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I've seen people wondering what the Book was, but the previews seemed to show sample text pretty clearly. So I was imagining/hoping it was a little more complicated than just that.
As for Daybreakers, the reviews I read were bad, but the descriptions interesting. Was it a poor execution, Matt?
Sleepwalking lead, premise doesn't hold up under scrutiny (I guarantee there'd have been riots and societal collapse long before the supply of living humans was almost exhausted, especially given how violent vampires are shown to be), Heroes-like treatment of locations (there are maybe 5 in the movie besides unimportant background stuff, and everyone can get into them silently without difficulty for surprise twists/reversals, of which there are so many it was like watching the last minute of 20 episodes of Angel one after another).
It was atmospherically production-designed, well-photographed, and Sam Neill did his usual good job of Lex Luthoring. But those were about the only good points.
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That's cool. I can tell how gay a Chicago neighborhood is by how high Milk ranks....
I LOVE the two fighty-bitey-drama babies at the beginning. That's MY plastic bottle trash! You go back to playing with your rock! Actually I love the whole thing. One of my Big Parenting Issues is we are so trapped in our US upper-middle class right way to parent box, and a good antidote is to see how other cultures do stuff. (My kids would, of course, be fazed by a goat drinking the bath water, though.)
Most adorable movie trailer ever?
BABIES!
It's true! We saw that trailer with...some movie a while back, and we were ded of cute.
One of my Big Parenting Issues is we are so trapped in our US upper-middle class right way to parent box, and a good antidote is to see how other cultures do stuff.
It's fascinating to see how similar all the babies are in the different environments. Swap out the rock and the plastic bottle for an alphabet block and a rattle and you could watch that exact same scene in any daycare in America.
I love that the movie is just called "babies". It somehow makes it cuter.
It's fascinating to see how similar all the babies are in the different environments.
I had the same reaction to the scene of the baby walking with something on his head. It totally looked to me that he was practicing something he's seen bigger kids/adults do and I see my kids do that sort of thing all the time.
We've never had a goat drink our bathwater, but definitely has happened with dogs.