Re: For Movie Freaks...

From: Georgie Hinklemyer <samoolives_at_yahoo.com_at_hypermail.org>
Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2009 06:50:26 -0000

Try "Coraline". Dean and I saw it at a Universal preview screening
and are looking forward to seeing it again in 3D soon. The animation
is just amazing!
--G.H.

--- In OliveStarlightOrchestra_at_yahoogroups.com, nico9000@... wrote:
>
> We got to see a lot of movies for free thanks to Mary's WGA card. We
> missed "Gran Torino," so it'll be Netflixed when it comes out, but both
> thought that "Milk," "Nixon/Frost," and "The Wrestler" were all
> fantastic. Unlike most of the movies we watch, those three are all very
> memorable and ones you actually think about days and weeks after you
> see them.
>
> I saw "Slumdog Millionaire" with a buddy when Mary was visiting friends
> up north at New Year's, and while I liked it, it is in no way the "feel
> good" movie the hype wants you to believe it is. Maybe I'm too
> sensitive to the human condition, but the poverty depicted in the film
> was just awful. My friend thought so too (he didn't like the flick as
> much as I did), and we both agreed there are about a million other
> places we'll go to before we'd venture to India. I did think the way
> the story-telling was done was fantastic, but again, found it to be far
> more depressing than uplifting.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joy McCann <joy.mccann_at_...>
> To: OliveStarlightOrchestra_at_yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 11:32 pm
> Subject: [OliveStarlightOrchestra] For Movie Freaks...
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> What did y'all think of Gran Torino?
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> --J
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Received on 2009-02-20 22:50:28