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Resurrecting the Movies thread...
BelAir:
--- Quote from: Lynne on July 10, 2008, 02:54:20 pm ---Mostly, I just wondered if you noticed it. :)
I'll probably see Hancock this weekend. There's a definite lack of things I want to see right now!
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ah, okay. what I thought was "uh, stupid joke..." but also, Hancock is sort of a stupid, ignorant guy at that point in the movie...
(and for anyone who cares, i do not think stupid and ignorant are redundant, they mean two different things to me... ::))
Well, if you see it, you will of course have to let us know what you think.
I agree in terms of "lack of things to see"... I went cause my fam wanted to go - they chose that or Wall E... I went with Hancock. not one I would have picked to spend money on by myself at the theater. I forget Leslie's exact terminology, but something along the lines of "fine way to pass a few hours" but then you forget it entirely.
Lynne:
Truman/shakestheground had very good things to say about Wall E! That might be another option! :)
BelAir:
--- Quote from: Lynne on July 10, 2008, 03:19:31 pm ---Truman/shakestheground had very good things to say about Wall E! That might be another option! :)
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Oh yes!!! I saw that just today and it was great. In fact, I have a new little love....
So if you have to choose b/t Wall-E and Hancock - I say Wall-E! Unless of course you are having a Will Smith craving or want to see what the hype is all about, or are anti-Pixar and anti-robots...
8)
(I actually went to see Wall-E not wanting to like it; I initially had thought it was robots only, and was annoyed when I saw the plump humans on the adverts... however, I was hooked and immediately over not liking it when Wall-E and EVE took their first flight!)
serious crayons:
1) Re Hancock's homophobia -- I haven't seen it, but isn't Hancock supposed to be an obnoxious loser? Seems like in that context, a slur does not carry the same meaning as it would if uttered by a respectable character. I did see about ten minutes of the movie, in which Hancock threatened an old lady that he would "break off [his] foot in [her] ass" or something like that. I didn't take that as sexist or ageist -- just jerkist.
2) Re "The Film Club" -- it sounds very good. Thanks for posting this, Leslie.
3) Re "Wall-E" -- I hate to be the nay-sayer, but I didn't love it as much as I thought I would. I'd read a four-star review that called it the best movie of the summer. But I came close to falling asleep at one point, which I've only done two or three times in my life at a movie.
4) Re Kindle -- Leslie, I've been interested in the Kindle, but I'm concerned about one aspect of it. If you lose or wreck it, does that mean you lose all of the books you purchased on it? I'd be afraid to have hundreds of dollars worth of books at stake in that one little package. Or are your purchases kept on record, so you can just buy new hardware and re-download your same texts?
BelAir:
I read an interesting neflix WallE review today.
A man had gone to see the film with his children; he liked it quite a bit. He worried it may have been 'not light hearted enough' for his kids, but he reported the children liked it quite a bit too. He said his wife found all the flying/fight scenes towards the end too boring, his male-friend fell asleep, and the wife of his male friend felt it was too dark.
::)
ps - nice to see you again crayons!
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