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As for the perhaps dated message (is valuing yourself every really dated?), the film is a homage to the monster movies of the 50's after all so the message fits well into that design.
03/27/09
And a lot of girls in the US and worldwide still are struggling with not losing themselves within marriage. It's not a dichotomy anymore, except to the people where it still is. Not everyone's liberated yet; I took "obey" out of my marriage vows, but many women still come from a background where that would be unthinkable.
Also, small children's worlds are often seriously gender-normative, with strict roles, and small children are going to make up a big part of the audience.
But I digress and my login doesn't work on Jezebel.
I like good 3-D (the polarized type, not the color type) and I'm sure Colbert's funny. Plus I could listen to Hugh Laurie snark all day and love Kiefer doing a parody of his macho-man act, so I'm there. The Mr. loves him some Reese, too.
03/27/09
03/27/09
Annalee, have you BEEN to Modesto? It's really stuck in the past, even though it's so close to SF. I can believe a woman from there would be a lot less self-actualized.
03/27/09
03/27/09
So we're sticking with "flatlanders" to describe vapid city folks who don't know how to drive when there's moisture on the road and couldn't find their way out of a copse of trees without GPS.
Well, some of us, anyway.
03/27/09
(Evil Tortie's Dad is from a small town very near a left-wing city, so I see it a lot amongst the in-laws and their friends.)
03/27/09
The people in the Sierras get to consider everyone else "flatlanders", though, without chains and a-scared of snow and curvy roads.
Save me from tourists in Yosemite, even in summer, especially downhill.. NO DON'T PUT ON YOUR FRAKKING BRAKES YOU IDIOT, !@#$% IOWA!
03/27/09
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03/27/09
Must be jelly 'cause jam don't shake like that.
/Shows self out.
03/27/09
*looks in mirror* GODDAMNIT!
03/27/09
03/27/09
*shuffles out back door*
03/27/09
Most reviews say this movie feels like it is straight off of the Dreamworks production line as all the characters are generic as is the plot, so I get the feeling that would be the only reason to see this in the theater...
03/27/09
And, unlike in Beowulf and Journey to the Center of the Earth, there was no 3D drool which was a pleasant relief. There was some 3D shooting snot though.