Just saw Up!.
Don’t want to spoil it, so I’ll just say a few words.
Amazing! Stupendous! Moving! Go see it!
(Those of you who are married—bring Kleenex.)
The View from the Foothills
A tiny principality in the Commonwealth of Letters
Just saw Up!.
Don’t want to spoil it, so I’ll just say a few words.
Amazing! Stupendous! Moving! Go see it!
(Those of you who are married—bring Kleenex.)
The View from the Foothills 
My eleven-year-old son peered closely through the 3-D glasses at each sentimental moment of the movie to see whether his mother was crying. She was. I got teary-eyed myself a time or two.
There was a richer quality of redemption to the movie, if I may put it that way — or maybe it was just more ambitious — than I expected.
By the way, I don’t recommend paying twice as much for the 3-D. As advanced as the technology is these days, it doesn’t add all that much to the experience.
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Heck, I was teary-eyed on and off for the entire movie. Thanks for the note about the 3-D version; it’s good to know that I didn’t miss anything.
How’re tricks? It’s only been, what, eleven or twelve years since the first and only meeting of the Perfecto-Zizzbaum Corporation.
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Since I moved to Maryland just over thirteen years ago, it must be somewhat longer since the f. and only.
Tricks are, on the whole, self-propagating themselves, which does save a lot of bother.
I am now a handful of chapters into the first Alcatraz Smedrey book, on your recommendation, and am finding it profoundly silly. I expect my son will love it.
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Good grief, has it been that long?
I’ve been reading Sanderson’s adult fiction; it’s good, too (if not quite as silly).
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Just saw UP with my wife and two girls at the new Sparta Twin theater in my home town. What an incredible movie! I couldn’t recommend it highly enough. I was choked up on and off for the entire movie. What creativity!!! (And I only saw it in 2D – it was fine. I saw Monsters vs. Aliens in 3D and it was passable…
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