Comments on: The Dark Knight is Killing Us. Felon Fest. http://blog.spout.com/2008/08/22/batman-kills/ Daily coverage of what is truly interesting in the film world Wed, 11 Nov 2009 07:01:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Jerry http://blog.spout.com/2008/08/22/batman-kills/#comment-111980 Jerry Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:22:38 +0000 http://blog.spout.com/?p=4084#comment-111980 Steve, Out of sight man. You are living how and where you want to live and writing some of the best stuff I have found on the web. You're bona fide and widespread success had better come your way. Jerry Steve,

Out of sight man. You are living how and where you want to live and writing some of the best stuff I have found on the web.

You’re bona fide and widespread success had better come your way.

Jerry

]]> By: MovieMan0283 http://blog.spout.com/2008/08/22/batman-kills/#comment-111594 MovieMan0283 Sat, 23 Aug 2008 22:32:39 +0000 http://blog.spout.com/?p=4084#comment-111594 Interesting anecdote and observation. Why not start them with The Godfather or Raging Bull instead of McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Westerns being relatively passe nowadays) or Boccaccio 70 (despite the sex, it's got subtitles). Use Scorese and Coppola as gateway drugs to lead them deeper into the thickets of cinema? Keep up the evangelical work, though, and don't bite your tongue. Interesting anecdote and observation. Why not start them with The Godfather or Raging Bull instead of McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Westerns being relatively passe nowadays) or Boccaccio 70 (despite the sex, it’s got subtitles). Use Scorese and Coppola as gateway drugs to lead them deeper into the thickets of cinema? Keep up the evangelical work, though, and don’t bite your tongue.

]]> By: Steve B http://blog.spout.com/2008/08/22/batman-kills/#comment-111550 Steve B Sat, 23 Aug 2008 15:41:56 +0000 http://blog.spout.com/?p=4084#comment-111550 Jerry, not nosey at all, given the info I've already volunteered to the world. The more accurate term for where I live is "3/4 Sober House," but "halfway house" is easier for most readers to recognize, I reckon. It's privately owned housing outside the NYC homeless shelter system--"Sober" because the house rule is no drugs or alcohol. Most residents are either recovering from addictions or recently paroled from prison. Some, like me, are here simply because it's the cleanest, cheapest, safest alternative to NYC's jail-like network of shelters. When I went homeless earlier this year (ironically, a few weeks before being asked to write for Spout), the only other options were a city-funded one-way ticket to any another U.S. state, gang and drug infested shelters like Wards Island, or these relative oases, the 3/4 Houses. "New York is not a place for poor people," is roughly how the housing coordinator at one of the assessment shelters I stayed in put it to us. Even though a lot of folks I know have fled down South because of this reality, I simply can't see myself living anywhere else. Okay, movies as therapy? Hell yeah. Certain movies have added years to my life; others have taken years off it. Jerry, not nosey at all, given the info I’ve already volunteered to the world. The more accurate term for where I live is “3/4 Sober House,” but “halfway house” is easier for most readers to recognize, I reckon.

It’s privately owned housing outside the NYC homeless shelter system–”Sober” because the house rule is no drugs or alcohol. Most residents are either recovering from addictions or recently paroled from prison. Some, like me, are here simply because it’s the cleanest, cheapest, safest alternative to NYC’s jail-like network of shelters. When I went homeless earlier this year (ironically, a few weeks before being asked to write for Spout), the only other options were a city-funded one-way ticket to any another U.S. state, gang and drug infested shelters like Wards Island, or these relative oases, the 3/4 Houses.

“New York is not a place for poor people,” is roughly how the housing coordinator at one of the assessment shelters I stayed in put it to us. Even though a lot of folks I know have fled down South because of this reality, I simply can’t see myself living anywhere else.

Okay, movies as therapy? Hell yeah. Certain movies have added years to my life; others have taken years off it.

]]> By: Jerry http://blog.spout.com/2008/08/22/batman-kills/#comment-111410 Jerry Fri, 22 Aug 2008 17:09:03 +0000 http://blog.spout.com/?p=4084#comment-111410 Steve, Man o man, I enjoy the hell out of what your're saying (um, writing) The next question seems to be is whether or not movies are the tool to bring about a change in lifestyle (destructive patterns, etc.) like AA, NA, or Yoga? I dunno. Steve, um, do you really live in a half-way house? Nosey of me but if you do, why? Jerry Steve,

Man o man, I enjoy the hell out of what your’re saying (um, writing) The next question seems to be is whether or not movies are the tool to bring about a change in lifestyle (destructive patterns, etc.) like AA, NA, or Yoga?
I dunno.

Steve, um, do you really live in a half-way house?

Nosey of me but if you do, why?

Jerry

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