Comments on: What DVDs did you get for Christmas?

By: Susan M

Susan M — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 01:35:00 +0000

Maude didn’t look or act 80 years old, of course. But it is a dark comedy, you guys. Meant to be absurd.

You guys seen the part with the priest?

I would be remiss in my duty if I did not tell you that the idea of intercourse – the act of your firm, young body… comingling with… withered flesh… sagging breasts… and flabby b-b-buttocks… makes me want… to vomit.

But maybe the movie was more of a commentary on the differences between the two generations and how war shaped them. Maude is a Nazi concentration camp survivor and her experiences made her embrace life, she became a very free person. Harold’s generation is fighting the Vietnam war and just look at him: obsessed with death and living under his mother’s thumb.

By: Brian V

Brian V — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 00:57:23 +0000

Harold and Maude always creeped me out too.

By: Clark

Clark — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 00:13:20 +0000

I never caught the Viet Nam references. It just struck me as a weird combination of The Graduate twisted around in odd ways. And to be honest socially 60 year old differences were acceptable then in reverse. (There was a Charles Bronson movie I recall where he is dating an 18 year old and is in his 40′s in England that proposes a big deal)

Still, it did creep me out. But then the trophy wives of old rich guys creeps me out too. (Although my wife is 10 years my junior)

By: Susan M

Susan M — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 23:58:01 +0000

I’m kind of glad I never saw it as a teenager. I think I might have started hanging out at funerals, myself.

By: Susan M

Susan M — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 23:52:55 +0000

He was old enough that his mother was trying to find him a wife. He looked like he was 16 though.

It’s understandable that a 60-year age difference would creep you out.

I think the movie was making a big statement about the Vietnam War.

By: Clark

Clark — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 23:36:36 +0000

Can I confess Harold and Maude creeped me out? Plus wasn’t the guy underage as well?

By: meems

meems — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 07:33:06 +0000

I love that line!

By: Susan M

Susan M — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 05:08:44 +0000

Meems: Finally saw Harold & Maude last night. What a great movie! Totally an all-time fave now.

“You sure have a way with people.”

“Well, they’re my species!”

By: meems

meems — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 04:59:28 +0000

Oh! I LOVE spellbound. I tried to find it and buy it on iTunes ones, and they didn’t have it. I was SO bummed out.

By: meems

meems — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 04:58:08 +0000

Susan — there was a rerelease of Harold and Maude that was playing in all the theaters in the mid-late 70′s. It was also playing a lot in retro theaters, and always on a double bill with weird movies like Robin and Marian, and Lifeguard. I sat through those other movies countless times. Ahh, the memories!