Pedalling Uphill

 This is a ‘must see’ movie.  Touching, informative, heart breaking but ultimately uplifting.  It makes you wonder if hell really doesn’t exist right here on earth - it also made me feel ashamed to be part of the human species that can create so much misery even if the good do somewhat triumph over evil in the end.

The actors are excellent, the script well written and although there were a few parts where I had to look away, there was no gratuitous violence involved.  It’s important to support worthwhile movies like this one.

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Went to see it when it came to the theatre.  Yes, I had to!  But you definitely have to be a Simpson fan to enjoy it.  It started with Homer appearing on screen and saying “Ha! Ha! - You’re paying for something you could see for free on TV” and I was hooked. 

I’ve seen better, sharper and wittier episodes on televison and a lot of the usual characters weren’t in the movie which was disappointing,  but the time flew by, so it must have been interesting.  And I did laugh out loud several times.  Not often I do that at todays so-called comedies.

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I was amazed to see that this movie got panned by newspaper reviewers in our area.  I think the critics have become too used to the ‘junk food’ movies they’re fed a constant diet of.  I mean even if this movie was terrible, it would still stand head and shoulders above any of the mindless garbage that’s being put out there.

I thought the movie was excellent.  The costumes, the sets and the photograpy all combined to make it visiually interesting and  the actors and the characters they portrayed were superb!  I found it very moving to see how courageous and strong this woman was while showing her frailities as well and what a good monarch she was considering the way the times were so stacked against women and the many people that conspired against her. 

It’s a must see for people who want to support some kind of quality in movies.   

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A movie worth watching.  I saw it at the beginning of the summer, so it’s faded from memory a bit, but I would recommend it to anyone who is desperately looking for a movie of substance.

Angelina Jolie was just excellent in the lead part!  And since it’s a story about the beheading death of captured journalist Daniel Pearl I was hesitiant to see it because I’m not a fan of blood and gore.  However, there not being a dearth of wonderful movies out there… and while it did allude to his fate, it was mostly about international realtions and the way governments manipulate situations and how they can either be helpful or not.    I came away feeling I had learned a lot about what goes on behind the scenes in kidnappings like these - for better or for worse.

It was fast paced and kept my attention the whole time.  I didn’t have to cover my eyes once and the time flew by.  See it - support a good movie.

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I knew I wouldn’t like it and then we rented it just to make sure.  Why oh why did I give that jerk a dime of my hard earned money?!  It was even worse than I imagined!  Crude, bufoonish humor of the lowest common denominator and if he was trying to make a statement on anti-semitisim, PLEASE!  Look to Jerry Seinfeld who proved every week with style, wit and unique humor that beneath it all,  people are more alike than not.

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Rented it the other night.  Couldn’t get to see it in the theatres near us.  They usually only take the ’slapstick’ teenage movies.  If you want to see anything ‘deeper’, you have to go downtown to the big theatres.

For all the raving it got, I’m sort of ambivelent about it.  First, the dialogue was spoken by the actors so quickly that unless you’re fluent in Spanish,  you had to spend the whole time reading and no time looking. 

Secondly, even though because of the circumstances depicted in the storyline, I was rooting for the women, 2 murders took place and no one was held accountable.  I find that kind of a troubling statement on our times.  Although it’s always a consolation when the victim deserved to be murdered - still….

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Is there any company that makes BROWN potato chips instead of those insipid pale things?  I’m not even a real chip lover, but if there is a brown one, I want that one and so does everyone else!  Don’t you think some chip company might pick up on that and start making  ’over cooked’ potato chips?

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Can’t help but wonder if those signs outside skanky bars that usually read “Nude Girls” would instead read “Nude Boys” or “Nude Daughters dancing for your pleasure” or “Nude Mothers and Sisters” - Wonder how long they would be tolerated?  Would the patrons be looked at any differently?

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Just came back from a month in Florida and I don’t know what to make of this?  There were Puppy Stores almost everywhere we went.  No store identity other than just Puppies for Sale.  I watched alot of Miami Animal Police on the Animal Planet channel and it seems like Florida has strong laws against animal abuse so why would these awful places be allowed to prosper? 

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I hate this corporate trend of using animals to identify their brands.  Currently there are two television commercials that really get me going.  One is Mcdonalds with the two large people sitting on and riding a small pony.  Did any one consider how much weight this little animal can sustain? 

The other is Netflix which shows a horse and rider galloping down a highway.  There are plenty of fools out there who will think galloping horses on paved roads is just fine, when in fact it’s totally not and can permanently damage the horse’s hooves forever causing crippling pain. 

And then there was the one with the cute bunnies.  Like the humane societies aren’t already over run with discarded rabbits.  As I said in my e mail to this company…I hope you’re making a generous donation to rabbit rescue groups who will have to end up caring for the cast-offs. 

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