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Posted: 11:12 25/06/2008
Over-legislating is a problem that people are facing in the western world.
Homeless people drinking in the streets are not going have a sudden epiphany and stop drinking -- they will move elsewhere.
When drug junkies used to hang out in the main train station, the police started checking their documents and silently forced them out of the train station.
Now they hang out in front of the National Museum and the adjacent areas.

Posted: 22:24 23/06/2008
If you are a dog living in a small flat in Prague your only chance to run around is for a few minutes in the park. You would like to take away this one daily pleasure - for maybe three or four million animals - just so that some kid doesn't get bitten??? 95% of these animals are too small to do any harm, and those few which aren't can easily be required to where a muzzle.

But I understand where you are coming from: you are coming from a country where the "rights" of a piece of discarded foetal tissue are debated ad nauseum in your media, while the genuine needs of intelligent creatures such as chimpanzees to not be tortured or held in tiny cages is "below the radar".

You are coming from a country where the government condones torture and where policemen tazer children who don't obey them.

Please go home. We don't want your police-state values in our safe, pleasant European country. And most of all, we don't want your arrogant advice.

Posted: 21:15 23/06/2008
>>f it's a case of safety (never mind courtesy) versus animal comfort, that's an easy call.

Only for somebody with your cruel mindset.

Posted: 09:47 25/06/2008
To Worthington Darrix. You do have some good points...but how...may I ask did your country (England I presume) let the Czech people down in 1938?

Posted: 08:57 25/06/2008
Ed from Boston, thank you.
Only thing i liked was the music

Posted: 01:09 25/06/2008
Truthfully, I went to this movie because it looked gristly and I wanted to see the guy get yoked by the lawn mower - really nothing else about it interested me, nor did signs, or the village, or any other crap this man spews out.
The movies do NOT make you think, just like most of Hollywood garbage.
It seems to me that some believe that because the man is a little dark and quirky he is also deep and intelligent - enough to produce poor one-liners, mediocre suicide scenes that weren't remotely disturbing, and the most ridiculous story line I've seen in a while about killer trees (it's almost like ending a movie with "it was all just a dream" because you can't come up with anything better).
This movie WAS spoon-feeding the American public, at its worst.
The movie initially was so over the top that it just seemed Halloweeny and was extremely disappointing - the movie never redeemed itself.
If I wanted a critique on the environment, I would read a book that studies it, not a fantastical, convoluted movie by some stupid director.
The characters were stiff and difficult to relate to. Most of the movie just portrayed unemotional, stiff, boring people, running away from something (as was said earlier) that wasn't really that bad.
Nobody had an emotional reaction (at least not a reasonable one) to dead bodies, loss of loved ones, or a general loss of pretty much everything they had known. This movie was indeed made for the masses, with no thinking required.
If you want to think, read a book, sit in on a lecture, think for yourself.
If killer trees get you thinking, you might be a bit simpler than your pseudo-intellectual ideas would have you assume.

If only the director had played the part of the actor lying under the lawnmower........... one can only wish.

Posted: 23:28 24/06/2008
More wooden than the trees that the Yankees were running away from.

And for those who think that Einstein said that nonsense about bees, see this: http://www.snopes.com/quotes/einstein/bees.asp

Posted: 22:24 24/06/2008
I agree with Coyla. I loved this film and the fact that it made me THINK about the planet and what we are doing to it.

Posted: 17:40 24/06/2008
Shyamalan: Can I have my hour and a half back please ?

Posted: 15:21 24/06/2008
The movie was just bad. The characters were horrible, the dialogue was garbage, and the gore was unnecessary. The entire plot was gift wrapped in the first few minutes, I don't see how anyone can say this movie made you think. It has been scientifically proven that plants react to human stimulus, but plants that can control the wind? I just can't take that seriously.

Posted: 01:47 24/06/2008
I have to agree with the ones who think this movie was anything but thought-provoking.
How can you say this movie made you think? Like the reviewer said, they reveal the mystery half way through the film, and the plot never deviates. No twist...no fun.
I dig M. Night, I really do, and was very excited to see this, but I have to say the movie fell short for me. Just my opinion.

Posted: 20:36 23/06/2008
I think this movie was great! It is a completely different view on the way we treat the environment! Shyamalan's movies are always a bit quirky, which I love! This movie does, though, make me wonder how far down the line will we truly be killing ourselves when we act as we do towards the earth. His (Shyamalan) take on things is very interesting.

Posted: 18:53 23/06/2008
I saw this movie last night, in hopes that maybe I could get a few good scared in, but seriously, I have never seen such atrocious dialogue in my life. I honestly thought that this movie was a spoof of global warming. And the randomness of the movie... hot dogs??... and the incapable plot line. I was just appalled by it. And what was up with the blank characters? Like they were zombies. Zooey Deschanel has so much more talent than this puppet eco-gore crap.

Posted: 17:45 24/06/2008
With the type of math (15.2 percent of the population are millionaires) used in this article, everyone will soon be millionaires, maybe even billionaires by next year.

Posted: 17:32 24/06/2008
How about giving some press time to the up and coming
Czech cyclist Roman Kreuziger who just won the Tour de Suisse?

Posted: 08:06 24/06/2008
This is quite horrible. Dogs badly need to be able to run around and socialize. It's cruel enough to keep them cooped up all day in a tiny apartment.

Let's hope we can trust the Czech government to use a bit more of the common sense.

Posted: 20:57 23/06/2008
What kind off a threat is a little herna bar comper to the global threat of the USA-mascot "Philip from
San Francisco" (Good city reputation..Ehh?)
Whatever you do.. don't work as a diplomat!

Posted: 19:46 23/06/2008
"Not all records are of such **heft**"

"In a world of digital music and excessive environmental noise, an analog vinyl record can be a welcome respite." [surely vinyl records have a higher noise to sound ratio, not a lower one...]

Perhaps you need a new editor.

Posted: 13:37 23/06/2008
Pavel Maurer's quote 'I exist to combine Prague with great food' conflicts with my own experience of the Prague Food Festival this last weekend.
The entrance fee of 350Kc (100Kc to Mr. Maurer) includes 250Kc for 10 food tokens. Most of the fine dining establishment offerings required around 3 tokens for a starter and 5 tokens for a 'main course'. However, the main courses were closer to a starter and the starters closer to an amuse bouche.
I have since discovered that each restaurant has to pay in the region of 30000Kc a day to attend, plus provide their own staff and equipment. So who can blame them for trying to recover their costs?
The losers? Those who paid 350Kc for little more than a snack, eaten, while standing, using a fork that required a 20Kc deposit - hardly a window into the fine dining world.
The winner? Mr. Maurer, who I imagine will be able afford to eat regularly in fine dining restaurants until next year's event rolls the money in again.
For around 700Kc per person, diners could enjoy the three-course lunch menu at Maze, V Zatisi or many other similar establishments. This would include ambience, waiter service and a table complete with silverware that doesn't require a deposit before use.

Posted: 08:32 23/06/2008
Dear sir:
I want to know about the general job situation in Prague and the per hour wages paid in the euro currency in Prague.

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