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OMG

posted 19 years ago by AnonymousStranger
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I wasn't around when John Lennon passed away. I don't even think my parents were married. Growing up my taste in music has changed, and pushed on backwards. I love all of John Lennon's music, and I was sad, like everyone else, that he wasn't around anymore.

I stumbled upon "Imagine" by accident, and it was mid-way through but I sat down to watch it anyway. I'm not a sentimental person, and it takes a lot to make me tear up. But at the end, when they lead to the inevitable report of his death, and then cut to him singing the song "Imagine" I just teared up.

Then I got angry. I wanted to murder the guy who killed him. And like a million other fans out there I just wondered why this would happen to such a peaceful guy. John Lennon didn't deserve to die that way.

[–] cowhouse92 16 years ago

I wasn't born until almost 12 years after John's death, but I love him and the Beatles. I saw the last 45 minutes of this movie tonight. When John and Yoko were walking through the park and you heard John's voiceover saying, "...when I'm dead and gone, and I hope that's not for a long, long time..." I got a lump in my throat. And I never cry. By the assassination montage, I was full-out bawling. It lasted for about a half hour after the thing was over. And I wanted to murder Mark David Chapman, too.

Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!

[–] FrenchHornGirl 14 years ago

I've watched this movies a dozen times. I always cry. I always want to shout at the injustice, the stupidity, the senseless murder. The creep who killed John Lennon robbed two young men of their father, a woman of the love of her life, and the whole world of an amazing talent and icon.

I think you'd need to be made of stone not to at least feel a tug at your heart.

"I could have been killed, and you're drinkin'!"