Modern Marvels: Corn

We've always loved Modern Marvels. They cover nearly every subject and the shows are packed full of information. This is a good family show that everyone can learn something from.

I have been waiting for this movie to come out for months. I have only seen the preview for it, but was so intrigued by the plot. I wrote to the producer of the movie and he informed me of when the DVD would be released and I am so happy to see amazon will be selling it! I have no doubt that it will become a cult favorite.From Filmmaker Magazine, a short synopsis: "In the vein of Silkwood or Rosemary's Baby, Corn is about a young woman (Jena Malone) who seeks refuge on her father's sheep ranch after an affair with the politician she works for leaves her pregnant. When the sheep turn preternaturally aggressive after munching weeds produced by a neighbor's biogenetically altered corn crop, she embarks on an investigation that also exposes uncomfortable truths in her own family. "It's a dark, gothic kind of story that crosses a lot of territory," ... "I wanted to meditate on biology and our ability to control it in the context of an experiment that goes badly wrong. It's in a storytelling tradition that goes back to Edgar Allan Poe and Mary Shelley."The 35mm Corn was shot in New Jersey, Yonkers, downtown Manhattan and at Columbia University over 25 days this July and August.

Pointless is the one word that best describes this movie. The acting is decent, but just barely. Maybe they could have done better with a better script. Who knows? The premise is decent, but it goes nowhere. There are countless meaningless subplots in this storyline which have no bearing on the outcome of the movie.To be blunt, there IS no outcome to this movie. The movie seems to exist solely for the sake of using up an hour and 37 minutes of film. There is one painfully long and awkward 30-45 second scene that involves a mailman delivering a letter and getting a scientist to sign for it. What's the point? Surely there must be one. You keep thinking they must be going somewhere with all of these painfully long and awkwardly paced scenes, so you keep watching. After all, you have invested an hour or so watching scene after scene of this, so you figure surely something is going to happen. Nope.I wish I could think of a better way to describe how boring and pointless this movie is, but just like it's plot, there's no point.

This movie was honestly good for the most part, if you like Jena Malone you'll definitely like it. I contemplated pay $9.99 for it but I don't regret doing so. The ending was the only downer, it was weak so I have to give it three stars. Some side plots were unnecessary as well, but as a whole, I enjoyed it very much. Like I said before if you like Jena Malone, give it a shot.

Im not really sure why everyone here disliked this movie. It stars jena malone from donnie darko and jamie harrold dr. elmer from steven king's kingdom hospital. The story is great the cinematography was really good the actors were great, the special effects were awesome. This isnt really a horror movie its a thriller with lots of elements that could come true. I would have to say that the ending is not what i would have done with it and is a bit unfinished but the movie had lots of story and got to long. Most places around carry this for rent, just dont be afraid and make your own opinion.

So I see this movie at Blockbuster. It's got a pretty ridiculous 3-D prismatic cover that features a herd of demonic sheep and it's called "Corn". I couldn't resist...The tagline on the video box, "It's not nice to fool with Mother Nature" is borrowed from an old margarine commercial. This thing has got to be awful, right? Well, the reality is that it's not quite as bad as you might imagine. It ends up being a weird Rosemary's Baby kind of story about genetic manipulation and aggression. Not done with the same panache of 28 Days Later, it still strives for a unique story. In the end, "When Sheep Attack" might have been a better title, and it's pretty boring at times... but I think two stars is fair.

The state of Illinois is billions of dollars in debt. Whenever I hear that we have ways of bringing in money, I get excited. This work said 10 states make most of the corn in this country. It turns out that Iowa is state #1, but Illinois is way up there. That's good: we need the money.Having said the aforementioned, I appreciate that the program mentions the bad side of corn. There's no way to feed the starving of the world and supply corn for gas. Corn wouldn't exist if it weren't for man's attention to it. A former classmate once told me that corn has little nutrition and that Natives of this hemisphere had lower life expectancies once they started eating corn. This program says little about biodiversity, but the fact that most corn is yellow and all the purple and brown stuff is almost gone doesn't come up here.On "The Simpsons," they once laughed at how modern humans would be deprived if we didn't have zinc. Here, the programs says humans eat sweet corn, but it lists the many ways that animals can eat the nastier kinds. Also, corn goes into oils, pie crusts, and all kinds of other stuffs that one wouldn't likely guess. All MM episodes focus a lot on how machine produce a product. Here, they follow suit about how machine can pick ears and get rid of bad pieces.They never mention natural selection here. However, I thought about Thai fighting fish when watching this. Without human intervention, that fish is very plain-looking. It's human selective breeding that turns into this beautiful fish with flowing, pretty fins. This work speaks about places in the US where companies are trying to grow selected corn year-round in places that barely change weather degrees. If I remember correctly, the work says some plain-old gas must be used to create ethanol, corn-based grass.For little kids, yes, popcorn and its production does come up.