5 posts tagged “movies”

This is one movie that ranks somewhere up there in my List of Favourite Movies. I'm so pleased I caught the 881 sneaks today with Kellie, it was absolutely worth it. Only thing, I ate too much popcorn. It's one movie during which I actually cried, and at least twice while at it. There was so much chemistry, so much chemistry.

Up next:
1) Getting my hands on a poster.
2) Getting my hands on the theme song/soundtrack.

Haha, I think I have switched idols from Emma Yong (argh NDP argh) to Yeo Yann Yann! Not that Mindee Ong wasn't good, of course - she was excellent, but Yeo Yann Yann shares my surname! :D

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I realise that a lot of my posts are composed of angry rants about stupid people. Well hold on tight, here's another. I just read in my Weekly Grist about a group of schools that has refused to allow the screening of An Inconvenient Truth unless an "opposing view" is presented such that the students can come to their own conclusion. According to a guy on the school board, climate change is "just a theory". Ooh.

Here's an excerpt from the original source, The Seattle Post-Intelligence:

"Condoms don't belong in school, and neither does Al Gore. He's not a schoolteacher," Sir, no offence, but are you? What then gives you the right to say who belongs and doesn't belong to the school? said Frosty Hardison, a parent of seven who also said that he believes the Earth is 14,000 years old. "The information that's being presented is a very cockeyed view of what the truth is. ... The Bible says that in the end times everything will burn up, but that perspective isn't in the DVD."

School Board members adopted a three-point policy that says teachers who want to show the movie must ensure that a "credible, legitimate opposing view will be presented," that they must get the OK of the principal and the superintendent, and that any teachers who have shown the film must now present an "opposing view."

The requirement to represent another side follows district policy to represent both sides of a controversial issue, board President Ed Barney said.

Students should hear the perspective of global-warming skeptics and then make up their minds, he said. After they do, "if they think driving around in cars is going to kill us all, that's fine, that's their choice." Those who have watched the show will know this isn't true. I guess Mr Barney is not clued in to the existence of hybrid and fuel-cell cars? The point is to REDUCE first, not REMOVE. However, if he means speeding around in cars, then yes, he would be right. Speed is one of the top killers in Singapore.

The Federal Way incident started when Hardison learned that his daughter would see the movie in class. He objected.

Hardison and his wife, Gayla, said they would prefer that the movie not be shown at all in schools.

"From what I've seen (of the movie) and what my husband has expressed to me, if (the movie) is going to take the approach of 'bad America, bad America,' I don't think it should be shown at all," Gayle Hardison said. Hold on, I thought this one was a fact? "If you're going to come in and just say America is creating the rotten ruin of the world, I don't think the video should be shown." So does Mrs Hardison mean that she wants her children to grow up imagining that their conscience is clear because their country isn't doing most of the damage to the world? Well, I say this will create a vicious cycle (if the world hasn't ended by then) with the children just continuing to be obvlious to the havoc they are wreaking and shielding their children, and the children after them. I think it's cowardly to mislead yourself and other people. Just shameful.

Scientists say that Americans, with about 5 percent of the world's population, emit about 25 percent of the globe-warming gases.

"I think that a movie like that is a really great way to open people's eyes up about what you can do and what you are doing to the planet and how that's going to affect the human race," said Kenna Patrick, a senior at Jefferson High School.

I hope I don't sound completely snarky. My excuse is the hour.