"As they passed the rows of houses they saw through the open doors that men were sweeping and dusting and washing dishes, while the women sat around in groups, gossiping and laughing.
"What has happened?" the Scarecrow asked a sad-looking man with a bushy beard, who wore an apron and was wheeling a baby-carriage along the sidewalk.
"Why, we've had a revolution, your Majesty -- as you ought to know very well," replied the man; "and since you went away the women have been running things to suit themselves. I'm glad you have decided to come back and restore order, for doing housework and minding the children is wearing out the strength of every man in the Emerald City."
"Hm!" said the Scarecrow, thoughtfully. "If it is such hard work as you say, how did the women manage it so easily?"
"I really do not know," replied the man, with a deep sigh. "Perhaps the women are made of cast-iron.""
- L. Frank Baum, "The Land of Oz"
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
The following recap of my watching experience will be more interesting than the movie itself.
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Is that Africa?
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Sigh.
Hey, did she just turn down a marriage proposal from Richard Gere? Not many woman would do that....
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Hey, I think I need to trim my fingernails later.
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Wow, this film is an amazing feat. I don't know how anyone could take a story of someone who accomplished the feat of flying across the ocean in a plane like that under such harrowing odds, after 14 people before had died trying....and make it boring. But they did it.
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Oh, look, her landing gear failed and they almost crashed. Over one hour and finally something happened.
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OK, crash already. I'm ready to get this over with.
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So she's going to die because someone one left something on all night and drained the battery. That's what this whole thing boils down to?
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Oh, look, they are showing water. That's right, why ruin a consistently boring movie with an actual crash scene. Not that I want the woman to die...I just want something to happen.
The End! Finally. It's a sad story. And what happened to Amelia Earhardt is certainly sadder, but this bore of a movie is a close runner up.
Gene Siskel used to say that he would rather watch a movie of the same actors having lunch. With Hillary Swank, Richard Gere and Ewan McGregor, some might say the same. But I think I'd rather watch a movie of just their faces the first time they actually saw this snooze fest as a complete film. The mixture of horror, shock, shame, boredom and drowsiness would be far more interesting than the film itself. Sigh. Amelia deserved better.
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Comments on "Amelia - Movie Review":
2. nhe
- 04/13/2010 3:20 pm CDT
funny, my wife and I just saw the DVD commercial preview on TV last night, and we both commented that we should probably rent it........she hangs in there with "boring" better than I do (hence 25 years with me) so she'll probably still watch it. I'll just make sure there's a ballgame on that night.......thanks for the heads-up.
3. Shrode
- 04/14/2010 8:35 am CDT
nhe,
The people who made the trailer for this movie deserve every dollar the movie makes. Those guys made the movie look good. I know all trailers do that, but this one takes the cake.
The preview made my wife and I think we wanted to watch it too, that's why we got it.
Man were we fooled.
4. Tony
- 04/15/2010 12:45 pm CDT
Funny, I just watched this movie a couple of weeks ago. It's release happened to correspond to my daughters Amelia biography report she was doing for school - good timing or at least that is what I thought. Yes, it was disappointing, but hey the actors / actresses looked good ;-)
What's up with the supposed affair Amelia had with Ewan's character that took 20 minutes of the movie? Wikipedia didn't mention anything about that in her article.
One thing I will give the movie credit for was the idea that life is generally boring. Even the perceived action packed life of Amelia was ultimately just another life. The "highlights" we read about an historical person deceive us into thinking "wow, what a life." But in the end even a hollywood movie couldn't make it interesting.
5. Milly
- 04/16/2010 8:05 pm CDT
Ummmm but we don't know if what happened to her was sad or not.
Because. . . .we don't know what happened.
As for Gere I don't know about marriage.
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hahahaha!!! I guess I won't invest my time into this one! :)