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Independence Day (1996) – A Perspective Review

July 4, 20192GTAllYouCanEat, Perspective Reviews - Your Favorite Movies - The Educational & Professional's Perspectives, The 2GuysTalking Podcast Series - All of Our 2GuysTalking Pop Culture-based Content in One Feed1996, Academy Award, Albert Nimzicki, alien mothership, American science fiction action film, Area 51, Best Visual Effects, Bill Pullman, Brackish Okun, Brent Spiner, Captain Steven Hiller, Constance Spano, D.C., David Levinson, Devlin, extraterrestrial race, First Lady Marilyn Whitmore, General William Grey, Harry Connick Jr., ID4, James Rebhorn, Jeff Goldblum, Judd Hirsch, Julius Levinson, July 2 1996, July 4, Lisa Jakub as Alicia Casse, Los Angeles, Mae Whitman, Margaret Colin, Marine Captain Jimmy Wilder, Mary McDonnell, new york city, Patricia Whitmore, President Thomas J. Whitmore, Randy Quaid, Robert Loggia, Roland Emmerich, Roswell, Russell Casse, United States, upload the virus, Washington, Will Smith2guystalking

Have aliens visited Earth? This question has always been an intriguing one. From the first “contact” we may have had in 1947, the various incidents reporting inside of The Air Force’s “Project Blue Book” to any one of hundreds of documentaries you can find streaming online today – the question “have we been visited” is … Continue reading Independence Day (1996) – A Perspective Review →

The Giver – (The 1993 Book) VERSUS The Giver (The 2014 Movie)

April 11, 20192GTAllYouCanEat, Versus Machine - A Comparison of Great Things"Sameness", 10 million copies, 12-year-old boy, 1993, 1994, American, American Library Association, Australia, Brenton Thwaites, Canada, climate, color, dystopian, emotional depth, evil, film adaptation, Gathering Blue, inherently good, Jeff Bridges, Jonas, Lois Lowry, loose quartet, memory, Meryl Streep, Messenger (2004), middle school reading lists, Newbery Medal, novel, or in between, order, Receiver of Memory, Son, structure, terrain, The Giver, The Giver Quartet, United States, wisdom gained from history, young adultNick Hearne

What would happen if you woke up one day and everything you believed in was a lie? What if everything you were taught about the world around you, how to behave, what to feel, how to think…turned out to be wrong? With just a few bits of information, your existence goes from a utopia to … Continue reading The Giver – (The 1993 Book) VERSUS The Giver (The 2014 Movie) →

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – (The Book) VERSUS The Adventures of Huck Finn – (The 1993 Movie)

January 24, 20192GTAllYouCanEat, Versus Machine - A Comparison of Great Things1884, 1885, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Buena Vista Pictures, characterized, Courtney B. Vance, December, Detective, directed, distributed, Elijah Wood, entrenched attitudes, February, Great American Novels, Huckleberry "Huck" Finn, Jason Robards, local color regionalism, Mark Twain, Mississippi River, novel, racism, Robbie Coltrane, scathing satire, Southern antebellum society, Stephen Sommers, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Tom Sawyer, Tom Sawyer Abroad, United Kingdom, United States, vernacular English, Walt Disney Studios Motion PicturesNick Hearne

Children have a very different environment surrounding them now compared to the time period of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, of this we’re certain. But what liberties were taken with the classic Mark Twain tale, “The Adventures of Huck Finn” as it was translated to a major 1993 Disney motion picture? We take it all … Continue reading The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – (The Book) VERSUS The Adventures of Huck Finn – (The 1993 Movie) →