| Movie moments...what's yours?
Posted: 3/20/2008 7:58:00 AM | I was just thinking about moments in my life that could have been, or should have been, movie moments. You know...the ones where the love of your life comes around a corner and your eyes meet...you lose your breath and know that he's yours. Maybe the absurd...here's mine.
I'd had a bit of a breakup last winter and was quite upset...I needed to do some gardening so decided to get out my chimnea and burn the bit of waste I had. The sun was out, but it was cold....My hands were red from the cold and dirty from the work...I was wearing an old sweatshirt and a tattered pair of jeans...As I sat on the cold ground in the cold sunshine it started to snow. He came around the corner of my house and took me completely by surprise...he was all neat and tidy and I was a mess, but it didn't bother either of us. The story didn't have a happy ending, but it was a lovely moment and I probably will never forget it.
Anyone else have a movie moment...either perfectly romantic or utterly absurd? | |
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| Movie moments...what's yours?
Posted: 3/20/2008 8:15:45 AM | This last weekend was a movie moment for me, since my apartment was in the news and was partially destroyed here in Atlanta. One thing you learn is that when you see it in the movies there's always that idea that it's not real, but the moment that line is crossed, the images can and will haunt you and what you see and experience leave an impact in you. Even after what happened, and it was 4 in the morning and I am staying over my gf, since my apartment was destroyed, and it sinks in. To this she just nagged about this or that, during the rest of the weekend, and since she doesn't have cable or internet, never new what happened until she saw it in the news monday at work. She then called me and said she was so sorry, that she didn't really understand. Anyway, it is still weird, since I don't have a place to live, but so many people have been just awesome helping out.
So that's my odd movie moment. | |
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| Movie moments...what's yours?
Posted: 3/20/2008 8:25:03 AM | nice thread
three come to mind.. (not sure if they're absurd or romantic.. heh)
the time when i was in israel and a man offered a guy i was with "50 camels for (her) face"... i dunno what he was gonna do with the rest of me.. lol
one time when i was about 16 and at a fete, a strange bloke came running up and gave me a bunch of flowers, "for (your) eyes", before disappearing again... (they're bargaining for smaller and smaller areas.. still waiting for a nostril hair aficianado.. hehe ;p)
but the time that really sticks in my mind was when i met someone who became a much cared for boyfriend before i left england, so i guess i was 17... it was an "our eyes met across a crowded dance floor" moment... we couldn't stop gazing at eachother and with drinks in hands we wended our way through the dancing bodies until we reached one another in the middle... sighhhhh...it was intensely romantic, we had an amazing connection, probably the strongest i've felt with a boyfriend...
a couple of moments for the "twilight zone" movie category would be: a) when i was in africa someplace, it would have been either kenya/tanzania, i can't remember now - waiting on the corner of a street and some bloke came up and started hissing at me saying, "you are a child of god!!!" before disappearing off and b) when a bloke offered me $50 for a lock of my hair... (which i didn't give... no voodoo dolls named after me, tankee kindly ;p that one really creeped me out, not sure why, but i was relieved to see there was a policeman nearbye.... ) | |
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| Movie moments...what's yours?
Posted: 3/20/2008 8:25:23 AM | | I was doing clinicals for my nursing degree at a hospital. A group of us students were going to take our lunch break. I was about maybe 35 years old. we were waiting on the elevator to come up, when it opened, I looked up and into the bluest eyes I ever saw. Our eyes just locked, and i stood there. Next thing I know one of my fellow students is pulling at me to go around the guy with the blue eyes, who is still standing in the middle of the elevator. everybody else had gotten out. there were people waiting on him to get out too. of course the girls teased me, cause the people coming out of the elevator had to go around me, and the ones going in had to go around him, but i had no clue what was going on around me. didnt see anything but those blue eyes, mouth opened in a bit of a surprised smile, short dark wavy hair. I looked for him everytime I was at clinicals there. And I was married!!! Just dont connect like that with a perfect stranger very often. | |
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| Movie moments...what's yours?
Posted: 3/20/2008 8:27:46 AM | to outmind
sorry to hear that! i've not seen the happenings there myself, but i hope all will be okay and that you'll have a new place to live soon | |
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| Movie moments...what's yours?
Posted: 3/20/2008 8:30:45 AM | OutMind...sorry to hear about your apartment. Hope you are well and didn't get hurt.
As for my movie moment...it was with my first ex...when we were first dating. We had been out to see a movie, and then went back to my place. I was living with an aunt at the time, and instead of staying in the car, it was a warm night so he grabbed a jacket or something out of the back of his car, and threw it down in the grass in the back yard. We layed out there talking until sunrise. Perfect. No sex, a little kissing....just relaxed talking, getting to know each other. | |
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| Movie moments...what's yours?
Posted: 3/20/2008 8:39:19 AM | Oh simplelady you just reminded me of another when I was younger...I was going out with the 'bad boy' of my past...yeah, yeah...anyway, we'd been to a party and when we left we saw the northern lights. We pulled the car over...sat on the hood and talked all night whilst watching.
Out...I'm really sorry to hear about yours. | |
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| Movie moments...what's yours?
Posted: 3/20/2008 8:56:43 AM | I have a few that took my breath away....My first love was a guy I dated when I was in high school. As young as he was, he was amazingly romantic, and some of the things he did to get my attention were really unforgettable.
In an empty parking lot once, he put his stereo on our favourite love song, and danced around singing it to me..looking back, I don't know how he didn't get arrested.
He would steal flowers from the school masses and send them to me in home room, along with home made cards doused in his cologne and signed by all his buddies with ten reasons why I should date him..lol, great memories.
Getting serenaded while I was in Italy one year by one of the local boys, who played the most beautiful songs on his guitar...I have to say that definitely got my attention...
Recently, one of the managers from my favourite lounge waited till almost everyone was out after last call, put on slow music and asked me to dance on an empty dance floor while the cleaning staff was trying to pick up after everyone. lol I know...sounds tacky, but it was very sweet of him.
You know, for the most part they can just be sweet little gestures, that don't seem like much at the time, but make you smile when you think of them. I would hope that I've helped make memories like that for past men in my life....and I'm looking forward to making more in the future....
Sorry to hear about your apartment outmind.... | |
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| Movie moments...what's yours?
Posted: 3/20/2008 9:06:50 AM |
to outmind
sorry to hear that! i've not seen the happenings there myself, but i hope all will be okay and that you'll have a new place to live soon
Thanks EnglishLass, in the aftermath it's taking more of satyrical overtones, for instance the crew that went to spec the damage, actually stole my ipod and some other stuff. And nobody knows when gas, electric or water or any repairs done. | |
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| Movie moments...what's yours?
Posted: 3/20/2008 9:13:24 AM | is this limited to G, PG, R movie ratings?
If so... then I'll say the movie catogory would be comedy in meeting some of the people from dating sites............
someone should make a real to life movie of actual dates and meeting them. It would be a money maker in the young adult and singles world. | |
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| Movie moments...what's yours?
Posted: 3/20/2008 9:54:09 AM | Well, mine is not man-related, but child related.
We adopted my daughter at birth. She was born at 8:30 am while we were in the air, in an airplane. We landed, rented a car, and drove about 5 more hours to get to her. We arrived almost exactly 10 hours after she was born, at 6:30 pm.
The movie moment literally began as we walked down the hall of the maternity ward. It was so surreal. Like in a dream.
We popped in to greet her birthmother and see how she was. We chatted, then she shooed us out to go get our baby.
We peeked in the nursery window, just like in the movies, and wondered which baby was to be our daughter.
Next, we were in our own room, and the nurse brought in my daughter. 10 hours old. We just looked at her, in awe, a little scared to pick her up. Only 6 lbs 4 oz. The nurse said go ahead, pick her up, she won't break.
So I did. She was tiny and pink and just beautiful. We peered at her and smiled and cried. I looked at her and tried to imagine how she'd grow and change as my child for the rest of her life. We took turns holding her and she was with us from that moment forward. And I haven't put her down yet in 7 years. LOL
That whole experience of "receiving" her, was just so incredible, so amazing, it had to have been scripted by the best screenwriter there is. God, of course.
Kaylie | |
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| Movie moments...what's yours?
Posted: 3/20/2008 12:08:45 PM | * It was a dark and stormy night ..
I was headed to the break area, 6 floors down, to have a smoke, and wonder if I'd ever find the Love-of-my-Life . .
As I entered the empty elevator, I thought to myself ..
' If I'm patient, and upbeat, maybe She'll find Me ! '
Two floors down, the doors opened, and in stepped what I could only describe as
a *Vision* . .
With L o n g, wavy blonde hair, and eyes that started to melt me in my shoes ..
wearing a black lace vest over a red long sleeved blouse .. a short black skirt, black fishnets and 4" red F-M-Pumps . . she stepped into the car, eye-to-eye with me . .
I almost had to _Physically_ hold my jaw up to keep it from falling to the floor . . !
' WoW!. . What Lovely Hair ! ' .. was all I could manage to say .
' Thank you! You're sweet ! Do you know where the break-room is . . ?? '
' You're in luck . . I just happen to be headed there, now .. Join me ? '
' Sure! .. I just started work here, today, and you're the first Real Gentleman I've met !'
I chortled .. '...and maybe the L A S T, too...!! '
Little did we know .. that a year and a half later, we'd be Married . . !!! | |
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| Movie moments...what's yours?
Posted: 3/20/2008 12:11:29 PM | | The ending to Spaceballs...when Tim Allen realized he REALLY WAS as powerful a leader as his on-screen character...and that Sigourney Weaver has a killer body. [S-P-R-O-I-N-GGGGGG!] | |
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| Movie moments...what's yours?
Posted: 3/20/2008 12:38:41 PM |
The ending to Spaceballs...when Tim Allen realized he REALLY WAS as powerful a leader as his on-screen character...and that Sigourney Weaver has a killer body. [S-P-R-O-I-N-GGGGGG!]
Sigourney must have jostled your space balls. I think you're thinking of "Galaxy Quest".
Are you enjoying your Kep-mok blood ticks, Dr. Lazarus?  | |
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| Movie moments...what's yours?
Posted: 3/20/2008 12:50:27 PM | Most people would only qualify for an "America's Funniest Videos" moment...
"Movie Moments" only happen in movies.
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| Movie moments...what's yours?
Posted: 3/20/2008 12:53:19 PM | | Actually, my last relationship did have plenty of movie moments. Graveyards, a Ghoul Man who was actually dead throughout the entire production, a deceased wife being raised from the dead, cops scratching themselves with their revolvers , …oh wait. That’s “Plan 9 From Outer Space”. Meh, same difference. | |
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| Movie moments...what's yours?
Posted: 3/20/2008 12:57:26 PM | I think I will contribute part of a private message I sent another PoF member earlier today:
Interesting you should ask about poetry. When I was younger, when feelings of love and desire were much freer and much more intense than they are now, I was a prolific writer of verse. When I was 30, I was infatuated with a woman who served as the subject of many poems I wrote. Although I never fulfilled my fantasies of making love to her because I was married at the time, this young woman and I spent a lot of time with each other during the three months we were both in training at Fort Sam Houston, Texas.
She was a private and I was a staff sergeant. Just fraternizing with her would have been taboo had we been assigned to the same unit. But she was attending the medical illustrator's course and I was in the advanced NCO academy course. We hit it off from the moment we met and for the next several weeks were almost joined at the hip during our off duty hours.
She was 27 years old, from Valdosta, Georgia. She had a bachelors in fine arts and had been teaching until her school system's budget couldn't support the art program any longer.
She was six feet tall, five inches more than me. She was lithe and curvy at the same time and had a personality that was as effervescent as, but much sweeter than club soda. She was the most positive person I ever met, never letting anything or anybody get her down.
I guess the reason I am ranting on and on about her is your question about poetry. She is the last person I wrote poetry to. Although I was very sexually attracted to her, we never engaged in anything more than what could be considered heavy petting. Not that the opportunity didn't present itself on several occasions, not the least of which was a three day camping trip we took over the Memorial Day weekend.
That was a terrific and memorable outing. We went to the "Fifth, Sometimes Annual, Luchenbach World's Fair." Willie and Waylon and the boys were there. She bought us personalized T-shirts for the occasion. Mine said, "LOVE AN NCO," hers had "WHY ME" emblazoned across the chest. We were truly an odd couple, this tall young girl and slightly older short guy.
The song "It's Hard to Belong to Someone Else When the Right One Comes Along" was in the Top 40 at that time. It became my melancholy anthem as I fell madly in love with a woman I could never have. You see, despite being divorced three times, back in that day and age, it was out of the question for me.
So I put my poet's pen away back in 1978. I couldn't fathom finding another woman I would want to impress with my writing and it hurt to much to remember her. I did follow her career from afar though and it was a unique one. When the White House Honor Guards started accepting female soldiers, She was the first one selected out of all those who applied. She distinguished herself and soon received a direct commission in the Medical Service Corps. She commanded a company and then a battalion, retiring from the Army in 2000 as a Colonel. | |
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| Movie moments...what's yours?
Posted: 3/20/2008 1:06:48 PM | | I was leaning exhausted against the wreckage of the helicopter I had crashed saving the world from terrorist bank robbers, when from out of the back of a squad car my large breasted but otherwise trim recent acquaintance whose feelings for me had conveniently blossomed, emerged, her face beaming with adoring concern, relief and desire; her eyes searching for mine; our gazes locked; her eyes pouring through mine into my manly soul the promise of dutiful vaginal access and breathless yet heavy breathing soon to come. In the background music swelled. | |
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| Movie moments...what's yours?
Posted: 3/20/2008 4:29:27 PM | We'd been moving shrubs and trees all morning in back of our property. He was sitting high up in the seat of a big backhoe, engine rumbling, looking down at me on the ground, trying to hear me, as I was waving my arms indicating which tree and bushes go where. When I was through animating the instructions, he sat there looking at me for a bit, then reached down and turned the engine off -- it rumbled and chugged to a stop and he continued to study me for a bit, and said matter of factly ... "most women just move their furniture."
His delivery/style and humor made for many great memories. | |
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| Movie moments...what's yours?
Posted: 3/20/2008 5:16:12 PM | I was doing clinicals for my nursing degree at a hospital. A group of us students were going to take our lunch break. I was about maybe 35 years old. we were waiting on the elevator to come up, when it opened, I looked up and into the bluest eyes I ever saw. Our eyes just locked, and i stood there.
...It was McDreamy  (Obviously could be a scene from Grey's Anatomy)
I knew one woman, when our eyes first met, the world stood still. I'll never forget that ever and I know, that was a moment of once in a lifetime.
When we think back at those moments, sometimes you wonder why you didn't do anything. But then again, like OP's experience, best to leave alone and cherish. | |
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