How is it that we haven't had a thread on this gem until now? I rewatched it over the weekend in anticipation of Kung Fu Soccer, which is allegedly getting a limited release here in the US next weekend. 

It's still great. Every scene hits. A great comedy. A great sports movie. A great Kung Fu movie. The cheese special effects still land. It's a masterpiece. 

I watched on YouTube with ads where I was inundated with political campaigns. Kinda a bummer. This version was in Cantonese but all the CGI written stuff like signs and such were redone in English. That was a bit odd. It also included the often deleted dance scene in front of the bun shop. 

Not that I’m trying to steal Greg’s Egypt thunder.



Yeah, I am totally trying for the steal. This is such a competition. 

Gotta leash your emu, ya know.

It’s rocktober & rock med is overwhelmed and understaffed so I’m here. We’re running a tiny team, just 5 of us. I’m paired with a young EMT named Nicabec (sp?) and we’re the roving team. We’ve got two cool nurses, both friends and a young venue manager. Since the team is tight, we’ve been given a $30 door dash coupon. Me & my teammate order marafuku ramen. Solidarity! The others went for burgers. 
It’s a clean well heeled crowd. BGC is decorated with Halloween inflatables. Looking forward to a pleasant evening…

It's not a competition.

So good...not a bad note. Annika is great. I was lucky enough to watch the show with my high school friend Antony who got me into Rush in the first place. I was also able to infiltrate a box seat for the second half. So good. 

--tg

(10-21-2025, 07:52 PM)Drunk Monk Wrote: The Old Woman with the Knife

There was a lot of buzz about this at SDCC, so I had to check it out. It’s hyper anime, self parodying the genre in an adult way. The demons are disturbing and comical. The rooster is like a wandering ronin, battling his past failures and fucking hens. It’s absurd on so many levels. Short eps, under a half hour. It kinda had me at hello because the first kid who was about to be eaten by a demon was named Yuki and it made my dog’s ears perk up.

I will watch more.

Matchbox! It's about the cars! Sort of. Kind of. Not really. It could just have easily been called Chase Scenes.
 
Jon Cena plays CIA agent Sean tasked with delivering a nuclear bomb to the CIA. After the mission, he goes back to his home town to reconnect with his buddies who he used to play Matchbox cars with 20 years ago. He also gets to see the girl he had a desperate crush on back in the day, Jessica Biel (Olivia Wilde? Are they the same person) Things go awry. The bomb goes missing. Sean is accused of the theft. Now, he and his friends have to go and get the bomb back in order to clear all of their names.

There are plenty of fistfights and car chase and louds. There is no blood except for the occasional dribble down John Cena's face after a brawl. Most of the characters act like they have had no emotional growth since their teen years. But this film is directed at those kids so I'm sure the actions of the adults seem appropriate to their minds. Even the relationship between Cena and Biel seems like a chaste teen crush.

A lot of the bigger stunts look like they came out of an AI generator. I don't know why they look different from CGI crashes but they do. Please crash big trucks for real in future. There are lots of allusions to boxes.

Not really a film you need to rush out to see.

Oh damn

Another curve ball I didn’t see comin

I watched Cupertino. No actual locations in Cupertino spotted except for one process shot of Apple Headquarters. 

The show was fine but laughably inaccurate about how courtrooms and judicial proceedings actually work. The characters were likable. There are some over the top running gags. It's soft typical TV fare.