Intermezzo -- Items of a Non-Phone Sex Nature

[thin_ice_waltz]

It's 3:40 am.  We just finished watching The Mothman Prophecies.  Before that, we watched Signs.  I don't watch a lot of scary movies because I have a very, very, very low tolerance for scary movies.  I watched Flatliners on video years ago, and my then-boyfriend had to keep pausing to give me a chance to recover.  I saw Conspiracy Theory in the

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[honeykitten]

i'm ashamed to admit that i own FROGS! on dvd(...what? i got it out of the five dollar bin at wal-mart

[thin_ice_waltz]

So, about that Titanic movie, I actually saw it twice when it first came out in the theatre (no, I'm not proud of that), and I got teary-eyed over it. Not because it was poignant or good in any way, but because the soundtrack was pulling every string I have. Honestly, the scariest and most heartwrenching moments in a movie are dependent on their music. Watch a movie on mute with just subtitles, nothing's scary, nothing's sweet. Also, in defense of my reaction to Titanic, I am easily moved to tears by fiction, though not often by reality. I cry everytime I see the episode where Colonel Blake dies in M*A*S*H, I weep when Walter dies in "Rilla of Ingleside," and when Buffy the Vampire Slayer dies, I have to get the Kleenex, even though I know darn good and well she's getting resuscitated or resurrected, depending on the occasion.

[honeykitten]

i always cry when buffy dies. i also cried when angel died. i cry about stupid stuff...i cried at the end of lilo and stitch. i wept bitterly for the last three or four chapters of the latest harry potter. stuff like that. the short story "the cold equations" that we read when i was a sophmore in high school made me cry so hard i had to take a break in the middle because i couldn't see the pages clearly enough through my tears to read.
i'm def. with you on the moved to tears by fiction more than by reality.

xx

[thin_ice_waltz]

I think maybe it's because I fully expect reality to suck, and I am therefore not surprised when it fulfills my expectations. Fiction, though, could always have happy endings, and so it always surprises me a little bit when authors don't take advantage of that. Everytime I read some author describing why he/she killed off one of my favorite characters, they always mournfully shake their heads, assuring us that if they'd had a choice they wouldn't have, but it had to be done

[anonymous]

i was about 10 and something came on the tv. first it was one head. then two. then three more, then three more. finally one in the middle. all the heads were looking at each other, grinning hungrily, suspended i the air, disembodied heads. then the heads took up residence in a strange, flat domicile. they stayed there for years. i was so scared. the Brady Bunch did that to my generation.

tacitus

[thin_ice_waltz]

Okay, yes, I'm going to have to agree with that. "The Brady Bunch" is far more frightening than any horror movie ever could be.

[mrgrey]

This is quite random and more than a little late, but the movie Frogs you mentioned was filmed at a mansion 10 miles from my house. I've gone on a tour of the property, it's a nice place.

This story would be much more interesting if the movie was any good.