I haven’t seen Miss Smilla’s Sense of Snow, but remember when it was so popular on the reading list. And was Michael Douglas in Falling Down?

I don’t believe in sacrificing love on the altar of propriety or the opinions of others.

I haven’t seen Becoming Jane, but I definitely will.

As for movies that left me scratching my head, Falling Down comes to mind, YEARS after I saw it. That movie could have been so good, WAS so good, right to the end, and then the director wussed out and made him a psychopath, instead of the voice of Everyman. Another movie whose ending still has the ability to made me annoyed is Miss Smilla’s Sense of Snow (based on the book Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow, by Peter Hoeg, one of my favorite books). They somehow cast the dark, chilling villian from the book as a very unlikely hero at the end.

LaD I have not seen the movie but now plan to. As far as Departed, I saw the original Chinese version and had my shock then. I was crazy to think an American director would give us Americans our HEA, but when it didn’t happen and my husband nearly had a coronary on the spot I just nodded. For me in hindsight there was no other ending. Had we gotten what we expected the story would not have had the impact that it did. There was a lot of buzz about the movie because of the shocking ending. And while y’all know I am the ultimate HEA queen, for me, the ending in Departed (Internal Affairs is the Chinese version and very well done) was the only way it could have ended.

And since I realize my wussiness is not a good thing, in that I tend to stay away from graphic unpleasant stuff, I have forced myself to watch movies and read books outside of my comfort zone. I feel like if I stay in my own happy little world I may be stunting my growth.