Five DVDs I saw this weekend

[bcholmes]

1. Spy Game - not great, not dreadful. Three stars, perhaps.
   
   
2. A.I. - Hurm. Tough call. Four stars. Good film with a dreadful half-hour tacked on the end of it.
   
   
3. Serendipity - Two stars. We rented this because a comedy sounded like a welcome change. And I like ideas of fate and coincidence. But it was quite dull, really. Pity, too, 'cause I like John Cusack.
   
   
4. K-PAX - Two stars. Good acting, but predictable plotline.
   
   
5. Riding in Cars with Boys - Five stars. Brought me to tears. Makes me want to rent a whole whack of Penny Marshall films and have a Penny Marshall film festival. (Except Awakenings isn't all that great a film, so I'll skip that one).
   

About Riding in Cars with Boys:

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The thing that really hit me in the movie was Jason's speech about how every bad thing that happened to his mother was his fault. He was the reason his mother had to quit high school. The reason why his mother didn't go to college. He was the reason why their life wasn't better.

That scene right there echoed so much about my relationship with my own mother, I bawled until the end of the movie.

My mother got pregnant in March of 1966. She was nineteen years old.

She married my father in August of 1966. He was twenty.

She wanted to go to nursing college but my grandfather (her step-father) wouldn't give her the money to do so. I don't know if the shotgun marriage had anything to do with that.

She supported the family while my father learned to become an electrician.

My mother became an alcoholic. She used alcohol to avoid dealing with stuff in her life that was hard. To avoid dealing with disappointment.

And, yeah, sometimes I think I'm responsible for some of that. If she hadn't had me... who knows?

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[deepforestowl.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen most of the movies on that list, but I did see AI. I thought the first half hour dragged something awful...The setup took way to long. The rest of the film is paced really well. Why didn't you like the last half hour? I want a Teddy for myself.

I work at a video store...you would think that I have seen every new release out there! I guess my apathy is getting the better of me.