re: The Last Mimzy [US movie]

From the trailers I wasn't one-hundred percent sure what this movie was about... but I wanted to see it.

Basically, two kids find a box washed up on the beach. Inside are various "toys," including the sentient bunny Mimzy (though only the little girl can hear him talk, all we get are warbling murmurs.) Both children have their brains enhanced so they can complete a mission to save the world.

"The Last Mimzy" was actually a fairly intelligent movie. A bit of spiritualism to counteract the sci-fi, and a pervasive message about "we can save the future." The beginning sequence highlights our over-reliance on technology at the cost of the human experience, though they go by the "show, not tell" method so it's not too heavy handed and they never actually come out and say there's too many tech-toys in our lives and not enough humanity.

You'll like this movie if you liked:
-A.I
-Bicentennial Man
-D.A.R.Y.L
-E.T.

Age group: about 5+. I took Bryson, and though he liked a lot of it, he got a bit squirmy because there wasn't a whole lot of little kid entertainment.

re: The Last Mimzy [US movie]

From the trailers I wasn't one-hundred percent sure what this movie was about... but I wanted to see it.

Basically, two kids find a box washed up on the beach. Inside are various "toys," including the sentient bunny Mimzy (though only the little girl can hear him talk, all we get are warbling murmurs.) Both children have their brains enhanced so they can complete a mission to save the world.

"The Last Mimzy" was actually a fairly intelligent movie. A bit of spiritualism to counteract the sci-fi, and a pervasive message about "we can save the future." The beginning sequence highlights our over-reliance on technology at the cost of the human experience, though they go by the "show, not tell" method so it's not too heavy handed and they never actually come out and say there's too many tech-toys in our lives and not enough humanity.

You'll like this movie if you liked:
-A.I
-Bicentennial Man
-D.A.R.Y.L
-E.T.

Age group: about 5+. I took Bryson, and though he liked a lot of it, he got a bit squirmy because there wasn't a whole lot of little kid entertainment.

using beef jerky to assess the economic failure of America

When I was a kid, you could buy a pepperoni stick at the gas station for a quarter. When I was twenty they were $0.59. Now, at twenty-five, they're 2/$2, or $1.09 alone. Wow, what a deal.

When I was a kid, you could buy a loaf of bread for fifty cents, then seventy-five cents, now that same cheapo Western Family bread is $1.50.

Money is stretching a lot less, while food is costing a bit more. Rising gas prices mean shipping food costs more money for the companies, which means the consumer has to eat the cost.

More money for food and clothes means working families have to make sacrifices that they probably shouldn't have to. Eat today, or have medical insurance tomorrow.

The rich just keep getting richer everyday, while the poor have no hope of ever catching up. There's no longer a middle-class, just the poor and the wealthy. And when the poor reach the point that they realize there's nothing else for them but to take what they want... the empire of America will come crumbling down. Rome is burning while Nero-Bush plays his banjo--and the tune he's playing? It's "Dueling Banjos" from Deliverance and we're all about to "squeal like a pig" while our friends hope nobody notices they've got "a purty mouth."

using beef jerky to assess the economic failure of America

When I was a kid, you could buy a pepperoni stick at the gas station for a quarter. When I was twenty they were $0.59. Now, at twenty-five, they're 2/$2, or $1.09 alone. Wow, what a deal.

When I was a kid, you could buy a loaf of bread for fifty cents, then seventy-five cents, now that same cheapo Western Family bread is $1.50.

Money is stretching a lot less, while food is costing a bit more. Rising gas prices mean shipping food costs more money for the companies, which means the consumer has to eat the cost.

More money for food and clothes means working families have to make sacrifices that they probably shouldn't have to. Eat today, or have medical insurance tomorrow.

The rich just keep getting richer everyday, while the poor have no hope of ever catching up. There's no longer a middle-class, just the poor and the wealthy. And when the poor reach the point that they realize there's nothing else for them but to take what they want... the empire of America will come crumbling down. Rome is burning while Nero-Bush plays his banjo--and the tune he's playing? It's "Dueling Banjos" from Deliverance and we're all about to "squeal like a pig" while our friends hope nobody notices they've got "a purty mouth."