Tuesday, Jul 22, 2008 9:43AM /
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was checking out movie reviews on rotten tomatoes just now, and happened upon reviews for finishing the game. turns out it was released on dvd last month!! yay!!! i missed it when it screened here last year due to exams, but now i finally get a chance to watch it.
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Saturday, Jul 19, 2008 3:31PM /
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the subject line says it all...
why do i always do things that are 吃力不討好?
you don't show any appreciation for it, and it's just more stress for myself...
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Sunday, Jun 15, 2008 4:47PM /
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-my friends (a lot!!!) i know i haven't been making much effort lately...i will try harder, i promise...
-going to the park...can't even remember the last time i sat on a swing and just mindlessly floated to away...
-biking...hahaha, i know i used to joke that you guys were like drill sergeants on the trails, but i actually miss it....
-walking...sigh, the good ol' days of convential transportation...i miss going to k-town and just browsing the supermarkets...
on another note...so random tonight...happened to go to karaoke and a friend was in the room across from us, but i didn't know it until i chatted with him on msn afterwards...so random. have you guys ever seen the music video for eason chan's 十面埋伏? felt like that...have any of you experienced that before?
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Sunday, Oct 28, 2007 9:50AM /
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watched "this film is not yet rated" today.
quite interesting (amusing at times too). it's a documentary on the hollywood film rating system. it talks about censorship, and the monopolist control of film by the hollywood studio system from production to distribution to exhibition. it talks about how the motion picture's association of america (mpaa), which rates basically all the movies that make it to theatres in the states, use their rating system to enforce/reinforce stereotypes. it looks at the difference in the ratings received by violent films vs films with sexual depictions, and heterosexuality vs. homosexuality in films (with the latter category usually getting a harsher rating).
it also documents how independent films are treated differently from studio-produced films. for example, if two films had the same amount/type of sexual content or profanity, and one was produced independently while the other was a studio production, then the latter would probably get a more lenient rating, or they would get a more detailed account of what needed to be edited to get a lesser rating.
what's ironic is that though it is titled "this film is not yet rated", the dvd actually does have a sticker with a 14a rating by the canadian home video rating system...lol. but i guess it doesn't really defeat the purpose, because the documentary is about the secrecy surrounding the members of the mpaa, not other ratings associations. it says something at the beginning of the film about the mpaa being the only rating system in the world (i think...) that keeps the identities of its raters undisclosed.
all in all, it's a good film. interesting, informative, funny. i recommend it if you can find it.
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Tuesday, Sep 25, 2007 2:15AM /
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