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DH and I went to see the new Bond movie last night... [2008-11-15]
Daniel Craig...yummy!
Grapes of Wrath had an accompanying movie sm [2008-11-14]
Tobacco Road - never saw such depressing movies back-to-back in my life, but they were truthful. Saw them in college for history lessons. Can you believe some people are going to put more on their kids by telling them he truth about Santa in this awful time? Talk about depression -- did we come this far to go back in attitude - read some of the above posts - probably born again and saved and we are the lost. I doubt it, I think we have lived it and don't want to see that negative attitude again. Oh boy, flaming, her we come. I am going on a 2-week hiatus. Fight on! Worse than the politics board - too much negativism in what is already a troubled time. Think positive! Geez! Santa, I love you!
Love movie "A Christmas Story" when dogs eat the turkey and they go out for Chinese. We love d [2008-11-13]
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yes, its a wonderful life -- a feel-good movie :) [2008-10-27]
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Has anyone seen movie "Enchanted"? It is [2008-10-20]
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Fireproof movie [2008-10-08]
My daughter and I went to see it last weekend and I would recommend it with 10 thumbs up. It really was the best I have seen in a long time since Amazing Grace. We are also planning on seeing the Billy Graham movie.
Fireproof movie [2008-10-07]
Has anyone seen the new movie Fireproof yet? It is great and you definitely should! It was produced by a church near my town and they did an amazing job!
Even if you are not a Christian or other belief, it is still a great movie. Yes there is a lot of Christian overtures in it (I mean it was made by a church!) but the main theme is love, and I think that is something everyone can understand!
I give it two thumbs up! In the days of every other movie being drugs and naked people, it is refreshing!
Let me know what you think!
your post reminds me of the Jim Carey movie [2008-09-10]
tv show/movie board [2008-09-02]
Do any of you feel we could use a TV show/movie board?
I wanna watch the new Vin Diesel movie [2008-09-02]
hot!!
Movie buckets are fun too.... [2008-08-23]
We've given those before. We buy paper tubs of microwave popcorn and put in there 2 movie rental tickets or a gift card equal to it, some bottled soda and boxed candy. Movie night in a bucket. I got it as a gift years ago, and I liked it so much I give it to others now.
Have you ever let a controversy stop you from seeing a movie you wanted to see? [2008-08-16]
With all this ridiculous craziness surrounding Tropic Thunder, I was curious if any of you were planning on not seeing it because of all the protests. I saw it at the advance screening in my area, and it makes me really sad that so many groups are up in arms over it, because itdumb humor even than it looks in the trailers, and I thought even -that- was funny.
And Tom Cruise's cameo is just spectacularly funny. I'm so glad I didn't miss this one.
Anyone else seeing it this weekend?
Highly recommend the movie "Bordertown" [2008-07-19]
JLo and Antonio Banderas. You will be moved and inspired to act. HIGHLY recommend.
Pixar Movie WALLE [2008-07-11]
Is it just me . . . or was this a not so great movie? I was board out of my flipping mind and so were my kids. If this is supposed to be the best movie of the year I would hate to see the worst. I was sadly disappointed. Half of what they show on TV wasn I never wanted a movie to be over so badly in my entire life. It was the worst - right up t here with Happy Feet-- another waste of film.
Can anyone name this movie [2008-06-19]
Ever have one of those toons you just can I just heard a song by Duran Duran called Ordinary World. I know this was in a movie and it is driving me absolutely bananas that I cannot remember what movie. I I thought Lost Boys or Flatliners, but I Anyone know? It Here's the link -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qxm_cY5jqmoamp;feature=related
movie was Layer Cake in 2005..... [2008-06-19]
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I only saw the last part of this movie [2008-06-19]
Maybe that's why I couldn't remember. Thanks
No, I never watched that movie (sm) [2008-06-06]
Maybe I'll have to go rent it now and see if I missed something...see what he's all about .
favorite movie ever [2008-05-08]
Queer Duck - the Movie
To Kill a Mockingbird, movie and book [2008-05-05]
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All time favorite movie? [2008-05-04]
My absolute favorite, which I can watch over and over, is Grease. Dirty Dancing (the original) plays a close second though.
I haven't seen that movie, so I don't know [2008-04-13]
what part you're talking about.
I HATE watching movies on TV though. I just can't stand how much they cut out, and it always seems to be a part that I wanted to see. I either buy them or rent them. I do netflix and then I can get old and new ones, and I'm bad about returning them on time so the no late fee thing works well for me.
Seen movie lots and scene only recently deleted. [2008-04-13]
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Chinese. Movie at the theater or home on DVD? [2008-03-29]
Both! Dancing or a Movie? [2008-03-26]
Well its 11:35 PM Saturday night here [2008-11-23]
on the west coast. I am a late person by nature. I absolutely hate going to bed and I hate waking up. Weekends I usually stay up til 2 or 3. I just finished watching the movie Twister. Now I'm going to try to work on some reports but I think I will end up going to bed. Nothing too too exciting going on.
Now he is laying on my couch watching TV...sm [2008-11-21]
I have the night off and would love to lay on my couch and watch a movie. But I dont guess I will get to. Sad. I can't relax in my own house.
That's not a bad idea. he's forever putting [2008-11-19]
a few $$ here and a few $$ there in his gas tank and he has a steady girlfriend. Maybe a gift card to the movie theatre too! TY!
Your welcome! Don't forget to [2008-11-19]
check the theater website for coupons or a frequent visitor card. He probably wouldn't fill one out himself but you could fill it out and include it in with the gift card. Usually you can get free drinks, etc. and it will really stretch the gift card.
We did a movie pack for my brother-in-law and sister-in-law last year. I found a plastic popcorn bucket at the $1 store and wal-mart had candy in the boxes (like at the movies) for a $1. Turned out to be a very cute gift if I do say so myself. We through the giftcard in there instead of buying a $3 card to go along with the giftcard.
How about ideas for siblings and their families? Here's one [2008-11-19]
I have three siblings, with spouses and children. Not only is it expensive to buy for all of them, but it Last year I went to a craft store and bought cheap baskets on sale. I bought each of them a 2-month subscription to the movies that you get through the mail,NetFlix (can do Blockbuster if you want). I put the gift certificate in the basket along with the big boxes of candy that they sell at the show (.99 cents apiece at Walgreens), a few packets of microwave popcorn, and a 6-pack of their favorite soda. They loved it and everybody enjoyed the movies over the next couple of cold winter months. You can purchase the movie gift certificates on line at their website.
Are anyone's children into the "Twighlight" craze? [2008-11-18]
The book series by Stephanie Meyers? It My 14 year old and her friends are absolutely crazy about the books and now that the movie is coming out itThe movie is out Friday and she already has presale tickets. I havenI have to say the movie lookslike it might be really good.
I am myself (and I am 33!) [2008-11-18]
I have read all four of the books, and I absolutely love them and have been waiting excitedly for the movie! I will be seeing it on Sunday! :)
My daughter had the books and I read them [2008-11-18]
at 50. Absolutely love them and am going with my daughter and her friends to see it. I was disappointed after I read the last book that there were not more.
I am currently also watching TrueBlood on HBO and absolutely love it. It is based on a series of 9 books and I am on book #5. Certainly would not recommend the series or books for young teens (very graphic in all aspects), but very good series. The series is not following the books, which is a little disappointing however.
I only hope the Twilight movie in in line with the books.
Not sure about that, but I grew up on scrapple [2008-11-15]
Scrapple contains basically what you mentioned and it's pretty darn good. It's all good meat, but it's basically scraps, hence the name.
I don't mind Spam either, at least when it's fried.
My son won't even try Spam, but not because of Monty Python. He won't eat it because of the movie Waterworld where they were throwing it out to the masses of people on the boat and the cans were marked Smeat! LOL!
Wouldn't hurt to s/m [2008-11-14]
get the old movie Grapes of Wrath and watch that too. That'll show you what's ahead.
Probably older. LOL s/m [2008-11-14]
We have Grapes of Wrath in our movie library. When I I pray to God we don headed in that direction.
Before you push the panic button sm [2008-11-14]
This is a recession, quite possibly the mother of all recessions. It may turn into a depression, but it will run a very distant second to the Great Depression, IF it does.
Pre the GP (Great Depression) you several things going on that are NOT true today. We had come out of WWI not that long before. It had been a very bloody war, the first war with mechanized destruction. What the Doughboys witnessed was for them what we saw on 09/11...unimaginable death and destruction. It changed how they viewed America.
When these boys came home from the war, they came back to the farm, by and large. We were an agrarian country and with the exception of east coast, there were hardly any factory jobs and most people worked the land. Plenty of places all over the country people worked on shares and they were not all in the deep south and they were not all black. There was not nearly the land/home ownership that there is today. Most of these dirt farmers lived in poverty and barely scraped by enough to eat twice a day. When the great Dust Bowl came through Oklahoma, it took the enormous clouds of dust eastward and dumped it into the Atlantic Ocean. This was a man-made disaster and the story of the Joads in the Grapes of Wrath centers on the Dust Bowl and the farming habits of families, like the Joads caused them problems. It was their fault that the top soil blew across FDR's desk in the Oval Office.
There was no infrastructure to speak of, in those days. There were roadways, but not the spider web of paved roads there are today. Goods were carried on the rails, not over the roads. You didnin town and the Sears-Roebuck catalog. If you couldn't find it there or could not afford it you either cobbled something together or did without. You can look the Coal Miner's Daughter about being so low-down dirt poor it is unbelievable. That movie is quite cleaned up and Hollywood presentable. You could look at the sparse surroundings of the ranch house in Broke Back Mountain where Ennis goes after Jack dies, and while the time frame is more modern, the very plain, only the very basics of life appear in that ranch house. They are both a bit sanitized, but reasonably realistic.
Today, Americans live extraordinarily different lives than we did 80 years ago. Most people have a vehicle. Most people have more than a dirt floor shack to live in. We, have thanks to the Great Depression and FDR's recovery plan, electricity, roads, water, sewage and other sanitation. We take these things for granted, but we should not. The GP did bring some food shortages, not because of the depression, but because of the lack of infrastructure combined with people on the move to find work to subsist. The food shortages you are thinking of came with WWII and rationing...another problem secondary to lack of infrastructure and subsistence farming where there was not enough food produced to meet the need.
If you are going to stock up on food, let be for more common sense reasons. If you put your money in the bank, you will make 2% or 3% return on $500. If you put that same amount into nonperishable food (think canned goods), you make a better return on an investment. You don't earn 2% or 3%, but you can end up leveraging against future price increases that will meet and exceed what interest you make from a bank, which is nothing right now. You will need food whether you buy it now or buy it later. Squirreling away extra under the bed or whatever place you can find room, is a wise investment...financially and in peace of mind.
Best Description of a Depression [2008-11-13]
I really think the movie Cinderella Man gives a good and accurate portrayal of the Great Depression.
Seems to me the people you call friends... [2008-11-11]
were trying to teach you a lesson. You are the one with the cell phone who doesnOkay. You don If I were you, IThank you very much. Your lesson was very well learned now get the h**l away from me. For crying out loud, with friends like that, who needs enemies. Life is too short to deal with that kind of crap. Go find some new friends who don't care if you text or not.
FYI [2008-11-11]
This information comes from the Mensa International web site:
Mensa was founded in England in 1946 by Roland Berrill, a barrister, and Dr. Lance Ware, a scientist and lawyer. They had the idea of forming a society for bright people, the only qualification for membership of which was a high IQ. The original aims were, as they are today, to create a society that is non-political and free from all racial or religious distinctions. The society welcomes people from every walk of life whose IQ is in the top 2% of the population, with the objective of enjoying each other's company and participating in a wide range of social and cultural activities.
Mensans range in age from 4 to 94, but most are between 20 and 60. In education they range from preschoolers to high school dropouts to people with multiple doctorates. There are Mensans on welfare and Mensans who are millionaires. As far as occupations, the range is staggering. Mensa has professors and truck drivers, scientists and firefighters, computer programmers and farmers, artists, military people, musicians, laborers, police officers, glassblowers--the diverse list goes on and on. There are famous Mensans and prize-winning Mensans, but there are many whose names you wouldn't know.
The term IQ score is widely used but poorly defined. There are a large number of tests with different scales. The result on one test of 132 can be the same as a score 148 on another test. Some intelligence tests don't use IQ scores at all. Mensa has set a percentile as cutoff to avoid this confusion. Candidates for membership in Mensa must achieve a score at or above the 98th percentile on a standard test of intelligence (a score that is greater than or equal to that achieved by 98 percent of the general population taking the test).
As this list suggests, Mensa is a remarkably diverse organization. While Some Mensans noted here are well known, many others lead interesting lives out of the public eye.
Geena Davis: Academy-award winning actress, who has starred in The Long Kiss Goodnight, A League of Their Own, Thelma and Louise and Hero.
Donald Petersen: A former chairman of Ford Motor Company. While at Ford, Petersen was involved in the development of two of Ford's most successful cars--the Mustang and the Maverick.
Marilyn Vos Savant: Listed in the Guinness Hall of Fame for having the worldAsk Marilyn!, a weekly column in Parade magazine.
Bobby Czyz: A former two-time World Boxing Association (WBA) Cruiserweight Champion. Czyz now commentates on many nationally-broadcasted fights.
Dr. Julie Peterson: A former Playboy Playmate, Peterson is a graduate of Life School of Chiropractic.
Alan Rachins: Portrays DharmaDharma Greg. Rachins, who left the Wharton School of Finance to pursue an acting career, also portrayed Douglas Brachman on the hit TV series, L.A. Law.
Adrian Cronauer: Radio personality, lawyer and subject for the movie Good Morning Vietnam.
Terance Black: Screenwriter of HBOTales from the Crypt, syndicated series Dark Justice and the feature film Dead Heat.
Barry Nolan: Co-anchor of TVHard Copy.
Deborah Yates: Member of the world-famous Radio City Rockettes.
Bob Speca, Jr.: Professional domino toppler. Speca travels internationally doing domino shows and has appeared on TV programs and commercials.
John N. Moore: University of Virginia law professor who specializes in international law. Moore was hired by the U.S. ambassador to Kuwait to help the emirate recover damages inflicted during the August 2, 1990 invasion.
Jean Auel: Best-selling author of Clan of the Cave Bear, Valley of Horses, and Plains of Passage.
Linda Warwick: Creator and producer of the billboard mega-hit childrensBabymugs!, and the Toddler TOGS series--the fantasy video for highly creative tots.
Maurice Kanbar: Inventor and owner of Skyy Vodka.
Henry Milligan: A boxer and scholar, Milligan was the 1983 National Amateur Heavyweight champion.
Patricia P. Jennings: Pianist with the Pittsburgh Symphony. She is the symphony's first black member and has performed internationally.
Richard Lederer: A master of the pun. Lederer has written dozens of books on word play and is a frequent guest on National Public Radio.
Judge Ellen Morphonios: Nicknamed Maximum Morphonios for her strict rulings in Florida. Morphonios is a former model and beauty queen who passed a Florida exam that allowed her to enter law school without an undergraduate degree.
Richard Bolles: Author of What Color is Your Parachute? which at one point had been on The New York Times Best-seller List for 228 weeks.
Velma Jeremiah: A retired attorney who graduated fourth in her law school class at the age of 47. She is a former chairwoman of Mensa International.
Dr. Abbie F. Salny: Author of the Mensa Quiz-a-Day books and calendars. Dr. Salny is a retired college professor and expert in intelligence who has served as Mensa's supervising psychologist.
Note: most of the members listed are members of American Mensa.
Would you be hurt? [2008-11-10]
Say you were out of town with four other friends. Each of the other ladies is TIED to their cell phone for calls and text messages. It is WELL known that you are NOT one who is tied to your cell phone and the group even jokes about the fact that if they were on the side of the road broken down the one person NOT to text would be you because you wouldn't get it for a week and they would end up dying.
Back to the question...so youIt You have received no phone call in your room and no one has come to your room to knock to see if you want to join them.
Are you angry? What do you do? What should you have done? Is this just a matter of both sides not communicating?
Curious to see what you say here...
Well it sounds to me like everyone thought you already knew (sm) [2008-11-10]
I mean it just sounds like they thought everyone was meeting back up for a movie and wondered where you were.
Should we destroy a whole breed based ...sm [2008-11-09]
on what a few do wrong? Look at the Dalmation attacks, Alaskan Malamutes, Pomeranians, etc. Should we destroy these breeds too?
your video [2008-10-31]
That reminds me of the scene where Jerry Maguire and (what ever Renees name was in the movie) were watching their video right after the ceremony. He was rubbing his forehead and looking quite disturbed.
I tease my boyfriend about doing that if we ever get married. We are middle aged (supposing we will live to be really old) :) and he has never been married!
Glad you had a fun time on your first anniversary!
I went in 1975, with my sister who had already seen it. [2008-10-28]
the scary surprises were just about to happen. Like when the guy was diving next to the rowboat, and the guys's head bobbed into view inside. I think my sister's reaction to that freaked me out even more than the movie did!
If you watch it on TV now, you can tell it was a rubber shark (named 'Bruce'!) But Steven Spielberg was so good at creating the FEAR, long before you ever saw what it was you were supposed to be afraid of, that by the time you finally saw Bruce, you TOTALLY believed he was real.
SM [2008-10-26]
My husband grew up with the tradition of watching Christmas Vacation on thanksgiving night so we are doing that. I miss the old shows when I was a kid, How the Grinch stole Christmas, Garfield's Christmas movie with the grandma and old love letters, Frosty the Snowman, Rudolph, etc. Always makes me remember home. Sniff sniff.
Your post reminded me [2008-10-25]
that my boyfriend says bring when it should be take.
The odd thing is, when it finally came up on conversation we got in a big discussion on how to tell which word should be used when. It is kind of confusing and rather subjective. Anyway, we had a good time over it. :)
P.S. Flapitations is cute. Sounds like a good name for a movie!!
Desk Set [2008-10-25]
My all-time favorite Katharine Hepburn-Spencer Tracy movie.
The Love Dare [2008-10-23]
Thanks for the post on here about Fireproof! I saw the movie it was GREAT! moved me to tears!!! I didnThe Love Dare till I looked it up on the Internet! I am definitely buying that book! Has anybody read the book??? let me know your thoughts on it please
Hey! [2008-10-23]
I'm glad you enjoyed it! Walmart is actually carrying the book, and it's only like $13 dollars I believe.
I have been reading it, and it is amazing. My husband and I read it at night and then the next day we attempt to do the dare. It has very good information and it really opens your eyes!
I hope more people get to see this movie. It was such a breath of fresh air amidst all the movies with violence, drugs, sex, etc.!
I definitely suggest checking out the book though! You won't be disappointed!
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