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605 - Total des votes utiles : 93 sur 159
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I was half expecting Lola Heatherton (Catherine O'Hara) of SCTV fame to show up in the film trailer parody (watch the end credits) within this movie. That's how bizarre it is.
Honestly, until I watched the "making of," I had no idea this was a comedy. Simon Pegg has some funny bits--loved the Dracula scream when his fingers get caught in the power windows and the "Ingerlund, Ingerlund" drunken lout impression--but this is more a off-kilter drama with funny bits thrown in.
It cops out as as much of an entertaining tool that Pegg's character is, the typical Hollywood love story where the two who will end up together start off by hating each other is almost as if… Lire la suite
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Although the story of how crime and greed have pervaded the whole Mt. Everest scene is mindblowing, this book is about so much more really. It's mainly about exploring the personalities who act as guides on the mountain and the Sherpas, both good and bad, and how this all plays into the life and death scenarios played out on the world's most famous mountain.
Having said that, the book gets a bit repetitive in parts and is more a 90 compared to Jon Krakauer's 100 for any of his books on mountain climbing.
What's scary is basically anyone can pretty much be a mountain guide on either border of the Himalayas as both Nepal and China do not have any certified guide,… Lire la suite
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The DVD has nothing but the movie itself--not a single extra. They could have done a documentary on the 1972 expulsion of people of Indian descent from Uganda which is where this movie starts. It certainly got me interested to wiki info on that especially given we had many Indian immigrants at that time move to Canada from Ugnada.
The story itself is a wonderfully layered look at cultures in collision, ethnic identity and traditions old and new. I felt the weakest link was the female lead Sarita Choudhury. This was her first ever movie so I'll cut her some slack but if you check her imdb filmography that covers 44 appearances in TV and film since then and nothing spectacular… Lire la suite
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