Posts Tagged ‘12 Monkeys’
Thursday
* Convinced that the son they know and love is still “in there,” Chris’s parents have spent the past three years searching for a way to bring him back out. So far, their best hope has come from an unlikely source: Ambien. A growing body of case reports suggests that the popular sleep aid can have a profound — and paradoxical — effect on patients like Chris. Rather than put them to sleep, both Ambien and its generic twin, zolpidem, appear to awaken at least some of them. The early reports were so pronounced that until recently, doctors had a hard time believing them. Only now, more than a decade after the initial discovery, are they taking a closer look.
* Report: Scientific research on chimpanzees “unjustified,” should be limited.
* DOJ Uncovers Rampant Lawbreaking By Sheriff Joe Arpaio.
* The bill authorizing indefinite detention without trial was co-sponsored by one of the two main 2008 presidential candidates. It will soon be signed by the other main candidate from that election. No matter which of them you supported in 2008, this is what you got.
Wednesday Night Whoa!
Early morning Wednesday.
* We finally saw Up! tonight. All I can say is if the first ten minutes don’t break your heart you have no soul.
* Blackwater founder Erik Prince has apparently been implicated in a huge swath of crimes by a former employee and a Marine working with the company, ranging from tax evasion and money laundering to weapons smuggling to obstruction of justice and destruction of evidence to crimes of war and even to the murder of federal informants. (See MetaFilter for more.) My now-incredibly-timely review of Master of War is getting bumped up accordingly and will probably be online (updated) at Independent Weekly in a day or so. This is all pretty shocking, even by Blackwater standards.
* In not-completely-frakked-up news, Bill Clinton did a good thing today, a win for just about everybody but infamous douchebag of liberty John Bolton.
* More on the Olbermann/O’Reilly saga from Glenn Greenwald, Jane Hamsher, and David Sirota. While I appreciate that he finds himself in a tough spot here, Olbermann is not doing himself any favors with his behavior; making one type of statement on-the-air and another off makes it very clear what is going on, and makes him look like a fool.
* The 100 Greatest Sci-Fi Movies. Outraged to see Galaxy Quest only squeaking by at #95. And 12 Monkeys quietly buried in the 80s? Nonsense.
Also, was 12 Monkeys really left off that list of good sci-fi? That’s simply an inexcusable omission.
* The Best Time Travel Site on the Web takes on 12 Monkeys
* 12 Monkeys FAQ
* 12 Monkeys Trivia at IMDB
* Interview with Terry Gilliam
* “Bruce Willis as the Messiah: Human Effort, Salvation and Apocalypticism in Twelve Monkeys”
* Original Trailer
The French New Wave film that inspired Gilliam:
* La Jetée Part 1
* La Jetée Part 2
* La Jetée Part 3
