Actually have a gig tonight at the sneak preview of The Golden Compass...

[bridgit]

http://www.goldencompassmovie.com should be cool/go figure & Oh Yeah!! all at once :bounce:

[Shine]

1. Coolness!!

We're all totally stoked to see that movie. Can't wait til next w/e. What exactly are you doing for your "gig"?

:hi:

[bridgit]

2. audience reaction narrative for the studio...

demographics i.e. age, race, gender, and as to whether anyone is observed bootlegging :( ------>:hi:

[Shine]

3. sounds like a great job, with nice side benefits, too!

lucky you. Have fun! :hi:

You'll have to let us know what you thought of it.

[bridgit]

5. will do & yep, it has it's upside...

:popcorn:

[bridgit]

7. it was very cool, more to come as it's from a series of books and will play out like LOTR...

armies of light/armies of darkness, the value of right thinking and free will; you guys are going to love it, your kids will love it, but imo ShineGirl is going to LOVE it!!

:)

[Shine]

8. Cool!! Thanks for the newsflash, darlin'.

:hug: Can't wait, we love a good movie with a strong heroine. :thumbsup: I haven't read any of the books but MrShine has a buddy of his from work that says in his opinion, the author is even better than JK Rowling and all the Harry Potter books. That's a strong recommendation.

:hi:

[lildreamer316]

This makes me want to go out and buy all of them, now.

Thanks....I think. <checks funds>

[bridgit]

17. lildreamer316, honey, firstly all the best to all y'all y'hear...

but this one it pretty cool, take the whole fam, the kids will love it :hi:

[lildreamer316]

16. Dupe.

[Wapsie B]

4. That sounds like an interesting job.

Cool.

[bridgit]

6. i do enjoy this component of what we do...

:hi:

[swag]

9. Your work sounds so interesting.

[bridgit]

10. good morning...

[Whoa_Nelly]

11. Just bought the book

Plan on reading it before I see the movie
And, definitely want to see the movie!

Hope all goes well for you tonight, bridgit! :hi: :loveya:

[bridgit]

12. The book is cool...

I'm trying not to wreck the experience for anybody, but the film plays it's own brand of awe. Little if any slash, splash & dash in the fight scenes, all imagery w/splendid nuance

Interesting to note that the Catholic League is already up in arms over the "atheism" contained within the work. Interesting further still to see just how many people, or so it would seem, consider asking proper questions, thinking for one's self, free will, and the eternal value of wonderful friends and the importance of keeping one's promises to them to name but a few; to be tenets of atheism :shrug:

But girl did they ever doll Kidman up in some wonderful wardrobe :hi:

Gypsy Rom, I can say no more :hide:

[Whoa_Nelly]

13. Am now putting aside the James Patterson novel am reading

And starting The Golden Compass today! :hi:

[bridgit]

14. Patterson's cool, I have hubby watching Murder Club with me...

he's so impressionable ;) :hi:

[Whoa_Nelly]

15. I love the Alex Cross books

Patterson makes the reader be just so "there".

[bridgit]

18. i almost, sort of, maybe, hate it when other DUer's ask what i'm reading...

cause i'm never reading anything 'hip', just always mysteries and stuff like that but yeah, Cross is cool too :hi:

and we need a little emoticon that is like flipping pages in a book, cool? cool :pals:

[Sugar Smack]

26. OMG!!!! I'm never reading anything "hip" either!!

:rofl: What you said is EXACTLY right. And on the "What are you having for dinner" threads, I'm usually noshing on some blue jello or a spoonful of peanut butter or a handful of Chex Mix. So, that's when I post a really elaborate lie.

B-) :yourock: :loveya:

[bridgit]

27. ah geez, now i know my mind is melting, when i first read, "or a handful of Chex Mix"

i thought it said 'chex mex', and then thought i was missing out on some Mexican Grilled breakfast cereal dammit!! now i need a CAT Scan :( ----------->:loveya:

[Sugar Smack]

28. "Mexican Grilled breakfast cereal"

:rofl:

OMG, and I love to tell people I'm having arugula (sp?) salad with diced artichoke hearts and saffron vinaigrette (sp?) and steak au bernaise (sp?) with a side of viccisoise (sp?) and prifitteroles (sp?) for dessert.



:pals:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

19. Sounds like fun!

The previews for that movie look good! :hi:

[bridgit]

20. it was pretty cool, will play out better in the long term, imo, than Potter...

for it's substance :hi:

[kath]

21. The fundies are apparently going totally batshit crazy over this movie, at least here in OK.

According to my teen daughters, many of their circle of friends'/acquaintances' MySpace and Facebook pages are all up-in-arms about it.

The books somehow managed to stay below the radar of the fundie-whackjobs, and many people were amazed that they continued to do so, especially since the Potter books caused such a furor. That situation has definitely changed now, with the upcoming movie.

And of course, the fundies are all in an uproar about something they haven't even seen or read. What a surprise...

[Radio_Lady]

22. Here's a fundie website that at least gives the movie half a chance --

http://culture-watch.blogspot.com/2007/11/golden-compass-internet-buzz.html

We won't be previewing "Golden Compass" because we're scheduled out of rainy Oregon into sunny (we hope) Florida next weekend. Also, I'm just not a big fantasy fan. I ho-hummed my way through an on-demand viewing of "Chronicles of Narnia" during the Thanksgiving weekend.

We did watch "Miracle on 34th Street" with little Natalie Wood and Edmund Gwenn -- now that was a fun movie! Our nine and six year old grandchildren had never seen it, and it's been decades since Grandpa and I watched it, too.

Making peace a priority this holiday season,

Radio Lady

[bridgit]

24. they do seem to don't they, indeed what a surprise...

we're clearly not talking Jonathan Livingston Seagull here, nor The Idyll of the White Lotus; even for all their oddities foisted upon the world, it's still just so piecemeal/knee-jerk imo for them to read The Holy Roman Church into a work that alludes to an even more all inclusive form of, so as to say: Nephilim...or; Illuminati, very willing to use virtually every, each & all sign & symbol to attain very specific goals. sad so many only have a passing glimpse of who their eneimies truly are when for all their gnashing of teeth, they never seemed to have slowed Potter down either :shrug:

[Frank Cannon]

23. I never read the books

But anything with armored, battling polar bears has my ass in the theater seat.

[bridgit]

25. ...

:thumbsup: :popcorn: