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I was drug (dragged?) to it yesterday by two of my girl friends up here in D.C. Entertaining, but, for guys, painfully cheesy at times. There were times I just had to look away (like when Pierce Brosnan sang).

However, the lead actress, Amanda Seyfried, is a very, very talented singer. Beautiful, too.

I got a kick out of the wedding scene, with a Catholic priest, wearing a traditional-style stole, in a Greek Orthodox church with an iconostasis behind him. LOL.

And why is that in movies Catholic weddings never have the priest fully vested, and it's never a Nuptial Mass? Annoying.

Alexis

I was dragged to it as well... A group of us with intentions of seeing "The Dark Knight Returns" went out for a gal's birthday down to the downtown theaters in a section with a lot of restaraunts, bars, etc. We met for dinner, discovered the the lines that went around the block for tickets (what were we thinking?) and the birthday girl announced the alternative: Mamma Mia. (The three gals were for it, the BF of the birthday girl demured "Its YOUR birthday... sigh...")

From Batman to Abba - that wasn't what I was expecting!

I actually thought it was kind of fun. I thought it odd that Meryl Streep (who is almost 60) was playing the mother of a 20 year old that she (if I followed correctly) was supposed to have concieved right out of college/study in Paris. The role should have been played by someone 38-40something.

As far as the Wedding set... I don't think they put a whole lot of thought into it... It was supposed to be "Metho-Anglic-tholic" generic "priest-like-substance" as far as I could tell. Accuracy never seems to be all that important for the "God stuff" in Hollywood.

"Carpatho-Presbyterian"?

Simple Sinner,

Yes...my husband and I were just talking about how strange that the years didn't match up.

Meryl's Streep's character was playing an 'aged hippie' which means that she would indeed be sixty now, but that doesn't jive with her having conceived at the age of seventeen to twenty, a child, that was now twenty also!!!

She should then be more like forty, or if her character must remain sixty, her daughter should be forty!!!

The era seemed generic, so taking that into account, the mom could have easily been forty, and the movie could have been set in the 1990's, and that would have made sense-- except for the fact that she and the gents all look sixty! *Is anyone confused yet*?!?!?!

Anyway, the marriage ceremony was ridiculously pan generic!!! The mother said that she was raised Catholic...hmmmm.....but that didn't look like a RC ceremony, or did it?? It has been too many years since I attended an RC wedding.

Alice

My wife keeps several Neil Diamond CDs in her van. I've warned her about this.

It was stolen a couple of weeks ago, CDs and all. When we recovered it a week, later, nothing was broken but the ignition, but they'd left a dozen more Neil Diamond CD's

hawk, who really did have the van stolen & recovered

That's a wonderful tale - I bet your wife is happy even though you clearly are not.

If I had to guess, I would say that they stole the van, started listening to your wife's EXCELLENT taste in music, were inspired to start a collection, left the van were you would find it, and made amends by adding to it.

I bet their lives are changed forever... Praise God!

Eternal Optimist you are

"I am I said
To no one there
And no one heard at all, not even the chair"

That man smoked too many organic compounds in the 70s.