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Old 08-02-11, 07:12 AM   #6
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Originally Posted by HunterICX View Post
Perhaps with kids you must make some sacrifice, as you said it might awaken their interest in historical things...it's a bit of a pitty that their introduction is a movie where little effort has been put into to make it a bit more worthwhile to watch for a broader audiences.

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I totally agree, but in lieu of that, I'll take what I can get. And by "kid" I'm really referring to anyone under the age of about 20 years - youthful enough to be interested, but not so young as to not yet possess the cognitive ability to understand and question.

And we must face the truth - the average American (who is, ultimately, the audience that Hollywood created this movie for) has the attention span of a gnat and the memory of a goldfish, so our earnest young hopefuls will already self-identify and stand out above the crowd.

I'll admit a bias to the exceptional - I don't want to babysit, I want to teach.
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