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I read "Cider House Rules", didn't teach it but it was on the AP list, it was an excellent movie as was "An Officer and a Gentleman"

Agree Russ "Avatar" was groundbreaking in 3D, also saw the new "Alice in Wonderland", 3D eh, and "Toy Story 3" in 3D,

I am impressed with the way technology improves movies, but still think the quality of the acting has to be there, in addition to plot, sub-plot, characterization, conflict, theme etc, okay I'll stop now :agree:

But you just cannot stop there! Oh my! You did not mention symbolism and foreshadowing.......

Like in one of my favorite movies Body Heat. (1981) It's set in Florida. And it is hot. Kathleen Turner is setting up William Hurt to murder her rich husband Richard Crenna. There is a scene early in the movie where a clown drives by in a car. William Hurt has no idea the clown is symbolizing him and is foreshadowing what he's in for. (But for a lot of the movie, ya know....he did not seem to care anyway.)

But I digress....I do not think Body Heat won the Academy Award which is the topic here I guess. But all these years later, I cannot hear wind chimes without thinking about that movie. It had a real 1940's feel to it, too, which I like.

Oh well, enough digressing.....for now. Next thing you know I will be making everybody sing "Happy Birthday" to the best-written book ever -- To Kill a Mockingbird which turned 50 on July 11. And then I will go on and on about how the movie version was every bit as perfect as the book. The only time that has ever happened -- in my opinion.

Boomer Lee

But there were blue people with yellow eyes!!! Call me tasteless, but I loved it!! So did the hubs!

LOL again
 

I actually taught To Kill A Mockingbird, soooo many times and I never got tired of it, and Russ I know it didn't win the Academy Award but it should have; I taught it to my American Lit classes and as a movie to my Film as Lit classes, so much symbolism, incredible book and movie, it actually was the first book I ever bought on my own as a paperback, saw it, read it, loved it

The trial it was based on, The Scotsboro Trial is now on Broadway; most people don't realize that Dill is Truman Capote, he was Harper Lee's childhood friend, okay I'll stop again, NOW I am SCARING myself I sound like an English teacher, where did I put those tap shoes again, lol

I love American Beauty AND Cider House.

But I do agree on Ghandi. Maybe a little political correctness?

:agree: With every word!

Yes, Body Heat, what a great movie. Both Kathleen Turner and William Hurt should have won Oscars for that movie. Some movies you can just feel the moment and Body Heat was one of them.

Another that you felt like you were there was Cape Fear with Robert Mitchum.

Another suggested bomb
 

Chariots of Fire...of course with caveat "IMHO"