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[pianistimo]

just went to see it today with the five year old.  it's a good movie for little kids - except the part where wilbur finds out he might be ham at the x-mas table.  why do they always have to put in scary parts?  just like happy feet - with that really scary walrus.

anyways, it was worth going to because she stayed awake the whole time.  i hate paying for a movie and the kids fall asleep halfway through.

any more movies you all like?

[ihatepop]

movies that I like...um...do you mean cartoons? I don't watch those type of movies anymore, although I do still watch cartoons on TV.
 
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[quantum]

I guess scary parts in movies are like emotionally tense parts in music.  There is dissonance which moves to consonance.  The plot would be bland otherwise. 

Is the movie anything like the book?  I liked the book.

[pianistimo]

well, i never read about the smoke house - but poor wilbur, in the movie doesn't have a clue what it is.  the first time he looks at it - he just wonders.  then, the farm animals try to keep it a secret - but templeton, the rat, tell him the 'truth.'  he thinks that everyone deserves to know the truth even if it hurts and tells him that spring pigs never make it through the winter.  poor wilbur is beside himself.

i do not remember this in the book.