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I'm a big fan of Shirley Jackson and her The Haunting of Hill House novel, but I just saw The Haunting (old version) for the very first time Friday night.

Julie Harris did a marvelous job as Eleanor. I thought the doctor's acting was a little over the top, though. I don't enjoy most b&w movies because the acting is quite often over the top.

The caretaker's wife was the spookiest thing in the movie. Repeating things like "no one comes closer to Hill House than town," and "if you should need help no one will come. At night. In the dark."

Ed, I hated this movie. Words can't describe how annoying it was to me. I did love the monster at the end, though.

I have so little tolerance now for shallow, sarcastic twentysomethings. This movie was too full of them. Most of the young people in TV and movies seem so generic and one-dimensional these days.

I loved Anthony Hopkins in Shadowlands. I've always thought Debra Winger was way underrated as an actress. I've enjoyed just about every role I've seen her play. And Remains of the Day is a favorite of mine.

I wish Tim Roth would work more. Wish he would work as much as Will Ferrell, but then I'd probably get sick of him, too. I think I'm one of the few who liked Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. Both Roth and Oldman were wonderful.

My husband didn't even know Gary Oldman was in The Dark Knight until I mentioned it on the way home.

Thanks, Petra. I know I should've Googled, but, eh, too lazy.

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LOL. Good observations, Tom. I've been disappointed in Morgan Freeman for years. I get all his detective roles after Seven mixed up. He is definitely phoning it in these days.

As for Hopkins in Fracture, he really wasn't playing Lector. IMO Hopkins just has an intelligent, dignified, cool manner that was perfect for his part as a man who just knows he's far superior than any young hick attorney trying to put him away. I think he brings these same characteristics to the many roles he plays. Maybe that's why it sometimes seems he's phoning it in.

I hope this discussion never reaches the animosity of the Into the Wild thread. Ouch. That place is painful to visit.

I also welcome different points of view. I just was wondering where Elise got the idea that anyone here thought the novel was true and the Bible was false. I read back through the comments and found nothing to support that statement. Everyone here enjoyed a small fictionalized piece of history. That's all.

I really enjoyed Fracture. Anthony Hopkins plays a man who kills his wife, and Gosling plays a young, green prosecutor who's in over his head. Anthony's cold and calculating character had shades of Dr. Lecter.

What the heck does maiger mean?

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Phillip, I personally don't think you missed too much. It was one of those quirky movies where the quirky townspeople go along with the plot. I just thought it was sort of silly. Maybe if Lars had been more...mentally off, I guess, then it might make more sense to me.

That film about the junkie school teacher is Half Nelson. I haven't seen it yet. I really enjoyed Gosling in Fracture with Anthony Hopkins.

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I love this movie and also Daphne du Maurier's novella.

The restaurant scene is very chilling, and I felt for a grieving mother who wanted to believe what the nun's were saying about her daughter's spirit. What mom wouldn't want to think her daughter was hanging around?

Interesting take on the love-making scene. I think I saw it on a list of hottest movie sex scenes. It never seemed mechanical or desperate to me, but highlighted their love for one another and the only way for them to show their affections at such a difficult time in their lives; showing love without speaking.

Tom, I agree on the hair. This movie came out 5 years before Invasion of the Body Snatchers, and I think he was sporting the same 'do.

Has anyone seen Near Dark with Bill Paxton? I think it came out in the late eighties. Pretty disturbing vampire flick.

I just watched Lars and the Real Girl. I really didn't care for it. But I love Ryan Gosling.

Eleece, I just think your comment about there being no reason to believe TRT is true and the Bible is false is way off the mark. I don't think for one moment these readers believe it. Nor do they believe it is historically accurate.

Discuss all you want...and so will I.

Elise, sorry we annoyed you with our comments about how much we enjoyed The Red Tent. What heroes did the book slander? It wasn't a patriarchal society?
I don't think the author was trying to slander any historical figure. She took one woman mentioned in the Bible and created a life for her on paper. I don't think anyone who reads it takes it at face value and thinks the Bible is false. Good grief.

The author of The Pearl Earring took a real-life painter and a popular painting and created a fictionalized account of how the painting came into existence. It's just another way to write a novel that I find very entertaining. I happen to find these types of conjecture novels fascinating. And, no, I don't think that's how the events went down in real life.

Ooh, Becca. I hate when our power is out. We lost power for a week when Hurrican Ivan hit years ago and we don't live anywhere near the coast. Welcome back.

I just thought of a guilty pleasure today when my husband was reading the paper and told me Armand Assante is 57. I had the world's biggest crush on him back in the eighties. Little Darlings with Kristy McNichol and Tatum O'neal. I love that movie!

Matt Dillon plays the love interest in the boys' camp across the lake who "does it" with McNichol. Cynthia Nixon plays a blonde hippie chick. It's a funny little movie. I need to find it for my collection.

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I really enjoyed Billy Elliot when I saw it many years ago. It was sort of predictable, but I felt overjoyed when I saw Billy tap dancing his way through his neighborhood.

I loved the ending.