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I am a late-blooming fan of the Twilight series. I happened to catch the first movie on satellite about six months ago and became very interested in the storyline. Meyer definitely writes in a linear, story-telling fashion, which is perfect for the overall story. Her descriptions of teen love and angst, along with the whole vampire motif, made me truly feel what was going on for both Bella and Edward. And I’m not even close to being a teenager anymore. If you like vampire stories and just enjoy a good read that takes you out of your own life for a while, I would highly recommend this book. And that goes for any age group.
The Sky of the

Loved it very much. I remember going to one movie theather who carried most of the movies by J Arthur Rank studious.
Reach for the Sky

I was turned off by the trailers for October Sky and decided to skip it when it was in theaters. I may not have been alone in this decision, as the movie’s income stayed earthbound. It was a bad decision. I have an excuse. I am a critic. Everyone knows critics can be exceptionally faulty when it comes to judgment calls. After finally seeing it, I can report that it is one of the best films of 1999.

Hollywood has a spotty track record when it comes to movies about small town life, especially when the place is truly in the boondocks — in this case, the coal country of West Virginia. A bit of history: In the 1930s, studio bosses, most of whom were from places like New York City, created a sort of parallel universe of small towns. The houses and the business were immaculate, as where the citizens. Father knew best. Mom fought with, but eventually sided with, Dad. The kids, who rebelled at times, always wound up sharing the hopes and values of their parents. These movies were quite entertaining [and still are], and the audiences came away both smiling and filled with simplistic moral lessons. Decades later, directors such as Steven Spielburg, were still showing us these same villages. Eventually, these dreamy Hollywood towns became real to people. The problem was it was never the town the moviegoer lived in.

It is October 1957. Homer Hickman lives in a tiny hamlet. It’s a company town. Its only reason for being is mine coal. Some of the houses are cheerful, but they are built around the bleak company offices. Unlike his brother, who is athletic and may get a football scholarship, Homer’s schooling seems destined to end in this, his Senior year. It looks like he will become a miner like his father, but it is obvious from the start that this idea makes the boy miserable.

1957 was the year the Soviet Union launched its first satellite, Sputnik. The space race had begun. Some nights, people could stand outside and actually see this wondrous thing flying across the sk
October Sky

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To put this in perspective I am 81. When I was first introduced to this game my thought was, this is for children. When I started playing the tennis game I found I was getting an enjoyable aerobic workout. I have since purchased my own Wii sports package game and have truly enjoyed the game and the health benefits derived from it. I would highly recommend this for all ages. The only reason I rated the game over all at 4 stars is that I wish they had made the game so it could be played one on one as well as they have it now with two people on each side.
Countdown The Sky s

I am in my 40’s and loved this movie. I decided to give it to my best friend and his wife as a Christmas present. He has two boys in grammar school. The boys loved the movie as much as I did.

This is a movie about so many things. It is a movie about how the desire to learn can change a person’s life and give them a new life. It is a movie about friendship. It is a movie about the struggle between a boy and his father over whether the boy should follow in his father’s footsteps. It is a movie about hope.

The movie theaters seem full of films about violence and gore. This is a great movie with none of that–though a few rockets do get blown up which made my friend’s boys very happy.

October Sky Special Edition

This film came out a few years before the famed 300 movie by graphic novelist Frank Miller and a year before Frank Miller’s Sin City who were both shot on green screen backgrounds. Entirely shot on green screen backgrounds. I remember watching this movie when it first came out and hardly heard any buzz over the way the movie was made and how none of the scenes were shot on location anywhere except for on some Hollywood studio lot. I didn’t too much care of the way it was made to fully appreciate it. I just went to the theater with a friend expecting to see another action movie. Well that’s what I got. Cinematically though, it was a true gem.

It was only after watching 300 that I remembered about this movie and could have sworn that it was shot in similar fashion, and low and behold it sure was. Boy, what an entertaining way to make a vintage-looking film without all that production value behind expensive movie sets and expensive trips to different destinations across the world. It really deserves a second or third go around to fully appreciate today’s cinematic technology and how we can easily still enjoy a movie if we suspend reality a bit, as long as the story is entertaining and tickles our imagination.

The storyline is of course not believable, that’s why this movie should fall under the Fantasy/Sci-Fi genre, but without a doubt it is still an entertaining story and look at a world of yesteryear and what many foretellers would truly see as the world of tomorrow. Robots, mad-scientists, and hidden islands with prehistoric animals running amuck. Man’s imagination of the future.

So before you go hailing 300 as the future of movie-making, you should check out Sky Captain and The World of Tomorrow and appreciate it for its nostalgic feel and much better acting than that of a few greased up hulking Spartans.
Sky Captain and the

I ORDER THIS BOOK FOR MY BOYFRIEND WHO IS IN PRISON AND THE ONLY WAY HE CAN GET BOOKS ARE THREW AMAZON. I WAS HAPPY THAT HE GOT IT.
Annie in the Sky

I’m going to go out on a limb here. Let me get right to the point: This is a terrible book.

Harsh? Maybe, but that’s how it is. About the time Artemis Fowl hit the market, I heard it claimed that Eoin Colfer was 14 when he wrote it. On some simple checking of dates, the claim seems unlikely (he was 36 when it was published). But the book is so badly written that it’s believable. If this was fanfic, everyone would be pointing at the protagonist and shouting “Gary Stu! Gary Stu!” (If that doesn’t ring any bells, try looking up “Mary Sue” instead.) The descriptive style … well, what can one say about the descriptive style? Phil Foglio uses some very similar characterisations in his Myth books. (Compare Guido and Nunzio to Fowl’s butler, for example.) The difference is, Foglio is writing humorous — and occasionally risqué — parody (and doing a good job of it) … but Colfer is serious. And it just doesn’t work. The characters are cardboard and flat; the plot is predictable and stereotyped, and yet manages to strain even a teenager’s willing suspension of disbelief with its excesses of “But wait, there’s more.”

Granted, this is supposed to be “young adult” fiction. But so is Harry Potter; and the qualkity of writing and plot development in Harry Potter are so far above Artemis Fowl that there’s scarcely any comparision. I know if anyone had given me a copy of Artemis Fowl when I was a “young adult”, I’d have been insulted that they thought my reading level was so low.
Sky Blue and Black