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dank
Trad climber
the pitch above you!
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Topic Author's Original Post - Nov 11, 2006 - 07:19pm PT
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Kind of a downer, but interesting view of how messed up the world is right now.
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Euroford
Trad climber
chicago
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Nov 11, 2006 - 07:41pm PT
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i have absolutly no friggen idea what your talking about.
yup, world = messed up.
at least if i watch the news it seams. if i just pay attention to my own day to day life it seams kind of just fine. except for that whole no mountains in chicago thing....
but i'm working on it.
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dank
Trad climber
the pitch above you!
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 11, 2006 - 07:53pm PT
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euroford...it is a movie...i guess i should have been more specific...sorry to hear about chicago...you should head out to california when you get a chance!
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Euroford
Trad climber
chicago
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Nov 11, 2006 - 10:57pm PT
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oh, well is it worth watching anyways? always up for a movie recomendation.
yup, i'll be out there next summer, not permanently unfortunatly.
(lol "sorry about chicago", its like i have a serious disability or something....)
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dank
Trad climber
the pitch above you!
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 12, 2006 - 04:50pm PT
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you have serious vertical disability, but there's gotta be something out there...i'm sure there's some warehouse with plastic crap drilled into the wall.
as far as "babel"...it is worth seeing, but maybe more of a renter?
it is realistic, which is nice.
it also portrays nicely how much the american media thrives off our fears here in the states.
i feel its underlying message is that everyone needs love, but cultures are different and the love people need might be different based on culture and money.
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WoodySt
Trad climber
Riverside
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Nov 12, 2006 - 05:19pm PT
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You don't have to see a movie to know how scewed up the world is at the moment.
When I'm down, I watch my Looney Tunes collection.
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Conrad
climber
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Nov 13, 2006 - 12:40pm PT
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A worthy movie. Distrurbing in a sense and not really a fun view. My two cents worth: the folks in power, the Moroccan police, the US embassy, the border patrol all weild it ruthlessly. The wealthy, in the end, walk away fine while the goat herder and the illegal nanny loose much. The character Brad Pit plays is a decent fellow. A reasonable potrayal of the world in 2006.
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dank
Trad climber
the pitch above you!
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 14, 2006 - 12:54am PT
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How do you think it plays out in our own lives? Isn't this what they're getting at? What side of the "power grab" are we on? Most people with the $10.25 to see this are on the "power grab" side, but what can we do? A lot of people in the theatre seemed upset when the nanny got the short-end of the stick, but how many of them thought this way when they voted in 2000 and 2004?
How many of us are programmed to think "terrorism" now if an accident occurs in a predmoninantly islamic country where there is no known terrorist cell for miles around?
How can we relate to a deaf, mixed up teenager desperately seeking love in all the wrong ways after her mother has committed suicide?
It is so hard to relate to people because our media has twisted what is real to the point that nothing matters to us gluttons.
It was interesting to see how the Americans' relationship changed when the sh*t hit the fan and they were brought back to reality.
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426
Sport climber
Buzzard Point, TN
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Nov 14, 2006 - 10:13am PT
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Haven't seen it yet;
Highly rec'd though: "In this world"....gnar.
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