mykrocosm

Great doco on tonight, “Freestyle - The Art of Rhyme”

I never really appreciated the grassroots artistry behind the rap & hip hop phenomena until I saw this.  Catch it if you get a chance.

Hotel Rwanda is an unforgettable must-watch movie, if for no other reason that to open our eyes to a little bit of the suffering in other countries that we tune out during the nightly news. A true story told in an honest yet urgent manner. No gun-toting Hollywood heroes here, just a man with dignity, integrity and ultimately, courage.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear. — Ambrose Redmoon

Ever wondered why there were no new Superman movies? Well apart from the sad loss of Christopher Reeves, that is. Get ready for an astounding new low in Hollywood incompetence…

http://www.agonybooth.com/forum/topic2730.htm (via slashdot)

It’s hard to pick my favourite bungle in this litany of script-rewriting destruction, but I really liked this one :

“Superman’s costume is a living entity housed in a can, and it climbs onto him when he needs it. He first discovers it in a closet when he’s 14 (Jor-El visited Earth and picked the Kents out to be Kal-El’s new parents, leaving them his picture, some S-shield metal pieces signifying the virtues Kal-El must represent, and the costume), and the costume rips his clothes off and stuffs him into itself. So teen Clark is flying around in a suit that’s way too big for him.”