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I have so many fond childhood memories of Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol. Every Holiday Season since I can remember I would watch any and all versions of this classic, including a Mr. Magoo Christmas Carol and some sort of Donald Duck version, if you can believe it. So I guess I thought that I would be a bit jaded with the exception that with Disney at the helm, it would at the very least be visually stunning. Well, visually stunning it was but so much more than that. 

Robert Zemeckis was able to twist and turn the story with out changing the integrity of the piece in such a way that you see it with new eyes – I know I did. 

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The prelude to the screening of this film was very interesting. A woman got up in front of the audience and said a few words. She was representing The Ninety Nines, Inc. This organization of women pilots was established in 1929 by 99 of them to provide mutual support and advancement of aviation. There were approximately 10 to 15 female pilots present in the theater who stood up and were applauded. Another special treat was the presence of an elderly lady whose husband helped fuel the plane for one of Amelia Earhart’s famous flights

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There are plenty of “revenge” action movies and one of the first that comes to mind when I think of that genre is the Kill Bill series. This movie makes Kill Bill look like child’s play. Well, okay, not that much, after all I am a fan of Kill Bill and I don’t want to diminish it. Let’s say Kill Bill is high school level where this is college level stuff. It is probably more comparable to and just as good as Taken or Brave One for example. It’s not all about the action either which is pretty good (both the action and the fact that it’s not all about it).

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How many man vs. machine movies have there been? Well if you’ve enjoyed them all like I have, you won’t mind this latest version. It has similarities with a lot of it’s predecessors but it has a different twist. You will be reminded of the Terminator and Matrix series, I, Robot, The Island, and even Wall-E to name a few. In this case human beings voluntarily replace themselves with robots (surrogates) that are made to be as close to human as possible and designed to look according to its operator’s specifications. The operators (the actual human beings) live through the surrogates by connecting to them in a complete virtual reality manner.

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