Comments on: uh huh http://lovelikepop.blogsome.com/2006/04/11/85/ pop culture and zines Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:43:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: rachael http://lovelikepop.blogsome.com/2006/04/11/85/#comment-65 Wed, 12 Apr 2006 03:22:39 +0100 http://lovelikepop.blogsome.com/2006/04/11/85/#comment-65 well my current queue is 171 titles. i sure hope they have lots of new things coming in soon. i think our range of foreign films is somewhat restricted to what has been released on region 4, so not a great deal of japanese and korean titles past the horror ones. boo hoo. i can't wait to get my hands on <i>kisurazu cat's eye</i> though. hopefully there are dvds waiting for me when i get home today. the novel of <i>memoirs</i> is running like hotcakes at the library. zhang ziyi's blue eyes stare at me, and i want to tell people, you are being fooled by orientalism! :p well my current queue is 171 titles. i sure hope they have lots of new things coming in soon.

i think our range of foreign films is somewhat restricted to what has been released on region 4, so not a great deal of japanese and korean titles past the horror ones. boo hoo. i can’t wait to get my hands on kisurazu cat’s eye though.

hopefully there are dvds waiting for me when i get home today.

the novel of memoirs is running like hotcakes at the library. zhang ziyi’s blue eyes stare at me, and i want to tell people, you are being fooled by orientalism! :p

]]> by: him again http://lovelikepop.blogsome.com/2006/04/11/85/#comment-64 Tue, 11 Apr 2006 16:53:26 +0100 http://lovelikepop.blogsome.com/2006/04/11/85/#comment-64 If Quickflix is anything like Netflix, you'll love it. Netflix's success has allowed them to open satellite offices in many cities--mine included!--so there's a 24-hour turnaround. I mail a DVD on tuesday afternoon, I have a new one Wed afternoon or Thurs morning. And the selection! My queue sits at 207 movies. I add a dozen a week. It's pathetic. I currently have Junebug, Ong-Bak: Thai Warrior and Memoirs of a Geisha, which I just watched. It is dismal. Overlong, boring, and ill-conceived: they left out obvious and vital details from the great book that explain characters' motivations and set up changes down the road. Every deviation from the (very filmable) novel was a mistake. And soooooo slooooowwwwwww... plus the director apparently had Michelle Yeoh, who speaks English fluently, use broken English in the film so as not to show up her co-stars. What a bung-up the whole enterprise is. Pretty to look at but painful to sit through. You may wanbt to check out "Neighbor no. 13". The movie as a whole doesn't work, but it's brilliant in parts and little what's-her-name from Puffy AmiYumi is a delight. I can't recommend "Rules of Dating" (or "To Do or not To Do", depending on whose Korean translation you trust) despite the presence of Hye-jeong Kang, who lights up the screen and is impossibly cute. Lots of stuff happens but none of it seems to move the plot forward, and the two main characters are both somewhat hateful. But boy is she adorable. If Quickflix is anything like Netflix, you’ll love it. Netflix’s success has allowed them to open satellite offices in many cities–mine included!–so there’s a 24-hour turnaround. I mail a DVD on tuesday afternoon, I have a new one Wed afternoon or Thurs morning. And the selection! My queue sits at 207 movies. I add a dozen a week. It’s pathetic. I currently have Junebug, Ong-Bak: Thai Warrior and Memoirs of a Geisha, which I just watched. It is dismal. Overlong, boring, and ill-conceived: they left out obvious and vital details from the great book that explain characters’ motivations and set up changes down the road. Every deviation from the (very filmable) novel was a mistake. And soooooo slooooowwwwwww… plus the director apparently had Michelle Yeoh, who speaks English fluently, use broken English in the film so as not to show up her co-stars. What a bung-up the whole enterprise is. Pretty to look at but painful to sit through.

You may wanbt to check out “Neighbor no. 13″. The movie as a whole doesn’t work, but it’s brilliant in parts and little what’s-her-name from Puffy AmiYumi is a delight. I can’t recommend “Rules of Dating” (or “To Do or not To Do”, depending on whose Korean translation you trust) despite the presence of Hye-jeong Kang, who lights up the screen and is impossibly cute. Lots of stuff happens but none of it seems to move the plot forward, and the two main characters are both somewhat hateful. But boy is she adorable.

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