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This is pretty crazy… Check out this email I just received:

This is a car advert from somewhere. When they finished filming the ad the people who made it noticed something moving along the side of the car, like a ghostly white mist.

Watch it and about halfway look and you will see the white mist crossing in front of the car then following it along the road… Spooky!

Turn your sound on, then click here to watch the movie.

-Francis

PS I hate you Kevin Rose

I think the premise of 21 grams is a little shaky. Not the movie it self but the tagline “We loose 21 grams when we die.” It’s the weight of a stack of 5 nickels, or a humming bird, can it be the weight of love? I must have missed something because it doesn’t make sense to me. Why would they stick such a stupid concept on a movie that’s so real? Maybe if the heart weighted 21 grams (it doesn’t) or… I dunno. I’ll admit don’t get it.

The movie 21 Grams was well worth seeing. I’m glad I saw it alone, away from a crowded or empty theater. I saw it with the soft glow of my over head light, the wide screen of the tv, the sound filling my head. I don’t want to hear peoples opinions on this movie, its got this fragile pedestal in my mind.

And of course that’s what this movie is about, fragility. Human fragility.

The rest of the movie is well done. The cinematography was quite a pice of work, being non-linear. Instead showing different things about the characters instead of actually telling their stories. The story becomes apparent eventually. Its kinda like how I would tell a story. I’d want you to know the people first but without just telling you about them, I’d show you them.

I had some trouble keeping the actors apart in the beginning but thats a shortcoming on my part. I also read some reviews where people compared it to Memento just because it wasn’t showed linearly (ironically it was shot linearly - made the actors lives easier I’m sure.) and I hate them. This movie’s got nothing to do with Memento, I couldn’t even relate the two… they’re both movies. Thats all I’ll say about that.

Thinking back piecing the movie together… I dunno, I think I’m going to keep my mouth shut.

Find someone good, who likes movies, who can appreciate them and watch this with them. Or do what I did and watch it alone. Either way it’s more then worth it.

So I saw that Michel Moore movie. What was it again? Oh yea Fahrenheit 9/11. I wasn’t impressed. But I didn’t pay a single cent to see it (I stole it - Michel Moore told me to) nothings lost but a few hours. Since the movie started out with a big fat lie, it kind of lost credibility with me. (10,000 points to who ever knows what the lie was.) I would have believed the movie too if I wasn’t already privy to the information around this particular subject (thank you Frank). The thing that pissed me off most about the movie was that millions of americans are going to believe it verbatim. At least it will help get Bush out of office. Its not every president that has a movie against him.

On more important matters I saw Shrek 2 finally. It was cute and had a lot of humor that went right over the kiddies heads. Didn’t let down my expectations but they weren’t that high anyway.

I was going to do an entire post on Raising Victor Vargas about a week ago. It was a good movie about a family of 3 coming of age kids and an old grandmother growing up in the Projects. I kept seeing it in video rental places and something about it just made me want to rent it. I didn’t even know what it was about. The synopsis I read on Netflix really didn’t do it justice.

Victor (Victor Rasuk) is a Latino kid who fancies himself as a bit of a lothario around the ghetto. But when word gets out that he’s been romancing a fat girl in the apartment upstairs, his credibility as a stud is thrown into question. So, he finds himself a hot new girlfriend (Judy Marte) to shut everyone up.

Yea… the movie wasn’t really about that. Check IMDB for reviews. Oh and it has a pretty good website even though it was never completed. I want to see Five Feet High and Rising but netflix nor my local movie rental store has it. (It’s the director’s first movie about the same family.)

I commented some photo galleries for your amusement. I can’t say I’m too happy about the quality of many of the pictures but they all tell a little story. I need a camera with a bigger aperture. My current one (Nikon Coolpix 995) is nice but its got 3 broken pixels and needs a lot of light. Anyway, enjoy the pictures - they’re in a new section dedicated to Events and Outings with my friends.

Nick’s Graduation
The 4th of July
The 5th of July with Nina, Ellie, Becky, Jenny, Jason, Brian and Myself

-Francis

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It cracks me up every time.

-Francis

I don’t know what to say about this movie. So I’ll let someone from IMDB do the talking. I like what he has to say anyway.

didi-5 writes;

deeply unpleasant movie with a star performance

All this would be so much hogwash if it wasn’t for the stunning lead performance of Harvey Keitel, certainly taking his acting talent right to the edge to give us a nothing-held-back portrait of his character. There are several scenes of great power (and one or two which are deeply repellent); certainly this isn’t a film you can easily forget when you’ve seen it.