I had a HUGE post with lots of different subjects but now I think I'm going to break it up into a few different posts.

I've been watching a few movies related to the Vietnam War that I haven't seen before. Or more accurately, I've been watching movies related to the various aftereffects of the war. Watched The Killing Fields a few weeks ago. This week I saw The Deer Hunter (all I can say about that one is..damn) and Coming Home. Also Orson Welles' The Lady from Shanghai with Rita Hayworth, a made for tv movie called Hell on Heels about the big Mary Kay vs Beauti Control direct cosmetics sales battle, as well as a slow and mostly useless pretentious little flick called The Myth of Fingerprints that seems to come from the school of late nineties dull indie dramedy underusing the talent of really good actors in a way that's supposed to be Altman style subtlety but is really just boring. Same school as a movie I saw a few weeks ago called The Secret Lives of Dentists. I also saw that godawful remake of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, although I wasn't really a fan of the original. Now the sequel to the original rocked in a great gory campy surreal kind of way. Anything with the Cramps in the soundrack and Dennis Hopper in the cast is alright by me. I also rewatched On Golden Pond and Motel Hell.

It's been an ecclectic week. Hey, what else am I going to do while I knit and spin?

The one that keeps coming back to me is The Deer Hunter. There are layers to that movie that I'll be thinking about for a while. I've been thinking about John Cazale. Fredo, Sal. He was dying when they were filming The Deer Hunter. He was engaged to Meryl Streep, this was her first major role. Crazy. Christopher Walken was unbelievable in this. I remember watching Walken in that weird 80s movie Brainstorm when I was in junior high I think. But this. This. Damn.

This week I plan to watch Heaven's Gate. Cody jokes about how I should just poke myself in the knee with a knitting needle over and over instead, it would cause less pain. This from the Mst afficionado.