Last movie you watched......

It was more 21st century funny. I can see why you didn't get it, being two centuries behind.

 

Checked my Netflix cue tonight and I'm down to like six movies. Went to the recommendation and I'm at less than 200 if you take out music videos, TV and documentaries. I almost think I'm getting to the point where I've seen every movie I've ever wanted to see. Sad.
And I mentioned it earlier, if you liked State of Play, I highly recommend Nothing But the Truth, Rod Lurie's take on the Valerie Plame story with Kate Beckinsale as a reporter.

 

I'm kind of in the same spot, Dan. I keep combing the new releases on Netflix and thinking, "Dammit, every time I go to the movies there are like six previews for things I think I want to see! How can I not find anything now?"

I suggest digging into the AFI top 100 link on there. Anything you haven't seen, see. Anything you haven't seen in years, see again. A lot of great older films on there I would never have seen otherwise.

 

I've seen all the AFI 100 films. Did that when they came out with the list. Crap. The Searchers just started on AMC. I forgot they actually sometimes show classic movies still on AMC.

 

I assure you, all 100 of them are worth at least one more viewing.

I find solace in great TV series I didn't originally watch. The Wire (1 and 1A), The Shield, Weeds, Firefly, the original Office ... That's actually the main reason I have Netflix.

 

I just started watching The Shield. I have been impressed so far.

 

You know, I haven't seen Schindler's List since it came on that commercial-free, four-hour TV presentation in the mid-'90s. I remember being extraordinarily moved by the film, of course, like so many other people. At about 13 years old, it was my first real exposure to the Holocaust. It's never really left me, either. (And if you've never been to a Holocaust museum, any of them, I urge you to go. It's ... whew ... yeah, just go.)

So I turned on Schindler's List for about 20 minutes tonight to see how I felt watching it for the second time, a decade later. I could handle the prisoners getting shot point-blank in the back of the head. I could handle the gaunt, naked bodies and the desperation in their faces.

I couldn't handle the kids cheering and laughing and waving from the back of the train as they were shipped off to the ovens, not knowing their fate. And then their parents, running to the barb-wire fence at the concentration camp, screaming.

Just screaming.

 

(RE: The Shield)

Great throughout, but best ending to a series ever. Keep with it, and last five episodes will stay with you the rest of your life.

 

And buck, I've never watched Schindler a second time. It fell under the category of "Glad to have seen it, never want to see it again."

 

I found it hard to watch at the start cause Vic had so few redeeming qualities.

 

I knew that, I really did. But that's what I get for having been 12 or 13 the first time: the memories are just a bit more vague than they would be if I had seen it when I was, say, 18. So I gave in to the curiosity, just to see how I felt again. Bad move.

Kind of the way I feel about visiting Cooperstown. The memories of going to the Hall when I was 25 are going to remain a lot more vivid than from my most recent trip there, when I was 14 (let alone the first time I went, at 6).

re: Schindler, I'll know better now, of course. Damn, that was intense.

 

The girl in the red coat is the one that really cripples me.

And yes, I only saw it once.