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If you need further proof to see that this movie is purposefully over-rated, then you may want to check the message boards as well; you will see many post regarding how people are desperately looking to buy the DVD if only it were available nearby, or how you can buy it.
When you think about it there arent that many films that involve Ouiji boards which is quite suprising when this activity is one of the most terrifyingly mysterious known.
From reading comments on the message boards I've noticed it range from feeling repulsion to feeling awe.
The plot was infinitely stupid and, as it's been said in the message boards, the script was in desperate need of a thorough rewrite.
By the way you can get the words in English of the song Your Soul on the message boards for Yossi and Jagger on IMDb.
It took quite a bit of searching various message boards to find it.
Interesting that this 2007 film is only now getting the recognition it deserves (a 2009 GLAAD nomination for Outstanding Film / Limited Release -- see Message Boards).
The telling moment comes when black and white mobs are about to slug it out with boards and guns and whatever, a child runs up to the leader of the white mob and says, "They found the kid", and he says, "What kid?"
The surfing sequences are what make this movie, some of the waves on Big Wednesday at the end look too huge and powerful to be real, and the sight of these men standing at the foot of them on their puny little boards, battling to outrun the awesome power of the water crashing down, is real heart-gripping stuff.
But actually it was quite good, lots of jumps and I liked the characters, at times it was quite scary and I thought the ouji (don't know how to spell it) board idea was good, people say its unoriginal but hey, how many movies about ouji boards have you seen?
And, though female participation on company boards has increased in almost every country and sector over the last three years, with the largest gains occurring in countries that have introduced quotas, women hold only about 12.7% of board positions, on average.
Getting the kind of messages that emerged from the London meeting embedded in public and political consciousness is going to be slow boring through hard boards.
Appointing more women to banking-supervision boards can prevent cozy groupthink, thereby ensuring greater stability and resilience in the financial sector.
At the same time, there is a double agency problem, as the ultimate shareholders – individual shareholders – don’t directly control boards and CEOs.
Now, what Max Weber called the slow grinding of hard boards – leveraging a concrete program of structural reform onto a charismatic personality – begins.
The arrival of “say on pay” provisions in the US – whereby boards will need to put their compensation policies to a shareholder vote in future– may focus minds, though the impact of similar provisions in the UK has been modest.
For example, the two dominant state-owned TV channels are under strict Social Democratic supervision, and the party also controls professorial appointments and academic research through politicization of funding agencies and university boards.
All stakeholders, from executives, boards, and investors to governments and civil-society organizations, should play a role in crafting a long-term, conscientious response to the issues people care about.
The Chinese government is now requesting seats on the boards of companies such as WeChat, Weibo, and Tencent, and demanding access to their users’ personal data.
France has a veto within the boards of directors of the Franc Zone’s two central banks, while two French commercial banks, BNP-Paribas and Société Générale, exercise a quasi-monopoly on lending programs, mainly centered on short-term trade financing and the needs of governments, public and private companies, and the elite.
As an independent member of the boards of electricity utility RAO UES and the gas giant Gazprom, I know directly of their waywardness.
The object of their contention is the much-debated “shareholders’ access to proxy” rule, adopted by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in August to address the fundamental lack of accountability of corporate boards.
In the current system, corporate boards are self-perpetuating entities.
This unprecedented intrusion into areas historically reserved for the states would handcuff directors and boards, shut out the vast majority of retail shareholders, and exacerbate the short-term focus that is now seen as one of the root causes of the financial crisis.”
But semi-conductors, circuit boards, and other components were designed and manufactured in high middle-income countries like Korea.
Colombia has successfully implemented an alternative judicial system using “Community Boards” that deal with land title disputes.
The European Union has a controversial plan on the drawing boards that would tax a much broader array of transactions.
In the world of for-profit companies, investors are increasingly demanding better corporate-governance standards and more diverse boards that include independent members.
Indeed, large companies are run by two boards: a management board and a supervisory board, divided equally between shareholders and employee representatives, which take strategic decisions.
Policymakers in Europe and the US are urged to act on this conventional thinking: Something must be done to insulate CEOs, boards, and managers from the financial markets’ ever-shortening time horizons.
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