Comments on JACK at RANDOM: Fall Movie Guide

These all sound like great picks to me. : ) Dh &am...

2011-10-24T17:47:52.150-07:00

These all sound like great picks to me. : ) Dh & I LOVE going out to the movies -- nothing better than a large container of hot freshly popped popcorn for lunch on a Sunday afternoon. ; )

We just saw The Ides of March. The plot is nothing really new, but the script & the acting, as you might expect, are superb.

So very excited about Rum Diary! I've been usi...

2011-10-24T12:52:49.219-07:00

So very excited about Rum Diary! I've been using my timeout to catch up on some movie watching skills. Wishing I could say it was time well spent. Movies these days... I think the best movie I've seen was Hesher.. such an interesting take on coping with grief. Thinking of you my friend and your beautiful Margot~

Take Shelter was pretty intense, the kind of movie...

2011-10-24T08:58:36.572-07:00

Take Shelter was pretty intense, the kind of movie that stays with you for a few days. Amazing cinema photography, according to my acting husband, and powerful dialogues. Tension from A to Z!

Thanks, Josh, for such a thorough breakdown of wha...

2011-10-22T06:19:20.838-07:00

Thanks, Josh, for such a thorough breakdown of what appears to be a great movie list! Ken and I go to the movies quite frequently, and some of these I have not even heard of, but they have tempted my movie-going urges.

You will love "The Ides of March!"

P.S. Tell Kari I saw her folks a couple weeks ago at church when we visited Stef and Mike. I love them! :)

Hugs, Micki :)

OK, no but in all seriousness, is it weird that I ...

2011-10-21T20:52:48.263-07:00

OK, no but in all seriousness, is it weird that I think the Muppets movie should be up there somewhere? I mean, there's no George Clooney or John C. Reilly but there is the Swedish Chef and Pepe the King Prawn, both very serious character actors. Are you aware that Pepe's real name is Pepino Rodrigo Serrano Gonzales? That is an Oscar-worthy name.

You forgot the remake of Footloose. I hear that i...

2011-10-21T20:45:17.007-07:00

You forgot the remake of Footloose. I hear that it is spectacular ;)

Warrior

2011-10-21T11:57:47.830-07:00

Warrior

"The Ides of March: One, Ryan Gosling is in t...

2011-10-21T09:00:46.327-07:00

"The Ides of March: One, Ryan Gosling is in this film. Two, George Clooney is directing. Three, George Clooney is writing. [Clooney also wrote and directed Good Night and Good Luck, a film I still think about six years later). Four, Paul Giamatti. FIVE, Philip Seymore Hoffman. That's four more reasons than I needed."

My husband and I used to dream of a section in the video store labeled, "This You Will Love." That was before Netflix; now they think they know.

Meanwhile, we'll get our recommendations here, because from this post - you're hired. Not to mention that you listen to the soundtrack from Fantastic Mr. Fox!

We would watch movies every single night if we didn't feel guilty. And if the Coen brothers directed all of them...

But none of this is the most important: That's Margot, and Kari, and Stella, and you.

Your writing, what you write about, the way you capture grief and love and life and relationships and loss and beauty and death and struggle and all of it; too much. Too much richness for one comment to capture, ever.

My breath is knocked clean out by your posts (here, and at GITW), your comments on other blogs (I have never seen a lame one, not even close) - so much so, that often I say nothing. Which feels flat wrong because silence is not the right response at all.

Thank you, Josh.

The worst is, if Margot had not died, I'm sure I wouldn't "know" your family at all. No justice.

Cathy in Missouri

I want to see many of these -- especially Young Ad...

2011-10-21T07:06:45.229-07:00

I want to see many of these -- especially Young Adult and A Dangerous Method. And The Ides of March. Not War Horse though. I didn't ride horses growing up, but I develop freakishly intense emotional connections to horse characters in books/movies and cannot bear to see movies about horses because I am anxious the entire time that something will happen and they horse will die.

What would Freud say about THAT? I probably don't want to know...

Let us know how the films are--I haven't been ...

2011-10-21T06:14:54.104-07:00

Let us know how the films are--I haven't been to a movie in over a year--embarrassing! But I loved the book Extremely Loud . . . and there are a couple there that look really great. Have fun!