Sometimes I feel a burning need to see Walk to Remember. I have written a 35,000 word essay on that film which can be seen, in all its mortifying glory, here. I decided tonight – I must see it NOW – what do I need? I need to see that movie NOW. NOW. NOW. NOW. So I stopped off at the echoingly empty Blockbuster and bought a copy. I came home, took a shower, slathered myself in Pacifica French Lilac body butter, played with Hope for a while (who follows me from room to room, purring so loudly that it’s almost embarrassing) and then settled in, to pop in the movie that I NEEDED to see. NOW.
Only to find that I have bought a damaged copy. A staticy fluorescent line shivers across the screen at all times.
Why oh why doesn’t Blockbuster have an immediate delivery service, like a pizza joint? If they did, I would call them right now and shriek, “I’M DESPERATE. Send up Walk to Remember NOW!!!”
Dammit.
I’m more disappointed than I should be.
Maybe I should watch Center Stage instead …which has a similar appeal but isn’t QUITE the cheeseball extravaganza that Walk to Remember is … it won’t QUITE satisfy the need. Because Walk to Remember holds a very very special place in my heart – a teensy niche – reserved only for it (thank GOD – because if it took up any more space in my heart I’d be truly embarrassed) – but sometimes, like a heroin addiction, the need comes over me … and only one thing will satisfy.
Blockbuster sold me a bad copy.
Someone will PAY for this.
/I’m more disappointed than I should be./
Hahahahaha. I totally understand. I really do.
There are some movies that I can only describe with an “auditory response”. In ‘The Girl with the Pearl Earing’ I only hear footsteps walking down stone hallways. In ‘A Walk to Remember’ I hear Mandy Moore making little noises that come from the back of her throat – “unh, onh” – Sorry, I just had to share that.
You could rent it from iTunes and watch it on your computer…. it seems to be available.
Oooh!!!!!
I love how excited you just got, Sheila. That’s genius.
I’m going to confess something terrible here…please don’t judge me…my Must Watch film (and the urge always strikes me around November 3rd just as I start to get that tingly Christmas-is-coming feeling) is Little Women – the Winona Rider version.
Thanks Sheila for answering my Carole Lombard photo question.
Your site is AMAZING
iconista – ha! I never judge stuff like that! My favorite scene in that version of Little Women is when Claire Danes is given the piano. No matter how many times I see it it just KILLS ME.
And no problem with the Lombard question … I love your site too!
my favourite scene is when Hannah the Housekeeper (goodness, I could do with her in my house) slowly sprinkles rose petals across Beth’s empty bed. I sob every time. Wonderful.
Enough confessing! Back to the real world…
sheila, i loved a walk to remember! i love that little town and want to move there.
i have to respond to betsy’s “auditory response” comment about movies. i too have a number of movies that i recall, associate with, and describe by virtue of sounds. one in particular is “the shining.” in the deepest recesses of my brain, that movie is inextricably linked to the sound of that little kid riding his big wheel through the hotelcorridor: the gravelly whoosh of the wheels on the hardwood floor punctuated by regular intervals of silence as he hits carpet. there is something creepy and musical about that scene…almost like an alternative to the built up anticipatory music that narrates those you-don’t-know-it-yet-but-he’s-in-the-closet-with-a-hatchett scenes in slasher flicks.
Bets/Allison – really interesting thoughts and observations … Now I’m trying to think of movies where I have an auditory response.
Angel Heart immediately comes to mind. The sound in that movie is haunting … the plinking of a piano key is really what I remember.
I’ll think more, though – very cool.
the pearl jam soundtrack for into the wild is almost more memorable to me than the actual visuals in that movie. sheila, have you seen that?
No, haven’t seen it.
you know i love any movie starring a teen girl who has a mysterious illness and dies leaving a reformed bad boy to mourn…my ultimate guilty pleasure!..btw..Jim Moore once pointed out that What’s Up Doc has one of the best sound designs ever! He’s right! i.e. the elevator music playing old cole porter tunes….the snapping of the bands that hold the sign that holds the man who smashes into the pane of glass…Eunice’s heels squeaking across the floor as she is dragged from the banquet…the Chinese parade is scored with the song “La Cucaracha” played on glockensphiel…Chinese???…and many many more aural delights!
“La Cucaracha” played on glockensphiel…Chinese??? hahahahahahahaha I know – it’s so insane!!!
I love the boingy-boing sound of the bands snapping right before the guy falls thru the glass. It’s just the perfect ba-dum-CHING to an already perfect scene.
And yes. Give me a sick teenager, give me a stern father, give me a bad boy made good (hometown girl legume) … and I am totally happy.