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  1. Posted

    17 minutes ago, Cameron H. said:

    Not sure about high school. My son is 8. Did you go in or was it a car line? Public school car lines are probably pretty loosey-goosey. My son’s school (which is admittedly pretty small) requires any person picking up a child, that’s not immediate family, to be prearranged and approved. The people who help with car line recognize all the parents, so they probably wouldn’t have allowed you to do that. I’ve seen them stop kids from getting in cars with people they don’t recognize.

    Hm haven't done the car line. I guess I've always walked in. One time I signed them out, but that was when I got them from an after-school program a couple hours after school had finished. Another time, it was right at the end of school, I waited at the gate with a mass of parents, walked in to the yard when the bell rang/gate opened, they found me and we walked out and home. I wonder if I flaunted the rules now haha. But it was a pretty chaotic scene! They're similar age as your son, I think they were 7 and 9 when I did this a year or so ago.

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    2 minutes ago, Cameron H. said:

    That’s what I mean. The movie tells us that he’s charmed us, but for this to work, not only does he need to charm them, he needs to charm the audience. I mean, maybe he did for some?

    I don’t know. I’m notoriously hard to impress. I don’t trust anyone who jogs for miles, but doesn’t sweat a drop. 

    One thing that maybe could have helped is if they showed him being friends with the son in the Army. That might've helped us as viewers buy his moving so quickly.

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  3. Posted

    2 minutes ago, Cameron H. said:

    At my son’s school, everyone has to sign in electronically with their relationship to the student. Last time I checked, “sexy drifter” wasn’t an option, but maybe you could write it in under “other.”

    I've picked up my nieces at the end of school no problem without any sort of anything. I reckon that if I picked them up in the middle of the school day or something, they would have checked?  

    I'm thinking maybe it's due to public school? I think when they were in private daycare, then I had to sign in to get them.

    They're little though. I don't imagine they'd make someone sign in to pick up a 17-year old kid, would they? (I guess they should.)

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    1 hour ago, Cameron H. said:

    I'm sorry, none of this would happen. Ever. No way. And if the movie was trying to make a point of saying, "yes, this is unusual, but they were disarmed by his charm,"ï»ż it needed to do a much better job explaining why they felt so comfortable trusting him so completely so quickly.

    It would also help if they actually made him charming

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    59 minutes ago, GrahamS. said:

    Also, to clarify, when I initially joined the group, I was told that any type of film COULD be picked, not just traditional musicals/music-related movies (I remember because I asked if there were any ground rules and was told no). Not trying to be confrontational in any way, shape or form, but if people would prefer more traditional films, that would be good to know.😁

    I don't mind at all, just was curious! The non-musicals we've done are usually about music in some way or like, Baby Driver, which is basically a non-stop music video sort of thing. If I recall, we did Long Dumb Road solely because Jason stars in it and it had just come out and we wanted to support him. They're at least tangential, and this one I just didn't see it, that's why I asked. But I like less-traditional picks too, so no worries.

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    5 hours ago, gigi-tastic said:

    I might be a little behind this week. I've been phone banking all weekend with NARAL . I'm working for Joe Biden tonight !  I'm just excited to be working for someone I actually know and not have to be worried about what district I'm calling that day or pouring over policy even though I probably didn't *need* to do that.  Anyway make sure you jerks vote if you haven't already! Ans be kind to people who call you, we are people too! 

    I ran a million phone banks for Obama, leading and organizing and training volunteers to make calls. That last weekends before the election... it's the hardest I ever worked (and I've been to law school) and I have great memories of both weekends. It's a great thing you're doing, it's how the system works. It's how campaigns win! (Unless Russia interferes.) I haven't done so much this campaign, for numerous reasons, though I am Kamala's biggest fan, but glad it's going strong! That makes me feel excited.

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    This is certainly not one of my favorite horror films. I like it ok, but I think there's so many more scary and interesting.

    But I did vote yes, I think its influence is undeniable and pretty important and it might be a good elemental choice to be sending into space.

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    33 minutes ago, Cinco DeNio said:

    In rereading Richard Sherman's quote he mentions the kids are orphans so Eglantine could adopt them.  I'm not sure the movie makes that clear. (When you say "orphan", do you mean "a person that has lost their parents", or orphan "frequently"?)

    Isn't that the whole set-up? That's why they were sent to her house in the first place, when she was like 'I don't want them in my house'. It was her war duty to take some orphans in

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    The confusing bit for me was, like everyone else here, I watched it a lot as a little kid, but I honestly had no recollection of having done so. It was messing with my head because it quickly became clear that I must have. What else am I forgetting?!

    But yea I really like it. It's probably too long and whatnot, but there's so many weird turns that I think it's a great fun.

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    I had not seen this before, but was particularly impressed by the movie. I think it works on <i>soooooo</i> many levels, from simple just watch and be creeped out to breaking it all down as metaphors to its distorting of horror norms (which Paul & Amy bring up).

    I still vote no though, because I think there are better choices to send into space as an example of horror. It's very close though, and I do like it the more I think about it too.  

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    2 hours ago, Cameron H. said:

    Honestly, the more I think about Prince, the more I like him.   

    I mean, yea. That's how I became a superfan. Haha. It was like, I knew his hits. Started checking out more and more and couldn't stop thinking about him and the songs. He's a fascinating and really complex guy. One of my best friends wrote a biography of Prince and there are so many stories. Juxtaposition is a good word, because he tends to be a juxtaposition of so many conflicting things. That's what's so fascinating.

    Cherry Moon has a lot of the themes that show up in all of Prince's music and art at the time. Rich/poor, seduction/sex, jokes, androgyny, style. And as Jason said, rascally. That's why I loved the film. I know it's not great and probably could have used some co-director helping guide it better, but it is so full-on Prince in so many ways.

     

     

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  23. Posted

    I loved Frankenstein, and am leaning to yes. I really wish we voted after going through more of the series though. But for now I do think a Universal Monster movie should be on there and this seems to be a great choice to me. But yea, I guess in time I could see it being overtaken by a high bar and more choices, but for now I'm with it.

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