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accomplishedJust some quick reviews of movies I've seen in the past two weeks...
Harold & Kumar 2 - I was afraid it wasn't going to match up with the original, but I'm glad to say it surpassed it with more raunchy humor and what has to be the sweetest ass anyone has ever seen.... ever. And as an aside, this movie and this thread made me want to start writing poetry. Not lame emo poetry, but funny and / or sardonic poetry. And limericks are pretty funny by themselves, so...
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - Watching a scene of this movie from videogrunt made me want to see the whole picture, and a few movies down the Netflix queue and it arrived. It was nearly 3 hours which almost made me want to skip it, but I was working on my kanji project and it helped pass the time. At first I was wondering why some of the voices seemed dubbed, but then I looked at the wiki and saw the words "Italian epic spaghetti Western" and it, surprisingly, made perfect sense. It's probably the best movie anyone will ever see... ever.
The Forbidden Kingdom - Now this was a disappointment. The ads on TV made it look like a totally awesome kung-fu flick starring two superstars, and in the commercials when Jackie said "We can kill each other later," I thought it was going to be some awesome-but-uneasy partnership, not unlike The Good, the Bad and the Ugly... or that one G.I. Joe episode. Instead, moviegoers were fooled into seeing something resembling a Karate Kid rip off, with a kid even more unlikeable than Daniel-san, that took a HUGE detour, with fighting scenes that weren't all that spectacular (it ain't Iron Monkey) or even necessary. And for a movie with Jackie Chan, it was surprisingly unfunny; there were exactly TWO funny moments, and I'm being generous here because I don't even remember one of them. I almost cringed when some kid I've never even heard of is shown in... surprise... a training montage (queue the "montage" track from Team America). And we're supposed to believe he's a match for the same bad guys that give Jackie a hard time? Perhaps the only saving grace is the beauteous Li Bingbing, but if you've ever attended community college, you've met hotter women. I gotta say, that's the last time I leave the movie choice to my cousin! And I wanted to see Forgetting Sarah Marshall.
Harold & Kumar 2 - I was afraid it wasn't going to match up with the original, but I'm glad to say it surpassed it with more raunchy humor and what has to be the sweetest ass anyone has ever seen.... ever. And as an aside, this movie and this thread made me want to start writing poetry. Not lame emo poetry, but funny and / or sardonic poetry. And limericks are pretty funny by themselves, so...
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - Watching a scene of this movie from videogrunt made me want to see the whole picture, and a few movies down the Netflix queue and it arrived. It was nearly 3 hours which almost made me want to skip it, but I was working on my kanji project and it helped pass the time. At first I was wondering why some of the voices seemed dubbed, but then I looked at the wiki and saw the words "Italian epic spaghetti Western" and it, surprisingly, made perfect sense. It's probably the best movie anyone will ever see... ever.
The Forbidden Kingdom - Now this was a disappointment. The ads on TV made it look like a totally awesome kung-fu flick starring two superstars, and in the commercials when Jackie said "We can kill each other later," I thought it was going to be some awesome-but-uneasy partnership, not unlike The Good, the Bad and the Ugly... or that one G.I. Joe episode. Instead, moviegoers were fooled into seeing something resembling a Karate Kid rip off, with a kid even more unlikeable than Daniel-san, that took a HUGE detour, with fighting scenes that weren't all that spectacular (it ain't Iron Monkey) or even necessary. And for a movie with Jackie Chan, it was surprisingly unfunny; there were exactly TWO funny moments, and I'm being generous here because I don't even remember one of them. I almost cringed when some kid I've never even heard of is shown in... surprise... a training montage (queue the "montage" track from Team America). And we're supposed to believe he's a match for the same bad guys that give Jackie a hard time? Perhaps the only saving grace is the beauteous Li Bingbing, but if you've ever attended community college, you've met hotter women. I gotta say, that's the last time I leave the movie choice to my cousin! And I wanted to see Forgetting Sarah Marshall.
