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[bookshop]

I got a blackberry for christmas and have since been spending like 80% more time away from my computer or something ridiculous, because now (cue choirs of angels) i can check email and access the internet from everywhere. except i can still barely type on it, lol. i tried to update lj from the movie theatre tonight and i kept accidentally

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[zoesque]

aja, please tell me what blackberry you got and how you use it/is it worth it. *is contemplating a smartphone something fierce*

[bookshop]

it is the Blackberry Storm, which is basically just like an iphone only, you know, blackberry. I pretty much love it despite some of the issues mentioned in the cnet review (typing is a bitch but it gets better with acclimation, etc).

[zoesque]

aargh that is the one i've been contemplating. :/ internet browsing is good? are you like. cruisin' youtube on it or anything.

[bookshop]

the way it handles youtube videos is very nice :D

[glockgal]

Dreamhost is giving me two weeks to get rid of all my "non-essential" content, wtf

What...what on earth does that MEAN?!!?!?!? *suddenly fears Dreamhost*

Sad to hear about Despereaux - I KNEW there was something about it that annoyed me from the trailers, and not I can pinpoint it without actually shelling out cash to see it! To hear you describe it kinda really creeps me out. The subversiveness. Especially that hardly anyone would recognize or register. O.o

Ohhhh Avatar. Don't you worry - for The Last Airbender movie, Paramount is doing everything they can to backpedal on the cultural respect and diversity created by Avatar's creators. Hoo...ray? *grrrr*

Wow. The fat girl with low self-esteem. Let it never be said that writers don't know how to write complex and interesting female characters!

[llamrei]

I was given the impression that the rats became savage only because the people forced them out of the world above, so they had little choice but to conform to what their creepy rat leader wanted from them. I thought it was said that once the light returned, people made peace with the rats again and they left the underground world.

Not that I wasn't bothered by some of the things in the film -- I enjoyed it, but I did wince sometimes, especially at the characterization of the young maid.

I also assumed it was eurocentric because it was meant to take place in medieval Europe.

Also, it's not a Disney film. It's Universal.

[bookshop]

But the first rat (the Dustin Hoffman rat) winds up in the dungeon before the edict against the rats go out, and he's greeted by the head rat guy in his creepy head rat overlord voice, which gives you the impression the head rat has a longstanding habit of greeting newcomers to an already established world. And Ratworld is shown as a giant "city" with (to scale of course) miles of streets and buildings and a massive stadium that seats thousands. So it's depicted as being a well-established civilization (rat*world*, not rat-refugee camp), and the reason DustinHoffman!rat is seen as exceptional isn't because he's new, but because he wants to spend his whole life aboveground (where it's white and light). He's the only rat we see who wants to live that way so I can't compare him to any of the "other" above-ground rats - I can only assume that most rats divided their time between above and below before they were vanquished

[llamrei]

My impression was that yes, it was an already established world, but most rats didn't use it until they were forced down there, and then evil lord rat got to recruit as many as he wanted. But I haven't read the book and you could be right, that's just what I first thought when watching -- because if that's actually how all rats were, why would people have allowed themselves to live in harmony with them at the end of the story? Then again, it's hardly like anything's explained.

Haha, well, it's from a children's book so I suppose one should blame the book as well as the movie.

[bookshop]

i haven't read the book either, but i'm pretty sure these were directorial choices, since a smart director could have just as easily *not*, you know, made the entire world up above colored 100% white, not made the servantgirl fat or emphasized her poor self-esteem, not deliberately made Ratworld look like an Asian stereotype, etc etc.

[pornography]

Disney didn't make this! This is the next disney movie:

Universal made it! And universal can be forgiven because they made this masterpiece

[pornography]

oh no wait they didn't. ok lets all be angry at universal.

[bookshop]

lolol I didn't think it was a disney film, but the previews were one giant disney advertisement so it sort of confused me, haha.

oh Dreamworks with your unconventional cartoons. they made El Dorado, but they also made Prince of Egypt. There are times when I think the two cancel each other out.

[142978]

Glad someone else corrected that mistake - Disney has its own set of racial problems, but they have made efforts recently to be a lot more diverse and, uh, tolerant. Let's just ignore the fact that the new one has been delayed several years (it was due out in 2008 originally) because early previewers found it offensive. I would love to know what issues they found with it, but everyone was very vague in their reports.

[imaginarycircus]

"When my mom was little she made me..." lol I'm hopped up on allergy meds and that made me lol all over. Also are you a Timelord?

Books are good. I will never have enough of them.