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The Spikes Gang (1974)
good movie with real morals
I saw this movie when I was up late. I was bored one night. It was one of the only interesting-looking thing on. I absolutely love this movie! I wish this was the "must watch" for the wanna be gangsta rappers, the way Scarface is.
Even though basically they end the same, there is an underlined sense of repentance in this movie's end that is completely absent from movie themes today. It was real.
Getting half way in something (especially crime) and then wishing you hadn't started it is a real factor. This is something rare to see in these movies. Instead of leaving the movie thinking "I could do that, I just won't make those mistakes," the way other gangsta flicks make people feel, you leave thinking "maybe this isn't at all what I thought or want."
Thirst (1998)
anyone else notice the timing of this movie....
This movie Lifetime TV during the week that hurricane Katrina ravished the Louisiana coastline. Usually, when I watch these movies, I just watch them. But this particular day, it made me cry when the military brought the tanker truck in with water on the back and all the citizens were turning the truck over to get to the bottles of water. Even when the bottles were bursting on the ground, and the dog was licking it up out of the cracks of the sidewalk, art just imitated life a little too close for me that day.
Other than that, I found it quite interesting (for a Lifetime movie.) Usually, they include some rich, white woman whose perfect life is shattered by a horrible secret, a best friend who sleeps with their husband, or and evil child they gave up years ago who has returned very bitter.