Does Samuel swear as much as he usually does?

Btw, 1+4+0+8= 12bis.

Sounds interesting. Good actors anyway, not that I am crazy about Johnny Depp like some American wide aunties.

I thought I was going to rent Secret Window; but now that I have read the wiki page, I decide not to. A bit too much violence for me though it may not be graphic. I may watch it if it is broadcast on tv.

like killing his wife and her boyfriend and the suggestion of him cooking / eating the corn grown in his backyard that tears up the nutrients from the dead bodies buried underneath.

Have seen neither of these movies but will eventually buy Secret Window as I would like to own all of Depp's movies.

He's done quite a few movies based on true stories I know of and three I've seen and own are: Donny Brasco (he infiltrates the mob); Blow (the main character is a cocaine dealer and ends up in prison); and The Libertine where he plays the 17th writer, John Wilmot.

A regular guy? I don't think I've seen one he's played yet.

Originally posted by daxonmacs:

I do like Deb, but have never seen him play a regular guy

If you can, see "What's eating Gilbert Grape". It's a very early work for him, but it remains one of my favorites (and he's pretty close to being a regular guy).

However as an American wide auntie (?!?!?), I of course like most of his movies.

BTW I stopped by the local library and picked up the DVD for 1408. Hope to watch it this weekend.

You are by no means one of the "wild aunties", Deb. It is not about liking Depp's movies or performance.

I just realized that I had misspelled "wild" in my first comment and since "wide" can be easily associated with "wide load", an American slang, it confused the hell out of our friend Deb.

It is a term used by the transportation industry. But at some point some people started using it to describe people who are overweight, particularly if they have a big ass. This was explained to me when I was in the US by a person who called himself that. He was only slightly overweight though.

Morning routine, eh?

Bob doesn't usually care for horror films that have a supernatural element, so I watched 1408 while he read a sci-fi novel. Definitely creepy, but afterwards it left me thinking about consciousness and our judgments about what's real.

SPOILER ALERT!

As a child, I dreamed that I had fallen about 10 feet onto a concrete surface, and that I had died! But in the dream, consciousness continued past death and was no longer localized to my body. At any rate based on my personal experience, it is possible to "die" in a dream.

And back when I was in college, I had a nightmarish sort of dream that also reminded me a little of one of the scenes in the movie. I "woke up" several times during the dream (not really, I had only dreamed that I had woken up) and at some point realized that I was still actually dreaming. During the last round of this, I woke up in my attic bedroom, relieved that I was finally awake. Went downstairs and settled into the living room where I could hear the shower running, no doubt because my roommate was taking a shower. However after the shower went off and my "roommate" emerged, to my shock, it wasn't my roommate at all. It was some woman I had never seen before. There really wasn't anything menacing about this person, but I immediately realized that I was not really awake and that I was going through yet another round of dreaming that I had woken up, which was very unsettling in its own right. Anyway this movie reminded me of that long ago dream.

Actually once you realized what issues the main character was really dealing with (or, to put it better, refusing to deal with), I thought that the axe-wielding, hockey-mask-wearing, homicidal maniac was pretty tame in comparison.

I would not watch that movie for precisely the same reason as Bob's. I wouldn't mind reading the Fever books though. I already had some good knowledge of the Celts and I liked the except of Faefever that I read. In fact I felt an instant admiration for the Author's writing talent.

Bob will watch horror if there's no supernatural stuff. For instance, he regards the 1st movie in the Alien series to be sci-fi horror. And he points out that the "Resident Evil" video game series is really sci-fi horror since the zombies were all produced from a genetically engineered virus.

He did watch and enjoy "The Advocate", but he claimed the acting in this one made it worthwhile. He particularly liked Al Pacino's performance. It also confirmed his view that lawyers are evil (I'm kidding here!).

Originally posted by daxonmacs:

You mean "The Devil's Advocate"?

You're right. I posted the above from my cell phone. If I'd been at my computer, I would have opened a tab in the browser and double-checked.

I like Pacino, too. I was just checking imdb.com. He apparently has been cast as King Lear in the Shakespeare play of the same name. It's going to be released next year. I look forward to seeing this.

Originally posted by daxonmacs:

it can be considered as the subconscious {or even unconscious (psyche)} way of experiencing reality

I think you are right. 1408 touched on dreams I had had. I think many supernatural horror flicks tap into this nightmare world that all of us have experienced.

I think from Bob's point of view, as soon as you introduce a supernatural element, anything can happen. The plot can take any direction due to a Deus ex machina or perhaps in this case it should be called a Devil ex machina.

BTW as an American wide auntie who loves Johnny Depp, he was in a movie whose plot was a bit similar to The Devil's Advocate, called The Ninth Gate. I thought it was an interesting take on the subject matter; it definitely had an emotional impact on me. I thought it was unsettling and disturbing.

On a lighter note, I also enjoyed Sleepy Hollow, which was an entirely new treatment of the Legend of Sleepy Hollow story. In his version, Depp plays an urban Ichabod Crane who has been making advances in the forensic sciences by utilizing a modern, empirical approach. His help has been requested in Sleepy Hollow, where a number of people have been killed in what the locals regard as a completely supernatural manner. Depp's character pooh-poohs their backward, rural ways and tries to bring the light of science to their darkened forests.

Originally posted by daxonmacs:

You're not the kind of lady that's meant or referred to when the term "wild auntie" is used

But I may be the kind of lady that's meant or referred to when the term wide auntie is used.

Originally posted by daxonmacs:

Johnny Depp.
Actually, I do like him as an actor and he variety of characters he has put down.

He is an interesting actor. From what I hear, I believe I disagree with his politics -- not that that matters at all.

People magazine has named him, once again, as the "Sexiest man alive." But he doesn't hold a candle to the young Bob.

BTW if you can rent/borrow, "What's eating Gilbert Grape?", this is one of my favorite Depp films.

He stars in a new movie called Public Enemy, without messy hair and moustache.

It is very contemporary. I like him in Sleepy Hollow the best so far. Whimsical.

I liked Sleepy Hollow a great deal, too.

Originally posted by solid copper:

I thought I was going to rent Secret Window; but now that I have read the wiki page, I decide not to. A bit too much violence for me though it may not be graphic. I

So the fact that people were being beheaded left and right in Sleepy Hollow was not too graphic for you? Hmmm...

Actually I found that horrible and had to look away. It was my friend's choice of movie for Sunday night. I agreed to it only because I liked the actress in it who is my kind of eccentric. I found that she and Depp were a perfect match in that movie though one is tall and the other is short. I was saying that I liked Depp's performance in it.

Originally posted by solid copper:

I was saying that I liked Depp's performance in it.

Ahhh... I get what you're saying.

Bob didn't watch this one with me. He'd be walking through the room while I was watching "heads roll" and he'd be like "Ugh...". However, if you actually did watch it, the whole beheading thing was purposely done in a very artificial way, probably in an effort to make the whole thing less gory. All of the beheadings shed no blood whatsoever. This was explained very early on by some allusion to the blade being white hot from the "flames of hell", which caused the wounds to be instantly cauterized.

Originally posted by daxonmacs:

Sounds like a healthy and clean way to go

Since I enjoy survival-horror video games which involve zombie slaying, I'm not sure this is an important feature for me. I just acquired and beat the latest installment of the Resident Evil series. There's much tongue-in-cheek verbal commentary, where the video game characters remark that what they're experiencing is "almost like a video game", etc. Anyway when I'm playing, I usually put on headphones so as to spare my family the moaning, groaning and gunshots. Not as much fun to listen to as to play.