Viggo is in History of Violence, eh?

[Alatar]

I just saw Bridge to Terabithia with the kids, and unlike Samwarg, I loved it. Very touching and beautifully acted, particularly by the kids. I haven't read the book, but the film was excellent. I was afraid to show it to my kids after Samwargs reaction, but I decided to give them the benefit of the doubt. They handled it really well. There were a few tears, but then not all tears are an evil, true?