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Posted on 08/05/2004 5:47:31 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
Eleventh Thread: Wedding Edition: The Hobbit Hole XI - No One Admitted Except on Wedding Business!
New verse:
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Upon the hearth the fire is red, |
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I think that depends on one's perspective.
'Course, I just finished watching The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix: Revolutions back to back...
I thought it was odd. I understand the motives of the elders, I guess.... I have had the same ~urge~ to pack up and head for the hills, and never go to town again. I figured out the time thing... I kept asking ecurbh, why go to town in 1870? There isn't better medicine available. that the trek for medicine only made sense in modern times.
If you are making up a story, as he was, why have the villian be so hapless? And in the end, everything is just gonna be fine and no change will happen. I am not sure I get the point.
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Um, I'd have to watch those again to say for sure, but they seemed to be about as deep as a kiddie pool, to me. The original? Sure. But the sequels just didn't make me think.
Well, as a director, Shyamalan has had a knack for really intriguing story lines. And this one is also really intriguing. He had a psychological study or spiritual point in his others, that I am not sure I get here yet.
M. Night's movies seem to always be about "something". If I had to pick, I'd say The Village was about fear: how you can try to run away from it, but eventually it has to be faced. All the other stuff about the village, the creatures, etc., was just window dressing to explore that theme, IMHO.
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Maybe some year. The "orgy" scene in Matrix Reloaded really kinda turned me off...
Ok, I see the symbolism in the ending of the whole thing, but I thought it went from being a really cool story/symbolism in the first movie, to a very... I don't know... predictable sort of symbolism, if that makes any sense.
When I finished watching "Revolutions" earlier, my first reaction was "where's the next one?", because I still see a lot of story potential there.
I still haven't seen the third Matrix movie.
I loved the first...the second one left me cold. I'm half afraid to see the last.
*sigh*
Already three quarters of the way through TSNOTD. I hate it when good books go by fast.
The only thing is...I guessed one of the major twists pretty early (the identity of Mr. C.), and though I haven't been proven absolutely right, I think it's headed in that direction. I'm interested in seeing how it's gonna GET there, but also mildly upset that I'm not more clueless.
But in my mind, they didn't face the fear. Before she left, she was told all the fear was a fake, a fraud. So she left there unfearing of the things in the woods. Of course, then one came along anyway, we don't really know if she ended up knowing who was in the costume. And the rest of the Village goes on like nothing happened.
I thought she got along a little too well to be blind.
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I also thought The Village sort of spoke about isolationism... how you can try to hide from evil and cloister yourself from it, but it will eventually find you. But then this theme was diluted by having the "evil" turn out to be a mentally handicapped person in a crime of passion.
There were some intriguing ideas presented here, but the execution was rather lacking, IMHO.
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Yeah, I'm pretty proud of him :) He came out to visit me a few months into it and had me review a tape of his sparring, and we worked on some stuff. After that he went back and the next time he sparred he was beating the Black Belts in his school, and they were like, what'd you do? :)
Where do they put orange at elf-boy's school? Different schools do it differently. Mine was a TKD school (elf-boy's Karate, right?) and didn't have orange. Ours went:
White
Yellow
Green
Blue
Purple
Brown
Red
Black
My brother's school has a different system where they get stripes on each belt before getting the next one; and they also have a couple extra colors. I think he has orange in his system.
I have no idea what they're talking about, do you?
Nope, me, neither!
Yeah, it's not... that inobvious, at least to lovers of mystery like you and me. But who do you think it is?
I like what I think the "moral of the story" is. We'll have to compare notes when you're done and see.
Ok, Willis' "Passage" is good, too, though you might get teary at a couple spots. I do.
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