the vynsane asylum

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-C ... r=homepage

Just saw this in the times, hope the link works for you all

now THAT'S some crazy shit... i want one.

but it ain't no teleportation!

In a related story, I went and saw Letters From Iwo Jima last night. I thought it was much better than Flags of our Fathers. There's just something more dramatic about watching the losing side.

Okay, that's not related. Do something.

I wasn't going to watch that.

But I saw an ad last night, and it featured two words:

Ken Watanabe.

Seriously, that motherfucker kicks ass! Breaking character for a moment, I have not seen any movie that he did not make better.

Well, I'm not sure anyone could save The Last Samurai. But he was excellent in Letters. And the whole movie was heartbreaking, watching these people who lived by such a strict code of honor flounder when it git down to brass tacks. The Mount Suribachi scene was particularly hard to take. And pretty graphic.

You didn't like The Last Samurai?

I bid you good day, sir!

I think it was one of those movies that everyone I knew talked up so much, and i bought it without having seen it in the theatres. So I plunked down in front of the TV and watched it and my initial reaction was a resounding "meh." Then I figured it might have been becuase I was tired or not in the mood orwhatever so I watched it a few weeks later and pretty much had the same reaction. Tom Cruise is just so smug and I'm kinda tired of movies where the main guy is clearly an ignorant ass who underestimates his "enemy" only to discover their unique and sometimes superior culture. Plus I've been a fan of Japanese history since I was little and saw Shogun with Richard Chamberlain wanted to learn more about ninjas from reading about Stormshadow and Snake-Eyes. So the "revelation" was kind of ho-hum. But that's just me. The movie was mediocre and for it's content it should have been awesome, which makes it more like crap in my book. Does that make sense?