response 90 of 225:

Nov 17 21:45 UTC 2003

Billy Elliot and East is East were depressing.

response 92 of 225:

Nov 17 21:54 UTC 2003

I was told East is East was funny, and since I'm always interested in 
movies with south-asian families settled in a Westernised country, I 
watched it. It started out being funny, with all those situations with 
a south-asian coping with British life, but it ended depressing, when 
you realise what the kids go through. Definitely depressing. 

I really want to watch American Desi. 

response 94 of 225:

Nov 17 22:50 UTC 2003

Bummer, x2. Maybe if Nixon is still alive you could ask
him to go get it for you...

response 96 of 225:

Nov 19 15:17 UTC 2003

Yup, Johnny Depp made the movie enough fun to be worth it, for me. :>

I wasn't expecting a great plot from a movie named after a theme park ride.

response 98 of 225:

Nov 19 18:24 UTC 2003

I loved it. Am planning on putting it into the permanent film library. I even
loved Orlando Bloom's character quite a bit, though most think him too stodgy.

response 100 of 225:

Nov 19 18:37 UTC 2003

"But...why is the RUM gone?!"

response 102 of 225:

Nov 26 03:11 UTC 2003

"21 GRAMS"-- This is the first english language movie by famed Mexican 
director Alejandro Gonz lez I  rritu, and it blew me away.  I found the 
movie really moving on a number of different levels.  I don't want to 
give away too much of the story, because you really should experience 
what happens as it unfolds.  But basically it is the story of three 
individuals, each of whom has a past they have escaped from, whose 
lives are inextricably linked by an accident.  These are three people 
from different worlds, who should never meet or know each other.  But 
fate has different plans for them.  This is a movie about suffering and 
surviving, and living through pain, and redemption.

The three leads are played in great performances by Sean Penn, Benicio 
Del Toro and Naomi Watts.  Penn is the center of the movie and if 
anything he as good or better than he was in the recently 
released "Mystic River".  Del Toro (who won an Oscar for "Traffic") and 
Watts (who was terrific in "Mulhulland Drive") give the performances of 
their careers. 

The director, I  rritu, wants the emphasis to be more on character 
study than plot narrative, so he dispenses with the usual chronological 
storytelling, and leaps back and forth to present, past, and future 
events surrounding the incidents in question.  This is done with great 
effectiveness, I think, although if you don't like movies that mix up 
timelines, you might find the technique annoying.

The movie's title, "21 Grams" is how much weight the body is said to 
lose automatically at the time of death.  The difference between your 
body alive and your body dead moments later is 21 grams. Is that the 
weight of a soul?  Is that what you lose when you die?  Anyway, this 
was the best movie I've seen this year, although it is a very dark film 
and you want to be in the right mood when you see it.   ***** (five 
stars) 

response 104 of 225:

Nov 26 07:59 UTC 2003

well the movie specifically says that is what "21 grams" means.  When a person
dies, his heart stops beating, his blood stops flowing.  That is "kinetic
energy", energy of movement.  Once a body dies, no more body heat is created
and the theory is that there is an instant measurable loss of kinetic energy.
Somebody did a study indicating there is a loss of 20 calories of kinetic
energy at the moment of death.  Which in theory translates into a literal loss
of twenty grams of mass.  

response 106 of 225:

Nov 26 14:43 UTC 2003

I predict this item is about to devolve into yet another religious
argument. ;>

response 108 of 225:

Nov 26 15:23 UTC 2003

Kinetic energy has no measurable mass until you approach the speed of
light. The relation would be e = mc^2. Likewise, "heat" has no measurable
mass. Put another way, the energy equivalent of 21 grams of mass is the
largest nuclear exposion you can imagine (somewhat like a star going
"nova"). 

response 110 of 225:

Nov 26 16:37 UTC 2003

rcurl testifies to the power of the human soul.

response 112 of 225:

Nov 26 18:53 UTC 2003

A friend and I went to see the Loony Tunes movie.  It wasn't one I was 
planning on seeing, but my friend bought the ticket, so what the @#$%.  
Turned out I loved it.  Naturally, it had all the zaniness of the 
cartoons, but had a lot of puns and commercial references that make it 
really funny to me, like a Wal-Mart in the middle of the dessert.