The King’s Speech was my favorite movie of the year. I cannot wait until it is on DVD/BluRay. However, I am desperate to talk about 127 Hours with someone who has actually seen it.
Seriously. I still think about this movie and I saw it weeks ago. It was the only time I’ve ever seen a movie and walked out exhausted by the emotional roller coaster I’d been on. But, like a roller coaster, I walked out majorly excited. I mean, it was a phenomenal movie.
Why haven’t you seen it?
My guess is that the main reason people haven’t watched it is the whole cutting-off-his-own-arm scene. I am NOT good with gore. In fact, there was a point in this movie that I was pretty close to closing my eyes, covering my ears, and humming loudly.
BUT, if I hadn’t gone through it, I probably wouldn’t have had the amazing experience I did. My hope, with this post, is to encourage you, if you haven’t seen it, to go rent it/buy it/download it *I would never encourage anyone to illegally obtain a movie* or whatever method you can find to watch this movie. The yucky part is about three minutes, but the rest is so completely worth it.
Is that not the reason?
Why haven’t you seen this movie? (Or: Have you seen this movie? What did you think?)
There’s a little comment section at the end of this post that you should click on so you can tell me. 🙂
I totally saw this movie and loved it. It was like we were there through this guy’s crazy life-changing hours.
I think the yucky part was so necessary to really follow his journey.
I was crying through pretty much the whole thing. Kurt, who is not a crier, cried too. It is so emotional and moving.
It made me appreciate life more. It made me appreciate my family more. Believe it or not, it made me want to go hiking. Although, not into caves, and always with a buddy AND tell people where I am going!
Oh my goodness yes! The yucky part was way yuckier than I had anticipated. I don’t think I’ll EVER get the sound out of my head. But when he first sees those people…oh my gosh. I think I was almost as relieved as he was! And I was like sobbing for him.
The best part for me, was that I forgot it was a movie. I was so caught up in the whole thing, I forgot that it was James Franco, and I felt like I was just there with him.
I wanted to go camping or to the grand canyon or something afterward. I think the fact that he was so connected to nature the whole time was the reason.
But yeah, I would definitely not go alone, or into scary cracks in the rock, or without my iPhone, or anywhere there isn’t service for my iPhone. 🙂