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The "OMG Kim is in trouble" stuff slowly starts to decline. Though there was still a part in third season I think. I imagine she was under contract so they had to find a way to keep her in the show without being boring. On the plus side it is some nice eye candy!

 

Her role declines in later seasons, which means less "OMG Kim is in trouble!" scenes.

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Over the past few days I've been catching up on my movie watching, including some old favourites of mine. So here's a big list, most of which, though not all, I recommend:

 

Sleuth

Os Imortais

Paycheck

Troy

Prime

Sunset Boulevard

Small Time Crooks

Match Point

Sweet And Lowdown

Sweet Smell of Success

The Odd Couple

Paths Of Glory

Shichinin No Samurai

Un Homme et Une Femme

Left Handed Gun

Inherit The Wind

Ladri Di Biciclette

Volver

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It's also crap. Crap writing, crap acting and tacked-on humour. Sure, it doesn't glorify the mob, but that doesn't really help it's inherent bad qualities.

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These past few weeks - I'm sure I'm missing plenty, I'm sure there's no chronological order to speak of - a list (mainly because I'm too much of slothful piglet to bother writing a quick - and so easily discarded - phrase):

 

(Bolded=Watch, Italicized=Avoid, Normal=Whatever)

 

Pulp Fiction

Salinui chueok (Memories of Murder)

Insomnia

2001

True Romance

C'est arriv

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just finished going through the extended editions of the Lord of the Rings trilogy again. Every time I watch those movies I just want to fast forward through the Frodo/Sam parts to get to the good parts with Aragorn.

The area between the balls and the butt is a hotbed of terrorist activity.

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Which Insomnia is that Baley?

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Have you ever seen Fist of Legend, Twin Warriors or the perfectly awful Lord of the Wu Tang?

 

Fearless was, basically, a gigantic, easily-digestible cliche wrapped in hokum foil - melodramatic nationalism, cheap sentimentality, predictable plot, overt seriousness. Good flick though - the fight scenes were indeed magnificent (the best he's done in years) and the blind chick was hot. T'was just that, when he wasn't grappling at someone's balls, I was either snoring or barfing, depending on my mood. God, I sound like a real nerd, I'm sorry, Astro, I really am. Here's a vid of the bar skirmish with the bald Kung-Fu master guy, to make up for my earlier nerdish yelpings. And the cut Somluck Kamsing scene. God, I'd've watched a two and a half hour Fearless for Michelle Yeoh alone - I'm such a nerd.

 

God, I'm so bored and nerdy and ugly and daft right now - sleep, I need sleep.

Which Insomnia is that Baley?

The Alaskan remake - the Nolan flick.

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Dude, if you enjoyed Fearless, I can't but recommend (and I do this a lot) Fist of Legend. Apart from being a 99 minute joyride of almost constant kung-fuing - sorta like a porn flick, just replace sex with asskicking - it's an interesting take on Chinese-Japanese WW2 relations. Both sides are portrayed realistically: no villanizing, no glorying (at least on a national level). Billy Chow's one great bad guy, and, uh, just check out that review: it's better than whatever I could come up with in 10-15 wild minutes.

 

PS: For what it's worth, it's up there in my top 10 of all time, alongside Welles, Bergman and Kitano.

 

Anyway, I'm gonna watch a film tonight, and I've narrowed it down to: Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead, Jackie Brown and House of Fools (Dom Durakov). Any of you cats have any endorsements?

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Go for Jackie Brown. Some critics didn't like it, but I thought the story and the acting were pretty awesome. I am a Tarantino fanboy, though.

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Desperation, TV movie based on S. King's novel. The first 1/3 was pretty cool and close to the book. Ron Perlman was great as the deranged Sheriff, good surreal camera angles. The rest of the movie dissolved into cheap 'scares' and a boring/squished ending.

 

That first bit tho...gold...if you read the book, anyway.

 

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Silent Hill

 

Without going too much into the freedoms it took in game canon, that stuff matters only to people who consider themselves fans, it's just a great game adaptation. As a horror movie however, it fell flat. I wasn't really disgusted, horrified or tense in any of the acts. More like a gory adventure movie, which in itself isn't bad.

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I was raised by polar bears. I had to fight against blood thirsty wolves and rabid penguins to get my food. Those who were too weak to survive were sent to Sweden.

 

It has made me the man I am today. A man who craves furry hentai.

So let us go and embrace the rustling smells of unseen worlds

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Misery - Good movie; but I noticed something. Kathy Bates' acting here was overrated. She's way over the top. She has good moments; but meh. Caan should have been the award winner in this movie along with the old sherrif fellow. They did a marvelous job. The sherrif's wive was rather good to with minimal screen time.

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just finished going through the extended editions of the Lord of the Rings trilogy again. Every time I watch those movies I just want to fast forward through the Frodo/Sam parts to get to the good parts with Aragorn.

 

Oh wow.

 

I also just re-watched the extended editions of the Lord of the Rings trilogy from Thursday-Saturday. And I just want to fast forward through the Frodo/Sam parts to get to the good parts with Aragorn I absolutely agree. Not Aragorn in particular, just avoiding Sam/Frodo.

 

Also just watched Thank you for smoking. It started out okay but died halfway through.

 

And I re-watched Spiderman 1-2. The first was best. I fear for number 3.

 

And I saw Dune for the first time... heh.

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