Archives for the 'movies' Category
Sold…
Sunday, September 9th, 2007
I sold my martial arts DVD collection. Well, some of it at least. A good 30-40 percent of it maybe. I took a look at the collection and finally accepted the fact that I won’t be watching that 30-40 percent any time soon, or ever again. I also accepted the fact that we don’t even […]
Spider-Man 3
Thursday, May 10th, 2007
Things learned (and wondered) from Spider-Man 3 (Potential Spoiler Alert)
Part of a series, apparently: (X-Men III, Star Wars: Episode III) (I’ll eventually do one for a movie that’s not part III)
1.) What is AMC’s movie policy on getting your money back when a movie is remarkably terrible. Will they refund part of the ticket price? […]
“Did you read the book?” “No, but I saw the trailer.”
Tuesday, July 18th, 2006
Coming soon to a theatre near you, trailers for upcoming books. I don’t know what to think. On one hand, it’s great that there’s a tremendous effort to promote books, especially to a younger, visually-oriented crowd - on the other hand, after a long day of working among dusty books, I’m not so sure I […]
X-Men III
Sunday, June 4th, 2006
Things learned (and wondered) from X-Men 3: The Last Stand (Potential Spoiler Alert)
1.) Aren’t hyperdemic needles made out of metal?
2.) Why couldn’t Logan just stab Jean with one of those needles. I mean, there’s plenty of them lying around the floor apparently.
3.) Heck, why couldn’t Kitty Pryde just walk through the flying debris and prick […]
A review of “The Bodyguard”
Thursday, May 25th, 2006
The Bodyguard
by Panna Rittikrai
Alright, you see the little thumbnail of the cover over there? You see Tony Jaa leaping to finish someone off, giving ‘em chronic migraines for the rest of their lives? See? Right there on the right hand side of the cover.
He’s in the movie for less than 3 minutes. Don’t judge a […]
A review of “SPL (Sha Po Lang)”
Thursday, May 25th, 2006
SPL (Sha Po Lang)
by Wilson Yip
Finally, Hong Kong action is back.
I have no clue why Donnie Yen is not as popular as Jackie Chan or Jet Li here in North America. I wouldn’t consider it an “action-packed” film (I mean, for the first-half hour there’s only one punch, I think) but Donnie Yen’s choreography is […]
A review of “The Tiger Blade”
Wednesday, May 24th, 2006
The Tiger Blade
by Theeratorn Siriphunvaraporn
After seeing the trailer, I couldn’t wait to get my hands on a copy of this Thai-action flick. Then after watching the movie, I realized the trailer pretty much summed up all the really good parts. It didn’t seem up to par with recent Thai action flicks like Born to Fight, […]
movies in my own backyard
Thursday, May 11th, 2006
Throughout the hours rumaging around video stores, buying and renting martial art movies, there was one place I neglected to look - the library’s card catalog. Yeah, I’ve seen patrons returning Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Hero, and House of Flying Daggers - but I already own them, and can almost recite their dialogs in it’s […]
ooh, an update
Friday, October 7th, 2005
Wow, this place is dead. Sorry. If you read my livejournal (and if I allow you access to the juicy tidbits), then you know exactly why. Meanwhile, I’ve been working on another blog - Wired Fu - to talk mainly about martial arts movies and to see if I can make a few bucks online. […]
Scrabble babble…
Saturday, September 24th, 2005
I love Scrabble. Once of the few things I pride myself on in life is my ability to play a mean game of Scrabble. I’m really pretty good.
Well, I thought was good.
I finally managed to watch Word Wars on DVD. Word Wars: Tiles and Tribulation is a documentary following four Scrabble players on their way […]
