Sci-Fi Bri's Movies: "Oceans"

Sci-Fi Bri's Movies: "Oceans" Rated G Narrated by Pierce Brosnan

A beautifully filmed documentary of the world's oceans featuring many of its myriad lifeforms. Pierce Brosnan's narration was very poetic, but not particularly informative or enlightening. However, he said, "The only way to know what the ocean is is to" experience it up close. Well worth seeing for the cinematography alone.

Poetry: "An Arrogant Bully" , A Work in Progress

Poetry: "An Arrogant Bully" A Work in Progress

He's an Arrogant Bully who Curses and Drinks

An insult to all who are able to think.

Egged on by his Friends who also imbibe,

Don't Get in His car If he ever should drive

If to you he is ever a jerk

You'll Know damn well that you'll hear it at work

Like him or hate him he's related to you

Maybe you can hit him with a steel-toed shoe.

Now he Owes you for a favor you did

But Pretends he don't know you

Or his money is hid

Quite the Racist when he has a few brews

And antiSemitic when he talks about Jews

Tolerate his Bullshit and try as you might

To be around him it's hard to be polite... (tbc?)

Poetry Bits and Pieces from April 2010

Poetry Bits and Pieces from April 2010

"Making It Big"

The only way to make it big these days

Is to Bend or Break the Law

For the average low-paid common folk

It's a very lousy flaw.

So perhaps it's not surprising

That to many people crime is such a draw... (tbc)

"Small Government is Beautiful?"

Some say: "Small government is beautiful.",

While our bridges and our roads are crumbling

And our employment rate is tumbling

And even staunch conservatives are angrily mumbling

Due to the policies of a Bush.

But ironically, Tea Party members want to throw out Obamaites on their tush

Due to their employment and Health Care push... (tbc?)

"Icelandic Ash"

Icelandic Ash can stop a plane

Or fill your lungs with lots of pain

This cloud of ash is an aeronautic bane... (tbc?)

Due to their employment and Health Care push... (tbc?)

Sci-Fi Bri's Movies: "THe Girl With The Dragon Tattoo"

Sci-Fi Bri's Movies: "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo" Rated R for nudity and sexual situations

[In Swedish with Subtitles]

Characters: Mikael Blonkwist, Lisbeth Salander, Harriet Vanger, the Vanger family, etc.

Based on an internationally best-selling novel which I have never read, set in Sweden. Mikael Blonkwist is a disgraced investigative reporter who is about to spend three months behind bars for allegedly libeling a rich and powerful businessman. Before resigning from the magazine where he has up to then worked, he is offered a job by another wealthy businessman, a member of the notorious Vanger family. Blonkwist is offered a position as an investigator of the presumed death of Vanger's beloved niece who disappeared at a festival in the 1960s. Harriet Vanger, the missing girl, once babysat Blonkwist as a young child. Though the Vanger who hires Blonkwist seems like a good guy, there are many skeletons in the Vanger proverbial closet, including Nazism and Nazi sympathies, racism, antiSemitism, sexual abuse and possibly murder(s).

Lisbeth Salander is a heavily tattooed and pierced bisexual, genius computer hacker and ex-mental patient with anger issues. She is in a no-win situation with her state-appointed guardian, a pervert who blackmails her into a relationship involving rape and sexual abuse. Fortunately, the pervert eventually gets his comeuppance. Salander is skittish and odd socially, likely due to past sexual abuse as a young girl. She is hired by the Vogel's to keep tabs on Mikael Blonkwist, but when he discovers that she has been hacking into his computer instead of turning her in to the authorities he hires her to help him with his investigation. This was a really excellent murder mystery, but the nudity and sex scenes will make many people uncomfortable. Definitely not a movie to bring a child, but could likely be a Best Foreign Film nominee in the very near future. Another thing to keep in mind is that this movie is over two and a half hours.

Sci-Fi Bri's Movies: "How To Train Your Dragon" in 3-D

Sci-Fi Bri's Movies: "How To Train Your Dragon" in 3-D

Character(s)/Actor(s)/Voices: Hickup ?, Astrid (America Ferrara), etc.

A scrawny young misfit Viking who serves as an apprentice to a blacksmith is supposed to be trained to kill dragons, but instead he captures one and secretly makes it his pet. After interacting with his pet dragon, "Toothless", he comes to realize that his fellow Vikings have the wrong idea about the creatures. While undoubtably dangerous, most dragons attack only to avoid being killed or harmed themselves. Although mostly for kids, people of almost any age should enjoy this movie.