I don't know what it is but I really like cheesy, stylized action movies. There's something about a guy dressed in a black and white suit who can repel metal objects mentally, walking up to a gang of youths shooting a salvo of bullets at him and then having a little girl in a school uniform throw a knife at his head while she says "Dodge This" and he says "Huh?!" and then dies in dramatic form. Amirite!?
I stumbled upon a three for $10 bin of DVDs and looked around. I picked up everyone's favorite thumb sucker starring in
Thumbsucker and the "That Movie With That Guy Who Worked With Wes Anderson" movie,
The Squid and the Whale. But what I'm most excited for is the Korean movie
The City of Violence. I had never heard of it but it had everything that I liked on the cover. I've always said judge a book by its cover, it usually works out for me. Well this DVD had two dudes in suits flying in the air while kicking other dudes, perhaps also in the air and/or soon to be in the air due to the kick by the dudes already in the air, in black and white and with the color red in the titles and some blood here and there splattered about. It's also called
The City of Violence. Just think of it. It's a whole city...of violence. What more can you ask for? And if you say country of violence you are a sick person who needs to seek professional help. And plus, most of the movies I've come across with "City" in their name have been pretty good.
Sin City, City of God, Sex and the City... I mean was this a mistake? Was it supposed to be in the bargain bin and not the $28+ DVD shelf at FYE? I found myself casually walking out of the store with this, so far, awesome movie for only $3.33 looking at my periferals to see if anyone was chasing me saying, "Wait Sir! There's been some sort of shelving mistake!" or "Hey Punk! you have to pay for that!"
I haven't watched it yet but have seen the trailer on YouTube and the number of spinning back hook kicks performed over the amount of blood and teeth flying at the camera create a trustworthy ratio that I can believe in. Whatever that means...
First off, I would like to apologize for my leave of absence. Due to my status around these parts, I was contacted by a special squad in Richmond requesting some aid. I cannot mention what I helped with but I was deep undercover for weeks and cannot say anymore. But I will post this... And warning, the following conversation between a certain old VCU Police Chief and a alleged little girl may be explicit for some:
The Cleveland Cavaliers are the hottest team in the NBA right now. They blew past the slumping Boston Celtics last week, moving them into first place in everyone's power rankings. Everyone's except mine, where they are third behind the Wizards and the Bullets. There’s no doubt that the Cav’s can pay their success to the intensity that the teams vocal leader, Lebron James aka King James aka LBJ The First Black President according to Duy, shows on a nightly basis. The picture above shows him growling after he tells opposing fans that he’s a panther. He spent the following 2 minutes hissing like a cat. After the hissing, he subbed into the game and in an instant did an off-the-backboard one handed windmill from the three point line over DeShawn Stevenson. Three minutes later the game ended, with the Wizards winning 171-46. The league's The Next Big Thing turned into The Big Thing and then just to The Thing as he ended his game in defeat.
I don't know what it is but I really like cheesy, stylized action movies. There's something about a guy dressed in a black and white suit who can repel metal objects mentally, walking up to a gang of youths shooting a salvo of bullets at him and then having a little girl in a school uniform throw a knife at his head while she says "Dodge This" and he says "Huh?!" and then dies in dramatic form. Amirite!?
