In different circumstances I might have found this movie contrived, but since I’m going through this thing with this guy…hmm, guess it struck a chord in my life.

I was surprised to discover this film had scenes set in my neighbourhood (Greenpoint in Brooklyn) that I lived in for a year when I was in New York. Then I was even more suprised to see my street…then I was horrified to see what happened there!

I fell asleep in the first hour or so of this movie, is it worth going back to it? (I was very tired, so I don’t blame the film).

This film was utterly confusing to me for the first hour and a bit, then suddenly all made sense near the end. It was cleverly designed like that (or I am exceptionally un-sharp when it comes to movies), and you got that nice ‘ahhh’ moment when it made sense. Hard to say ‘nice’ about this movie though, when it was so dark.

It was recommended to me by a mad scotsman, who told me that another movie the director made (Once Upon a Time in the Midlands) was utter crap, and the director even thought so, and that Dead Man’s Shoes was his masterpiece.

Not really my type of movie, but because he did it so well, I was able to jump genres for a while and see what life is like for the mad scotsman and other types.

Finished it on the subway today. It’s so satisfying to finish a novel these days becuase I never do.

Salman Rushdie’s first novel, it has a kind of naive beauty to it. Not as sophisticated as his later more political or magical realist works, this fantasy/sci fi book is just good fun, and pretty damn clever. If you’re only going to read one of his books I wouldn’t pick this one, but it’s still great, was an easy page-turner that still made you twist your brain around from time to time, just in an effortless kind of way.

Great but depressing movie. One of the good points about the fact that I’ll be going home to Australia soon.

Funny thing was, I saw Bill Clinton on the escalator on my way out. He was either going to see himself in Sicko, or to see Ocean’s Thirteen.

I was quite shocked that I really enjoyed this movie. It really isn’t your typical romantic comedy, though I’m not sure why. Perhaps because it tones down the caricatures more than most.

I watched this movie because I was on a plane from London to New York and it was the only thing in front of me. While it is not the worst movie I have been forced to watch on a plane, I would certainly not recommend it to anyone who has a choice between this and anything remotely good. I guess if you’re really into romantic comedies you’ll probably love it.

Ok, I realise it’s kind of crap, but it freaked the ** out of me, but what was even more scary and surreal was what fox did to it. During the end credits, they start showing the fallout of the storm and fires in new jersey and promoting as the exciting ‘day after tomorrow’. What is scary is that the lines between fiction and news as getting so blurred that people are becoming immune to feeling other people’s pain. We didn’t see a single person die in this movie on screen, yet billions of people would have died in reality, and yet we all celebrate because the statue of liberty looks pretty and donnie darko got the girl and saved her from a fate worse than septicaemia.

I think that it’s good that climate change is getting mainstream attention, and that it was inevitable that they would bollocks it up, but with climate science being as uncertain as it is, it’s hard to say whether the science behind it was implausible, less than most science fiction movies.

I am afraid whenever I watch fox that I have walked into an alternative orwellian reality.

I’ve been wanting to watch this film since it came out over 10 years ago. I have been listening to the soundtrack since then, and seen a number of Gatlif’s movies, but never this one. All I can say is, it was worth the wait!!!