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Poseidon Adventure is on Retroplex right now. The original one. In widescreen. It holds up pretty darned well, especially compared to all the horrible disaster movies that followed it. Couple of things, though. 1. Ernest Borgnine's character spends the whole movie yelling and being a general jackass. I would have kicked him out of the little group after the first 20 minutes. 2. The next time you watch it... and this time WILL come... check out the various members of the band (the folks who play "Morning After" and "Auld Lang Syne"... they all die, except for the main chick who makes it out). Seriously, check them out. I realize that it was the 70s and all, but I guess this is who the casting person thought looked "young and hip". You will not find goofier looking guys. Anywhere. Young and hip they are not. Especially the drummer dude in his little bucket hat. (shaking head)
Janie, today I quit my job. And then I told my boss to go f*** himself, and then I blackmailed him for almost sixty thousand dollars. Pass the asparagus.
Has anyone seen Coraline? The reviews look good, but I've also read suggestions that it can be a bit scary for kids. Anyone who can offer a review?
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Also, I don't know how to put this in professional words, but it looked pretty. Like the forest and snow and everything looked really nice.
Getting the wind knocked out of you is the only way to
remind your lungs how much they like the taste of air.
~ Sarah Kay
we saw it last night. I would say for kids ages 8-10 you are taking your chances. Under 8 would be a bit too rough on the kid for my taste. for adults and teens I think it was a B+. I liked most of it.
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Hmmm...my son is 8. He has watched and loved the first Hellboy movie and the Spider-Man films and bits and pieces of the LOTR films (until he gets bored). But I've heard that the button eyes and parents in Coraline are creepy.
Well some people think I'm too conservative. Many 8 year olds would watch Coraline and think nothing of it. But some would get creeped out. My brother-in-law told me about taking his 9-year old to the movie that had the dinosaurs going wild on the island. He was telling me you just need to take kids to movies and get them used to seeing rougher stuff. My reply was "you mean desensitize them?" He kind of gave up after that.
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Jurassic Park? There's the scale factor, too. Some movies we'll let DS see, but only on TV at home (I think DS has actually caught bits and pieces of a couple of the Jurassic Park films on cable and had no ill effects). The massive and overwhelming scale and sound of some films in the theater would be too much for him, I'm sure, but at home the impact is lessened. Thus far we've not taken him to see anything in the theater that was rated beyond PG. I can't imagine taking a kid younger than 10 or 11 to Jurassic Park in the theater.
Jurassic Park? There's the scale factor, too. Some movies we'll let DS see, but only on TV at home (I think DS has actually caught bits and pieces of a couple of the Jurassic Park films on cable and had no ill effects). The massive and overwhelming scale and sound of some films in the theater would be too much for him, I'm sure, but at home the impact is lessened. Thus far we've not taken him to see anything in the theater that was rated beyond PG. I can't imagine taking a kid younger than 10 or 11 to Jurassic Park in the theater. I think a lot of what kids are exposed to needs to depend upon their personalities, too. DH's younger cousin was still prone to nightmares induced by relatively benign PG-rated kids' films at age 12. In contrast, our little rascal has never been prone to nightmares...I can count all of the nightmares he's had on one hand (he will talk about scary dreams sometimes the following day, but like me will wake, realize he had a freaky dream, and fall back to sleep). Some kids seem a lot more adept at separating fantasy from reality at a relatively young age.
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Was the girl in Slum dog beautiful, or what? God she was pretty. And those little boys. To die for!!!!!!!!!!!!! I loooooovvvvvveee that movie. Except for that weird dance at the end. Must be an Indian thing.
Meh, $5 is $5...