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Where in the World Isn't Bob Saget?
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acishere
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I used a filter.
JenniferS
When you're the leader, you don't have to follow.
I like corn dogs. Mustard, not so much.
unkadug
Follower of "Saget"The Cult
So...you must put catsup on your corn dog....I mean it has to be one or the other....right?
unkadug
Follower of "Saget"The Cult
Corn Dog art is such an under-appreciated art form
JenniferS
When you're the leader, you don't have to follow.
MOXOMUMD
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Plain for me too.Plain, actually.
And the best part is the crusty bits stuck on the stick.
Slurp.
Two words: Maple Syrup.
JenniferS
When you're the leader, you don't have to follow.
Maple syrup is for dipping bacon and sausage links.Two words: Maple Syrup.
Bacon needs no dipping. Bacon is perfection as is. Sausage links get dipped in ketchup.
NYwdwfan
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I've never heard of that! I don't dip sausage (or bacon) in anything but if they happen to touch my maple syrup I do enjoy the bite.
acishere
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Bacon gets dipped in nothing. Sausage gets maple syrup. Pork roll gets ketchup.
JenniferS
When you're the leader, you don't have to follow.
Everything gets dipped in maple syrup ... except corn dogs.
JenniferS
When you're the leader, you don't have to follow.
Thank you everyone for the kind birthday wishes ... and so many "thoughtful" gifts.
It was a pretty typical do-nothing day. The Ski got home safely from his up-north fishing trip, and Hubby and I are heading to Kingston in the morning.
It was a pretty typical do-nothing day. The Ski got home safely from his up-north fishing trip, and Hubby and I are heading to Kingston in the morning.
Donillary Crumpton
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I saw the new Pete's Dragon last night. Just a quick few thoughts (keeping spoilers out).
As a fan of the 1977 original musical, I was a little disappointed with the remake. I thought they made this version far too melodramatic than a story about a boy & his dragon friend was ever meant to be. I missed the songs, the silliness, the heart, and the overall feel of the original. While other recent Disney remakes such as last year's Cinderella, and this past spring's The Jungle Book were able to add new elements and story development to their new versions without becoming unfaithful to the classic films they were touching up on...I felt this Pete's Dragon remake turned a story that was never meant to be too too serious, and made it into more of a Free Willy with little charm, and deprived us of the tone which made it's former version fun & memorable. Those are just my thoughts. Other people may like it better, but for me, by the time all was said & done, I was so eager for some of these lifeless & forgettable characters to be replaced by Helen Reddy walking onto the screen singing 'Candle On The Water' again.
As a fan of the 1977 original musical, I was a little disappointed with the remake. I thought they made this version far too melodramatic than a story about a boy & his dragon friend was ever meant to be. I missed the songs, the silliness, the heart, and the overall feel of the original. While other recent Disney remakes such as last year's Cinderella, and this past spring's The Jungle Book were able to add new elements and story development to their new versions without becoming unfaithful to the classic films they were touching up on...I felt this Pete's Dragon remake turned a story that was never meant to be too too serious, and made it into more of a Free Willy with little charm, and deprived us of the tone which made it's former version fun & memorable. Those are just my thoughts. Other people may like it better, but for me, by the time all was said & done, I was so eager for some of these lifeless & forgettable characters to be replaced by Helen Reddy walking onto the screen singing 'Candle On The Water' again.
Donillary Crumpton
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Now the spoiler-filled part of my review. Here are some more specific issues I had with this remake, but be warned...spoilers a-plenty. (Though not sure how it really can be spoiled. Just imagine the original film minus the fun, music, & laughs).
Okay, so in the original 1977 film, we actually get to see Pete's relationship with his new "family" (Nora & her father) unfold gradually. He, very hesitantly, accepts an invitation to have dinner with them in the lighthouse, has to build up trust of people over time, and through various scenes we get to feel the connection grow as they become a family unit. But in this remake, Pete is pretty much forced into a new home after being "rescued" from the woods...spends what feels like one night with this new family, and voila! We're supposed to believe that makes him automatically feel like their son. Sorry, I didn't buy that.
Let's see, what else. The mother-like character (Nora, played by Helen Reddy in the original) was very complex in the original. She had her father (Mickey Rooney), her lighthouse to maintain, and her long-lost fiance out at sea whom she doesn't know is even alive. We feel for what she's going through in the original. But in this remake, the mother-like character hardly has any complexity other than...she works in the woods, and knows trees. (Yet somehow manages to miss an entire section for years where Pete & Elliot had been hiding.)
And whereas Nora (Helen Reddy) showed various emotions in the original, the lady in the remake always seemed to have a constant deer-in-the-headlights expression & tone. Her best acting job in the film was at the very end when she runs up to hug Pete as he returns, tears in her eyes, emotions of joy...for the strange kid she's known all but 24-hours it seems (???) Well, alrighty then.
Like I said before, the topic at hand (boy has a dragon friend) was never meant to be this serious & melodramatic of a film. There was one time during the middle of the film when the grandpa figure was telling his deer-in-the-headlights daughter about the first time he saw a dragon. His expression was so serious that it was almost comical, considering what he was saying. It just did not work played out on screen. It worked better as a comedy in the original, when a drunken Mickey Rooney was singing "I swear I saw a dragon" inside that New England seaside bar. That was the fun, carefree spirit this story was meant to have. Not, "I saw a dragon", with the same serious tone a doctor would give a patient who has some deadly disease. No, no, no, no. It just didn't work in this remake. Pete's Dragon is NOT a drama!
What else. Oh yeah....where the bloody heck were The Gogans?? You know, the mean hillfolk family in the original who were so mean to Pete, that it became the very reason he had to LEARN to trust people again, and it made the relationship with Nora & her father adopting him all the more special?? Yeah. Gone in this remake. No Gogan family as antagonists. Instead, Pete becomes Mowgli Part II by living in the woods for 6 years, and somehow (even though he was 5 before he ever became stranded in the woods) had forgotten about things such as how to eat a sandwich, and what balloons are.
The fun, humorous scenes in the original are nonexistent in this remake. The funny town scene where Elliot wrecks everything, but Pete gets blamed for it? Not in this movie. The funny schoolhouse scene where Elliot gets Pete in trouble with his teacher? Not in this movie.
The other villain from the original, Doc Terminus, played by Jim Dale, is now Jerky McHunterGuy (okay, that's a name I gave him), but he is pretty much every. single. jerk. we. have. seen. in. any. movie. from. Fox & The Hound. to. Free Willy. to. Avatar. You know, the guy who wants to shoot / capture something....just because. This guy doesn't have a motive for why he wants to capture Elliot. He even tells someone he doesn't really have a plan what to do with him. He's just a jerk for the sake of it. At least in the original, it made sense why Dr.Terminus wanted to capture Elliot. He was going to use dragon parts to make medicines (which he sold to the townsfolk for $1 per bottle. Take that, Obamacare!) It might have been a silly motive, but it was a motive nonetheless, and it worked for Doc. Terminus's character. It even made sense how he was able to rally the townsfolk to help him catch Elliot...the fish were disappearing, and that was their livelihood. But in this brain dead remake, there was no motive for the other people to help Jerky McHunterGuy. Elliot wasn't taking resources...he was just there...so obviously he must go down! Cheap storytelling is throwing in a bad guy just for the sake of having a bad guy.
At the end of the original, Elliot uses his own fire to light a lighthouse, which direct's Nora's fiance to landing his ship safely, reuniting the couple, and saving the day. In this remake, instead Elliot toasts a bridge nearly killing off most of the main characters. But he saves them, thus being a hero from his own doing....gah I hate this remake!!!
Too many members in Pete's new "family", thus we don't really get to feel the connection between either of them. Whereas in the original, we feel like we know Nora, her father, and Pete by the time it's all over with. We watch them grow as a family in the original.
The CGI Elliot looked pretty neat. If there is one good thing I can say about this film, it is that.
Let's see, what else. The mother-like character (Nora, played by Helen Reddy in the original) was very complex in the original. She had her father (Mickey Rooney), her lighthouse to maintain, and her long-lost fiance out at sea whom she doesn't know is even alive. We feel for what she's going through in the original. But in this remake, the mother-like character hardly has any complexity other than...she works in the woods, and knows trees. (Yet somehow manages to miss an entire section for years where Pete & Elliot had been hiding.)
And whereas Nora (Helen Reddy) showed various emotions in the original, the lady in the remake always seemed to have a constant deer-in-the-headlights expression & tone. Her best acting job in the film was at the very end when she runs up to hug Pete as he returns, tears in her eyes, emotions of joy...for the strange kid she's known all but 24-hours it seems (???) Well, alrighty then.Like I said before, the topic at hand (boy has a dragon friend) was never meant to be this serious & melodramatic of a film. There was one time during the middle of the film when the grandpa figure was telling his deer-in-the-headlights daughter about the first time he saw a dragon. His expression was so serious that it was almost comical, considering what he was saying. It just did not work played out on screen. It worked better as a comedy in the original, when a drunken Mickey Rooney was singing "I swear I saw a dragon" inside that New England seaside bar. That was the fun, carefree spirit this story was meant to have. Not, "I saw a dragon", with the same serious tone a doctor would give a patient who has some deadly disease. No, no, no, no. It just didn't work in this remake. Pete's Dragon is NOT a drama!
What else. Oh yeah....where the bloody heck were The Gogans?? You know, the mean hillfolk family in the original who were so mean to Pete, that it became the very reason he had to LEARN to trust people again, and it made the relationship with Nora & her father adopting him all the more special?? Yeah. Gone in this remake. No Gogan family as antagonists. Instead, Pete becomes Mowgli Part II by living in the woods for 6 years, and somehow (even though he was 5 before he ever became stranded in the woods) had forgotten about things such as how to eat a sandwich, and what balloons are.
The fun, humorous scenes in the original are nonexistent in this remake. The funny town scene where Elliot wrecks everything, but Pete gets blamed for it? Not in this movie. The funny schoolhouse scene where Elliot gets Pete in trouble with his teacher? Not in this movie.
The other villain from the original, Doc Terminus, played by Jim Dale, is now Jerky McHunterGuy (okay, that's a name I gave him), but he is pretty much every. single. jerk. we. have. seen. in. any. movie. from. Fox & The Hound. to. Free Willy. to. Avatar. You know, the guy who wants to shoot / capture something....just because. This guy doesn't have a motive for why he wants to capture Elliot. He even tells someone he doesn't really have a plan what to do with him. He's just a jerk for the sake of it. At least in the original, it made sense why Dr.Terminus wanted to capture Elliot. He was going to use dragon parts to make medicines (which he sold to the townsfolk for $1 per bottle. Take that, Obamacare!) It might have been a silly motive, but it was a motive nonetheless, and it worked for Doc. Terminus's character. It even made sense how he was able to rally the townsfolk to help him catch Elliot...the fish were disappearing, and that was their livelihood. But in this brain dead remake, there was no motive for the other people to help Jerky McHunterGuy. Elliot wasn't taking resources...he was just there...so obviously he must go down!
Cheap storytelling is throwing in a bad guy just for the sake of having a bad guy.At the end of the original, Elliot uses his own fire to light a lighthouse, which direct's Nora's fiance to landing his ship safely, reuniting the couple, and saving the day. In this remake, instead Elliot toasts a bridge nearly killing off most of the main characters. But he saves them, thus being a hero from his own doing....gah I hate this remake!!!
Too many members in Pete's new "family", thus we don't really get to feel the connection between either of them. Whereas in the original, we feel like we know Nora, her father, and Pete by the time it's all over with. We watch them grow as a family in the original.
The CGI Elliot looked pretty neat. If there is one good thing I can say about this film, it is that.
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JenniferS
When you're the leader, you don't have to follow.
Question - do you think one would like it better if one had never seen the original?
