02-11-2006, 08:32 AM
I'm a little fuzzy on the details, but I think the movie was about corporate malfeasance causing the male Emperor Penguins to freeze their asses off in the middle of a blizzard while they waited for the female penguins to come back from the strip club and show them how to skim millions off the books. It was pretty much like that.
Penguins was goods. It had some great cinematography of Antartica. After watching the film, I realize I don't want to come back as an Emperor penguin. Their life sucks. They have to walk 80 miles to find the special spot to fool around. Then once the eggs hatch, the men carry the eggs on their feet while the woman go feed. Their were lots of shots of eggs freezing the second they touched the ice. The men died of hunger while they waited for the woman to return. The females died going to and from the ocean, eighty miles away. Which meant the males were single parents. Which meant the chicks were going to die, because mom didn't come back with the food. The males only go about four months without food while standing around in blizzards, balancing eggs on their feet. If they do make it back to the ocean, they'll probably be eaten by seals. What fun.
Ah, the Enron guys. Isn't it fun to manipulate a crisis to make billions? After watching the movie, I want to attend the trial with automatic weapons It was amazing how screwed up that company was and how many people knew what was going on but didn't stop it because it would interupt their cash flow. Grrrr. It was a really good look at Enron.
My favorite part of the movie was a flash back to an experiment they did in the sixties. Basically they hired two people, one of whom was an actor who knew what the experiment. The unknowing, we'll call Trader sits in a room with a bunch of switches. Each switch is marked with a different voltage of greater and greater amounts. Trader is told the experiment is to see if punishment can aid in learning. Every time the actor in another room but heard on a speaker gets an answer wrong, Trader is to flip one of the voltage switches to give the actor an electric shock.
The moderator sits in the room with Trader. The actor starts getting answers wrong. The Trader starts flipping switches. The actor starts screaming from the speaker. At one point, the Trader asks to stop the test, because the actor is in obvious pain. The moderator justs tells Trader to continue. In fifty percent of the experiments, Trader continued to apply electric shocks until the end of the experiment, no matter how much the actor screamed for mercy. It was kind of like what the energy traders were doing to California during the energy crisis.
Penguins was goods. It had some great cinematography of Antartica. After watching the film, I realize I don't want to come back as an Emperor penguin. Their life sucks. They have to walk 80 miles to find the special spot to fool around. Then once the eggs hatch, the men carry the eggs on their feet while the woman go feed. Their were lots of shots of eggs freezing the second they touched the ice. The men died of hunger while they waited for the woman to return. The females died going to and from the ocean, eighty miles away. Which meant the males were single parents. Which meant the chicks were going to die, because mom didn't come back with the food. The males only go about four months without food while standing around in blizzards, balancing eggs on their feet. If they do make it back to the ocean, they'll probably be eaten by seals. What fun.
Ah, the Enron guys. Isn't it fun to manipulate a crisis to make billions? After watching the movie, I want to attend the trial with automatic weapons It was amazing how screwed up that company was and how many people knew what was going on but didn't stop it because it would interupt their cash flow. Grrrr. It was a really good look at Enron.
My favorite part of the movie was a flash back to an experiment they did in the sixties. Basically they hired two people, one of whom was an actor who knew what the experiment. The unknowing, we'll call Trader sits in a room with a bunch of switches. Each switch is marked with a different voltage of greater and greater amounts. Trader is told the experiment is to see if punishment can aid in learning. Every time the actor in another room but heard on a speaker gets an answer wrong, Trader is to flip one of the voltage switches to give the actor an electric shock.
The moderator sits in the room with Trader. The actor starts getting answers wrong. The Trader starts flipping switches. The actor starts screaming from the speaker. At one point, the Trader asks to stop the test, because the actor is in obvious pain. The moderator justs tells Trader to continue. In fifty percent of the experiments, Trader continued to apply electric shocks until the end of the experiment, no matter how much the actor screamed for mercy. It was kind of like what the energy traders were doing to California during the energy crisis.
So much for the flickr badge idea. Dammit