(In honor of Mother's Day, we're launching a series of posts today written, in part, by our mothers after we asked them one simple (yet very complex) question: What's your favorite movie and why?)
Momma Snider's preferred method of watching TV and movies is to sit on the couch with her laptop or her art projects and keep one eye on whatever my dad is watching. But sometimes a movie grabs her complete attention. She loves scary movies (nothing R-rated, please), and she has a weakness for Adam Sandler. We both loved Waitress and Hairspray last year, a somewhat rare convergence of our opinions. And Mom and I agree on another film, too....
"I love Remember the Titans. It's set in my senior year in high school, so the music reminds me of high school. I'd love to get the soundtrack. [I don't think she intended that as a hint, but I took it as one anyway.] It's such a warm story. I have trouble comprehending that in 1971 in some parts of the country there was still that kind of racial junk going on, but I guess it was like that in the South. It comes on TV a lot, and we have it on DVD -- and VHS -- so every time it comes on we start watching it, and then we get frustrated with the commercials and put on the DVD. And Denzel Washington! I love Denzel Washington."
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5-12-2008 @ 4:02PM
lw said...
"I have trouble comprehending that in 1971 in some parts of the country there was still that kind of racial junk going on, but I guess it was like that in the South." Alexandria VA where this happened is basically a part of Washington DC. So it is not like we are talking about the
backwoods deep south which everyone loves to disparage so much. This kind of stuff was happening all over so please kindly refrain from knocking the south for our unenlightened ways.
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5-12-2008 @ 6:50PM
Riley Freeman said...
well i think the above comment is unecessary. as virginia may be fine now clearly based on that movie it wasnt.
next this one of the better movies ever movie. theres something for everyone. comedy, sports, action, drama, etc........ i love this movie. probably the best sports movie ever made
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5-12-2008 @ 8:04PM
lw said...
My point is that 1: Alexandria VA is basically DC so not typically " the south" and 2: that this was happening in other parts of the country as well. The review makes it sound like a strictly southern problem.
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