Title: AT WHAT COST, HISTORY?
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Title: AT WHAT COST, HISTORY?
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Title: AT WHAT COST, HISTORY?
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I caught Night at the Museum yesterday, and I actually really liked it.
I thought that the first film was good, but that it lost a little of its flair part way through the movie. I thought that this film found a way to space out everything so that it didn’t peak to early.
Also, I thought the message was great. Do what you love to do. In hard economic times like these, I think it is important that we take a little bit of the focus off of money. Yeah, having money is great, but if you’re miserable, what’s the point?
Finally, my mom and I got a kick out of identifying all of the cameos that were there, specifically cameos from the Office.
Oh, the whole flying the Wright Brother’s plane did make me go “ummmm….no?”, but other than that I really liked it.
Of course the wright plane couldn’t dip and fly with such ease but the Wright plane collectively flew for over a 30 seconds in a pre-official run and the 12 second flight was actually a disappointment to the Wrights when it came to the official flight.
As for kids getting interested in history, I am all for it. As a person who intends to spend their life working in it the idea of people liking the past excites me. Sadly in these economic times museums and such are the first to get cut and Social Studies in schools are joining gym and art as figments of the imagination….But I digress.
I thought the movie was good, Stiller managed not to come off as a pompous ass which is actually pretty difficult for him anymore. Amy Adams was good and sadly from large cities that accent wasn’t terribly uncommon. Early talkies are honest, nobody was making up accents.
Nooo… I’m pretty sure those accents were a studio invention of the 1930’s and 40’s.
Actors and actresses were sent to diction coaches to lend an air of aristocracy and sophistication to their performances. Some of that was born from the natural accents of Betty Davis and Katherine Hepburn, who were popular in the day and attended East Coast boarding schools in their youth, the source of their accents.
SOME people talked like that. But it wasn’t until the popularization of film that EVERYONE started talking like that.
Later models of the Wright Flyer – once they really figured out what they were doing, did much better. The last test of the day (before they wrecked the thing) was about a minute. But two models (and a couple years) later Wilbur was flying one around for nearly 40 minutes.
I thought it was a lot better than the original. I do sort of agree that Azaria’s accent got a little tiresome after a bit, but it didn’t really take anything away from the movie as a whole.
I didn’t really notice many of the cameos (aside from Jonah Hill), but I wouldn’t mind seeing it again to catch them. My friends and I got such a kick out of Hader and were qouting his lines all weekend.
I saw this the other night and I must admit during the first 1/2 hour I was a little less than impressed. I get frustrated by sequels that take what made the original funny and just do it again but more often & louder. Once I got past that feeling though I thought it was a good followup, quite anjoyed Azaria too. And I got an almost perverse amount of enjoyment out of the happy cephalapod!
Why would Amelia Earhart being gay make a little girl cry?
Cognitive dissonance? It conflicts with her idea of what Amelia Earhart was supposed to be?
Okay, fine. Here parents are homophobes.