Smoothpants
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I'm not a Disney fan at all, but I happen to be in Orlando for a friend's wedding. So my traveling partner and I went to Disney for a few days. I haven't seen a good 3-D effect in, well..ever. So I usually try to stay away from these presentations. The 3-D effect in this was so good. I'm a grown man of 38, and even I wanted to try and reach out and touch. It's THAT good! Word of advice. At the end, look to the back of the theater on the wall. Put it like this...the first time I saw it, the effect wasn't working. So I told my friend..."It would have been nice if...." My friend said, "That's exactly what happens. It's not working for some reason." It's an awesome show. You will NOT be disappointed!!!
A girlfriend and I went to see this film over the July 4th weekend on the UES of NYC. We loved this film so much. This film, coupled with Tango Argentine in Lincoln Center this past summer, fed our newly established appetites for ballroom dancing. We were going to sign up for classes soon afterwards. Alas, we broke up recently, but our appetites are still there. I know that she is looking into classes and I am as well. But when I watch this film, I will think about her and how much we both enjoyed this film.
One thing I did notice about this film is that you can see the difference in how children are raised in NYC. The way kids act and react to their surroundings and situations can be predicated on where a child is brought up in the city. The Washington heights kids were "rough". The TriBeCa kinda were very analytical. The Bensonhurst kids were a mixture of both. But what they had in common were that they were all SMART. Smarter than maybe I gave them credit for beforehand.
Truly an inspirational film.
One thing I did notice about this film is that you can see the difference in how children are raised in NYC. The way kids act and react to their surroundings and situations can be predicated on where a child is brought up in the city. The Washington heights kids were "rough". The TriBeCa kinda were very analytical. The Bensonhurst kids were a mixture of both. But what they had in common were that they were all SMART. Smarter than maybe I gave them credit for beforehand.
Truly an inspirational film.
As a fan of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, I really did not want to like this show. After watching the third episode of this series, I realize that calling this show a cheap rip-off of EM:HE may not be fair.
On the positive side, IMO the home designers and idea people on RMF seem to have better ideas than the EM people. I find myself marveling more over the RMF homes a tiny bit more than the EM homes.
On the negative side, this show lacks the charm of EM:HE. I don't really care about the designers and builders on RMF the way I care about the people on EM:HE. Is it me but does it seem like they put hot triplets on the show because they are hot triplets? I think because EM:HE only concentrates on the house and because they show all the emotion that went into it, we begin to care about the designers as well as the families. At the end of each EM:HE, I find myself getting emotional during the reveal. That did not happen for me with RMF.
I'm not slamming RMF. The show definitely has its merits, and I'll likely watch again, but I don't think that they'll match EM:HE for charm and emotion.
On the positive side, IMO the home designers and idea people on RMF seem to have better ideas than the EM people. I find myself marveling more over the RMF homes a tiny bit more than the EM homes.
On the negative side, this show lacks the charm of EM:HE. I don't really care about the designers and builders on RMF the way I care about the people on EM:HE. Is it me but does it seem like they put hot triplets on the show because they are hot triplets? I think because EM:HE only concentrates on the house and because they show all the emotion that went into it, we begin to care about the designers as well as the families. At the end of each EM:HE, I find myself getting emotional during the reveal. That did not happen for me with RMF.
I'm not slamming RMF. The show definitely has its merits, and I'll likely watch again, but I don't think that they'll match EM:HE for charm and emotion.