It was on TV last night really late, and I was watching it until I fell asleep. I use to watch that movie all the time as a teenager, it was on HBO all the time, I can remember when it first came out, and it was a big hit movie. I think it is such a perfect example of a movie that reflects someone's life, and they make it flow so well, that you see her whole life, and it isn't cut out in places, they make it real.
I never get over it when the dad tells Loretta that she is not even 14 years old yet, and she wants to get married, and I think...oh man...that's my kids age...I can't even picture him being married, he's a baby to me yet, he looks like one too. But, people did get married that young-and that wasn't that long ago-Loretta Lynn is still alive.
The parts with her Dad really are sad, like when Doo Little walks in their bedroom at night, so he can get them together to ask if they can get married....and the Dad says...don't ever hit her, and don't ever take her far from home (and he breaks both those promises like the first week)...but, it is so realistic...and you really get the feel for what it was like growing up back then in a coal mining town, and what poverty really was, and that's how most people were living up until 70-80 years ago-that's why I actually am grateful all the time for the time period I am living in, my whole problem is that people around me don't seem to realize how well they have it made, and that they aren't living in a coal mining shack with no electricity...because that was what everyone was doing not long ago...and yet people today have it made so good, and they are more depressed, and kids are just down right rude and mean, but look back at when people had nothing...the kids respected and loved their parents-and they weren't given all this stuff-they had nothing. Sometimes I wonder why that wasn't a better life.
I think the part where the Dad is waiting with her at the train station is really sad, and he says I'm not going to ever see you again, and she says ...oh yes you will Daddy, and he says "but I won't ever see my little girl again." He says "these years have been robbed from me".
That is so sad. And she never does see him again.
It makes me sad, cause your childhood really does fly by so fast, and I think about in 5 years my son will be grown up- and I feel all the time like, I haven't had enough time of him being a kid, and yet I have been with him every single day of his life, and it just doesn't seem long enough, like time just keeps moving at such a rapid rate, that you don't even have time to look back at where you've been, because things are moving so fast.
I love this movie because it was a true story...and you could totally relate to the characters, and the acting was so great.
It just has moments in it, that are so real, even when she bakes the pie, and Doo Little buys it at the auction, and she put salt in it instead of sugar...I love that scene.
Posted by Ali_with_an_i (Member # 27) on :
If that's the one with Sissy Spacek then ugh.... The movie is fine but I just can't handle her! There are some actors like her and Ben Affleck that I can't stand so I cannot enjoy any movie they are in!
Posted by Jessie the Sunflower Goddess (Member # 1877) on :
I actually really liked it and I cannot believe what a good singer that Sissy Spacek actually was in it. She could have had a singing career. It has been ages since I have seen that one all of the way through but I have to say that she is a very good actress.
Posted by MotleyRulz (Member # 3598) on :
I caught the infamous scene talking about bologna while I was channel surfing the other day. That's the only reason I watch it....
Posted by ISIS (Member # 1780) on :
Well...their honeymoon scene...always freaked me out...it seemed so traumatic to her, for as young as she was, it's like I don't even think she had a clue as to what he was doing to her, and that scene makes me so uncomfortable...I remember it as a kid, and I use to change the channel, cause I couldn't watch it. It was pretty intense. I can't believe that she married him that young. As far as I know...Loretta Lynn never remarried ever...did she??
I thought Sissy Spacek and Tommy Lee Jones actually became those people for those roles, and then when you saw the real Doo Little Lynn...you think....who's he.
Posted by eightieschick (Member # 4385) on :
quote:Originally posted by ISIS:
...but, it is so realistic...and you really get the feel for what it was like growing up back then in a coal mining town, and what poverty really was, and that's how most people were living up until 70-80 years ago-that's why I actually am grateful all the time for the time period I am living in, my whole problem is that people around me don't seem to realize how well they have it made, and that they aren't living in a coal mining shack with no electricity...because that was what everyone was doing not long ago...and yet people today have it made so good, and they are more depressed, and kids are just down right rude and mean, but look back at when people had nothing...the kids respected and loved their parents-and they weren't given all this stuff-they had nothing. Sometimes I wonder why that wasn't a better life.
Hmmmm, seems to me that someone jumped down my throat because I said that I didn't have HBO, Cinemax or Showtime when I was growing up because we did not have the money for all sorts of extras, nor do I care to get them now as an adult. Which was why I never saw 90% of the 80's movies discussed here. Someone seems to think that if you were not rich, then you were a zero, except for when it comes to movie stars or entertainers.
Posted by MotleyRulz (Member # 3598) on :
isis said: "the kids respected and loved their parents-and they weren't given all this stuff-they had nothing. Sometimes I wonder why that wasn't a better life."
For the life of me Isis I can't picture you working on a farm or drawing water from a well. If it were like this still, did ya ever stop to think that there probably wouldn't be any 80s movies, music, or tv? That would suck.......
Posted by ISIS (Member # 1780) on :
If the someone your refering to is me about not having HBO...I have never said that ever, why would I care who has HBO or not?? I didn't grow up rich either...being rich doesn't mean you can afford HBO-that's kind of a far stretch off from being rich.
If I had to pick a time of history to go back to, it would be the 50's.
But, I could have lived in any time period.
When I was a kid...I was a tomboy...I played outside...all day long, I swam in the creek, I caught crayfish, and went fishing, and nothing grossed me out, and I built cabins in the woods or in my neighbors basements, I adopted wild baby animals, and I loved nature and being outside-I still do. Ever since I was a kid I always thought I'd grow up and marry Robert Logan from the Wilderness Family movies and go live in a log cabin in the woods that we built ourselves, and not have to deal with people...allthough I barely eat meat...so we would never hunt and kill animals, so we probably would have staved and died in the first week. But the idea of it was always fun to think about.
It is why I have a house built in 1887-I love the whole historical connection to life from that long ago.
I don't want to live on a farm...that's way far off from who I am...I sure wouldn't mind having a mini horse and a goat though, if I actually didn't live near town, I would probably look like a mini petting zoo.
Posted by eightieschick (Member # 4385) on :
Who said anything about you being rich? You are the one who said that just because I did not have HBO, I must have had a terrible childhood. You said that I must be jealous because you had such a wonderful time growing up, and I must have had a helluva time. Well, even though I didn't live in a one-horse town, I did everything that most other kids did when they were children, ie. riding a bike, playing softball, fishing for crayfish with my bare hands, etc. My mother also thought that there was a little too much soft core porn on some of those pay channels, which is true. I remember going over to my friend's house in high school and we were waiting to watch The Outsiders, but there was some smut on before it, so we had to wait for that to be over.
Posted by ISIS (Member # 1780) on :
So...then what are you complaining about it for?
Posted by eightieschick (Member # 4385) on :
What am I complaining about?
Posted by ISIS (Member # 1780) on :
everything
Posted by eightieschick (Member # 4385) on :
What is everything?
Posted by MotleyRulz (Member # 3598) on :
Everything is infinity which is nothing. LOL........
Posted by rocksteadyflamethrower (Member # 1065) on :
It's inaccurate to say that someone complains about everything. Everybody has things that bother them (and people that bother them, as well). There are things that Isis likes and eightieschick likes and Motley likes and I like. We just need to concentrate on those and find common ground.
I'm not saying this to be like a moderator...I'm just saying this as someone who doesn't like seeing all this arguing and bullying. FWIW, I've argued and bullied with others as well, and I'm not proud of it.
Sincerely,
John Kilduff
Posted by StevenHW (Member # 509) on :
Part of Jessie the Sunflower Goddess' post:
quote:...I actually really liked it and I cannot believe what a good singer that Sissy Spacek actually was in it. She could have had a singing career...
Sissy Spacek actually DID have a brief Country-Western music singing career before she got into acting. Then, a few years after the "Coal Miner's Daughter" movie came out, she released an album called "Hangin' Up My Heart".
She has also sang background vocals for her daughter's (Schuyler Fisk) band.
Posted by Phanstar (Member # 4235) on :
this thread is weird... and confuses me... weird.
But I will say this. I definately have a lot of fond memories of HBO in the eighties. I miss those days a lot.
Posted by Jessie the Sunflower Goddess (Member # 1877) on :
Wow Steven I didn't know that about Sissy Spacek. I cannot believe that she didn't try for a music career too. Thanks for the info.
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