Posted on 12/21/2005 8:37:47 AM PST by moviewatcher
Pot-smoking, gay adoption, and mothers gleefully discussing how their daughters lost their virginity. Ahh, just what the Christmas season is all about. What? Not in your family?
Then you must not work in the film industry. Because apparently there, like doorbells and sleighbells and schnitzel with noodle, these things add up to a heartwarming holiday.
The Family Stone is yet another case of movie marketing bait-and-switch. Playing on Christmas nostalgia, which most Americans share, the trailer promised a rollicking, good-natured comedy about family foibles and the frustrating moments that eventually become our favorite memories.
What the film delivers is a ham-fisted primer on blue-state values.
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LOL!!!
Isn't Mission Impossible III also coming out on Christmas Day?
I'm guessing nice hair and skin, and nice figure.
I see the same thing in Kevin Costner. What is the draw to him? (& I'm female.)
Pay it Forward
Scent of a Woman
Seabiscuit
Schindler's List
I wish I had read the reviews before I spent money on this pile of dung.
Read the novel. It's much better and much funnier then any adaptation could ever hope to be.
--- Boycotts are so tiresome and lefty. ---
No, you don't understand.
A "boycott" where you gather in front of the theater and scream and shout... THAT is lefty.
The boycott I was talking about is you simply read a book or take the kids to the park or go fishing, or (insert useful activity here) instead of giving $$ to see a piece of crap movie.
I don't know of any woman who would "loan" her husband to her best friend with the explicit purpose of the friend conceiving a child. Puh-leeze!
I can't wait to see the Penguins movie when it comes on DVD.
I loved Cinderella Man. It's PG-13, though, mostly because of the manager's cussing.
Yeah, like the mom who wishes for all of her boys to be gay. I mean, what mom doesn't wish that? Then there's the multi-racial, handicapped, gay adoptive parents...there are four couples like that right on my street!
Trust me, I know this mother. I've seen her a dozen times. Probably not gay, but each time I've met her, she's wanted to make her sons even more liberal than she is.
And then we found out he had a predilection for transvestite hookers ... and a really flimsy defense.
The Penguins are out on DVD now. They are selling out everywhere. No one expected such a huge demand. Enjoy-it was awe inspiring.
Couldn't agree more. It was a great flick and Freeman was awesome. I didn't see it in theatres, but I was tempted. The LOTR trilogy were the only movies that could get me to go into a theater and I used to go 3-4 times a month. Cell phones, terrible movies, people talking, etc...I just couldn't take it anymore and took the plunge and got a big screen TV with a home theater-the payments are less than what I used to spend on the movies. I look forward to the nights were I get to stay up late with just me, myself, and I and pop in a new DVD while lounging in my comfy couch after a rough week. I don't miss the theaters at all.
I've seen all these but thanks for the reinforcement.
OK, I'll give in to that one particular bit of nonsense as being off the charts.
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