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Joe Blevins 
"Don't I look handsome?"
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 Posted - 04/20/2007 : 00:50:16
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So, uh... never saw Happy Feet. Can't comment on it directly. My sister took her three kids to see it (ranging in age from 3 to 7). They were psyched beforehand, but the movie (apparently) was underwhelming and the environemental message was entirely lost on them. They all loved -- and continue to obsess over -- Cars.
I thought Cars looked great -- too good to be casually dismissed as "terrible," even if the script was lacking. Was I the only one who felt like the residents of Radiator Springs were kind of ***holes? They're needy and bossy and just generally more creepy than endearing. Also, I'm tired of movies about city slickers going to "charming" small towns full of "loveable" eccentrics. I've lived in small towns and found the residents to be no more charming or eccentric or loveable than anyone else. I'll quote from Roger Ebert's review of Sweet Home Alabama:
Among the pieties that Hollywood preaches but does not believe is the notion that small towns are preferable to big cities. Film after film rehearses this belief: Big cities are repositories of greed, alienation and hypocrisy, while in a small town you will find the front doors left unlocked, peach pies cooling on the kitchen window sill, and folks down at the diner who all know your name. "Sweet Home Alabama" is the latest, admittedly charming, recycling of this ancient myth.
I only disagree with the part about Alabama being charming. It isn't. It's a crock. Cars isn't as gallingly false as Alabama, but it's in that category. |
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MisterBadIdea 
"PLZ GET MILK, KTHXBYE"
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Posted - 04/20/2007 : 05:43:20
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| Right on, Blevins, and on top of that I'd like to add that I had real problems with the have-cake-and-eat-it-too ending. That pushed me over the edge on this film; it's very simple-minded. |
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silly 
"That rabbit's DYNAMITE."
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Posted - 04/23/2007 : 14:40:01
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| I think y'all had pretty high hopes for a film that was basically designed to sell toys. |
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Conan The Westy 
"Father, Faithful Friend, Fwiffer"
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Posted - 05/07/2007 : 22:19:53
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Saw it last night and really enjoyed it.
I was feeling a bit down and a colleague lent me her copy. It was cute, I enjoyed the in-jokes for the adults (Loved the HAL reference) and didn't find the environmental message too dischordant.
I can understand why some were underwhelmed but it cheered me up anyway. |
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Sean
"Necrosphenisciform anthropophagist."
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Posted - 05/08/2007 : 01:26:19
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Originally posted by Conan The Reporter
I can understand why some were underwhelmed but it cheered me up anyway.
How could penguins not cheer up someone who's feeling down?  |
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BaftaBaby 
"Always entranced by cinema."
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Posted - 05/08/2007 : 05:37:47
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Originally posted by Se�n
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Originally posted by Conan The Reporter
I can understand why some were underwhelmed but it cheered me up anyway.
How could penguins not cheer up someone who's feeling down?
When they are KILLERS!
 
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Sean
"Necrosphenisciform anthropophagist."
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Posted - 05/08/2007 : 05:59:04
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Originally posted by BaftaBabe
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Originally posted by Se�n
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Originally posted by Conan The Reporter
I can understand why some were underwhelmed but it cheered me up anyway.
How could penguins not cheer up someone who's feeling down?
When they are KILLERS!
 Poor wee penguins.
But I got my own back by not shooting any and letting them take over the earth. |
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Happy Feet - Hidden Agenda?
