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April 04:
Shaolin Soccah!!!
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'.
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Ooh, a collection of Science Fiction Cool Stuff. (Includes Tron's Light Cycles, Luke Skywalker's Speeder Bike, and Doc Emmet Brown's DeLorean.
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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 |
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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 |
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The Delorean time
Posted by Luis |