'127 Hours': A Movie Good for the Soul, for the Body Maybe Not
So Much  Video: Reviewers faint after watching 127 Hours.  How
about an oxygen mask to go with that movie ticket and popcorn?
Usually people go to see flicks to escape the real world. But
sometimes what's on screen is so realistically depicted that the
visceral impact can literally make audience members ill.  The
highly anticipated "127 Hours," which opens today and stars
James Franco, is the latest movie to deliver that sort of punch
to the gut.  Franco portrays real-life Aron Ralston, an avid
outdoorsman who, seven years ago, went on a solitary hike. While
in the deep recesses of a canyon in Utah, an 800 pound boulder
fell on his right arm and trapped it.  The movie, based on
Ralston's book "Between a Rock and a Hard Place," culminates in
Ralston freeing himself – by self-amputating his trapped arm.
Franco's character's liberating deed didn't have a salutary
effect on everyone who watched it. On Sunday, an article in the
Los Angeles Times note