Tales from the Technoverse

Category: movies

  • Treeless Mountain

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    Most mornings I walk on an elliptical walker in the basement and watch movies (or TV shows) from DVD’s from my over Netflix queue (now over 400 DVD’s long). Many of the films I watch are foreign films. I find them interesting both because I feel I gain a bit of knowledge about the country…

  • Lego My …, Oops Wrong Analogy

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    I have a feeling that the new Lego movie, called creatively The Lego Movie, may be one of those that I will have to go alone without Ellen. Even though the initial Rotten Tomatoes rating is the rarely achieved 100%, http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_lego_movie/. From the WSJ article about the movie, we learn: Lego estimates that children spend 5 billion…

  • Wendy and Lucy

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    I just finished watching Wendy and Lucy, http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/wendy_and_lucy/, which I very much enjoyed.  The story line is pretty simple. A young woman played very well by Michelle Williams, Wendy, and her dog, Lucy, on her way to Alaska to hopefully get a good paying job is stranded in a small town in Oregon when her car…

  • A Wonderful Nobel Peace Prize Candidate

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    Evidently the winner or winners of the Nobel Peace Prize will be announced this Friday. This award, which at least in my opinion, does always recognize someone who has taken personal risks to demonstrate their commitment to peace and fundamental human rights, this year if awarded to Malala Yousafzai, would be given to someone who…

  • Movie Review: Ballad of a Soldier

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    I finished watching Ballad of a Soldier earlier this week, http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/ballad_of_a_soldier/. Ballad of a Soldier per Rotten Tomatoes, was “the first Russian film to score an American success during the Cold War era”. It was released in 1959. The movie has a relatively rare 100% rating in Rotten Tomatoes, one of the reasons why I…

  • My First Facebook Video

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    In late 2011, Ellen and I were talking about what we might do for New Year’s, to be honest not my greatest time of year. I am not particularly a social person, or at least a party social person. Richard Cohen, a Washington Post columnist who used to write a humor column and now attempts…

  • Iron Man 3 (Spoilers)

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    I suspect the subset of the Earth’s population which includes the intersection between those who read this blog and those who want to see Iron Man 3 but who have not yet done so is an empty set, but just in case I have warned people not to read further. We see my older daughter,…

  • Follow Your Passion

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    I have learned over the years that doing things that you are passionate about is very important. This was brought home to me earlier this week when I had lunch with a long-time friend of mine who I worked with during my time at Sun Microsystems. We were comparing job experiences and she remarked that…

  • Run Lola Run, Brief Comments

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    Finished Run Lola Run, http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/run_lola_run/, Lola Rennt (literally Lola runs). I guess this is one of those films I had to see in the theatre to really appreciate rather than my usual 20-30 minutes at a time on the elliptical walker down in the basement. Got high marks on Rotten Tomatoes, I remember the noise…

  • Thoughts on Tron Legacy

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    I sometimes reserve weekend and/or holiday mornings for seeing movies my wife, Ellen, will not see with me. There is no particular rhyme or reason as to which movies she is interested in going with me to see and those not, with the one mild exception perhaps of quality – the lower the quality the…