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January 26, 2010

Inglorious Basterds

Marcelo, I agree with you on that movie. Was really good suspense + drama + wonderful ending. I like Tarantino movies in general and I find him really funny and this movie was hilarious. Brad Pitt's Italian impression was perfect and was probably the funniest part of the movie for me...and how good was Landa's character written/performed. The rest of the cast meh....but Brad Pitt doing his best impression of George Clooney in O Brother, Where Art Though + Landa was killer. Was one of the more entertaining movies I've seen. Wish I saw it sooner.

Saw Hurt Locker too, not sure if you've seen that Pinche, but its pretty good. The dude from Friday Night Lights was pretty good in it. I don't think they ate anything the entire movie...in fact one of the scenes was about how they didn't have food int he desert, so not sure if I should be writing about this movie.

Saw Food, inc. which is about food and you could save yourself 1.5 hours by just knowing that"
1) Mass Produced Food is cost-affective
2) Mass production of food causes certain actual issues (susceptibility to mass plagues) but also has many benefits which cause America to be big and strong and powerful (a point I think curiously the movie left out)
3) Americas should look deeper into what they are eating and how the food ends up on the table.

I think the movie is made for people already paying for $12/lb chicken that was allowed to roam free, eat nice things and take its hen out to dinner on friday nights. The movie makes big food seem like harbingers of death but doesn't give a lot of credit to the fact that the American food supply, general food quality and safety is pretty impressive. Even the poorest American has somewhat decent options for food. Compare that to India, Africa etc. where people actually starve to death. The movie also doesn't really bring up the point that most plants and animals are genetically modified (whole point of domestication is to breed the best to maximize food supply). The idea the movie preaches about food roaming freely is extremely inefficient and impractical on a large scale. Its nice for the Whole Foods Collective to use as ammunition to smugly denounce Costco and Walmart shoppers.

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