Comments on: ICE CASTLES Being Rebuilt

By: READER#9

READER#9 — Sun, 03 May 2009 17:32:10 +0000

Ice Castles never did it for me. It was a movie called Death Be Not Proud. Looking at this trailer though, I wonder how they will remake the film and achieve just the right balance of cheese and current day. Are we that innocent anymore?

By: popculturenerd

popculturenerd — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 17:27:51 +0000

Oh, yes, that one, too. Heartbreaking.

By: ShelleyP

ShelleyP — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 06:17:15 +0000

I think the ending of Peter Weir’s Gallipoli is top of my all time sobbing episodes. A real howler.

By: le0pard13

le0pard13 — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 20:34:49 +0000

Wives always know 😉

By: popculturenerd

popculturenerd — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 20:20:10 +0000

Busted! I think you just admitted that you DO cry at movies, or at least THAT movie, which contradicts your previous statement. Does your wife know?

By: popculturenerd

popculturenerd — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 20:07:18 +0000

I'm so happy to see other Ice Castles fans here, both men and women! I didn't cry at Big Fish, Poncho, but I've heard from male friends who did. Must be a guy thing. I have huge reservations about the Castles remake, too, but will tune in to see how they update it. I don't cry easily at movies but when I do, I cry HARD, with snot coming out like Viola Davis in Doubt . The hardest: Terms of Endearment (little Huckleberry Fox's face at her bedside was too much), The Deer Hunter (when Christopher Walken's character did that foolhardy thing), House of Sand of Fog (when Ben Kingsley kept repeating "I want my son, I want only my son"), and The Killing Fields (pretty much throughout, but especially when "Imagine" played over the reunion scene). Also, a little-known TV movie with Kristy McNichol and Bruce Davison called Summer of My German Soldier. Anyone seen that?

By: le0pard13

le0pard13 — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 19:45:06 +0000

Don’t get me started with Brian’s Song. I was a junior in high school when that TV movie came out. Afterwards, all of the guys that I knew talked about how good that movie was–but nobody admitted to anything else. Different era and attitudes then, but it was an open secret that there was nary a dry eye.

By: Poncho

Poncho — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 19:31:52 +0000

I love the movie as well. I felt almost the same way as you did, but I actually fell in love with the girl 😀 I became nothing but sympathetic to the case of visually impaired people from that moment on.

And I won’t deny it: I did cry when she got blind. I’m a proud sobber and I like it. I even cried with Big Fish and I won’t hide it!

I don’t know if a remake might work. Ice Castles has its special 1970’s cheesiness which is what makes the movie great, and I see it difficult to replay. But we’ll have to see, won’t we?

By: popculturenerd

popculturenerd — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 18:57:03 +0000

le0pard13, didn't I see you weeping at a showing of Steel Magnolias back in '89? No? How 'bout Brian's Song? You know you love it! Oh, gosh, Funny Games (2007) was VERY unpleasant! Couldn't get through it. Didn't even know there was a previous version. This is all very informative and interesting. YOU keep 'em coming!

By: popculturenerd

popculturenerd — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 18:42:19 +0000

Haha! My mental picture of you weeping your ass off makes me laugh! And you've already seen pics from the remake? Dude, send them over! Isn't it interesting how a guy named Rob was cast to replace Robby? Did he at least cut his hair? Good call on The Ten Commandments. And I never saw El Mariachi but will take your word that Rodriguez ripped himself off.