Ice Princess.

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Has anyone seen Ice Princess, staring Michelle [And Heroes Hayden Penettiere]? I love that movie, to begin with I only watched it because of Michelle and Hayden, but it's really good :] It's probably more of a kids movie, I was just wildly curious.
 
i bought the DVD for my sister about a year ago and ended up watching it myself. it's an ok movie, more for a younger audience i think.
 
I bought it because I'm a complete dork for Meg Cabot and she wrote the original screenplay (not, unfortunately, the one that was finally used for shooting). It was decent. A bit unbelievable, especially where Michelle's character gives up Harvard (or Yale, I don't remember which) for skating.
 
I loved this movie actually... and i only went to see it cause Michelle was in it.... but it turned out to be really good. (I dunno i guess cause i'm a fan of figure skating) and i think its really believable to give up a college for something you love.

I mean theres some stars who give up college for acting or even for singing. I mean dont get me wrong its stupid. but they do it...
 
^^ That's exactly the same reason I saw it, lol. Plus Hayden :]

Yah, my Mum would kill me if when i get up to college age I don't go =P Even though she knows I aspire to be an actress.
 
I loved it. I thought it was a very cute movie. I wasn't sure I would like it before I watched it the first time as the only character I had ever seen Michelle play was Dawn on Buffy. It was great to see her play another role outside of Dawn. If any one knows of some other great movies that she stars in let me know.
 
Angels baby101 said:
I loved this movie actually... and i only went to see it cause Michelle was in it.... but it turned out to be really good. (I dunno i guess cause i'm a fan of figure skating) and i think its really believable to give up a college for something you love.

I mean theres some stars who give up college for acting or even for singing. I mean dont get me wrong its stupid. but they do it...
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Yes, but she loved and was good at physics as well, it wasn't like skating was all she had.
 
Not seen it, unfortunately.


College ain't all it's cracked up to be, y'know. If you've got something better to do than getting into debt for the rest of your days, might not be a bad idea.

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codyw1 said:
College ain't all it's cracked up to be, y'know. If you've got something better to do than getting into debt for the rest of your days, might not be a bad idea.

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Let's look at it this way. Say she becomes the next Michelle Kwan. She wins gold medals. She makes tons of money. She falls and breaks her leg/back/neck in such a way that she can never skate again. Now what?

BUT if she goes to college, becomes a world-famous physicist (which she probably would have, with her brain). It takes her a few years to pay off her student loans, sure, but then she's set for LIFE, not just a few years. Cause even skaters get old, too old to skate, but look at Stephen Hawking.

Just saying.
 
Blondie Bear said:
Let's look at it this way. Say she becomes the next Michelle Kwan. She wins gold medals. She makes tons of money. She falls and breaks her leg/back/neck in such a way that she can never skate again. Now what?

BUT if she goes to college, becomes a world-famous physicist (which she probably would have, with her brain). It takes her a few years to pay off her student loans, sure, but then she's set for LIFE, not just a few years. Cause even skaters get old, too old to skate, but look at Stephen Hawking.

Just saying.
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I guess that's a possibility, but being a bit negative, aren't we? =P
 
I just don't like it when people don't think. And I'm in college myself right now, and yes, I'm racking up some huge student loans (I'm going all the way--to a Doctorate), and YES, I'd much rather be writing, but we have to live in the really real world, and in the really real world, about as many people "make it" writing as do skating. It was a pretty movie and stuff, but I think it would have been more believable if she had either a) gone to school, learned everything she could about physics, and THEN applied it to skating; or b) been a complete dunce at anything else and just planning to go to college to appease her mom. Then opting out wouldn't have been as dumb.

But what can I say? I'm 27, not a teenager. I've had realism beaten into me.
 
eponinethen said:
Haha I actually like this movie. Alright, it's not good, at all, but it's a lot of fun to watch, plus Michelle is all cute.
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That made no sense to me =P You said it's not good at all, then you said it's fun to watch....? =P Colour me confused.
 
Blondie Bear said:
I just don't like it when people don't think. And I'm in college myself right now, and yes, I'm racking up some huge student loans (I'm going all the way--to a Doctorate), and YES, I'd much rather be writing, but we have to live in the really real world, and in the really real world, about as many people "make it" writing as do skating. It was a pretty movie and stuff, but I think it would have been more believable if she had either a) gone to school, learned everything she could about physics, and THEN applied it to skating; or b) been a complete dunce at anything else and just planning to go to college to appease her mom. Then opting out wouldn't have been as dumb.

But what can I say? I'm 27, not a teenager. I've had realism beaten into me.
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Unfortunately, 'college' and 'realism' don't walk hand in hand. A lot of the time, these days, a college degree isn't worth the paper it's written on. Of course, it depends on what TYPE you do. But the number of people I know who've got themselves into absurd debt for Arts degrees and such forth, only to end up in retail/office jobs that they could have got for half the price, is just ridiculous.
 
codyw1 said:
Unfortunately, 'college' and 'realism' don't walk hand in hand. A lot of the time, these days, a college degree isn't worth the paper it's written on. Of course, it depends on what TYPE you do. But the number of people I know who've got themselves into absurd debt for Arts degrees and such forth, only to end up in retail/office jobs that they could have got for half the price, is just ridiculous.
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Well, yeah. You do still have to have half a brain about what major you pick. I mean, what are you going to do with a Philosophy major? Wait tables or teach, that's what. But in the movie (which IS what this whole thread is about), Michelle's character was into Physics, which is a HUGE field, and people who are good at it (again I invoke Stephen Hawking) make TONS of money. So it wasn't like she was planning to major in Fashion or something.

(No offense to any Fashion or Philosophy majors out there; it's just an example.)
 
It's a cute movie and I loved it, I remember buying it purely because Michelle was in it (although I am a fan of figure skating) and ended up really enjoying it. Michelle is adorable and it's one of those films that I can just put on and it'll make me smile.
 
I've seen it, sweet movie, not bad...not on my favourites list though.

It's not like she was completely giving up the idea of college though...sure, not Harvard but like her mother would allow her to just quit academics altogether.
 
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