Thank you, Chatty Lady, Maggie and Sandra. Wonderful and interesting titles. Like Dotsie, I've got a lot of catching up to do....

Here's my list and I LOVE movies !

- "Mystic River" was EXceptional ****
- "Under the Tuscan Sun," I loved it but get it on video, oh wait, that's all you can do now, Sorry.
- "Day After Tomorrow" we saw last weekend and it was actually pretty good and I'm not much for that 'kind' of movie.
- "SecondHand Lions" I agree was abosolute joy to watch. I LOVED that movie, my kids LOVED that movie and NOBODY was naked!
-"Raising Helen" was sweet and I love Kate Hudson.
- "Hidalgo" was one of the most beautiful movies as was "Troy", in a different way, but visually, they were done so well. Both had scenery and costuming that was aesthetically pleasing and the stories were true stories so that's always interesting; to see how someone else has it pictured in THEIR heads.
-"The Big Fish"... that was a bit odd, but if you like 'working' at following a movie, you'll like it and you'll want to watch it again just to be able to go back and get the bits that sort of make sense at the end.
-"50 First Dates" ... call me corny but I loved that, that and "How to Lose A Guy in 10 Days".. I love romantic comedies......

But I can't WAIT to see "The Notebook"... I read the book years and years ago......incredible!

Kate

Kate,

"The Notebook" sounds mysterious and intriguing. Do you know the author? Would love to check this out!

Thank you also for the other recommendations. "The Day After Tomorrow" also sounds interesting. The previews look very good.

Nicholas Sparks wrote "The Notebook" several years ago. It was one of those one-weekend books just because you can't put it down.

After the farmers market, grocery shopping and yard work we went to the movies this afternoon and saw "The Terminal" - the Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg movie.... it was terrific! REALLY TErrific! I'm always amazed at what Hanks can do. It was delightful! So go see that.

Kate

I have to agree with Dreamrkate, Tom Hanks was hilarious in the Terminal. In case you don't know its about a man living in the airport terminal because they won't let him enter the United States.

Also theres Cold Mountain with Nicole Kidman and Renee Zellweger. Also good entertainment.

I rented A House Of Sand and Fog with Ben Kingsley. I read the book and thought it was great. The mvie sticks pretty close to the book but its a sad film, onw where nobody wins, still entertaining.

Hi Chatty, I've been wondering about the House of Sand and Fog, whether it was creepy or not.
You know what's funny? Not funny, ha ha, but funny in an odd sort of way? - I was thinking about movies and how my daughter had me rent "Love Actually" and how she really thought it was good, mostly because it had several vignettes of relationships going on at the same time. Well, I wasn't impressed, mostly because I thought some of what I'm sure they thought was supposed to be clever humour, was crass and not what I would think was very tasteful. And I'm not a prude, mind you, at all, but there are some things I find to be a little over the top. So I was surprized that my daughter liked it, but then maybe it's a generational thing, the younger 'set' seems to think 'porn' is sort of funny and off-handedly acceptable. And here again, let me say, I'm not pruddie, but I don't necessarily find it funny. And while I don't mind a love scene or something in that vein, there was a couple in this movie who were supposed to be in a porn movie and they met while on the set and talked during the various stages of their sex act(s).
So I'm thinkin that it wasn't very good, and then one of the girls at work, one who happens to review some of the new release movies and writes entertainment reviews.....she loved it.....and I'm wondering......WHOA.....I AM old....I've crossed over into the generation that decides what's acceptable and what's not.
When did that happen?

Kate

I keep hearing about The Termianl. Gonna have to go see that one. I love Tom Hanks.

I also love Ben Stiller. We rented Along Came Polly and at times I was snorting. I have a hard time looking at him without a smile on my face. Any other Ben Stiller fans?

Dreamrkate, I wouldn't exactly say The House of Sand and Fog was creepy but it was a sad movie in as much as no one was a winner in the end. A young woman inherits a house on the ocean and doesn't bother opening her mail which contains notice from the county that she owns a business tax. This nis an error because there is no business but the reposess the house just the same. Te county sells the home to a man, his wife and son. He is a General from the Israeli army whos come to America. It gets very messy here and is worth seeing so I won't spoil it for you. I usually don't care much for Ben Kingsley but he was wonderful in this. Theres mystery, murder and suicide and attempted suicide and on, and on, and on.

I know nothing about the other movie you mentioned but you're absolutely correct theres a time and place for porn and these movie makers are trying to shove it down our throats in inappropriae times. If I wanted to see porn, which I do not, I would rent it, and resent them sneaking into to non-porn films.

A lady in her seventies so highly recommended "Love Acutally" to me that I went.
A total waste of eight dollars, not to mention two hours.

I thought the porn paled in comparison to the poor acting and terrible script or more likely the absence of script.
Looked like a home movie by juvenile deinquents.

Gotta' see Tom Hanks in "Terminal."

Yes! Go see The Terminal! Everyone! It was just heartwarming.
And it does my soul well to know that people can still be entertained with the absence of boobs, swearing, blood, guts and .... does that about cover it?
I think we get anesthicised (sic) because we see it everywhere, in the middle of football games, basketball games, commercials, movies, cartoons - there's so much sexual innuendo every where we turn.

I spoke to a woman today who has been a volunteer for probably 40 years, either at the hospital or with this other non-profit group. She said (in the course of her interview) that as a young woman it was just expected that she would spend a certain amount of time as a volunteer for worthy causes. Then as a student at Stanford, they were encouraged and challenged to 'go forth and make a difference' in the world.

Her comment... and this all really does tie in I think... was that very few young women accept volunteer work any more unless it's going to be something that can go down on a resume and give them an "in" to a future position.

So my point is this - all of these little things that seemingly don't matter... they pile up and chip away at our moral fiber.

Was that too much?

Kate