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Subject: Re: [OM] Maine Dancing Landscapes
From: Charles Geilfuss <charles.geilfuss@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2012 09:15:34 -0400
  If I may take this posting in a different direction (but with an
appropriate title), did any of you up Maine way feel the Earth move
yesterday?

Charlie

On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 8:43 AM, Bob Whitmire <bwhitmire@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Read the book after my wife did and thought it was excellent. Seems young 
> adult novels sometimes are better than their adult counterparts, maybe 
> because of the infrequency of gratuitous nastiness. But I still can't figure 
> out any reason except greed that the last two books of the trilogy haven't 
> come out in paperback yet. I won't buy the hardbacks.
>
> --Bob
>
>
> On Oct 15, 2012, at 6:28 PM, Ken Norton wrote:
>
>>> Ah! That's the movie I keep trying to remember to watch and always forget. 
>>> Thanks!
>>
>> My favorite quote: "Queue the Cannon."
>>
>> Having a couple of teenage daughters, I'm probably a little more tuned
>> into this movie than the typical middle-aged guy, but I did find it to
>> be quite satisfying. It is VERY well done and the story line is
>> strong. As it is a long movie, it takes quite a while to build the
>> characters. There are three distinct acts, and the director really
>> allowed it to build without using typical trickery to manipulate the
>> audience into accepting a turkey just because the special effects are
>> bold and loud. Character construction is excellent.
>>
>> Among the nanny-state, over-protective people, there's a bunch of
>> criticism about the fact that the movie is a blood-and-guts movie and
>> there is a sense of glorifying death. I say that it's quite to the
>> contrary. The blood-and-guts portions are expected considering what
>> the topic really is and I thought those scenes were actually quite
>> nicely done. Glorifying death? Hardly. I think the story line shows
>> how life is to be valued. The language was also surprisingly clean. No
>> repeated strings of F-bombs. No need to. The dialog was strong enough
>> without it. Not "perfect" but quite good
>>
>> I was in a lot of physical pain while watching it, so for it to hold
>> my attention the way it did does say something about it.
>>
>> One thing that did bother my daughters, though, which really didn't
>> bug me after the first five minutes, was that the camera work was
>> heavy into motion. I understand why the director used this technique
>> and I concur. They got to see it first in a theater, though.
>>
>> Just as with the "MATRIX" trilogy, North by Northwest, Grand Prix and
>> Twister, The Hunger Games will get purchased for our own collection.
>> It's that good. Well, we have most of the Jackie Chan movies too, so
>> my tastes are somewhat unpredictable.
>
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