It wasn't just me huh? It was a great movie, I wasn't expecting it to be nearly as good as it was. Peter Hatch
May i suggest *My Life* if you want to tear sme more I cant wait to watch Pursuit of Happyness though..sounds awesome from the thrailer
Oh that was a doozy. Dave, are you telling me you didn't get emotional at the end of Field of Dreams where he asks his dad to play catch? That gets me every time. Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan, too. I was excited to see the movie - but I ended up reading the book on a flight a few weeks ago and now in the back of my head it's already nagging about the things the movie changed from the real-life story.
I haven't watched Field of Dreams in its entirety in about 10 years. Maybe time for a revisit. Although I did go to that farm in Iowa and play some pickup baseball. That was also about 10 years ago, I wonder if they still have it open to the public. SPR, no tears, SL, I haven't seen it.
Not for SPR? Wow. I saw it in the theatre and after both the initial battle and the "tell them I lived a good life" scene there were 300 completely bawling people in the room. I don't really say this about movies, but it was one of those life experiences that sticks with you. SL is the pinnacle of cinema.
Can't wait to see this film Do firms still have broker-trainee programs now a days... are those who have no experience still accepted??
There are a thousand brokerages/insurance companies/etc that will take you with no experience if you are willing to work for free and spend hours upon hours upon hours wearing your dialing finger down to a nub.
I saw the movie...It was just great! The previews even got to me a bit..especially when they are in the restroom holding onto each other crying...Really great movie..
The last movie I teared up in was the end of The Last Samurai. I didn't at the end of this one but I was surprised at how good of a movie it was, this one as 'Stranger than Fiction' were both amazing movies.
Haven't seen Stranger than Fiction yet, but damn, POH was a great movie. Wife and I went with some friends to see it Christmas night....Great move....
This is on my must-see list but I haven't had the chance to see a movie in months.. it might have to wait for DVD. One of the few films that'll make me tear up is Rudy.. every damn time. And I don't even like football!
I was pretty disappointed in Happyness. I spent 2 hours watching a guy get the crap kicked out of him at every turn, and the 'happy ending' lasted about 38 seconds. I don't recommend it, wait for the rental.
There's an ice cream joke there but it's too easy! Ryan I read the Happyness book over the weekend. I see now the liberties taken by the movie but I don't have a major problem with the shortcuts taken. Really, the movie only covers about 50 pp of the book which was 300 pp or so. I found the most interesting part of his story to be his transition from Dean Witter to Bear Stearns, and what he did from that point on. That section put some puzzle pieces together for me about that industry that I never really understood.
Yeah, I was surprised to be around 180 pages into it when he finally gets to the stockbroker job. I wish he would have put another 50 pages into leaving Bear and founding his own company - since that is where the big success came. I actually think now he left it out so he could write another book. But you may have felt like I did, that he spent 200 pages on lead-up and then very few on the happyness part, making large jumps and condensing certain things which would have been interesting to the entrepreneurial/businessperson type of reader.
Depends on his motivations for writing the book in the first place I suppose. Money probably wasn't the driving factor, writing the story of his youth and early adulthood may have been a very personal endeavor, something he had to get off his chest. Didn't his questions to the 308 driver strike you as hilarious, given the track record of people here asking the exact same questions!?
Proves they weren't the first, nor will they be the last! What really shows his mettle though is that he just went and DID IT. Most people here can get careers ideas from a few Ferrari drivers and then pick something. He took the first one.
Geeze, you guys could screw up a wet dream. My daughter works for one of the executive producers. It is a movie for crying out loud. A movie is fundamentally different than a book. In a book, you have time to develop some nuances. Any movie now-a-days that doesn't feature a car crash or someone dying within 10 minutes will have a very difficult time raising the money to get into production. Just to illustrate, I can almost guarantee you that "To Kill a Mockingbird" would never get made into a movie if it was being pitched today. In fact, it is so bad, that the book probably would not even be published. Dale
Afterall the title is THE PURSUIT of happyness. It was meant to be about the journey. Other than that, it would just be happyness.
