Sunday, October 12, 2003
Ok, so it's a Sunday night, and I finally decided to start my blog. I'm not really sure what I hope to accomplish through this, but it's certainly another way to develop carpal tunnel syndrome. I already type enough as it is while I'm at work. Maybe I should get one of those ergonomic natural keyboards for home use, too. Hey, maybe someday, someone surfing the web will stumble across this website and decide to make a movie about the stuff I've written. I think that's how the Korean movie My Sassy Girl got started. That has got to be one of my favorite chick-flicks... one of the few I'll admit to enjoying, in fact.
Speaking of movies, I saw Kill Bill with my brother yesterday. I was looking forward to watching it, and it was better than I expected. It's too bad that I have to wait until February or so for the second half of the story to be released. A lot of things you may have heard about the movie's violence is true; Kill Bill is quite violent. I don't know... what I thought was the most violent part actually didn't even have any blood or any outward signs of injury at all. But I kept wincing at this hospital door scene. Despite the gore, the movie had an interesting story, nonetheless. Plus, there were cool bonuses like Yuen Wo-Ping choreographed fight scenes with a whole bunch of katanas, an extended anime scene featuring an animated Lucy Liu, a significant amount of Japanese dialogue (I got to practice my listening comprehension), and Chiaki Kuriyama -- Chigusa from Battle Royale!
Now Battle Royale... that ranks as the most violent movie I've seen thus far. A bunch of high school kids are placed in a deserted island, are each given a random weapon, and are instructed to kill each other in accordance with a law passed by a sort of dystopian version of the Japanese government. Working with the high school ministry, I didn't know at first how to approach this, but I liked the movie for the characterization of the students. They didn't act like they were in the middle of some CS mission or Quake deathmatch. They acted the way you would expect kids to act. A lot of them didn't want to kill their friends. Some of them didn't trust the others. A few had some past grudges to resolve. The majority of them were just plain scared. By the way, I thought it was interesting that one of the scenes in Kill Bill looked like it was it ripped straight out of Battle Royale... err, I mean, it was an homage, an homage to Battle Royale.
Well, I better stop now before I end up on another tangent. I should go to sleep soon anyway. It's gonna be another long week at work.
Speaking of movies, I saw Kill Bill with my brother yesterday. I was looking forward to watching it, and it was better than I expected. It's too bad that I have to wait until February or so for the second half of the story to be released. A lot of things you may have heard about the movie's violence is true; Kill Bill is quite violent. I don't know... what I thought was the most violent part actually didn't even have any blood or any outward signs of injury at all. But I kept wincing at this hospital door scene. Despite the gore, the movie had an interesting story, nonetheless. Plus, there were cool bonuses like Yuen Wo-Ping choreographed fight scenes with a whole bunch of katanas, an extended anime scene featuring an animated Lucy Liu, a significant amount of Japanese dialogue (I got to practice my listening comprehension), and Chiaki Kuriyama -- Chigusa from Battle Royale!
Now Battle Royale... that ranks as the most violent movie I've seen thus far. A bunch of high school kids are placed in a deserted island, are each given a random weapon, and are instructed to kill each other in accordance with a law passed by a sort of dystopian version of the Japanese government. Working with the high school ministry, I didn't know at first how to approach this, but I liked the movie for the characterization of the students. They didn't act like they were in the middle of some CS mission or Quake deathmatch. They acted the way you would expect kids to act. A lot of them didn't want to kill their friends. Some of them didn't trust the others. A few had some past grudges to resolve. The majority of them were just plain scared. By the way, I thought it was interesting that one of the scenes in Kill Bill looked like it was it ripped straight out of Battle Royale... err, I mean, it was an homage, an homage to Battle Royale.
Well, I better stop now before I end up on another tangent. I should go to sleep soon anyway. It's gonna be another long week at work.
