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To: HairOfTheDog

Evenin' folkses... got to SF OK. Which is more than I can say for most people here. :-)

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Got the DVD for "The Guardian" finally. Missed it in the theaters.

I liked it. Aside from one small problem (Kevin Costner) it was pretty well done. Very authentic "feel" about it. Some of it was shot (the cliff and cave scenes) near Astoria where I was stationed, so that was cool. Costner looked like he wanted to call it "Dances with Waves".

Of course there's plenty of license taken with the story, and some of it is a little over the top. But on the whole, it sells the job of the Aviation Survivalman (rescue swimmer) pretty accurately. Those guys ARE nuts. They do a lot of things that a right-thinking person would just turn and say "no, sir" to.

So there's that. Beyond Costner, it didn't really have any "big" problems. Other than Ashton Cutcher. He was a small problem. But the movie survives his acting.


4,761 posted on 01/29/2007 7:02:38 PM PST by Ramius ([sip])
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To: Ramius

Tom Petty stole the show.


4,763 posted on 01/29/2007 7:04:28 PM PST by Lil'freeper (You do not have the plug-in required to view this tagline.)
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To: Ramius
"Dances with Waves"

Heh... that's funny :~D We'll have to watch the DVD with ya next time we're in the neighborhood.

4,764 posted on 01/29/2007 7:04:54 PM PST by HairOfTheDog
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To: Ramius
We have The Guardian from Netflix, but haven't yet watched it.
4,777 posted on 01/29/2007 9:30:49 PM PST by SuziQ
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