[GrantK]

I think you have to be really stoned to enjoy Brazil now. I watched it about 7 years ago and really enjoyed it. Saw part of it again a few years later and had to turn it off. I certainly couldn't watch it now.

I think you nailed it. I remember the one and only time I watched Brazil I felt like I was watching someone's acid trip and the only thing that would have made it tolerable would have been some bong hits.

Or something stronger (which should not be read as an admission of anything ). I haven't been able to watch it again since I saw it in the theater. No way will it hold up to the memory.

[peppyre]

The Happening: Wow....This was just so many different kinds of awful I don't know where to begin. It was also a bit like a trainwreck, I just couldn't look away. I kept thinking it would get better, but then the guy turned on the tracker and laid down in front of it.........wow.....

[SLBunge]

Saw Man on Wire last night.

From imdb:

A look at tightrope walker Philippe Petit's daring, but illegal, high-wire routine performed between New York City's World Trade Center's twin towers in 1974, what some consider, "the artistic crime of the century."

Really well made documentary with some sensible dramatizations and quite a bit of suspense built for a story where we essentially know the outcome.

[Carolyn Tillie]

Saw Man on Wire last night.

From imdb:

A look at tightrope walker Philippe Petit's daring, but illegal, high-wire routine performed between New York City's World Trade Center's twin towers in 1974, what some consider, "the artistic crime of the century."

Really well made documentary with some sensible dramatizations and quite a bit of suspense built for a story where we essentially know the outcome.

And its on this year's Oscar list for best Documentary Feature!

[H. du Bois]

Kinamand, a Danish film about a plumber who makes a "green card" marriage with a Chinese woman. A sweet, straightforward tale.

The Lovers of the Arctic Circle, a wildly romantic Spanish film that left me both gnashing my teeth and genuinely touched.

Slap Shot, an old Paul Newman film that I'd nearly forgotten about until reading his obits. I'd seen it when it first came out, and all I remembered about it was the fights, the Hansons, and the striptease. It's still funny. Odd to realize that Michael Ontkean's wife was played by a young Lindsey Crouse, before her Mamet years. Don't know what became of Ontkean (I had the hugest crush on him when he was in a show called The Rookies when I was a kid), but I'm glad his striptease still survives - it's a classic.

[mongo_jones]

Saw Man on Wire last night.

From imdb:

A look at tightrope walker Philippe Petit's daring, but illegal, high-wire routine performed between New York City's World Trade Center's twin towers in 1974, what some consider, "the artistic crime of the century."

Really well made documentary with some sensible dramatizations and quite a bit of suspense built for a story where we essentially know the outcome.

no, i'm sorry, but you're wrong: it's crap.

[hollywood]

Saw Man on Wire last night.

From imdb:

A look at tightrope walker Philippe Petit's daring, but illegal, high-wire routine performed between New York City's World Trade Center's twin towers in 1974, what some consider, "the artistic crime of the century."

Really well made documentary with some sensible dramatizations and quite a bit of suspense built for a story where we essentially know the outcome.

no, i'm sorry, but you're wrong: it's crap.

I hate it when people mince words.

[SethG]

Saw Man on Wire last night.

From imdb:

A look at tightrope walker Philippe Petit's daring, but illegal, high-wire routine performed between New York City's World Trade Center's twin towers in 1974, what some consider, "the artistic crime of the century."

Really well made documentary with some sensible dramatizations and quite a bit of suspense built for a story where we essentially know the outcome.

no, i'm sorry, but you're wrong: it's crap.

No, you're wrong. it's good!

[StephanieL]

The Panic in Needle Park--Al Pacino's first movie, about heroin addiction. Very gritty, and reminiscent in feel of French Connection, which was made around the same time. It's still very hard to believe that the West 70s and 80s were crime- and drug-ridden once.

[mongo_jones]

Saw Man on Wire last night.

From imdb:

A look at tightrope walker Philippe Petit's daring, but illegal, high-wire routine performed between New York City's World Trade Center's twin towers in 1974, what some consider, "the artistic crime of the century."

Really well made documentary with some sensible dramatizations and quite a bit of suspense built for a story where we essentially know the outcome.

no, i'm sorry, but you're wrong: it's crap.

No, you're wrong. it's good!

a pattern develops: bicyclists have no taste in movies as well as in clothes.

[backstory]

Days of Heaven.
watch it and be prepared to be mesmerized as the landscape of 1900 america opens up on your flat panel - original photographs morphing into one gorgeous scene after another, like paintings in a museum. the film won an oscar for the photography. a visual treat.
watching the film is closer to reading a good book. spare dialog, narrated mostly be the voice of a young girl. you really engage with the film to get to the characters.

[rancho_gordo]

Days of Heaven.
watch it and be prepared to be mesmerized as the landscape of 1900 america opens up on your flat panel - original photographs morphing into one gorgeous scene after another, like paintings in a museum. the film won an oscar for the photography. a visual treat.
watching the film is closer to reading a good book. spare dialog, narrated mostly be the voice of a young girl. you really engage with the film to get to the characters.

That was my impressionof it when it came out (Late 70s?, very early 80s?). And wasn't it pretty much our introduction to Richard Gere?

[Miguel Gierbolini]

Days of Heaven.
watch it and be prepared to be mesmerized as the landscape of 1900 america opens up on your flat panel - original photographs morphing into one gorgeous scene after another, like paintings in a museum. the film won an oscar for the photography. a visual treat.
watching the film is closer to reading a good book. spare dialog, narrated mostly be the voice of a young girl. you really engage with the film to get to the characters.

That was my impressionof it when it came out (Late 70s?, very early 80s?). And wasn't it pretty much our introduction to Richard Gere?

My introduction to Richard Gere was American Gigolo.

[backstory]

Days of Heaven.
watch it and be prepared to be mesmerized as the landscape of 1900 america opens up on your flat panel - original photographs morphing into one gorgeous scene after another, like paintings in a museum. the film won an oscar for the photography. a visual treat.
watching the film is closer to reading a good book. spare dialog, narrated mostly be the voice of a young girl. you really engage with the film to get to the characters.

That was my impressionof it when it came out (Late 70s?, very early 80s?). And wasn't it pretty much our introduction to Richard Gere?

could be. he looks very young and, well, beautiful. and he stands out because the faces of all the other characters are right out of those 1900 photos - imperfect features, wrinkled, ravaged, scarred. except sam shepard who also is a knock out.
came out in 1978.

[Stone]

4.

I'm having trouble getting past the first 15 minutes.