Dec 26 or 27 2008

[Greg_phpbb3_import1]

Are you being cranky because you can't write?

[cranefly]

Too bad the photo doesn't quite show the wild triple-feature hardcore whooping craziness of it all.
Our small flighty persian cat Fudge was totally traumatized.
True, she did make the rounds on several occasions, sniffing fingers and toes, allowing a pet now and then (unheard of, among most strangers), playing with Doom toys, yawning, ever yawning.
But she knew better than to drowse in our anarchistic midst.

I liked Chocolat, though it seemed odd that we were expected to be sympathetic to a mother who, in her earlier years, had been quite the cold-blooded double-crosser.
The Fall confused the hell out of me. I suppose it didn't help that I could only understand a couple lines spoken by the girl (my hearing just isn't what it used to be). Even so, I thought her performance was incredible. In the story within the story, I had trouble getting into the motley heroes, as they were so wooden in their speech and their posing and their actions. LC defended this (partly) as the nature of weaving a story on the fly. But still, I felt it would have worked much better with more natural speech and impressive action.
Blood Car was something I definitely didn't need to see a second time. Funny in places, but constantly playing the "cult classic" wannabe card, with all-too-familiar "American" tropes and very little atmosphere. I much prefer the strangeness of Asian movies played for real, where a director with a weird vision or sensibility just commits it to celluloid.

Enough blather. Thanks for coming.

[Greg_phpbb3_import1]

Our Doom pet for the evening: Fudge

[Drunk Monk]

best pic so far. would've been even better if posed with a weapon.

i enjoyed chocolate more for this repeat viewing. the ending worked better for me, knowing where it was going. the other developmentally-challenged fighter still comes abruptly out of nowhere, but the dad worked better and i appreciated jeeja's double scabbard fight as krabi krabong more. the toe theme was more pronounced.

the fall made me envious of the locales, although having been to taj and the balinesian tiered patty fields (it's a tourist site) and having witnessed live whilrling dervishes and a monkey chant, that all seemed overdone. i'm going to say that it wasn't over-the-top enough for doom, too arty, except for the arrow death scene which was very good.

as for blood car, caught between the meat chick and the wheat grass chick - been there, done that.

[The Queen]

Oh c'mon, that's like saying that the greased up wrestling in Topkapi was over the top.

Oh wait. It was. And it has nothing to do with this thread. Not even a particularly Doomish film.

Never mind.

[Dr. Ivor Yeti]

Uh...G-Man, why is Your Queen going on about Turkish wrestling? You two get in an olive-oil fight? Wait - I don't want to know. Never mind.