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April 04:
Shaolin Soccah!!!

shaolin (6k image)

Arnold and I got to watch the side-splittingly funny Hong Kong movie Shaolin Soccer with our friends Robert and Emil at the latter's home yesterday. Don't let the title turn you off*, the movie is actually a brilliant piece of work -- well-directed (by Stephen Chow who also plays the lead guy) and full of unexpected twists and hilarious Chinese in-jokes (which everyone will 'get' anyway). There are moments that border on slapstick comedy but the succeeding scenes will make up for it in either originality or funny-ness, I assure you. For the record, Mr. Knowles wasn't kidding when he said it was cool.

Curious now? Here's the trailer.

*It will be shown in the US as 'KungFu Football'.

***
Ooh, a collection of Science Fiction Cool Stuff. (Includes Tron's Light Cycles, Luke Skywalker's Speeder Bike, and Doc Emmet Brown's DeLorean.

3 comments

i just forced a friend who was in town for the recent hk film festival (they were with batang west side, which i unfortunately, didn't get to see) to buy the dvd of shaolin soccer. i'm waiting for her profession of undying gratitude :)

Posted by nic
Apr 09 | 10:07 AM

i just got jolted with seeing sir(!) emil's name in your blog. i took his science fiction & young adult lit classes in college. we always did watch cool movies in his class. hehe. :)

Posted by jessel
Apr 05 | 02:18 AM

The Delorean time
machine rocks. Thanks
for the link Cynthia,
I've always been a big
Back To The Future
fan.

Posted by Luis
Apr 05 | 12:02 AM