[speaker001:] uh I don't go to movies a whole lot but uh I went two or three weeks ago for the first time in a long time and saw Dances with Wolves which turned out to be an extremely extremely good movie
[speaker002:] I haven't seen that yet I I I hear we a whole bunch of us were going to go see it the it's it's playing at school actually in about in about in about two weeks I guess so we're going to go see that but you enjoyed that
[speaker001:] yeah it's it's something that uh my my brother lives over in Fort Worth and I was telling him about it couple of weeks ago and he said well I'll wait until it comes out on uh tape and and rent the the video and I said no this is not one that you want to do that with
[speaker002:] that's what I heard yeah
[speaker001:] it's uh the the scenery and the the landscape and and the country that they're in needs a big screen it's just beautiful country in in the hills and the the trees and the buffalo and the whole thing it's just uh just an amazing amazing picture
[speaker002:] yeah I've heard it it it's not one for the videos
[speaker001:] no it's it's one I think well you know every every now and then you find one that you say yeah this is my favorite movie well this this is the one for me this time
[speaker002:] really
[speaker001:] yeah what have you been to lately
[speaker002:] um let's see well um this is almost sort of funny I was just at um friend and I went to see Out for Justice which is uh Steven Seagal
[speaker001:] yeah uh-huh
[speaker002:] because uh we're both big karate fans so we wanted to see what this is like and uh wasn't very impressed with actually
[speaker001:] oh yeah is that right that was
[speaker002:] yeah I wasn't I mean I've I've seen his other movies and he I I just think he's pretty good but uh this movie it's just I'm convinced now he can't act so
[speaker001:] yeah uh how's his karate
[speaker002:] oh his his his his karate's been pretty good I think in this one it wasn't so good I generally um movies like that scare me though I'd I'd be just fine without them because you know kids come running out wanting to beat each other up and you
[speaker001:] well they they do they get I remember when we used to go to uh see well I remember when Grand Prix came out when I was a kid and and some others movies like that we wanted to jump in the cars and and race
[speaker002:] fighting um-hum right
[speaker001:] and I suspect today what they see is bound to be what they want to do when they get out of it
[speaker002:] yeah yeah well that that was number one for the week actually too so so it was a little bit uh I was thinking wow people must be  into crime movies again
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] but but in the middle of that conversation we sort of picked an um an an interesting point last year's number one movie for the year was Ghost
[speaker001:] is that right
[speaker002:] I don't know if you saw Ghost or not
[speaker001:] I did see Ghost yeah
[speaker002:] except yeah and and and that was that that helped us sort of feel good about you know about ourselves and about that everyone around us in that in that um at least at least if everyone's if if if everyone's running around seeing karate movies and stuff like that at least they're still going to see the real good movies you know
[speaker001:] yeah I think that that Ghost was one of those that a lot of people didn't think was going to be any good and it turned out to be an excellent movie
[speaker002:] yeah yeah it was it was I was absolutely enthralled by it
[speaker001:] I I I've forgotten the guy's name who was in it who had the lead role yeah and I especially like him uh
[speaker002:] oh Patrick Swayze yeah he's he's very good
[speaker001:] he's a really a really good guy other than that Dances with Wolves seems like to be the the only thing I've seen in the past several months to have any uh
[speaker002:] really I'm trying to think what else I've seen recently what else have we seen recently oh you know what's pretty cute actually um Defending Your Life
[speaker001:] is that right I've I've seen the ads for it but I'm not really sure what it's about
[speaker002:] have you have you heard of this yeah um I actually hadn't heard anything about it and some friends called up and said do you want to go see this movie and and they said it starred um Meryl Streep and Mel Brooks at first they told me and I thought what a strange combination Mel Brooks and Meryl Streep
[speaker001:] yeah that is a strange combination
[speaker002:] well actually it starred out that it that it's actually Albert Brooks
[speaker001:] oh
[speaker002:] so so it's lot better um Mel Mel Brooks you you probably know is uh you know so it it was a strange combination but it turned out to be a very cute movie I mean the whole premise is that they go out and they they die
[speaker001:] yeah oh yeah
[speaker002:] and and they have to
[speaker001:] both of them
[speaker002:] right both of them are dead and they happen to meet in this this town um this this sort of city where you're set up such that you know they go and they decide if you can move up to the next level
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] I don't know if you've ever read Jonathan Livingston Seagull but it's something like that it's something like that they sort of move up to levels and and they have to decide whether or not they're good enough and as it turns out you know it's uh they meet there and fall in love and stuff like that
[speaker001:] yeah years ago oh
[speaker002:] so you can guess the rest of the plot it actually it's it's really funny because they run through you know they do it they have them do is sit down and see scenes of their lives
[speaker001:] oh yeah and then defend it well I guess that's where the title comes from then
[speaker002:] and that's pretty good actually yeah and it oh that's that's what you do you actually have to go up there and you have a they have an attorney for you know attorney for you and attorney a a a defense and a prosecution and they have the you know the prosecutor's job is to make sure you don't move up a level and the defense's job is to make sure that you you do you know and it's uh it's a neat little story actually
[speaker001:] yeah yeah it is it's
[speaker002:] I was I was I was I I went I went in thinking it'll be okay not great and then I actually came away thinking it was really pretty good so
[speaker001:] yeah it's funny we've got a couple of movies out recently Ghost and Defending Your Life that have to do with uh after life I guess and it kind of makes you wonder I'm a also besides working at TI I'm a graduate student at here North Texas and working on a master's in communication
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] it's the behavioral science part of communercation and I I I think about these things and and people trying to define their own world view and uh what what exactly do we you know do we see about this world or why are we so fascinated with the other world is it just supposed to be better
[speaker002:] hm the other world yeah
[speaker001:] yeah sometimes I think we we think it is and we like those things that way
[speaker002:] well I'm I'm I'm sure because it seems like it certainly would would would explain the preoccupation with it lately I mean but I suspect there's always been a preoccupation with that sort of thing in movies
[speaker001:] well it has all all the way through history there's uh I guess if you want to call it mysticism or the occult or whatever it's always fascinating I guess because we don't know and there's no real way of finding out well there's only one way of finding out
[speaker002:] right well well did you ever see um Flatliners
[speaker001:] no I did uh did not the a girl next to me saw it and she really liked it
[speaker002:] that that that's probably one of those ones that you know it's it's on video now I think and it's probably probably worth seeing on video um actually we really enjoyed it but it was it was it was also right along the same lines I mean they they would go ahead and kill themselves for a few three or four minutes to see what happens and
[speaker001:] yeah it is yeah yeah they say uh she said that this was uh almost believable that could really happen you know you get the medical profession doing these kinds of things and it you know you never know
[speaker002:] almost yeah I I it's it's it's a little far fetched to find a bunch of medical students doing it but
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] but it was um it was it was odd enough you know and the and they didn't just sort of make it silly it was you know it was done fairly well I think so act ually I actually enjoyed that as well
[speaker001:] I yeah I like it when they will will do something and not get too silly I've been disappointed in some movies that
[speaker002:] okay
[speaker001:] um they don't know how to end it it seems like so then they get crazy and and it doesn't end like the story has been going
[speaker002:] um-hum the story just sort of keeps going and going yeah
[speaker001:] yeah well I guess that covers our topic uh the
[speaker002:] yeah great well it was nice nice talking to you alrighty bye-bye
[speaker001:] nice talking to you bye