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Catching Fire: my review
11/30/2013 | LS

Posted on 11/30/2013 2:34:46 PM PST by LS

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To: omega4179

Raquel Welch? Surely you jest.


21 posted on 11/30/2013 3:08:01 PM PST by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie.)
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To: Tijeras_Slim

A wretched drunk who is clever enough to be a part of the anti-CD/DC cabal!


22 posted on 11/30/2013 3:08:11 PM PST by LS ('Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually.' Hendrix)
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To: pingman

BTW, there were . . . 23 MINUTES of trailers before the movie actually started. “47 Ronin” and “Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug” both looked good, but the rest? Nah.


23 posted on 11/30/2013 3:09:10 PM PST by LS ('Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually.' Hendrix)
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To: Yossarian

I don’t see the OWS group at all. Virtually ALL the “elites” and “rich” are in DC or the CD as it were. It is clear from Plutarch’s comments that he knows how the ordinary people will react (except remember, he is part of the anti-CD conspiracy)!


24 posted on 11/30/2013 3:11:03 PM PST by LS ('Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually.' Hendrix)
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To: LS
chins up...smiles on...
bttt
25 posted on 11/30/2013 3:11:45 PM PST by novemberslady
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To: raybbr

Don’t see that at all. I did some research on her for “A Patriot’s History of the Modern World, vol. 2,” and she is an Air Force brat. Hard to see anti-Bush stuff here.


26 posted on 11/30/2013 3:11:52 PM PST by LS ('Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually.' Hendrix)
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To: stinkerpot65

If you don’t think Raquel Welch embodied (and I mean that in all aspects) the 60s actress, then you didn’t pay attention to poster sales.


27 posted on 11/30/2013 3:12:53 PM PST by LS ('Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually.' Hendrix)
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presidents no w...


28 posted on 11/30/2013 3:13:45 PM PST by novemberslady
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To: LS
A wretched drunk who is clever enough to be a part of the anti-CD/DC cabal!


"Where's my Hollywood picture deal?"

29 posted on 11/30/2013 3:13:55 PM PST by Yossarian
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To: LS

I appreciate the message, but I could never wade all the way through Atlas Shrugged. Painful writing! At least to me. This movie might be that rare creature, with the right message in the right package at the right time.


30 posted on 11/30/2013 3:18:15 PM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: LS

Thanks for the review! I loved the books, and while I only found the first film ok, I will definitely see the next series. The anti government message is much stronger in the books, so I’m hoping many of the movie fans will also read the trilogy.


31 posted on 11/30/2013 3:18:30 PM PST by Katya (Homo Nosce Te Ipsum)
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To: FrdmLvr
Why in the world are we watching movies or being entertained depending on political content? Hollywood folk, in general, are libs. They can play act in a conservative film. But they are libs.

BTW, no movie has a “message”. Or maybe it does. The “message” is an actors way of being relevant. But, actors are irrelevant , their films are irrelevant, with the exception of entertainment value, all of hollywood is irrelevant.

We can't have it both ways.

32 posted on 11/30/2013 3:20:23 PM PST by KittenClaws ( Normalcy Bias. Do you have it?)
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To: LS; stinkerpot65
If posters are the measure of one's status as an actress, then the greatest actress of the 1990s was Pamela Anderson, not Meryl Streep.

Raquel Welch was not an actress. She was scenery.

33 posted on 11/30/2013 3:20:57 PM PST by wideawake
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To: LS

Still don’t like Woody, but I don’t have anything against either wretched drunks or resistance fighters.


34 posted on 11/30/2013 3:21:17 PM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: wideawake
Raquel Welch was not an actress. She was scenery.

I'm OK with that.

35 posted on 11/30/2013 3:22:21 PM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: KittenClaws

I’m saying. Enjoy the movie. Take from it what you will.


36 posted on 11/30/2013 3:22:53 PM PST by KittenClaws ( Normalcy Bias. Do you have it?)
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To: wideawake

She was quite good in “The Three Musketeers” (1973). It’s possible that she was more hindered by her looks than she was helped, at least from an acting perspective.


37 posted on 11/30/2013 3:26:07 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Travis McGee

Yeah, Atlas Shrugged got a bit turgid at times. The abridged audio book (read by Edward Herman) is good. Just to give you an idea of how much they trimmed, the abridged is 8 cassettes (yeah, I’m old) and hits all the notable points, and the unabridged is 37!


38 posted on 11/30/2013 3:26:19 PM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: LS
A little correction...

Jennifer Lawrence is headed for a position as the one of those generation-defining actress.

I knew nothing of Jennifer Lawrence when I saw Silver Linings Playbook. Aafter seeing it I knew that she would win the Oscar.

She is by far the best actress of her generation. She is simply amazing.

She is a down to earth Kentucky girl -- which shows in her self deprecating interviews.

39 posted on 11/30/2013 3:26:31 PM PST by sand88 (We can never legislate our way back to Liberty)
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To: Haddit

Thanks for all the links.

Much needed as a wake up call for those with their heads in the clouds.

.


40 posted on 11/30/2013 3:27:51 PM PST by Mears
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