Buy them for a friend or rent them for yourself, either way these DVDs are guaranteed to entertain, inform and enlighten.
- An Inconvenient Truth
You can't argue with the Nobel committee's good taste.
- Who Killed the Electric Car?
More joyously ironic to watch now Toyota has sold it's millionth hybrid, and GM has been forced to rejoin the green wagon.
- The Secret
If Oprah's powers of attraction do the same for Obama as they did for this film, we'll see our first black president come 2008 (as long as all the votes are counted this time around). Opinion polls say they're not working so well. Perhaps she should dust up by watching this movie again.
- The Fog of War
The point of history is that you learn from the mistakes of the past. The problem is you need leaders who paid attention during their history lessons.
- Sicko
Skip the first 10 minutes, which are too grim for words, and enjoy the pleasure and pain of the remainder of Moore's ode to national healthcare.
- Idiocracy
A smart, frightening, funny, and frighteningly funny look at our coke-swilling, burger-munching, Fox "news" watching, dumbass leader-following future.
- The Blue Planet - Seas of Life
When the BBC showed the first episode of this beautifully shot documentary series in the U.K. a nation was converted to the cause of ocean conservation overnight.
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Don't Panic. Those looking for the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything, need look no further.
- Rome - The Complete First Season
All the intrigue of Dynasty but with togas instead of shoulder pads, and more sex (the Romans knew a thing or two about how to do decent sex scenes). A BBC/HBO gem that reminds us that great empires come and go.
- Gattaca
The right to privacy is something worth fighting for. Watch it and you'll get the terrifying implications of what's happening now.
Ah, the arrogance of the ignorant : taking credit where none is due. The claim that GM "is turning green" is as obtuse a bit of BS as I've heard for some time. The claiming GM was "forced" to turn green is arrogant ignorance of a high magnitude. GM has been developing fuel cell cars, greener than any useles hybrids that Toyota has produced,
which still guzzle tons of gasoline and spew carbon emissions with the best of them. GM is pursuing
an electric car that avoids all of the deadly characterisitcs of the crappy EV-1, which liars Chris Paine and Ed Begley claimed was 1) popular and 2)
viable. They are now eating their words as all-battery electrics are foundering like Tesla's silly project. The GM VOLT will show the world that they learned from the EV-1 how NOT to build an electic car. Now, will ED (the Fool) Begley ever get off his
pulpit as savior of the Green Earth and actually
admit his lies? How about Chris Paine? He created the crockumentary of all time, even more fictitious than Fat Al's "An Inconvenient Truth," ruled by the British courts as too error-filled to be classified as a documentary. The Nobel Peace Committee screwed that one up, royally.
Thanks. I have not heard of a few of these. I just added some to my Xmas list!