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| Marc |
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| I have to go on record and say that in my two previous posts I used emoticons for the first time in my digital life. |
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| yambu |
| Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 7:01 pm |
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Congratulations on being the last holdout. I gave in about a year ago. A sad day.  |
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| whiskeypriest |
| Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 8:04 pm |
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| lissa |
| Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 8:04 pm |
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Marc...I hafta say...emoticons, TV (albeit on DVD)...you're softening up! Must be that oh-so-alluring pic you've been displaying.  |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Wed Jun 10, 2009 4:43 pm |
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| Saw Up yesterday. A very good movie. Wonderful visuals, solid story of adventure, very funny, inventive and heartfelt. I had a difficult time with the first part of the movie. Some subject matter still has me very choked up. |
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| lshap |
| Posted: Wed Jun 10, 2009 5:37 pm |
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marantzo wrote: Saw Up yesterday. A very good movie. Wonderful visuals, solid story of adventure, very funny, inventive and heartfelt. I had a difficult time with the first part of the movie. Some subject matter still has me very choked up.
The first few minutes of Up, told without a word of dialogue, are as heartfelt as anything you'll see onscreen. It's a great example of how this film works on so many levels. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Wed Jun 10, 2009 7:34 pm |
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| Very well put and right on the money. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Wed Jun 10, 2009 7:48 pm |
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Saw Up this evening and agree with Gary and Lorne. It's a very emotional journey on many levels. The first sequence is among the most moving I've seen in some time.
My only problem with the movie was that it seems too easy for them to get to South America. This is not The Wizard of Oz, where (first of all) it was an act of God that got Dorothy over the rainbow, but (most importantly) the whole thing was a dream. I would like to have seen a little buildup to the takeoff of the house. I'd like to have seen Carl setting up the balloons. I'd like to have seen him practicing with the steering mechanism. I think the moviemakers were too invested in making the takeoff a big surprise. We all knew it was going to happen anyway.
My only other question was how old the explorer was supposed to be. 304 or 305? Alternatively, how young was Carl supposed to be? The explorer had to be at least 15 years older than Carl. Well, I guess the explorer could have been 90. In any case, this movie is a good advertisement for the AARP. As the country's average age gets older, I think we'll see more and more elderly heroes and heroines.
The movie was largely wonderful, despite these quibbles. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Wed Jun 10, 2009 10:16 pm |
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Carl was 78, and the other explorer would have to have been in his 90s. Very well preserved.
I have no problem with them not showing the nuts and bolts of attaching the balloons and steering mechanism. We can see enough to work that out on our own. I think there should have been more to the trip to Venezuela. Carl had what he needed to get there without the storm. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Wed Jun 10, 2009 10:17 pm |
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When you live high up in the sky like the explorer you don't age as rapidly. I thought everybody knew that. 
I thought they got to South America too fast also. Hell, it's taken me close to two years and I'm not there yet. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Wed Jun 10, 2009 10:19 pm |
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| Inside Man had somewhat of the same problem: the chief villain would have to be well into his 80s (at least) now to do what he did in the past. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Wed Jun 10, 2009 10:23 pm |
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marantzo wrote: When you live high up in the sky like the explorer you don't age as rapidly. I thought everybody knew that.
People with pets tend to live longer, and he had plenty of them. Apparently if they can talk to you, it helps slow the aging process even more. And the clean air and clean living helped as well. |
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| Marj |
| Posted: Wed Jun 10, 2009 10:23 pm |
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Quote: As the country's average age gets older, I think we'll see more and more elderly heroes and heroines.
Billy--I was thinking about just this the other day when I was doing some writing. I decided to make my protagonist older! |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Wed Jun 10, 2009 10:28 pm |
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| It's about time those snot-nosed young whippersnappers stopped being catered to. |
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| Befade |
| Posted: Wed Jun 10, 2009 11:10 pm |
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Quote: People with pets tend to live longer
Never heard this........but I'll go with "People with pets live happier." |
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