Category: Monday Movie Meme

Movie Trauma Meme

8 Comments

This week is all about trauma.  Share which movies have shaken us to the core so much that we’ve never been the same because of them.  Visit the Bumbles for other lists.

I’ve only got  few…

Old Yeller – Heartbreak and tears. 

The Believers with Martin Sheen: DVD CoverThe Believers (1987)  This one is silly, but the the mom was killed by a coffee pot and the girlfriend’s pimple got so big that dozens of spiders finally broke out running all over her face.  I never liked spiders before the movie, but was terrified after.  That scene has stayed with me.  I’ve never looked at spiders or pimples the same way.

Jaws – This one should need no explanation. 

Schindler’s List –  There have been other movies and specials I’ve seen, but this stark look at the Holocaust shook me.  How can people hate this much?  Still a question that troubles me.

Platoon and other war movies – I’m a lover, not a fighter.  These haunt me, so I try to avoid them.

Monday Movie Meme – Tearjerkers

7 Comments

This week’s movie topic is all about Tear Jerkers…

The Bumbles aren’t big criers. In fact we find “a good cry” to be quite the oxymoron. So therefore we don’t go looking for sad movies – but every now and then a movie tricks us into thinking it is going to be perfectly fun and some damn sad scene gets snuck in there. Why don’t you share some others with us so that we aren’t caught off guard without our tissues?

Here are a few movies that have caused a tear or two to fall

1.Old Yeller – can’t handle death or injury to animals

2. E.T. – still don’t understand why he had to leave

3. Terms of Endearment – I was a mess!

4. Schindler’s List – brutality and hate are hard to watch

5. To Kill a  Mockingbird – when Atticus walks out of the courtroom…well, you know.

6. The Passion of the Christ – same as 4

7. Dead Poet’s Society – loved this movie, but it got me.

8. Love Story – anything titled Love Story should n0t be sad!

What about you?  What’s the last movie that made you cry?

Monday Movies Meme- Some Like It Hot

3 Comments

This week’s movie topic is all about Steamy Love Scenes…

This weekend in Boston a heat wave arrived. Usually the only things this hot here in April come from a steamy love scene. You know the kinds I’m talking about – where the screen just sizzles with passion and you would be embarrassed to watch it with your parents. Sometimes they are key to the plot development, and other times you know the director just threw it in there to be “titillating.” (ha ha) Hopefully this warm weather spell will stick around for a while, but just in case here are some steamy scenes that came to mind should we need them to warm up. What ones have fogged up your screen?

hosted by the Bumbles

Here are my choices-

Body Heat (1981) William Hurt & Kathleen Turner

Mulholland Drive (2001) Naomi Watts & Laura Herring

Fatal Attraction (1987) Michael Douglas & Glenn Close

Unfaithful (2002) Oliver Martinez & Diane Lane

A History of Violence (2005) Viggo Mortensen & Maria Bello

and if you like Diane Lane and Viggo Mortensen a sweeter, hotter love scene  – A Walk on the Moon (1999)

So what do you think?  Did I miss a good one?