Brilliant, edgy, perfect film: Layer Cake

Tonight, I saw a movie that I heartily recommend to ANYONE on my friends list.

It is a brilliant British crime movie, in theaters now, called Layer Cake. It stars Daniel Craig as a middleman in the drug trade, who views his job as a business and is on the verge of retirement when things spin out of control. It's brilliantly acted (Daniel Craig who I've only seen in the BBC version of Moll Flanders was...wow), wonderfully shot, has more twists than a pretzel, great characters, and dialogue that is witty and worthy of an Oscar nom (not that it would ever get it). It's a crime movie Guy Ritchie would have made if he was about substance and not style (not that I dislike Ritchie or this movie is lacking in style).I don't want to give anything much away, but see it. Now.

It's my second favorite movie of the year so far (just below ROTS and tied with KOH).

On an unrelated note, according to Washington Post, in an urban first, Tokyo is actually now a host to a ghetto for geeks. I kid you not. Read about it here.

Brilliant, edgy, perfect film: Layer Cake

Tonight, I saw a movie that I heartily recommend to ANYONE on my friends list.

It is a brilliant British crime movie, in theaters now, called Layer Cake. It stars Daniel Craig as a middleman in the drug trade, who views his job as a business and is on the verge of retirement when things spin out of control. It's brilliantly acted (Daniel Craig who I've only seen in the BBC version of Moll Flanders was...wow), wonderfully shot, has more twists than a pretzel, great characters, and dialogue that is witty and worthy of an Oscar nom (not that it would ever get it). It's a crime movie Guy Ritchie would have made if he was about substance and not style (not that I dislike Ritchie or this movie is lacking in style).I don't want to give anything much away, but see it. Now.

It's my second favorite movie of the year so far (just below ROTS and tied with KOH).

On an unrelated note, according to Washington Post, in an urban first, Tokyo is actually now a host to a ghetto for geeks. I kid you not. Read about it here.

Brilliant, edgy, perfect film: Layer Cake

Tonight, I saw a movie that I heartily recommend to ANYONE on my friends list.

It is a brilliant British crime movie, in theaters now, called Layer Cake. It stars Daniel Craig as a middleman in the drug trade, who views his job as a business and is on the verge of retirement when things spin out of control. It's brilliantly acted (Daniel Craig who I've only seen in the BBC version of Moll Flanders was...wow), wonderfully shot, has more twists than a pretzel, great characters, and dialogue that is witty and worthy of an Oscar nom (not that it would ever get it). It's a crime movie Guy Ritchie would have made if he was about substance and not style (not that I dislike Ritchie or this movie is lacking in style).I don't want to give anything much away, but see it. Now.

It's my second favorite movie of the year so far (just below ROTS and tied with KOH).

On an unrelated note, according to Washington Post, in an urban first, Tokyo is actually now a host to a ghetto for geeks. I kid you not. Read about it here.

On the shallowness of the Pretty

I wonder if it's the residual mechanism left over from our Cromagnon days, but whenever I see a gorgeous man on the street (doesn't happen too often) my day is just a bit better. I have no desire to speak to him, or take him home, or even to stare for him longer than a milisecond, but that milisecond is always so nice. I was coming back from lunch today, carrying my eel sonomono, and saw a tall, business-casual-dressed, blond-floppy-haired, late-20s guy running by. He had a nice body and a handsome face. Don't know him from Adam, and have no desire to, but it's just nice to know there's beauty in the world (male, that is. Girls don't really do it for me :D).

On a related, and very unfeminist note, I must confess I love it when men check me out on the street. It's a great ego boost, I love attention, and after all, I'll be old and lose it soon enough... Of course, most verbal comments come from homeless guys which are probably happy to see anything in a skirt. But the non-verbal ones from the non-desperate are nice.

Yeah, this is probably the shallowest and most conceited post I've ever written. Blame it on the hot day.

On the shallowness of the Pretty

I wonder if it's the residual mechanism left over from our Cromagnon days, but whenever I see a gorgeous man on the street (doesn't happen too often) my day is just a bit better. I have no desire to speak to him, or take him home, or even to stare for him longer than a milisecond, but that milisecond is always so nice. I was coming back from lunch today, carrying my eel sonomono, and saw a tall, business-casual-dressed, blond-floppy-haired, late-20s guy running by. He had a nice body and a handsome face. Don't know him from Adam, and have no desire to, but it's just nice to know there's beauty in the world (male, that is. Girls don't really do it for me :D).

On a related, and very unfeminist note, I must confess I love it when men check me out on the street. It's a great ego boost, I love attention, and after all, I'll be old and lose it soon enough... Of course, most verbal comments come from homeless guys which are probably happy to see anything in a skirt. But the non-verbal ones from the non-desperate are nice.

Yeah, this is probably the shallowest and most conceited post I've ever written. Blame it on the hot day.

On the shallowness of the Pretty

I wonder if it's the residual mechanism left over from our Cromagnon days, but whenever I see a gorgeous man on the street (doesn't happen too often) my day is just a bit better. I have no desire to speak to him, or take him home, or even to stare for him longer than a milisecond, but that milisecond is always so nice. I was coming back from lunch today, carrying my eel sonomono, and saw a tall, business-casual-dressed, blond-floppy-haired, late-20s guy running by. He had a nice body and a handsome face. Don't know him from Adam, and have no desire to, but it's just nice to know there's beauty in the world (male, that is. Girls don't really do it for me :D).

On a related, and very unfeminist note, I must confess I love it when men check me out on the street. It's a great ego boost, I love attention, and after all, I'll be old and lose it soon enough... Of course, most verbal comments come from homeless guys which are probably happy to see anything in a skirt. But the non-verbal ones from the non-desperate are nice.

Yeah, this is probably the shallowest and most conceited post I've ever written. Blame it on the hot day.

The best ROTS parody EVER

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Samples:

I.
SENATOR PALPATINE
Ah, hello, Jedi. Nice of you to drop by. I’ve just been here, spinning in my chair. If you give it a good push, you can go around ten times before it stops.

II.
PADME
Ouch, shouldn’t have slept in my vintage flapper dress. I’ll have pearl shaped marks in my arms for days. Anakin, what’s the matter? Your Dark Side acting up again?

III.
MACE WINDU
Okay, Anakin. You can hang around with the adults if you sit quietly, mind your manners and promise not to eat all the cookies. Also, you’re not a Master.

IV.
OBI-WAN
Have you seen General Grievous?

SCARY GREY PERSON
Yes! He’s on our planet. He keeps drinking our cherry coke and refusing to buy more! He also enslaved us and stuff.

V.
PALPATINE
You will now be known as Darth Vader – the only Sith without a stupid name. Now go kill a bunch of people
for me. The Ultimate Power is very tiring.

VI.
OBI-WAN jumps on a HILL.


OBI-WAN
There. I win.

ANAKIN
You underestimate my ability to jump real high.


No, HE DOES NOT.

ANAKIN becomes PRESIDENT of the SEVERED LIMBS OF STAR WARS CLUB. Then, he catches on FIRE, and it is worse than ¾ of the things seen in SIN CITY.


AUDIENCE
Holy God. What is this movie rated?

The best ROTS parody EVER

Go to this page

Samples:

I.
SENATOR PALPATINE
Ah, hello, Jedi. Nice of you to drop by. I’ve just been here, spinning in my chair. If you give it a good push, you can go around ten times before it stops.

II.
PADME
Ouch, shouldn’t have slept in my vintage flapper dress. I’ll have pearl shaped marks in my arms for days. Anakin, what’s the matter? Your Dark Side acting up again?

III.
MACE WINDU
Okay, Anakin. You can hang around with the adults if you sit quietly, mind your manners and promise not to eat all the cookies. Also, you’re not a Master.

IV.
OBI-WAN
Have you seen General Grievous?

SCARY GREY PERSON
Yes! He’s on our planet. He keeps drinking our cherry coke and refusing to buy more! He also enslaved us and stuff.

V.
PALPATINE
You will now be known as Darth Vader – the only Sith without a stupid name. Now go kill a bunch of people
for me. The Ultimate Power is very tiring.

VI.
OBI-WAN jumps on a HILL.


OBI-WAN
There. I win.

ANAKIN
You underestimate my ability to jump real high.


No, HE DOES NOT.

ANAKIN becomes PRESIDENT of the SEVERED LIMBS OF STAR WARS CLUB. Then, he catches on FIRE, and it is worse than ¾ of the things seen in SIN CITY.


AUDIENCE
Holy God. What is this movie rated?

The best ROTS parody EVER

Go to this page

Samples:

I.
SENATOR PALPATINE
Ah, hello, Jedi. Nice of you to drop by. I’ve just been here, spinning in my chair. If you give it a good push, you can go around ten times before it stops.

II.
PADME
Ouch, shouldn’t have slept in my vintage flapper dress. I’ll have pearl shaped marks in my arms for days. Anakin, what’s the matter? Your Dark Side acting up again?

III.
MACE WINDU
Okay, Anakin. You can hang around with the adults if you sit quietly, mind your manners and promise not to eat all the cookies. Also, you’re not a Master.

IV.
OBI-WAN
Have you seen General Grievous?

SCARY GREY PERSON
Yes! He’s on our planet. He keeps drinking our cherry coke and refusing to buy more! He also enslaved us and stuff.

V.
PALPATINE
You will now be known as Darth Vader – the only Sith without a stupid name. Now go kill a bunch of people
for me. The Ultimate Power is very tiring.

VI.
OBI-WAN jumps on a HILL.


OBI-WAN
There. I win.

ANAKIN
You underestimate my ability to jump real high.


No, HE DOES NOT.

ANAKIN becomes PRESIDENT of the SEVERED LIMBS OF STAR WARS CLUB. Then, he catches on FIRE, and it is worse than ¾ of the things seen in SIN CITY.


AUDIENCE
Holy God. What is this movie rated?

Movie craze, ROTS musings, etc

I am going to see Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants today. Yeah, yeah I know: stupid, chickflickish and trite. But after all the tragedy of ROTS and hard-edginess of Layer Cake I want something comfort-foody: mindless fluffy sap. Though I'll probably mock it throughout.

There are SO many movies on my hit list. Leaving out Bollywood (Parineeta this weekend), I want to see Lords of Dogtown (reason: hot young surfers. Yeah, I am shallow), Kingdom of Heaven for the third and last time (reason: obsessive), ROTS for the third but not last time (reason: really obsessive). Plus, I am mildly interested in Mr & Mrs Smith and I am VERY interested in Batman. I am doing my part in keeping poor Hollywood honchos in expensive cigars and young women.

On to ROTS musings., Part II as promised.

(1) This is inspired by something thelana wrote. I was thinking about Anakin losing to Obi-Wan. Anakin is the Chosen One. He kills Dooku who trashed Obi-Wan. And yet Obi gets him. Why? A variety of factors, IMO.

For one, if the two of them fought on even ground, both in control and well rested, I'd think Obi would be toast. However, Obi-Wan is a lot "fresher" than Anakin who just had a lovely prolonged killing spree which is bound to be exhausting. Also, Anakin is very angry, grieving, and messed-up (from the Padme thing, from his better nature, from everything) which would take the edge off his focus. Also, they were doing pretty well until by accident Obi got the higher ground. After that, skill or no skill, Ani was toast.

(2) You know the big Jedi v. Droids v. Clones fight at the end of AOTC? It's yet another part of Palpatine's strategy. Even if the Jedi ultimately win, the droids are going to decimate them (as they did) and weaken the Jedi order considerably. So many of them get wiped out in the first battle. Thus during ROTS they are stretched thin, with one Jedi per clone division (makeing it easier for Order 66), and precluding any possibility of something like Jedi shock troups like the Green Berets who could take out Separatists a lot more efficiently. And it's not like the Jedi can get more Jedi right away since it requires intensive training and it's not as if they can just relax their standard as they are scraping the bottom of the barrel (so to speak) anyway, as the person either has the Force or not, and they take all Force sensitive kids. Plus, their kid supply is even more disrupted by the war, since I doubt separatist planets mail their kids to the Jedi and a lot of force-sensitive on separatist or war-torn planet turn onto TPM Anakin: someone who would be a Jedi but the Jedi never get to him.

More (Part III) later.

Movie craze, ROTS musings, etc

I am going to see Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants today. Yeah, yeah I know: stupid, chickflickish and trite. But after all the tragedy of ROTS and hard-edginess of Layer Cake I want something comfort-foody: mindless fluffy sap. Though I'll probably mock it throughout.

There are SO many movies on my hit list. Leaving out Bollywood (Parineeta this weekend), I want to see Lords of Dogtown (reason: hot young surfers. Yeah, I am shallow), Kingdom of Heaven for the third and last time (reason: obsessive), ROTS for the third but not last time (reason: really obsessive). Plus, I am mildly interested in Mr & Mrs Smith and I am VERY interested in Batman. I am doing my part in keeping poor Hollywood honchos in expensive cigars and young women.

On to ROTS musings., Part II as promised.

(1) This is inspired by something thelana wrote. I was thinking about Anakin losing to Obi-Wan. Anakin is the Chosen One. He kills Dooku who trashed Obi-Wan. And yet Obi gets him. Why? A variety of factors, IMO.

For one, if the two of them fought on even ground, both in control and well rested, I'd think Obi would be toast. However, Obi-Wan is a lot "fresher" than Anakin who just had a lovely prolonged killing spree which is bound to be exhausting. Also, Anakin is very angry, grieving, and messed-up (from the Padme thing, from his better nature, from everything) which would take the edge off his focus. Also, they were doing pretty well until by accident Obi got the higher ground. After that, skill or no skill, Ani was toast.

(2) You know the big Jedi v. Droids v. Clones fight at the end of AOTC? It's yet another part of Palpatine's strategy. Even if the Jedi ultimately win, the droids are going to decimate them (as they did) and weaken the Jedi order considerably. So many of them get wiped out in the first battle. Thus during ROTS they are stretched thin, with one Jedi per clone division (makeing it easier for Order 66), and precluding any possibility of something like Jedi shock troups like the Green Berets who could take out Separatists a lot more efficiently. And it's not like the Jedi can get more Jedi right away since it requires intensive training and it's not as if they can just relax their standard as they are scraping the bottom of the barrel (so to speak) anyway, as the person either has the Force or not, and they take all Force sensitive kids. Plus, their kid supply is even more disrupted by the war, since I doubt separatist planets mail their kids to the Jedi and a lot of force-sensitive on separatist or war-torn planet turn onto TPM Anakin: someone who would be a Jedi but the Jedi never get to him.

More (Part III) later.

Movie craze, ROTS musings, etc

I am going to see Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants today. Yeah, yeah I know: stupid, chickflickish and trite. But after all the tragedy of ROTS and hard-edginess of Layer Cake I want something comfort-foody: mindless fluffy sap. Though I'll probably mock it throughout.

There are SO many movies on my hit list. Leaving out Bollywood (Parineeta this weekend), I want to see Lords of Dogtown (reason: hot young surfers. Yeah, I am shallow), Kingdom of Heaven for the third and last time (reason: obsessive), ROTS for the third but not last time (reason: really obsessive). Plus, I am mildly interested in Mr & Mrs Smith and I am VERY interested in Batman. I am doing my part in keeping poor Hollywood honchos in expensive cigars and young women.

On to ROTS musings., Part II as promised.

(1) This is inspired by something thelana wrote. I was thinking about Anakin losing to Obi-Wan. Anakin is the Chosen One. He kills Dooku who trashed Obi-Wan. And yet Obi gets him. Why? A variety of factors, IMO.

For one, if the two of them fought on even ground, both in control and well rested, I'd think Obi would be toast. However, Obi-Wan is a lot "fresher" than Anakin who just had a lovely prolonged killing spree which is bound to be exhausting. Also, Anakin is very angry, grieving, and messed-up (from the Padme thing, from his better nature, from everything) which would take the edge off his focus. Also, they were doing pretty well until by accident Obi got the higher ground. After that, skill or no skill, Ani was toast.

(2) You know the big Jedi v. Droids v. Clones fight at the end of AOTC? It's yet another part of Palpatine's strategy. Even if the Jedi ultimately win, the droids are going to decimate them (as they did) and weaken the Jedi order considerably. So many of them get wiped out in the first battle. Thus during ROTS they are stretched thin, with one Jedi per clone division (makeing it easier for Order 66), and precluding any possibility of something like Jedi shock troups like the Green Berets who could take out Separatists a lot more efficiently. And it's not like the Jedi can get more Jedi right away since it requires intensive training and it's not as if they can just relax their standard as they are scraping the bottom of the barrel (so to speak) anyway, as the person either has the Force or not, and they take all Force sensitive kids. Plus, their kid supply is even more disrupted by the war, since I doubt separatist planets mail their kids to the Jedi and a lot of force-sensitive on separatist or war-torn planet turn onto TPM Anakin: someone who would be a Jedi but the Jedi never get to him.

More (Part III) later.

Black and White Hayden

OK, these are breath-taking.

I have decided after seeing these, he might make a suitable young, Game of Kings era, Lymond (suicidal, brilliant, bisexual, androgynous, passionate yet icy polyglot aristocrat).

If you are on do_me_anakin, you might have seen them.

( Gorgeousness Behind the Cut )

Black and White Hayden

OK, these are breath-taking.

I have decided after seeing these, he might make a suitable young, Game of Kings era, Lymond (suicidal, brilliant, bisexual, androgynous, passionate yet icy polyglot aristocrat).

If you are on do_me_anakin, you might have seen them.

( Gorgeousness Behind the Cut )

Black and White Hayden

OK, these are breath-taking.

I have decided after seeing these, he might make a suitable young, Game of Kings era, Lymond (suicidal, brilliant, bisexual, androgynous, passionate yet icy polyglot aristocrat).

If you are on do_me_anakin, you might have seen them.

( Gorgeousness Behind the Cut )