surprisingly entertaining thriller w spoilers
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Finally went yesterday. DH and I both loved it.
Just watched one battle after another, love the recommendations on this thread.
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couple of years old but now on netflix has a surprisingly hard to imagine twist
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Last night DH and I watched “Promise,” a Hallmark movie originally shown in December, 1986, just after we had moved to Maine the year we got married.
I read about the movie online, then after a search, finally found it on YouTube by searching for “Promise 1986 Hallmark.” We watched the extended version that was an actual broadcast from Pittsburgh, and it included a short news spot plus Hallmark commercials. DH and I were surprised how old-fashioned everything looked, ha. He kept saying, “This can’t be 1986, it looks like the ‘70s.” No, hon, those are definitely ‘80s haircuts!
James Garner plays the older brother of James Woods, who suffers from exactly the same mental illness my son has - schizoaffective disorder with catatonic episodes (the film doesn’t label it as such, but it’s obvious to me). Garner promised his mother he would take care of his brother after her death - I think it’s the first time I’ve seen a male caretaker portrayed in a movie! It’s considered one of the best TV movies ever made, and it won a lot of awards. I can say it’s a pretty accurate portrayal of the illness and its effect on families. Garner and Woods each said it was the most meaningful film they made.
Woods spent a good bit of time with a patient who had schizophrenia. One of the man’s quotes was used as a basis for this monologue: “It’s like, all the electric wires in the house are plugged into my brain. And every one has a different noise, so I can’t think. Some of the wires have voices in them and they tell me things like what to do and that people are watching me. I know there really aren’t any voices, but I feel that there are, and that I should listen to them or something will happen. … I can remember what I was like before. I was a class officer, I had friends. I was going to be an aeronautical engineer. Do you remember, Bobby? I’ve never had a job. I’ve never owned a car. I’ve never lived alone. I’ve never made love to a woman. And I never will. That’s what it’s like. You should know. That’s why I’m a Hindu. Because maybe it’s true: Maybe people are born again. And if there is a God, maybe he’ll give me another chance. I believe that, because this can’t be all I get.” That scene really hit home.
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I remember that movie. I think it was a Hallmark Hall of Fame, when they used to have them on a few times a year. Most were really well made and several had big stars in them.
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I saw Avatar on Sunday with a bunch of nerdy friends who were all at Caltech at the same time. My husband thought it was the best Avatar movie yet. I enjoyed it, but nothing will match the experience of the 3-D world of the first movie, but there were still moments where I was impressed by the beauty of the world, and others where you are scratching your head as to whether any of this makes sense.
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Saw Song Sung Blue today and thought the story and acting were excellent. I like Neil Diamonds music so that, too.
But…this was Senior discount day and the theatre was packed with folks about my age many of whom insisted on talking through the entire movie! I might just start going on other days and paying a few dollars more.
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My oldest son and I watched “The Boy in the Woods” on Amazon Prime yesterday. Due to DS’s illness, he hardly ever finishes movies - he’ll watch a few minutes and then say, “I think I’m all set…” and leave the room. This time, though, he watched the entire thing.
It’s a true story about a Jewish boy during the Holocaust who managed to escape “resettlement” and survived in the woods (the movie doesn’t specify the length of time, but I looked it up and it was for two years! In what is now Ukraine!). We thought it was very well done. I highly recommend it. Keep watching after the movie ends for a clip from a documentary. It will take your breath away.
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We saw Gladiator 2 during a weekday special that was mostly seniors. It was awful. Talking, phones ringing, tunneling to the bottom of a popcorn bag for two hours.
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I really wonder how much longer movie theaters are going to survive.
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I haven’t been in a theater in so long. People have forgotten manners in public spaces.
Per ds2’s recommendation, dh and I started Sinners. I dipped after an hour, after texting ds and asking whether it remains this tense. He said yes. I gave it 10 more minutes and then called it. Dh, who has a higher tolerance than I and is going to stick with it, said that I left just in time. For me. He’ll stick it out.
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Over the holidays we went to a special exhibit at art museum. We really enjoyed it. I’ve told a few people that I really enjoy it when everybody is wearing a headset (or the newer devices you just hold to your ear). In addition to liking the info I hear about selected paintings, I just LOVE the fact that nobody is talking.
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Going next Thursday and we all ordered the headsets.
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To lighten things up we watched Pitch Perfect on Netflix. Fun college coming of age movie I really liked.
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Onne of my top two guilty pleasures; the other is Bring It On.,
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I watched Bring It On for the first time a few months ago! I always wanted to see it, but i had two little kids at the time and never got around to it. So fun, as I knew it would be.
Pitch Perfect is great.
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We saw Sinners in the theatre and loved it. It was a really intense movie, but very well done.
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We watched The Fablemans which we somehow missed when it came out. What a great movie.
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Watched A League of Their Own on Netflix. Old movie I probably had not seen since its opening in 1992. The movie aged very well and I had forgotten most of the scenes. What a uplifting delight!
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