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Gracie
| 8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:  Carly Schroeder makes the most of the title role in this family soccer film, That being said and adding that Dermot Mulroney plays the family, it is Carly Schroeder as the title character who makes this movie worth watching. Gracie Bowen is the only daughter in a family where the dad loves soccer and his idea of parenting is to coach his boys to be great soccer players. Her older brother Johnny (Jesse Lee Soffer) is a high school soccer star, but who always has time for his adoring sister. After the big game, Johnny is killed in a car accident that devastates Grace and her family. When she stops crying, Grace comes out of her bedroom and announces that she is going to play varsity soccer at the high school and help them win the big game next year. Her other brothers laugh at the idea and her father immediately teaches Grace a harsh lesson about how impossible this particular dream happens to be. Denied her dream and having essentially lost her father as well as her brother because of the accident, Grace starts to put herself at risk. "Gracie" is supposed to be an inspirational movie, with Grace's efforts to play soccer being put in the context of Title IX and the revolutionary effect it had on women's sports in general and women's soccer in particular (which makes it ironic that the American team just lost in the semi-finals of the World Championship this week). But Grace is not trying to prove a point about women playing sports; she is trying to heal after a devastating loss. She does not care that her father disapproves, that the guys on the team do not want her, and that she will be considered a dyke for wanting to play. In her grief she decides this is what she needs to do to be whole again, and she does what it takes to do it. As Gracie, Schroeder pulls this off by playing it straight down the middle, by which I mean that she is neither an actual tomboy nor a potential prom queen. She is a very determined young girl, who is going to cry when she gets decked until she finally reaches the point where there are no tears left. If we use the original "Rocky" as a reference point for films having to do with athletic training, then what you see in "Gracie" reminds me more of the first time Rocky gets up to run in the morning, when the point is how brutally hard it is to do this kind of thing. I find it key that throughout the training sequences composer Mark Isham (who also did the score for "Invincible"), never goes for the uplifting theme music ala Bill Conti. What Gracie is trying to do requires hard work and that is communicated. It is also emotionally draining, which Schroeder communicates wonderfully when we get to the climactic big game. I love her reactions to the multiple big moments that happen during the finale, and the way that the big game is both choreographed and shot. It might seem paradoxical to say this 2007 film is moving without being inspirational, but that simply reflects the fact that I see "Gracie" as being about the struggle of a young girl to make herself whole again and not as striking a blow for sports equity. |
| September 29, 2007 |
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PC SPEAKER & USB HUB
| Cool Unit that does what it claims, The unit is very compact and portable and powered off the USB port for normal use listening to music and using card readers, USB sticks/keys/thumb drives and the like. (It also has an AC Adapter if you use high powered USB devices.) The USB cable and input jack (connects to your laptops headphone jack) are 'paired' together. If your laptop port and your jack are on opposite sides of your laptop, you may need to separate the cables (which is easily done by justing pulling them apart). It has rubber non-skip strips on the bottom and is an attractive looking device. The USB ports and Power/Volume Dial all light up. I like it and plan to buy a couple more. This would make a neat gift for the techie in your life. |
| September 28, 2007 |
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It is hard to believe it has been 10 years since Ultima Online came and pretty much invented the MMORPG, and it is even harder to believe that the game is still running, albeit not exactly in it's orginal format.
EA are celebrating it's 10th birthday by telling all old players, from up to 10 years ago, that they can log back in (providing they remember their details...) and play for free, for a month of celebrations, with special items and all the other sorts of MMO-y speical good things saved for events like this.
If you played once or are just interested in the history of Ultima, check it out here.
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| September 28, 2007 |
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VirusList have published an interesting report on fraud in online games, detailing the methods by which it is done and various other things that pertain to the topic.
It gives for an interesting read, and it is interesting to see just how far online gaming has come, from being a pipe dream just 10 years ago, to people defrauding the system, and selling virtual items for real cash. Amazingly, people still fall for some of the simple traps, so give it a read and learn how to protect yourself!
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| September 28, 2007 |
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| September 28, 2007 |
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| September 28, 2007 |
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| September 28, 2007 |
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Added: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 07:15:35 -0800
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| September 28, 2007 |
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Added: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 07:15:35 -0800
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| September 28, 2007 |
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Added: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 07:06:24 -0800
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| September 28, 2007 |
