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Post by hoosier on Jan 19, 2006 17:35:01 GMT -5
Not a blind movie per se but one where one of the main characters is blind is The Village. Bryce Howard, Opie's daughter, played Ivy Walker who is blind. I know a lot of people didn't care for this one, made by M. Night S.(not even gonna attempt that spelling  ) but I really liked it! |
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Post by Dreamfire on Mar 4, 2006 6:50:30 GMT -5
One of my favs, not realistic at all though, is Blind Fury with Rutger Hauer.
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Post by awlrite4now on Mar 4, 2006 12:19:32 GMT -5
One of my favs, not realistic at all though, is Blind Fury with Rutger Hauer. Blind Fury is one of my guilty pleasure movies. I like the line about the alligator..."Nice doggie". |
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Post by Chocky on Mar 4, 2006 19:41:47 GMT -5
Does anyone know the name of the biography of Morris Frank (of the movie Love Leads the Way)? I would be interested in reading it.
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Post by shmeep on Mar 4, 2006 21:13:49 GMT -5
It's called "First Lady of the Seeing Eye" if I'm not mistaken.
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Post by Dreamfire on Mar 4, 2006 22:10:51 GMT -5
Another fav line from Blind Fury is " This is where I live...."
ANd Rutger was so paradoxically strong and vulnerable in t hat one. I guewss that is a similar trait to Ron's portrayal of Det Dunbar. Oh even the name makes me go weak kneed now!
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Post by Dreamfire on Mar 4, 2006 22:12:12 GMT -5
Yeah loved that movie,great scripting. Love this idea of someone living alife they don't realise is a set up. Like Jon Cary's big one and The ISland etc.
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Post by spoony on Apr 5, 2006 0:33:41 GMT -5
One of my favourite movies (its tacky as all hell) is 'Blink', which stars Madeleine Stowe and Aidan Quinn and is about a blind chick who gets her sight back, so its not really a blind movie, I suppose. But I love it.
I can also say that I own 'Blind Justice' on DVD. No, not our beloved TV series, but a really really really terrible movie that I paid $3 for just so that I can claim "I own Blind Justice on DVD" haha. It stars Armand Assante as a blind guy who goes around shooting people while carrying a baby. Too funny.
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Post by greenbeing on Apr 5, 2006 17:13:09 GMT -5
It stars Armand Assante as a blind guy who goes around shooting people while carrying a baby. Snort, snicker, karma, thanks. --GB |
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Post by hoosier on May 6, 2006 17:03:09 GMT -5
Wasn't sure where to put this but I saw that Monk either has had or is going to have an episode where his sight is damaged by having a cleanser of some kind tossed in his eyes and there is the question of if he will be blind. I have never seen this show. We must be one of the few households in America that does not have cable but I found it interesting that so many shows are going with this angle lately. Hmmm. New Trend??? And BJ was toooo farfetched?  Hmmmm.  |
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Post by housemouse on May 6, 2006 18:02:09 GMT -5
I can also say that I own 'Blind Justice' on DVD. No, not our beloved TV series, but a really really really terrible movie that I paid $3 for just so that I can claim "I own Blind Justice on DVD" haha. It stars Armand Assante as a blind guy who goes around shooting people while carrying a baby. Too funny. That was an HBO movie I believe, but there is a lot more to it than Armand Assante carrying a baby and shooting people. I haven't seen it in years, but if I remember correctly he plays a civil war veteran who was blinded by lye. I seem to remember it being a pretty good movie, I also remember Armand Assante being rather hot. Wasn't sure where to put this but I saw that Monk either has had or is going to have an episode where his sight is damaged by having a cleanser of some kind tossed in his eyes and there is the question of if he will be blind. I have never seen this show. We must be one of the few households in America that does not have cable but I found it interesting that so many shows are going with this angle lately. Hmmm. New Trend??? And BJ was toooo farfetched? Hmmmm. A long long time ago there was an episode of TJ Hooker where Hooker's partner (I can't remember the character's name but he was played by Adrian Zmed) was temporarily blinded by something (I don't know what). |
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Post by inuvik on Jun 10, 2006 11:47:25 GMT -5
Lots of great late nite movies on for me this week! Tonight there is "The Dark Angel", from 1935. It's about a man who is blinded in the war who allows his own wife to think he's dead, rather than face her. (presumably as blindness was viewed as worse than death back then). Amazing how our cultural attitudes have changed for the better since then. It's Fredric March as the blind soldier. Sounds like a real melodramatic tearjerker (that can be good in my books).  Anyone seen this one? |
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Post by maggiethecat on Jun 10, 2006 13:45:22 GMT -5
I haven't seen Dark Angel in years, but the three leads are played by Frederic March, Merle Oberon, and Herbert Marshall, which ain't bad. I also checked Leonard Maltin quickly, and -- believe it or not -- the script was co-written by Lillian Hellmann. I seem to remember it as a real tearjerker/soap, with absolutely no basis in reality . . . so get on your jammies, pop some popcorn, grab a box of Kleenex and go for it!  |
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Post by hoosier on Jun 10, 2006 16:26:56 GMT -5
Wasn't there a tv movie starring Richard Dean Anderson as a returning Vietnam who had been blinded? I can not remember the name of the movie but I do remember liking it.
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Post by doobrah on Jun 10, 2006 17:30:43 GMT -5
Wasn't there a tv movie starring Richard Dean Anderson as a returning Vietnam who had been blinded? I can not remember the name of the movie but I do remember liking it. Found this reader comment on IMDB: "Ordinary Heroes" (1986) It is a sad movie and it almost made me cry. Tony Kaiser (Richard Dean Anderson) finally finds the love of his life. But when then he has to go fighting in the Vietnam War. Because of a stupid accident, he gets blind. This ruins his life. He doesn't want any visitors. Even his girlfriend Maria (Valerie Bertinelli) isn't allowed to see him. His best friend - and also the person he saved in the War - succeeds in bringing him home, although he swore never to return. |
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) but I really liked it!
Hmmmm. 
