Gone With the Wind is starting TCM.

[texanwitch]

I haven't watched it in years.

[nolabear]

1. Oh, Ashley!

Love that movie.

[texanwitch]

2. Ashley seemed very wimpy to me.

The first time I saw this movie I was a little kid, thought it would never end.

[nolabear]

5. Oh yeah, Ashley's a total wimp. That was part of the fun for me.

She was so hung up on that weasel. LOL!

[texanwitch]

7. I never got the attraction and I was a little kid watching the movie.

Clark Gable was the man.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

14. Ashley is a real wimp but Leslie Howard was really cool.

If he had been written a part that was a bit stronger, with more conflict, that would have been more interesting. Leslie Howard always played intellectual, sensitive men. Nota bene: I have NOT read the book.

Clark Gable was an example of a man who was not technically goodlooking but had the charisma to be a star.

My dad said that he saw Clark Gable act in a traveling tent theater in Houston in the early 1930s.

[pinboy3niner]

3. Never liked that one, though I loved Gable

Let me know when they're airing Casablanca, Lawrence of Arabia, To Kill a Mockingbird, Platoon, Fight Club, or The Usual Suspects.

[texanwitch]

4. Fight Club, I almost walked out of the movie.

Glad I stayed.

First rule of Fight Club.

Don't Talk About Fight Club.

[pinboy3niner]

9. When I saw it, I had to run out and buy the book

The movie is mostly faithful to it, and it's one of the rare cases of a film really doing justice to the source material.

The funny thing is that Palahniuk just threw a bunch of different things from his life in there and ended up with a very entertaining book and film.

And I love Norton as an actor, ever since Primal Fear. Another film that I can watch over and over again.

[nolabear]

6. All good movies.

[pinboy3niner]

10. I left out 12 Angry Men

Funny, too, as I recently did jury duty.

[Archae]

8. I saw part of it, once.

I said "Bullshit" and changed the channel.

Racist revisionist crap.

[pinboy3niner]

12. Oh, c'mon, Archae

Tell us what you really think. Spit it out, why doncha?

[kwassa]

11. After all this time, GWTW still sucks.

Racist, sexist, and downright stupid to boot.

Scarlett is the most useless heroine in movie history.

[OmahaBlueDog]

13. Ironic that they're showing it on 7/3

7/3/1862 was the day that Pickett charged into the Union lines at Gettysburg and the SOuth officially lost the war (that would be fought for nearly two more years). Tomorrow is the Anniversary of the fall of Vicksburg to US Grant.

I've always loved the scene early in the movie at the 12 Oaks BBQ. Scarlett is spying while the men are talking politics. Rhett responds to the Southern bravado as follows:

I think it's hard winning a war with words gentlmen.

What do you mean sir? Are you hinting that the yankee's can lick us?

No, I'm not hinting I'm saying very plainly that the Yankee's are better equipt than we. They've got factorys, coal mines, and shipyards to bottle up our harbors and starve us to death. All we've got is cotton and slaves, and..arrogance.