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Title: Water for Elephants
Post by: Princess L on March 30, 2011, 10:39:01 PM
Finally!
April 22nd

Hope it's as good as the book.

Title: Re: Water for Elephants
Post by: w8m8 on March 31, 2011, 09:44:07 AM
I can't wait to watch this movie

Title: Re: Water for Elephants
Post by: Princess L on March 31, 2011, 10:27:00 AM
I can't wait to watch this movie



Did you read the book?
Title: Re: Water for Elephants
Post by: newmom on March 31, 2011, 10:37:32 AM
Heard the book was awesome..

May read it before the movie comes out
Title: Re: Water for Elephants
Post by: w8m8 on March 31, 2011, 10:52:01 AM

Did you read the book?

I get it on Saturday to read .. it's being passed around

I won't get to see the movie right away so I have time ..(one friend read it in a day and a half).. it always takes awhile for movies to make it to the boondocks  :(
Title: Re: Water for Elephants
Post by: newmom on March 31, 2011, 10:55:21 AM
I get it on Saturday to read .. it's being passed around

I won't get to see the movie right away so I have time ..(one friend read it in a day and a half).. it always takes awhile for movies to make it to the boondocks  :(

damn we get them on release, and I thought where I lived was bad
Title: Re: Water for Elephants
Post by: w8m8 on March 31, 2011, 11:17:27 AM
damn we get them on release, and I thought where I lived was bad

lol .. yeah it's a wait .. the worst part is not all movies even make it here ... some with bad reviews or the theatre owner doesn't like won't make the cut at all .. meh .. small towns are still a lot more safe , peaceful and quaint to me .. I don't do good around a lot of people and city type places
Title: Re: Water for Elephants
Post by: Migs on March 31, 2011, 03:54:57 PM
Finally!
April 22nd

Hope it's as good as the book.



 ::)    :-X
Title: Re: Water for Elephants
Post by: Princess L on March 31, 2011, 07:35:35 PM
::)    :-X

WTF do you know?!  Did you read the book?
No?
Then shaaddddup
Title: Re: Water for Elephants
Post by: w8m8 on April 01, 2011, 09:16:07 AM

Did you read the book?
No?


Found it online so everyone can read it  :)

http://www.onread.com/reader/191140/
Title: Re: Water for Elephants
Post by: Jadeveon Clowney on April 01, 2011, 09:22:03 AM
Why do people like the book so much? I read a summary and I didn't think it was that great a story. 
Title: Re: Water for Elephants
Post by: w8m8 on April 01, 2011, 09:25:25 AM
Why do people like the book so much? I read a summary and I didn't think it was that great a story. 

I am unable to answer that yet .. I'm just starting it now
Title: Re: Water for Elephants
Post by: Migs on April 01, 2011, 02:18:14 PM

WTF do you know?!  Did you read the book?
No?
Then shaaddddup


don't have to read the book to tell you the movie will suck.  It's the gay vampire guy from twilight for god's sake. 
Title: Re: Water for Elephants
Post by: Jadeveon Clowney on April 01, 2011, 02:30:06 PM

don't have to read the book to tell you the movie will suck.  It's the gay vampire guy from twilight for god's sake. 

I thought the the vampire was in love with the pale chick?  Is he bi like Interview with the vampire vampires?
Title: Re: Water for Elephants
Post by: benchmstr on April 01, 2011, 05:23:02 PM
this movie shall suck harder, and ruin more relationships than "the notebook"...

bench
Title: Re: Water for Elephants
Post by: Butterbean on April 04, 2011, 06:09:45 AM
Is it a chick flick?   :-\
Title: Re: Water for Elephants
Post by: Migs on April 04, 2011, 08:12:38 AM
Is it a chick flick?   :-\

it's such a chick flick that lesbians will want to turn straight so that they can torture their straight guy friends to go see it.
Title: Re: Water for Elephants
Post by: Princess L on April 04, 2011, 12:13:17 PM
Is it a chick flick?   :-\

Not really

it's such a chick flick that lesbians will want to turn straight so that they can torture their straight guy friends to go see it.

And you would know this how?  ::)

Move along twinkletoes.
Title: Re: Water for Elephants
Post by: Princess L on April 04, 2011, 12:20:38 PM
this movie shall suck harder, and ruin more relationships than "the notebook"...

bench

It appears bench knows more than he's letting on  ;)
Title: Re: Water for Elephants
Post by: Princess L on April 04, 2011, 12:28:50 PM
Some excerpts from reviews


    * Jacob is orphaned during the Great Depression.
    * Jacob runs off with a circus.
    * Glitz, glamour, murder and mayhem under the Big Top.
    * Seventy something years later, Jacob finally tells his story.
    * From train to tent to nursing home, the pages turn.

Water for Elephants is a well-researched glimpse into circus life during the Great Depression.

Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen opens with a day of disaster at the circus and Jacob Jankowski admitting he kept a secret from that day for over 70 years. The novel then moves to the ninety-something year old Jacob in a nursing home. As the older Jacob fights to survive the indignities of old age he recounts the story of his life with the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on earth.

Water for Elephants moves between the story of the traveling circus in 1930 to the story of the older Jacob’s fight to maintain sanity. While most of Water for Elephants is about the circus, the chapters about the older Jacob provide a depth to the novel and a poignancy to the story that makes the whole book richer and more real.

The pages of Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen burst with rich descriptions and action. You will be drawn into the world of ringmasters, elephants and sideshows. You will also experience the world of nursing homes and old age.


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Title: Re: Water for Elephants
Post by: Migs on April 04, 2011, 07:15:51 PM
Not really

And you would know this how?  ::)

Move along twinkletoes.

don't ask, don't tell
Title: Re: Water for Elephants
Post by: Princess L on April 07, 2011, 02:22:10 PM
Synopsis

As a young man, Jacob Jankowski was tossed by fate onto a rickety train that was home to the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth. It was the early part of the great Depression, and for Jacob, now ninety, the circus world he remembers was both his salvation and a living hell. A veterinary student just shy of a degree, he was put in charge of caring for the circus menagerie. It was there that he met Marlena, the beautiful equestrian star married to August, the charismatic but twisted animal trainer. And he met Rosie, an untrainable elephant who was the great gray hope for this third-rate traveling show. The bond that grew among this unlikely trio was one of love and trust, and, ultimately, it was their only hope for survival.
Title: Re: Water for Elephants
Post by: Butterbean on April 07, 2011, 02:40:38 PM
Will the elephants be OK?
Title: Re: Water for Elephants
Post by: Princess L on April 07, 2011, 02:46:14 PM
Will the elephants be OK?

If they remain true to the book, there will be some tears shed.  It was a gritty time.
Title: Re: Water for Elephants
Post by: Butterbean on April 07, 2011, 02:57:33 PM
If they remain true to the book, there will be some tears shed.  It was a gritty time.

Another film I won't be seeing :P
Title: Re: Water for Elephants
Post by: Migs on April 07, 2011, 05:15:19 PM
 ;D