Joe recommended Open Water whole heartedly, but others, like some of these one-star reviewers at Amazon, had equally strong reactions against it.
I first learned of the events the movie is based on in Bill Bryson’s In a Sunburned Country, where he described the events of Thomas and Eileen Lonergan’s disappearance during a dive in the [...]
Posted August 8, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Books, Movies, Music. Tags: abandoned at sea, bill bryson, chris kentis, films, lost at sea, man eating sharks, movie, open water, shark, sharks. One Comment.
Alan Moorhead, in his 1952 Rum Jungle — a sort of casual ethnography or serious travelogue — explains the uses and attitudes towards alcohol in his native Australia:
[...] I took it for granted that for all social occasions, at any time of the day or night, beer was the drink. You did not take it [...]
Posted July 18, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Books, Movies, Music. Tags: alan moorehead, alcohol, alcoholic liquor, australia, beer, bill bryson, liquor, native australian, night beer, northwest australia, pint bottles, public houses, rum jungle, social occasions, sunburned country, unbelievable story. Be the first one.
