Flatliners

First watched it during college days at Central Market cineplex...at that time, cineplex is rare and so different from the traditional big theaters or cinema. Maybe because of the near real effect in this new breed of cinema, it gave me the creeps and haunting effect until now :( Throughout these years, I watch it replay on cable or satellite STAR, TNT, USA...lost count and lot track. And usually, I would try to avoid it before going to sleep...

As a big fan of Kevin Bacon, I won't missed this movie. 

It talks about a group of elite med students, trying to create a death experience in school, therefore it is "flatlined", and then resurrect by others at the table. It's to be the first to die and comeback to tell the experience. Taken place at a museum like hospital as temporary lab...for autopsy and lecture. It started with a real creepy, dark, mysterious mood + atmosphere when these students going thru lectures in "museum" hospital. Kiefer Sutherland was the leader among the team...he went out to stare at the sun/sky and said... it's a good day to die... They finally gathered and do the first trial to die...Keifer die for 30seconds. He was saved but the event seems open up a tunnel or channel to bring back some childhood experience and bring them to life, where others cannot see it... the story continues with others like Julia Roberts, William Baldwin (Alec's brother)...where each of them encountered something in the past and the duration was also being pushed beyond 1:30 of death.  Have to stop here or you will lost the fun of enjoying this movie, a must see movie on my list.

sleepless in seattle

was listening to Stacey Kent's "In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning", which was featured in Sleepless in Seattle...forgotten which part of the movie it was played? could be the scene when Tom Hank's stay awake in late night/early morning? it's kinda "old" movie to many, it's considered a romance, sort of, and comedy to me. After this movie, Meg Ryan became my favorite actress until You've Got Mail. There are so many memorable songs in this movie...and of course; quotes, scenes, ...

Selected soundtracks: Louis Armstrong - "A Kiss to Build a Dream On" , Carly Simon - "In the Wee Small Hours of The Morning", Joe Cocker - "Bye Bye Blackbird", Harry Connick, Jr. - "A Wink And A Smile" , Tammy Wynette - "Stand By Your Man"

Quotes (as covered in imdb):

Doctor - the shrink on radio talk show, Sam - Tom Hanks, Jonah - Sam's son, Annie - Meg Ryan, Jessica - Jonah's female friend

Doctor Marcia Fieldstone: Tell me what was so special about your wife?

Sam Baldwin: Well, how long is your program? Well, it was a million tiny little things that, when you added them all up, they meant we were suppose to be together... and I knew it. I knew it the very first time I touched her. It was like coming home... only to no home I'd ever known... I was just taking her hand to help her out of a car and I knew. It was like... magic.

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Jonah Baldwin: Talk to her, dad. She's a doctor.
Sam Baldwin: Of what? Her first name could be Doctor.

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Jessica: I am telling them you're twelve so you can fly unaccompanied and the stewardess won't carry you around and stuff like that.
Jonah Baldwin: Are you crazy! Who'd believe I'm twelve?
Jessica: If it's in the computer, they believe anything.

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Sam Baldwin: Didn't you see Fatal Attraction?
Jonah Baldwin: You wouldn't let me!
Sam Baldwin: Well I saw it and it scared the shit out of me. It scared the shit out of every man in America.

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Sam Baldwin: I'll tell you what I'm doing this weekend, I'm getting laid. It's the 1990's and nobody's getting laid. I'm the only man in America who's getting laid this weekend and I haven't been laid that much. Six girls in college, maybe seven.
[sees Jonah standing in the doorway]
Sam Baldwin: How long have you been standing there?
Jonah Baldwin: Forever.

............the above quotes taken from IMDB, too much to remember the exact words...................

there was one when Becky (Meg Ryan's colleage and close friend) and Meg Ryan were talking but not in imdb...

Annie: All I can say is "Hello" [she refers to the scene when she flew from Baltimore to Seattle, and drives/follows Tom Hanks and his son until they see each other across a road. And the only word came out after that trip was "hello". She flew there after listening to the radio talk show by the freaky shrink.]

Becky then yelling something like I know it, just like the movie...[Becky refers to the movie An Affair to Remember when Deborah Kerr finally met Cary Grant but she cannot stand up for her leg because an accident and too proud to break the ice?, and Cary Grant is going to leave ...]......................

Scenes

Tom Hanks standing on the deck in front of his "floating home" at Seattle, breathing in and staring up.

Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan staring at each other from both sides of a road in Seattle

Meg Ryan driving to Baltimore after Christmas's Eve dinner and listening to radio

Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan (and Jonah) met at the observation deck at Empire State Building (well, the lobby is fake, and the elevator doesn't carry all the way from lobby to the observation deck - confirmed as I was there to check it out in 1995, it couldn't be rennovated so fast from 1992-1995 time frame I think)

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there is so much to chew on in the movie...and the classics referred to include An Affaird to Remember, Dirty Dozen...it's an era when things are much different from today's...the 90's..no ipod, no cellphone (or at least not as small and popular) and you can say goodbye to someone who is flying off, at the gate, adjacent to the airplane. huh? what???? grab one before it's extinct in this region...