tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6881054.post8512027232968513716..comments2024-03-27T09:50:53.662-05:00Comments on Happy Catholic*: Avatar: The movie so green it recycles the plotJulie D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08384291674560438678noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6881054.post-27745227327173020952010-01-04T16:32:39.142-06:002010-01-04T16:32:39.142-06:00Okay. Saw the movie this weekend. Loved it. Tho...Okay. Saw the movie this weekend. Loved it. Thought it captured the spirit of Holmes & Watson without repeating the Conan Doyle stories. Personally, I'd like to see more!March Harehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06521211369549628901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6881054.post-29992356893664703282010-01-02T11:07:24.975-06:002010-01-02T11:07:24.975-06:00Dawn ... my pleasure! Though you didn't need t...Dawn ... my pleasure! Though you didn't need to hold back on the Haloscan dissing. I had no particular preference one way or the other. It was free way back when I began blogging and Blogger had no commenting system is all. ALSO, just look up Sherlock Holmes (or better yet probably Arthur Conan Doyle) to get the bibiliography in order for his stories. They came out as stories in the newspaper back in the day but have long since been gathered into books. I envy you your discovery of them. I read them many times when in high school and college as my parents had a collection of them.<br /><br />SPOILER in my reply to KT for anyone who hasn't read the stories ... that's you Dawn. :-)<br /><br />KT - wait, wait, wait. As I say, I haven't seen the movie, but have you read the books? The part where Holmes dies while battling Moriarty and going over a waterfall? C'mon. That's action hero stuff and Doyle would have put in more of it if many of the standard penny dreadful characters of the day didn't already do such hijinks. :-DJulie D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/08384291674560438678noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6881054.post-28642572679227783592010-01-02T08:23:58.369-06:002010-01-02T08:23:58.369-06:00Avatar: A friend of mine saw this and liked it qui...Avatar: A friend of mine saw this and liked it quite a bit. He said the visuals were stunning. The plot was horrid and the preaching was ham-fisted, but it was such a beautiful movie that he felt it was worth watching again. <br /><br />Sadly, the logic of the film falls apart immediately - anything mined is typically concentrated, so even if you wanted to rapaciously take it without regards to the environment, you'd hardly need to start a war for it. Orbital bombing platforms and a rain of dumb iron bombs would clear out the mining area and allow you to start extraction immediately. There'd be nothing the natives could do about it.<br /><br />Sherlock Holmes: I'm sorry, this is just silly. Holmes a standard action hero? Please. Why not add an alien chick from Saturn as a love interest? I highly recommend <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Sherlock-Holmes-Complete-Granada-Television/dp/B000RPCJB6/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1262441947&sr=8-2" rel="nofollow">Jeremy Brett's version of Holmes.</a> I don't watch much TV or many movies and I own almost none. I own this series and have seen them all a few times. It's the definitive version of Holmes, IMHO.K T Cathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10259428595745509790noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6881054.post-25183842725759996732010-01-01T23:51:38.524-06:002010-01-01T23:51:38.524-06:00Yay!! There's no Haloscan. I didn't remar...Yay!! There's no Haloscan. I didn't remark on the post where you talked about getting rid of it but I was secretly glad (and now openly so). Your site loads so much faster now. Which also makes it easier to leave comments. Thank you.<br /><br />We saw Sherlock Holmes tonight. I want to read it, them (if it's a series). Seriously, I have no idea about the book(s). I'm excited about getting them.Dawnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11436136381389948570noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6881054.post-17528673543129464392010-01-01T17:41:07.055-06:002010-01-01T17:41:07.055-06:00DD#1 made the same connection: "Avatar"...DD#1 made the same connection: "Avatar" is "Pocahontas" with aliens. (IMHO, "Pocahontas" had better music. And Mel Gibson's voice. But I digress...) Having seen the movie, sounds like Rose and I have the same feeling about the movie: go for the graphics, not for the plot.<br /><br />Haven't seen "Sherlock Holmes" yet, but, really, with Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law, how bad can it be? ;)March Harehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06521211369549628901noreply@blogger.com