Comments on: Episode 92: Voondaland!

By: Garret

Garret — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:31:36 +0000

Interesting; I’ll have to look into it.

By: Todd

Todd — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 04:29:08 +0000

Since you liked Freakonomics you would probably like the works of Malcolm Gladwell – Blink, The Tipping Point, and Outliers are all good reads.

However, with the economic/statistical viewed approach in Freakonomics and the like, understanding the difference between correlation and causation in key.

Some call this category of thinking “behavioral economics”; Another one in this vein is Predictably Irrational: The hidden forces that shape our decisions by Dan Ariely.

Good show. Like the new movie segment.

By: Garret

Garret — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:40:13 +0000

It was just a big disappointment for me. The group of people I went with all said that they were bored. It’s simply a boring movie, which is a shame.

By: andrew_martin

andrew_martin — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:26:55 +0000

Alice in Wonderland did have pretty weak storytelling. The big prophesy was used as a plot device more than anything else, and that really bugged me. It’s as if Alice says to herself at the end, “Well, that’s clearly a picture of me in the scroll, and it also says I win. Guess I’ll go do that now.”

Still, it was a cool visual experience. If nothing else, Tim Burton is good at eye candy. I also liked Helena Bonham Carter, Johnny Depp, and Stephen Fry. They did a nice job with pretty poorly written characters.

This movie has almost nothing to do with the books. What it does have in common is the the poem “Jabberwocky.” I found myself reciting the poem with the characters at different times.

Anyway, that’s what I think. This isn’t a movie taken from Alice in Wonderland. It’s a movie taken from “Jabberwocky.”