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martin and i are anxious to see it....unfortunately with noone to watch the kids we will have to wait til it comes out on video sad ...sits by waiting patiently sweatdrop

I agree with how fast it was done but still it was a 2 1/2 hour movie and I think slowing that process down would have made it much longer.

I was so tired when we saw it I don't remember that (we saw the opening night midnight show in New Orleans) but I wouldn't doubt it. The Millenium Falcon was a bucket of bolts in Star Wars episode 4.

We rented De-Lovely last night (starring Kevin Kline and Ashley Judd) It's about Cole Porter. He was a songwriter in the 1930s/40s and 50s. He's one of my favorites actually. They did a couple albums to benefit AIDS of contemporary artists doing his songs (I have Red, Hot and Blue...I think another was Red, Hot and Jazz or something)

Anyway, the movie was great! I didn't think it affected me so, but at the end I actually cried. I couldn't answer Kevin when he asked me what I thought of it, I was trying to hide the tears. When I answered him (finally) i just bawled! There's a scene in there (not completely historically accurate) that is just about the most romantic thing I have ever heard of in my life!!! (PM me if you wanna know or talk about it...i don't wanna ruin it for anyone)

I was reading up on it on IMDB and there's alot of discussion on how it's not commpletely historically accurate...like they have him singing songs he didn't write for years after the event he's singing them in...but the whole premise of the movie isn't a complete biopic...it's him in the last seconds of his life experiencing his "life flash before his eyes" and they are using his songs as a soundtrack to his life. While they do match most of the music to the time it represents, a few discrepencies are allowed imo for poetic license. And glossing over certain things is allowed because we don't always remember things as they EXACTLY happened. We usually remember things much more fondly than when it was happening. (remember this is my opinion...take it or leave it)

Anyway, I highly recommend it. I believe it was on par with, if not better than. "RAY" just done differently, and as a result people had a hard time accepting it since it was more from Cole Porter's POV instead of a straight biography.

Tonight is The Motorcycle Diaries (about Che Gueverra)

Thank you, thank you, thank you...

Finally saw Star Wars this weekend. Three thumbs up! It made me cry too, in at least 3 places.

And Jason bought Unfaithful which was really good. Also made me cry (esp. the alternate ending.) And it made me value my marriage.

Then we watched Frailty today which Jason swears we've watched already, and like many other movies he swears I've watched which I don't remember, it seems like a completely new movie with nothing familiar until quite far into it, things will start to seem sort of familiar... I blame my head injury 10 years ago. I must have trouble forming/keeping memories.

Wow! Ryan Starr! It's good that old American Idol contestants are actually having something happen with their lives.. I was afraid for a while that they'd return to anonymity and it would be as if they weren't even top contestants at all!

About forgetting movies, I wonder if it's that while watching movies, we enter a sort of twilight zone state of consciousness that we won't remember unless we consciously go over the movie in our heads again afterwards? I know there are lots of other things that happen that I can't remember too, and for a while I thought it was Jason's memory that was faulty, but now there are groups of people who remember things that I don't, and they remember me being there, so maybe it's me!

I had such an excellent memory before that car accident too! I prided myself on my good memory, and ALWAYS being able to remember when someone would say "remind me later..." and I took it for granted!

Do you know if you hit your head in that car accident Jaz? Or even if you didn't, I think the sloshing of the brain in whiplash might have an affect too. neutral

I don't know to be honest. yeah the sloshing around of the brain probably didn't help (such a gross visual i get ewwwww)

Rented "Stage Beauty" a couple nights ago. Really good! Clair Danes and Billy Crudup. It's about the time when men played women on the stage cuz it was illegal for women to, then the law gets lifted and women can act and how that affected a certain man and woman in particular. I thoroughly enjoyed it, as did Kevin.

OH! And "Eulogy" was really good too. With Ray Romano. A dark comedy about a family whose father passes away.