Huge Disclaimer: It was impossible for me to really watch this film because someone’s phone rang more than 20 times during the course of the film. I mean onesingle
person. This was in Olympian City, too, normally a decent cinema. Afterwards, I was told that ve...Read more
I saw this film a while ago, and between CNY and other stuff, it took me this long to write the review. Sorry about that!
Let the Bullets Fly/ 讓子彈
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tells the story of a duel between con artists involving the control (and exploitation) of a small town in China. Peripheral characters g...Read more
So where were we?
Ahhh, yes, a pile of
Lauanall clamped and glued. Overclamped, if anything. If you don’t put the middle clamp on the top/opposite side of the other two, the wood ca...Read more
That’s a line from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, one of the great American novels of the 20th century.
It’s also not a typo that the W isn’t capitalized. Look it up.
Another line in that novel using the same phrase is “Free lunch, final wisdom, total coverage… why not?”
But that’s not really important, except on a contextual level. Because often when I am doing something, I will fixate (who me…?) on a phrase, and it becomes a kind of mantra...Read more
No one would ever accuse me of being a tree-hugging hippie.
At least not if they want to stay out of a dentist chair.
But I will confess to having fairly… ecological thoughts.
Speaking of which, when did ‘environment’ and/or ‘environmental’ replaceecology andecological ? I’m doubtlessly showing my age, but I remember in the 70s when theecology was the thing the Native American on TV was crying about.
But never mind that.Read more
The roads less traveled by this film (and reviewer)?
Good Movie Blvd.
*Time Well-Spent Highway.*
*****Competent scrīpt Ave.*
Plausible St...Read more
I watched this film before Christmas at the Die Nasty.
And let’s face it, that’s where Patrick “My surprise endings are so predicta...Read more
Katt Williams is an African American actor/comedian whose rather unique take on life in America never ceases to enter tain me.
His take on Iraq is as perceptive as it is hilarious: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1lpZweVSgM
His appreciation of ‘Crocodile Hunter’ Steve Irwin is as large as it is unexpected:
http:/...Read more
If you appreciate, enjoy, or can’t live without music that is quirky, odd, or otherwise different, you should understand that this man made your exposure to it much more likely. The oddities and humor in pop music today owe a debt to Captain Beefheart.
<...Read moreIf we don't support the movies that deserve it, we get the movies that we deserve.