I agree with Syd's review of THE DARJEELING LIMITED. Did you see the opening section of Jason Schwartzman in Paris with Natalie Portman? This wasn't on all prints.

In any case, the film came across as a pointless exercise...and yes, it _would_ be offensive to Indians IMO.

I don't think I laughed once. Some of the line readings are stiff and have a strange ring to them.

This should whet your appetite: "The life of a young, Japanese schoolgirl is destroyed when her family is killed by a Ninja-Yakuza family. Her hand cut off, she replaces it with various machines-of-death, and seeks revenge. Opens in Japan in 2008." From the look of it's the Bionic Japanese Schoolgirl meets Kill Bill meets Master of the Flying Guillotine with a little bit of God of Cookery and Planet Terror thrown in (the sushi is real finger food). Iron Man is a wimp in comparison. Even he doesn't have a drill bra.

Ah, man - BLOCKED (so what else is new)!!!!
And everyone should see Persepolis, on this we can agree.

http://freebypass.net/index
If it circumvents the Great Firewall, it should be bale to leap your company's puny wall.

Gladder:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2864

But it's only for Firefox, not IE.

Gladder also uses:
surfme.us
zain248.info
privacystart.info
browsequeen.com

I've only used zain once or twice, when freebypass didn't go.

Syd isn't cool enough to watch a bad movie like Darjeeling Ltd.

I saw Away From Her last night. Great story, though depressing as hell - the chickens coming home to roost, and the inevitability of it all. Another to add to the list of great movies released in 2007, and Sarah Polley is someone to keep an eye on.

However wonderful Julie Christie's performance was, I'm not sure that I'd call it better or worse than Marion Cotillard's. Both wonderful things, but for different reasons. And in a lesser year for films, I can see this winning in more categories than it did (e.g., adapted screenplay).

A college roommate's mother died of Alzheimer's in January, and some of the things in the movie reminded me of some of the things she'd told me over the seven-odd years of her mother's disease (my roommate ended up the family member who dealt with the whole thing). Her mother wasn't so much a free spirit as the person who took care of everything, but there are parallels in that.

But the one line of the two residents was classic: "What do the kids call it again?... It's a clusterfuck!" A little bright spot to remember in this film. (I'm going to add that to the list of movie quotes, especially since it's not in imdb. %^})

Ohmygod. Had plumb forgotten about Darjeeling Ltd. Which I didn't see. I feel like that Lichtenstein, where the woman goes, "Damn! I forgot to have children!"

Actually, Syd is cool enough to watch a lot of bad movies, as I know from personal experience, though I never got him tto watch more than the songs from Cannibal: The Musical. I think I did get him to suffer through Godmonster of Indian Flats, and I'm still hearing about that.