It worked for me but I won't say why for fear of being fully spoilerish.

Ha! I forgot James Woods was in that.  All I remember is Matthew McConaughey (sp?) having zero chemistry with Jodie Foster and giving odd offbeat line readings. 

I saw this in the theater while visiting my friend in LA, so it has happy associations, and I recall it being pleasantly scary.  It was good to see Harrison Ford play a creep instead of a clenched proto-Neeson as he usually did in that era. 

The nice thing is I could like your detailed comment without even reading it.  Sometimes you just know.

That I would watch.

It's a fair cop, but society's to blame.

Oh God, I love glitter.  But maybe not so much ingesting it.

Mmmmmmm …. carbonated meth water.

Interesting too, wasn't it the booze that drove him out originally?

Ach! Wenn wird die Zeit erscheinen? from Bach's Christmas Oratorio.

Once Netflix swam into my ken, Marty was on my list of movies I'd always heard of and wanted to try out.  As described, it was modest but really solid/touching.  Here are a couple that turned out differently:

Rather a lot really.

I know, that's like eight years in TV time.

RIP Howard Ashman.

I don't even care.  I'd watch a Muppet remake of Breaking Bad.

Oh, snap.

This is the show that is finally going to get me to learn Spanish, I just know it!!  It's all about context clues.

Not that the water was shallow, that he could (a) hide under there without, say, drowning (or maybe he had a snorkel?) and (b) not be seen in shallow, clear water.

Eh.  The book was pretty important to me growing up.  The movie had some issues.  Like the Magwitch character "hiding" in shallow ocean water—huh?  Also, the guy from the Simpsons drastically miscast as the heavy mean guy Gwyneth Paltrow marries.  And then, hustling her away from Ethan Hawke, he says "we have a…

Having just watched much of "Flipper" with the sound off while enormously hung over, I concur.