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 Australian Pacific. The similarity between these true events and the movie’s events likely ends there.

But the notion of being left alone at sea was scary enough for director Chris Kentis, who played it out as a story of personal drama rather than special effects awe. Thing is, when the sharks do appear, they’re real.

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I got all excited about some unappealing Japanese ice cream flavors when I found the story in Mainichi Daily News a while ago. I thought the lineup of fish, octopus, squid, ox tongue, sweet potato, fried eggplant, crab, corn, rice, wasabi, shrimp, eel, noodle, chicken wing, miso, and cactus flavored ice cream had everything pretty well covered, but now MDN has done it again. They’ve put up a new gallery of 21 flavors of ice cream you’re unlikely to find in the US:

• Raw Horseflesh Ice Cream
• Goat Ice Cream
• Whale Ice Cream
• Shark Fin Noodle Ice Cream
• Oyster Ice Cream
• Abalone Ice Cream
• Seaweed Ice Cream
• Deep Sea Water Ice Cream
• Spinach Ice Cream
• Garlic Ice Cream
• Sesame, Soybean and Dried Kelp Ice Cream
• Lettuce and Potato Ice Cream
• Wheat Ice Cream
• Curdled Bean Ice Cream
• Silk Ice Cream
• Chicken Ice Cream
• Stout (yes, dark beer) Ice Cream
• Potato Liquor Ice Cream
• Red Wine Ice Cream
• Tulip Ice Cream
• Cherry Blossom Ice Cream

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