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the number one most ironic thing...

posted 17 years ago by actionromancefan
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She'd probably be a lot less successful in life being an ice skater than being an ivy league student. If this movie were real, it would probably show her in the end saying "and finally she managed to play the pianist in High School Musical on Ice, the end".

But this is a really unintentionally funny movie anyways. The adult actesses were awesome and had amazingly funny lines. But it is true, even being an actress or a model would be a million times more lucrative than being an ice skater.

[–] anya_angie 17 years ago

I absolutely agree. If Casey were real, and skated the way the character does in the film, she'd be in the same league as Sasha Cohen. Except Sasha recovers better from her falls (probably cause she falls so often she just gets used to it).

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[–] Det_Sipowicz 17 years ago

An Ice Skater career duration is like what? over at 25? 25 is still a good age to study she isn't going to be less inteligent at 25 than she was in 20.
She can be an ice skater and then a Harvard girl

[–] anya_angie 17 years ago

Plushenko insists on staying until he is 27. And that's just AMATEUR. Kurt Browning is still skating and he's 40-ish. Shen & Zhao are not officially pro yet and they are in their early 30s.

"Show what you are capable of!" - Olympic Champion Evgeni Plushenko

No more beans!

[–] LilRed_RoRo 17 years ago

Plus life doesn't have to be about success/money. And it said at the end that she was going to do two university courses - it's not like she was giving up her education completely.

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[–] anya_angie 16 years ago

You talk as though the athletic part of skating is the ONLY part of skating. You do realize that Aleksei Mishin used to skate right? With TAMARA MOSKVINA honey.

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[–] anya_angie 16 years ago

I didn't mean to imply that you said what you think I thought you said. After all, Debi Thomas, Evgeni Plushenko, Gorsha Sur, Shizuka Arakawa, Matt Savoie, and Tanith Belbin are proof that skaters have brains. So I would never say that. But in your above statement you seem to think that the only part of skating is the actual skating. Aleksei Mishin and Tamara Moskvina would heartily disagree, not to mention Oleg Vassiliev, Carol Heiss, Aleksei Urmanov, Alexander Zhulin, Alexander Abt, and Artur Dmitriev. Surely ONE of those names rings a bell to you?

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[–] anya_angie 16 years ago

Exactly, Snowboy! And for that matter, look at Kurt Browning, he didn't even MEDAL at ANY Olympics, nor did Todd Eldredge, and yet they have VERY good careers both on and off the ice. Kurt is now playing the title role in a theatre production (that's actual theatre, not ice theatre) of Peter Pan.

"Show what you are capable of!" - Olympic Champion Evgeni Plushenko

No more beans!

[–] Mithrandir-Olorin2 16 years ago

Ivy Leauge Students tend to become Spoiled, New World order cronies however.

Let's put a smile on that face Hehehahahaha!

[–] tinkermel10 16 years ago

She's still attending the local community college, and those classes would count toward her GPA if she decided to apply to Harvard or a less pretentious school later on down the line.

Plus, I don't know how the filmmakers got it into their heads that you can't go to school and be a competitional figure skater at the same time. Alissa Czisny is a senior-level skater and 4.0 student at Bowling Green University in Ohio, majoring in international relations. So it can be done.

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[–] Melrox999 16 years ago

WTF! Ice skating was her favorite thing in the world she felt beautiful and important doing it. And personaly i wouldnt care how much it paid. I love ice skating just like she does.

[–] medicine_freak 15 years ago

Thing is, this would never happen in real life. No one can get into Ice figure skating overnight the way it happened in the movie, and no one would have such a great application that stands a chance to go into an Ivy league university without being passionate about it.

I still don't buy that it was her mother's dream to be in an Ivy league university, it had to be hers to get so far.

[–] anya_angie 15 years ago

You're right. Skating takes years of work, not months. Even Johnny Weir has been skating for only 13 years and he is 25 years old. Most skaters start at 4.

Rasputin: "Slow down!"
Yakko Warner: "Why? Everyone else is Russian around here."

[–] Lunchbox-3 14 years ago

Even if you couldn't skate and go to school at the same time, which you probably could, the point is this: If the only time in your life you can have an athletic career is when you're young, you might as well do it then. You can get an education anytime. You can go to college when you're 30 or 40 if you want to. And an ex-skater can make a fine living, certainly better paying than most "day jobs" students have to endure while attending college.