Helpful votes received on reviews:
92% (11 of 12)
Location: Taos, NM
In My Own Words:
I'm just a pilgrim trying to go towards the light on a motorcycle. I'm drawn to beauty and mystery, but most of all to truth.
In the words of Thomas Merton, 'Life is far too great a gift to be squandered on anything less than perfection.'
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I love the Dixie Chicks, and their performances in the concerts that provided footage for this DVD were probably great - but there's no way to tell. From what I can see, this DVD was put together by monkeys who had available an unlimited supply of espresso and cocaine. No shot lasts longer than two seconds, and footage from many different concerts is slammed together pell-mell with no regard for anything like continuity. The camera shots themselves are about as creative as a home movie of a high school football game, and the general feeling I get is that the people who made this didn't really give a damn about the Dixie Chicks, or about anything except slapping this DVD together with… Read more
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We all have at least one regret; most of us more than one. Maybe we said or did something stupid or cruel in a moment of passion, and left an eternal scar on someone we love, someone who loved us. Life rarely if ever gives us a second chance. In the words of Moonlight Graham (Burt Lancaster), an old small-town doctor who, fifty years before, got to play in the major leagues for just one inning, "...we just don't recognize the most significant moments of our lives when they're happening. I said to myself, 'There'll be other days,' but it turned out that that was the only day." The "dream" of this beautiful film, is the dream of the second chance. This theme is common to all the major… Read more
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Sitting on the couch with my 2 year old son, I've become something of a connoisseur of children's movies at this point. To be blunt, most of the modern "Pooh" films from Disney are pretty much garbage. The Piglet and Roo movies are especially painful, and got tossed out after about 1/2 a viewing each. In both of those, the characters are just being yanked and shoved through the motions by a giant, souless marketing machine that is determined to squeeze yet more cash out of them, even if it has to kill them in the process. This "Tigger Movie" is different though. Again and again I found that it moved me to tears, and the story, animation and writing all hit home, almost like they were… Read more
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