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I
am the Pelican. On this site you will have the opportunity to read
ramblings of mine about school and teenage life. Enjoy!
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The Pelican
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Movies
They’re huge moneymakers, they’re the best way to spend two
hours in a chair, but now they’re turning into just another way to
capitalize on the average consumer. For years I had considered those
two dark hours with popcorn and a soda to be bliss, but recently
I’ve been finding myself avoiding the big screen.
It used to be that going to see an action flick would mean you got
big guns, a hero and lots of blood. Now it seems that every action
movie is plagued with love stories, too much dialogue, worse acting
than a daytime soap and pretty boys that don’t know how to hold a
gun. Every teen movie and chick flick ever created was the same.
Even the spoofs are getting boring!
Movies used to be an art form. Try and think of three known
directors. The first three that come to my mind are Spielberg,
Kubrik and Lucas. Spielberg’s last two movies Minority Report and
AI were terribly boring, Lucas’ last two Star Wars films were
awful, and Kubrik is dead. Now try and think of three famous
directors from the last ten years. It’s a lot harder to do. Movies
went from being an art form that few were good at to being a form of
money that many are attempting.
The last movie I saw in theaters was American Wedding. While it was
funny, I’ve heard all the jokes before, in one form or another.
Before that I saw Bad Boys II, which held up to my expectations for
an action movie. And the wonderful Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle was the funniest movie I’ve seen all year. While
the jokes sucked and the storyline was weak, nearly every camera
shot and “cool thing” they did was hilariously absurd; I
couldn’t stop laughing. I, for one, am not going to see another
movie unless I think that in one month I’m going to care that I
saw it. Hopefully enough people will start to feel the same way, and
movies like The Hulk will stop getting $60 million their opening
weekends.
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Money
Many parents don’t know how to teach their children about money.
They simply dish out twenties every time their kid goes out, and
they pay for hundreds of dollars worth of clothes. In an overall
wealthy town like
Beverly Hills
, money usually isn’t an issue and kids don’t get jobs very
often. With that example, how are you going to manage your money
when you’re on your own? Without knowing how to be responsible
with money, you will be in debt in a few short years. I assume you
don’t want to live in your parents’ house until you’re thirty,
but isn’t it almost the same thing if they’re paying for your
rent?
Allowance is a great way to learn to handle money, and a simple way
to learn to save up. I get a rather small amount of money every
week, and unless I am going out of town without my parents, I
don’t get any more. Getting the things I want is easy; I have to
save the money for a few weeks. With this important skill, I will be
able to live off of a mediocre paying job for quite a while, so I
don’t have to worry about life so much.
To all the readers that aren’t getting any allowance, I suggest
bringing up some of the points I mentioned here. Sure, you may not
get a new pair of pants every week, but when you think about it,
don’t you already have enough? One more tip: when you’re
negotiating your allowance, start high. ;)
Addendum - I'm sorry if I came off like your father.
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- The Pelican
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