I did really enjoy Lars and the Real Girl. Very sweet and charming movie. It good have been farcical or overly sentimental but managed not to veer into either territory and ended up being a fantastically enjoyable film with real heart.
My Brother is an Only Child. I was expecting a great deal from this film. Set in Latina, Italy it covers around about a decade from the mid 60s on and concerns two brothers one of whom is a communist and the younger of whom grows up to be a fascist. In spite of their differing personalities and being politically polar opposites they end up being in love with the same girl.
The problem I have is that the filmmakers have built a structure in the story that gives great scope for dramatic tension but then they completely undercut it by not really going anywhere with these story threads. Accio the younger of the two brothers turns out not to be much of a fascist and only joined up to be different from his elder brother Manrico and go against the wishes of his family and he ultimately sides with his brother and becomes a communist himself. The second possible dramatic thread never really goes anywhere either as Manrico never finds out that Accio is in love with his on-off girlfriend Francesca.
Great film in a lot of ways but ultimately unsatisfying.
If only it were 88 minutes long but unfortunately it is an entire 108 minutes and at least the final 20 minutes are pure garbage. There certainly are a lot of better ways to spend a couple of hours than watching 88 Minutes.
Pacino is exactly the same character as he has portrayed in virtually all of the movies of the last 10 years of his career. Ridiculous action scenes that make no sense and really poor unconvincing acting from half the cast.
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Traveler IQ Challenge
The web’s original Travel Blog.
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Spam with good security message
Bit of spam that I received that contains a good message about security.
A true story:
This lady has changed her habits after her handbag was
stolen. Her handbag which contained her mobile, credit card,
purse etc was stolen. 20 minutes later when she called her husband,
telling him what had happened, he said ‘I’ve just received your SMS asking
about our Pin number and I’ve replied a little while ago.’When they rushed down to the bank, the bank staff told them all the
money was already withdrawn.The pickpocket had actually used the stolen mobile phone to SMS ‘hubby’
in the contact list and get hold of the pin number. Within 20 minutes
he had withdrawn all the money from the bank account.Moral of the lesson:
Do not disclose the relationship between you and the people in your
contact list. Avoid using names like Home, Honey, Hubby, sweetheart, Dad,
Mum etc, and very importantly, when sensitive info is being asked
through SMS, CONFIRM by calling back.Vidya
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Very odd but I can’t argue with the content of the message, it is pretty good advice about how to avoid identity theft.
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Super Mario in 14kB Javascript
Super Mario in 14kB Javascript
This is pretty impressive work to have done it all in Javascript.
