Recently seen movies

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After quite a long time of watching crap in TV in free moments I pushed my self to watch some movies instead of TV. I have seen:

Enjoyed all of them! Vital has excellent visuals (interiors of homes and dissection room, main hero visions, etc.) and freaky plot of guy with amnesia after a car crash, who is gaining memory back while dissecting his girlfriend who died in the crash.

I would say The dreamers is about “my favourite topics” – movies, sex and revolution on the background on student rebellions in Paris in late sixtees. Liked this film very much although it can’t be compared to other Bertolucci’s 60’s reminiscence – Last tango in Paris, but definitely again great piece of “l’art cinematographique”. I have to mention the soundtrack – Janis Joplin, The Doors, Edith Piaf … yum yum.

Fimfarum 2 followed the high level set by first Fimfarum. Excellent animation, picture, sound, music track and stories itself. Both of Fimfarum movies are IMHO the masterpieces … not boring “run of the mill” Disney production.

James and Vesper

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Now we know almost complete cast of new James Bond series sequel – Casino Royale. Daniel Craig as James Bond was already confirmed a few months before, but fresh news is the main female role of Vesper Lynd will be performed by
french actress Eva Green:

Something more is also known FBI agent Felix Leiter will be played by Jeffrey Wright, ‘M’ will appear (whether it will be performed by Judi Dench is not known yet) but ‘Q’ and ‘Moneypenny” will not… and last but not least the main ‘badguy’ remains still uknown.

The director Martin Campbell said about the upcoming Bond movie: “definitely darker, more characters, less gadgets”. Definitely like that direction!

Danish products

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I wanted to buy a danish product just as a political act (I don’t think Denmark will be harmed by middle east countries boycott), but I didn’t remember any danish brand besides Lego. So we searched o the Internet and … probably the easiest way would be to buy Lurpak dairy product.

Muhammad cartoons

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This is my opinion on row:

  1. Muslims don’t know how it works in western democracies – They don’t know the government has no influence on what newspapers print. At least no direct influence but only the influence through laws. And that is the way to defend … the law, not embassies burning and violence.
  2. Reaction is hypocritical – As mentioned by Die Welt and others, arab newspapers and TV stations publish similar cartoons with jewish or christian themes for the long time. They say Quaran prohibits taunting other religions, but obviously they follow it. And what about mr. Ahmadinejad saying there was no holocaust ?!
  3. Free speech – We are in Europe (or Denmark) and no law prohibits cartoon making here. So we don’t have to care about any Muhammad or whoever portrait ban.

So support Denmark …

Random bits

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More vaporware
I was reminded by Karl there is other vaporware comparable to Wired’s no. 1 – Moucha.cc main page. Don’t know what to say … just stay tuned :)

Mace +5
“Richard Stallman casts aspersions using Mace of Dissing +5” article title made me think of old history when I played D&D … and another topic appeared in my mind: Why there are no first person RPG games with cooperative multiplayer? Something which would be D&D’s computer version, would be playable in more players and would bring the direct experience of FPS games.

Torture
You can find very interesting article about torture in western world in Respekt. Imagine … you have a guy who is drove the car with terrorists who placed the bomb in a center of big city. And time is ticking … what would you do?

Side effects

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Looks like CT24 is getting better and better. And it is definitely putting fresh air into stale situation on czech media scene. I was glad to see the new programme called Side effects with news paper editors, experts and viewers interactive discussion about latest topics. I missed this type of relation.