Saw "Happy Feet" last night. An instant all time fav on my list.

WindRavenX

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Sat Dec-23-06 04:56 PM
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Saw "Happy Feet" last night. An instant all time fav on my list.

How the hell can anyone not love that movie? I was damn near on the verge of tears the entire movie! An the baby Wobble-- omfg, could you GET any cuter? :)
Next up: The Good Sheppard, or maybe The Pursuit of Happyness.

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Rosemary2205

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Sat Dec-23-06 05:26 PM
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1. I am boycotting that movie

Jerry Falwell said it will turn me and my husband gay and I don't want a divorce. :)

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YellowRubberDuckie

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Sat Dec-23-06 10:05 PM
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9. Are you serious?

Jerry Falwell is on crack. There is no gayness in that movie! What an idiot!
Duckie

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ironflange

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Sun Dec-24-06 12:51 AM
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10. Michael Medved said it too

He sez the film contains "a whole subtext, as there so often is, about homosexuality."

http://mediamatters.org/items/200612150002

Maybe they're right. I was looking in my closet today, thinking about how crappy everything looks. I need to go shopping! :eyes:

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Radio_Lady

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Sun Dec-24-06 01:29 AM
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12. Ironflange, what a beautiful sparkly tree... I love it!

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NewJeffCT

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Sun Dec-24-06 08:25 AM
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15. I saw the movie, too

where is there a gay subtext? I mean, if you want to criticize the movie for being preachy about the environment, I can see that... but, I can't recall any sort of gay subtext?

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ironflange

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Sun Dec-24-06 03:51 PM
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17. It's because Mumbles says. . .

"Can't you accept me for what I am?" (or whatever). That's the dangerous homosexual agenda at work! :silly:

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bmbmd

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Sun Dec-24-06 09:10 AM
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16. Here's a gay subtext for you-

1:26I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan:
Very pleasant hast thou been unto me:
Thy love to me was wonderful,
Passing the love of women.

(II Samuel 1:26)

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femmocrat

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Sat Dec-23-06 07:18 PM
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2. "Charlotte's Web" is also adorable. I loved it!

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WindRavenX

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Sat Dec-23-06 07:42 PM
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5. oo00oo-- thx for the reminder

I was really worried they'd fuck that classic up--glad to hear it's good! :D

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Little Wing

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Sat Dec-23-06 07:19 PM
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3. You must be some kinda pinko commie sock lover!

Oh wait, your avatar :D

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WindRavenX

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Sat Dec-23-06 07:37 PM
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4. Yeah, Che is kinda a dead giveaway eh?

:D

But seriously, Happy Feet was fantastic-- it was obviously easily enjoyed by the kids (I mean, come ON-- if you don't think those penguins were cuyte, you have a heart of stone) but the details of the plot were very very very dark and suprisingly deep.

All those claims of racism, fwiw, were probably the dumbest claims I've ever heard. I mean, come on.

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RoyGBiv

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Sat Dec-23-06 07:44 PM
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6. Wait, what ... racism?

I somehow missed that one.

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WindRavenX

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Sat Dec-23-06 07:52 PM
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7. there were some claims that the movie was racist--both the left and the right claimed this

The different species of penguins-- Emperor, Macaroni, and Blue (I think)-- were different cultures. The Emperors were jazz and rhythm and blue, and the parents of Mumble were modeled after Elvis and, I think, an Arthea Franklin character. The little Blue penguins were hispanic/latino, and the Macaroni penguin seemed to be modeled after a southern preacher type character.
None of these characterizations were negatively portrayed nor judgmental, it was just a way to creatively model the penguin world.

The right claimed, as they usually do, that the movie was a preachy environmental movie. :eyes:

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RoyGBiv

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Sat Dec-23-06 07:56 PM
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8. I read the environmental thing ...

Edited on Sat Dec-23-06 08:01 PM by RoyGBiv

...as though that's a bad thing, but I guess I just tuned everything else out after seeing it myself. I guess I can see where someone might find racism if they were looking to be offended, or probably more precisely hell bent on finding something about which to be offended no matter what the actual evidence. I just hadn't seen it.

I agree, though. That's ... well, I'll put it nicely and just say that it's weird.

Good movie, imo.

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Initech

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Sun Dec-24-06 12:56 AM
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11. But it's advancing the hippie, homosexual, environmentalist whackjob agenda!

It'll turn your kids gay and spread more propaganda about global warming! Fox News told me so!

:sarcasm:

:scared:

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Radio_Lady

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Sun Dec-24-06 01:30 AM
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13. WindRavenX, that movie was delightful! Here's my review:

Edited on Sun Dec-24-06 01:32 AM by Radio_Lady

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Radio_Lady/81

I gave it a B+ on Radio_Lady Ellen's Entertainment Report Card.

Glad you enjoyed it too.

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begin_within

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Sun Dec-24-06 01:42 AM
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14. "March of the Penguins" was also a great film.

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newcriminal

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Sun Dec-24-06 06:23 PM
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18. Sorry to disagree but,

I thought the movie truely sucked. My kids didn't like it either.

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WindRavenX

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Sun Dec-24-06 06:34 PM
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19. It was campy, and if you can't suspend the adult in you...

...then I can see that many people would hate it. Why did you not like it? The musical elements?

It's one of those movies that if you can't mute that adult part of you, you will hate it. One of my friends was like that.

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Sun Dec-24-06 06:45 PM
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