Comments on: Druggie movies

By: annette

annette — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 21:02:06 +0000

i’m on record, on this very blog, for my opinion that “leaving las vegas” is a great film. depressing, gut wrenching, put you off booze indefinitely?–you bet, but wow, the acting. i saw it with my then 14 year old son (i know, where’s cps when you need them)–talk about uncomfortable. when i tried to get him to leave, he said, “ma relax, it’s not that i don’t already know all this stuff”–we stayed with my admonition, “the next time she (elizabeth shue) goes down on anybody, we’re outta here.” afterwards we were so wound up we spent a couple of hours over coffee having one of the best parent-child discussions about a myriad of “hard” topics (prostitution, addiction, self-esteem, dispair) ever.

don’t get me wrong i couldn’t take a steady diet of the heavies (have to throw in a “forty year-old virgin” now and again), but i bet if you look back at the movies that have really stayed with you over the years, they’re not the pretty ones.

By: robin

robin — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 15:39:42 +0000

Oh, my gosh, Lady T–thank you so much for that warning. I do NOT need to see that.

Heather–ha! on the comfort foods!

By: Heather Harper

Heather Harper — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 14:31:39 +0000

It isn’t just you.

I can remember hitting my male friend with a purse (a fully loaded handbag) for dragging us all to see that depressing movie with Nicholas Cage and Elizabeth Shue. Leaving Las Vegas?

I don’t want to watch a movie that makes me question if I’ll ever be happy again. It also ruins my diet because I begin eating comfort food.

By: Lady T

Lady T — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 14:30:19 +0000

Don’t feel too bad-I went to see Crank on Saturday,mainly because it was as long as the movie my sister wanted to see that I refused to watch(Jackass Number Two). Crank has Jason Straham as a hitman dying from a rare poison who must keep moving to stay alive. Sounds good,right?

Well,one scene has Our Hero lopping off a bad guy’s hand with a cleaver,which doesn’t slow his foe down. Our Hero gets some assistance from his effeminate informant buddy(who uses a rolling pin!) and while the foe is backing Informant Guy into a corner,OH finds the severed hand still holding a gun and uses it to splatter the enemy’s brains over the place! And that’s a mild moment,let me tell you.

Monster was a good film but some flicks,you just have to be in the mood for and I suspect Half Nelson was one of them.