Category: Movies
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Who needs the Kwik-E-Mart?
Kwik-E-Mart store front Chief Wiggum likes the donuts Lots of Buzz Cola Buzz Cola and Donuts As part of the promotion for the Simpsons Movie, about 12 7-11 stores have been converted into Kwik-E-Marts, the mythical convenience store from the show. Since there is one in New York City, and I happen to be there […]
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Catching up on movies
Over the past week or so, I’ve watched a few movies. I thought I would comment on them here, since that is what I said I would do when I started the “Movies” section. First up is Children of Men. I didn’t know anything about this movie other than that it is in the Science […]
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Chungking Express
ミクシィでの日本語版 On Saturday (a week ago), I invited from friends over to watch a movie. My absolute favorite movie of all time, Chungking Express. I don’t really have anything insightful to say other than Chungking Express is a great movie. I was happy that the local Tsutaya had the movie in stock. They don’t seem […]
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Spider-Man 3
The last day of Golden Week, I went to see Spider-Man 3 with my friend. I see very few movies in Japan, in fact, this was only my second in a year. I’ve always been a fan of the Spider-Man series, and really liked the first and second movies. The first is better than the […]
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The Prestige
I just saw The Prestige and was very impressed. I really liked this movie a lot. I haven’t read the book, but I am very impressed with the movie. It isn’t subtle, and in fact was pretty hard for me to watch because it is violent and scary in ways that I do not handle […]
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A Scanner Darkly
I watched A Scanner Darkly this weekend. I really liked the rotoscoped-style look of the movie. I’m a big fan of Philip K. Dick, but I haven’t read all of his stuff. I’ve never read A Scanner Darkly, so I was quite confused up until near the end of the movie, and then predictably, as […]
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Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles
I’ve been quite busy lately, but yesterday I threw on “Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles” while I did some work at home. I was a big fan of Robotech as a kid, I watched all three series, and of course didn’t realize that it was a mish-mash of three different anime brought over from Japan. I […]
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Lucky Number Sleven
I also watched Lucky Number Sleven over the weekend. It was pretty good! In the style of “The Usual Suspects”, an interesting movie with a high-powered cast.
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire / Jarvis Cocker!?
So this is a strange one. On the weekend I do a lot of work from home, programming, some stuff for fun (some programming on side-projects, translating manga so I don’t forget how to like, read Japanese) and so on. I like to play bad movies when I’m doing this. So, I finally got around […]
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Mirror Mask
MirrorMask IMDB page This was a movie that I actually watched, over dinner after a long day coding. I was interested in this one because it is from Neil Gaiman, who I once saw open a Magnetic Fields concert with a reading, and the Jim Henson Creature Shop, which has done excellent work on all […]