The Killing Fields was pretty disturbing . . . . but then it was basically a true story so sitting there and taking it in was almost something of a duty. Life Magazine in 1943 opined, after getting angry reader mail protesting graphic photo's showing Allied war dead, that: "Dead men have indeed died in vain if live men are afraid to look up upon them."
Platoon was a movie that was everything it was advertised to be - deeply depressing. I walked out of a theater in Vancouver after seeing that and wanted to throw myself in English Bay!!
On the flip side, I still get gunned up sitting down with Top Gun while Forrest Gump is a movie that consistently leaves me fuzzy all over with its emotional range and simplicity.
A good western movie from the 1930's-1960's period always cheers me up
as does throwing in a good Dick Tracy serial from the 1930's of which I have a nice supply.
Rick C
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