John’s Comments (group member since Mar 19, 2013)

John’s comments from the Above All That Is Random book club group.

My friend got a bigger kick because she would see the ones I'd already given a rose to as they walked away from me. She said some would stop, turn around and see me hand out more roses, and then shake their heads and get an even bigger grin, not realizing my friend was noticing them.

31. This is something I actually did, in college, circa 1980. I found a 50 dollar bill on the crowded sidewalk. No way to know whose it was at that point (of course, everyone would say "It's MINE"). So I had this idea: there was a seller of single roses on the quad, so me and the girl I was with (a friend, not a girlfriend) bought 25 roses, and we handed them out to random girls that looked down, or preoccupied or stressed. We said "This is a free rose for just being you."
The smiles we got were well worth the 50 bucks.

Use found money to do good deeds. It's fun!

Kyle ~Special K: Rebel Leader~ wrote: "Haven't seen that one, John. I thought Kubrick did a masterful job directing THE SHINING."

Paths of Glory is in black and white, about WWI, not WWII but the pathos, the drama and sheer mastery of the film will haunt you the rest of your life.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050825/?...

the part where my heart finally broke: (view spoiler)[ when they forced the young german girl to sing a song, and the way it affects the soldiers (hide spoiler)]

Kyle ~Special K: Rebel Leader~ wrote: "John Carpenter, Martin Scorcese, Sean Cunningham, Steven Spielberg, Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, Ridley Scott, Lewis Teague, Brian De Palma, Mary Lambert."

Kubrick's "Paths of Glory" is one of the best films ever made, period.

Ruth wrote: "oh, yeah, I loved that movie!"

its one of my favorite movies of all time. its such a feeling of what it was like to grow up then. And yes, I'm that old.

Ruth wrote: "John wrote: "Wes Anderson"

what did he direct?"

Moonrise Kingdom

Wes Anderson

an now I will offer unintentional sequels, ripoffs or weird juxtapositions:

1. The Conversation/Enemy of the State
2. Apocalypse Now/Tropic Thunder
3. Rear Window/Body Double/Disturbia
4. The Verdict/The Gauntlet/16 Blocks
5. Mr. Blanding Builds His Dream House/Moneypit
6. Adventures in Babysitting/The Babysitter
7. Die Hard/Passenger 57/Swordfish
8. Its a Mad Mad Mad World/Hallejuah Trail/Smokin Aces
9. Phone Booth/Liberty Stands Still/Man on a Ledge

I love movies, just in general so its hard to select only a few, so I will pick some from one part of the world.

Shaolin
Kurasawa's "Ikiru" (to live)
The Hidden Fortress
Seven Samurai
The Eye
Spirited Away

carbine engines on penguins.

oh! wait, I thought we were supposed to be random?

Stanley Kubrick
Alfred Hitchcock

(incomplete list. I must think on this some more)

There are actors who have been good in anything they've been in, regardless of the movie.

for example:

Gene Hackman
Jennifer Jason Leigh (a chameleon)
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Robert Duvall
Meryl Streep
Emma Stone
Jeff Bridges