In general, I'm sort of a movie snob. I'll read just about any book, but not so with movies. I hate bad dialog and movies with missing plots. I do love dark/black comedy (I loved the series 6 Feet Under), good Sci Fi - also hard to come by as they blow the budget on special effects and rely on a 3rd grader to write the dialog and a 5th grader to do the plot,
. I also usually like foreign films (subtitles are fine), and prefer drama and suspense to comedy (I'm missing the slap-stick gene - physical comedy completely escapes me!). And, puleaze (as a friend on another board says), no Hollywood formula plots with happy endings. My legs might sit through it, but I'd be gagging before the first 20 mintues were over.
. I immediately knew that Mike was referring to One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. What a great book! And, one of the ONLY movies adapted from a book that I really enjoyed. The only thing the bothered me was the Nurse Rachet (sp?) character played by Louise Fletcher. She did a great job, but she didn't look anything like the person in the book - an overweight woman. I've always wondered if Hollywood didn't have any fat people then to play the Nurse character, or if they still thought we wouldn't watch people who weren't perfect looking.
. [in fact, I had to look up the name of the following ones - I couldn't remember any of them!] Y Tu Mama Tambien was very good. It's about living our lives and facing life and death. Another good one was Maria Full of Grace - it's about the drug smuggling trade from Latin America to the US. I also really liked The Sea Inside, about a man's 30 year struggle with disability and his fight to end his own life. If I can remember any other names of anything, I'll post.
. Then again, I cry at Hallmark and AT&T commercials 
. Good thing I don't watch much TV!