I finally managed to post a video from youtube… exactly as I used to do in blogspot.
Still have no idea why it didn’t work at first… Gremlins, may be?
On another topic, I saw two days ago Bee Movie, and to be quite frank, I didn’t like it. The acting is OK, the technical part too. Unfortunately, this movies gets the crown for most biologically confusing movie ever. if there only was such an Oscar. Just checked, there isn’t. Too bad.
Really though, I can forgive the fact that within the hive bees are made to live in suburbs kind of housing, with swimming pool full of honey(!), cars and such… I can understand a metaphore when I see one.
I can forget picturing the hive itself as a factory, for the same reason…
I even enjoyed the suing action brought by the little guy to get back the honey ’stolen’ by the humans…
But… When the honey is pumped in and all bees get lazy and stop working, and pollinating, the whole world become grey and all plants die suddenly, as if pollination was some kind of magic the bees perform to keep everything in balance.
The absurdity is finally topped up by the dynamic duo going to the rescue of the world by using the few residual pollen grains (from roses, come out from GOD knows where) to repollinate indiscriminately any vegetable species they happen to come around… urgh!!!
I know I know it’s a kid cartoons, but so were “A bug’s life” and “Antz“. And they both were much better at painting insects’ life…
Frankly, I am disappointed by DreamWorks recent forays in the animation realm… Did they loose the magic touch after Shrek?
Yesterday instead, I awarded my own 8+ to Les Poupées russes, for its light hearted humour and very nice montage…
Tonight the lady is at work so may be I’ll blast “The Host“, or may be something else. who knows?
Here’s a new one. I have always been trying to convince people that octopuses are very advanced creatures in terms of ‘braininess’. That it really isn’t a good thing to fish them out of the water and kill them bashing them on a rock, or even worse biting their heads while still alive, as my gilrfriend saw with horror in a beach in Sardinia (no picture of the event, unfortunately).
And now, I discover they can get emotionally attached to puppets, just like a six-year old boy. In the picture, an octopus who was given a Mr Potato toy some months ago, and has been defending it since then. Differently from me, the octopus must have liked the new Transformers movie, since the puppet is in fact OptiMash Prime, Mr Potato version of the Autobot’s chief in command. Who would have thought that an 18-wheeler would need protection from a Kraken?
I loved Good Omens, from Gaiman and Pratchett. The Discworld I could not bear, Pratchett’s humour needs to be tempered by someone else hand, otherwise it’s just too much.
RTight now I am reading “The Science of Discworld”, and I’m too lazy to translate from Italian what I posted in a private forum: here it is. The final part is about Stardust, the gaiman-inspired movie which is getting very good reviews from both critics and audience.
Proprio ora sto leggendo “The science of Discworld”, che e’ parte racconto fantasy, con i maghi della Unseen University che creano x accidente il ‘nostro’ universo e ne osservano gli eventi, parte divulgazione con articoli di Ian Stewart e Jack Cohen (e Pratchett ovviamente) che trattano degli stessi argomenti in maniera leggera e molto originale. Son a meta’ del primo e me lo sto godendo davvero, non vedo l’ora di attaccare il secondo e il terzo che ho comprato insieme.
Well, I guess that I’ll have to check it out as usual. Although since the move I haven’t been very active in downloading movies. Miracles of commuting, I’d say. (In the picture, the Silver Surfer leaves the cinema in a rush after the movie, to avoid furious spectators)
My movie time goes wasted on the motorway, now. Together with the hydrocarboms laboriously accumulated by mother Earth during the last 500 million years. Ouch!
“Rise of the Silver Surfer” is an existentially and aesthetically unnecessary sequel to the equally irrelevant if depressingly successful “Fantastic Four.”
As a music document and as a labor of unabashed love, the nonfiction feature “Gypsy Caravan” could hardly be better; as a movie, it could stand some improvement.
World’s First Personal DNA Analyzer goes on sale today – for only 15K US$.
I loved GATTACA, the 1997 movie describing a world where everybody had to pass a daily or even more frequent DNA test to access work, and only “able” person with genetic defects engineered out could access to the middle and upper class.No, I am not fans of eugenetics, in fact I loved the character who tricked the system, and shows that he can do as well and better than his near-perfect companion. As the tagline says, “There’s no gene for human spirit”.
If you fancy, now you can sequence the DNA of your boyfriend/girlfriend, s Uma Thurman does in the movie, to make sure he/she is a match. So, what are you waiting for? Break your piggy-bank and send a 15K US$ check to Spartan BioSciences.
