Comments on Empty Lunchbox: I hate it when I cry, but I do it all the time...

Thanks, I'm crying at work now.I KNOW it's a good ...

2006-03-02T18:31:00.000-06:00

Thanks, I'm crying at work now.

I KNOW it's a good ending, but it makes me angry. I hated it.

I don't care what you say, the end was perfection ...

2006-03-02T10:39:00.000-06:00

I don't care what you say, the end was perfection as well. What bothered you about it?

Oh yeah, harvesting furballs is on the list between killing Chuck Norris and developing the use of Tomatoes as nuclear energy.

Also, my friend Jenn cleared up what Gena Rowlands says at the end of the movie. Its along the lines of "Do you think, if two people want something, they can make it happen?" Which is SO much sadder than what I thought!!! GOD I hate that movie more and more everytime I talk about it.

I said I loved it until the end...I think it's a w...

2006-03-01T09:44:00.000-06:00

I said I loved it until the end...I think it's a well known fact I love Alan Ball and everything he does. Just not the end to that movie. I'm sure that's what he was going for, but it really bothered me.

Don't forget harvesting furballs. You're REALLY good at that!

I'll put that on my "To Do" list right between cur...

2006-03-01T08:58:00.000-06:00

I'll put that on my "To Do" list right between curing cancer and feeding the homeless.

(and don't you EVER say anything bad about American Beauty, cause I'll cut you!)

Okay, not to start a tangent on Sleepaway camp, bu...

2006-02-28T18:56:00.000-06:00

Okay, not to start a tangent on Sleepaway camp, but I think you've got a master plan here Marlena. Some sort of movie ratings system to prepare you. Much like American Beauty. I LOVED that movie until the end, and now I can't even handle watching it. Or The Last Broadcast. Well, that was just a dumbass ending, but you get the point.

Get on that, when you're done coloring comics and doing my website and working and being a wife and talking me down from ledges every two to three days. You need one more thing to do, right?

I think its criminal to not have had a disclaimer ...

2006-02-28T11:46:00.000-06:00

I think its criminal to not have had a disclaimer on that movie stating how jacked up the ending is.

Wasn't James Garner's face the saddest thing you'd ever seen!?!

I also think the makers of Sleepaway Camp needed a similar disclaimer on the end of THAT train wreck of a movie.

On the Contrary - you cried for EXACTLY the reason...

2006-02-27T20:54:00.000-06:00

On the Contrary - you cried for EXACTLY the reason I thought you would. I, too, avoided the movie because I'd heard it was oh so sad and especially with a semi-close relationship to someone with advanced alzheimers.. then I watched it and was like, "WTF? This is cute and all but... I'm not crying." And then JAMES GARNER AND THE MUTUAL DEATH!!! Bahhhhhh!!!

Well, I will agree with you that you aren't like "...

2006-02-27T17:32:00.000-06:00

Well, I will agree with you that you aren't like "most guys", Otis. That's for sure. :)

I think its your dryness, are you sure you aren't British?

You are still a guy though, so you are still a guy that has seen (and liked) this movie. And there's nothing wrong with that. Its pretty cool actually.

Episode III was definitely flawed, but I still like it better than the Phantom Menace, if only for the absence of Jake Lloyd.

Well, count me out of "most men" when it comes to ...

2006-02-27T17:24:00.000-06:00

Well, count me out of "most men" when it comes to movies. I'll give you two examples:

1. My favorite film from last year was "Pride & Prejudice" (and I thought Episode III was awful).

2. My favorite film from the last 10 years is "The English Patient".

I'm not "most guys".

-Otis

HA! Ok, that's three men that I know that will adm...

2006-02-27T17:19:00.000-06:00

HA! Ok, that's three men that I know that will admit to having watched this movie. This could be a major milestone in cinema. Glad you liked it, Freddy. It was a pretty good movie, I will say.

So Lori, our shouting of your name at 5,000 decibels at sporadic intervals didn't keep you awake? You ARE a machine!
I don't even remember how she met the rich guy and they didn't really explain who Noah was sleeping with. She was just kinda there, and then not there...at least that's what I remember.

Boys? Care to enlighten us?

I'm actually with you Marlena. I hated the movie ...

2006-02-27T13:56:00.000-06:00

I'm actually with you Marlena. I hated the movie for making me cry, but what I saw of it was great.

Yes, I DID fall asleep even if I kept denying it. I think I missed most of the middle because I don't really remember her meeting the dude she was engaged to, or who the chick was that Noah was telling to go away. In my mind, she was the town slut, but I'm sure that's not how it went.

Yeah, I know it's a chick-flick but I loved this m...

2006-02-27T13:47:00.000-06:00

Yeah, I know it's a chick-flick but I loved this movie. ;)

I gotta agree. I hadn't heard anything about it before I watched it. I watched it with the GF who wouldn't tell me much about it other than how good it was. Watching it, I kept thinking it was nice, but nothing special. The ending is what totally sold it for me. If it wasn't for the last half hour or so, it would have been another cute but forgettable movie. As it is now, I highly recommend it to all my friends :)

-Freddy

HA! Its not your fault, I just have REALLY high ex...

2006-02-27T13:24:00.000-06:00

HA! Its not your fault, I just have REALLY high expectations in movies (some might say that's laughable also but...) and I hold my friend's opinions in high regards so if someone tells me a movie is great, I go in thinking its going to knock my socks off. Its mostly my fault.

I also had The Ring ruined for me in the same vein. I love horror movies with a passion and was disappointed that I didn't pee myself in the theatre on that one because a friend of mine told me it made him have to go home and watch Disney movies after seeing it and his idea of a good time would be to spend an evening with the Manson family and Leatherface. So when it wasn't as scary as he had made it out to be I was put off by it.

I just thought the love story was too formulaic for me (but I love formulaic slasher/horror movies, again I'm a hyporcrite!) but the acting done by Ryan and Rachel was superb. I'm just a sucker for James Garner I guess.

And please continue to recommend movies to me, just don't go on and on about them until AFTER I've seen them. That way I can gush about them with you. Because apparently that's what does me in. :)

It's too bad the hype led to disappointment. I kn...

2006-02-27T13:04:00.000-06:00

It's too bad the hype led to disappointment. I knew NOTHING about the film before watching it and was surprised at every turn how much I enjoyed it (and I disagree about the Ryan and Rachel sequences, I thought they were wonderful).

Oh well. Last time I ever recommend a movie to YOU.

;)

-Otis