Wax on, wax off grasshopper

OK, things have been pretty busy. It takes twice as long just to walk down the street these days with all the Xmas shopping nuts out all at once. Yeesch. Internet shopping people. Anyway, lots going on but I save the jewel for this posting: Will Smith, seen here emerging out of his own crotch at a press conference for I Am Legend (what the Tom Cruise fairy movie or is this a remake of The Legend of Bagger Vance?)... Speaking of remakes - here's the news, WS wants to remake The Karate Kid with Stephen Chow and set it in China? Uh, aside from the obvious problem of migrating Mr Miyagi from LA to China (from Japanese to Chinese - oh, maybe Zhang Ziyi can play Mr Miyagi if Stephen Chow doesn't want to?), well, WS was never known for his brains - this is the guy, afterall, who chose to do Wild Wild West instead of the Matrix.
Read it and weep. Wow, The Karate Kid has its own long ass Wiki entry and I thought I had nothing better to do with my time...

Happy holidays!

Lust, Caution II

色。戒

There's also a gajillion Brokeback Mountain spoofs out there, here's just one:


p.s. Have since seen BLOOD BROTHERS and as much as I love the cast (Daniel Wu, Chen Zhang, Liu Ye, Shu Qi), the original John Woo film is still light years better. This version is aesthetically perfect, but it has lost all of the politics and poignancy that made Bullet in the Head one of THE best all time movies about Vietnam without it being just another stupid war movie. If you haven't seen Woo's film, all the other Vietnam films are just macho fluff. This is kick you in the head (bullet in the head) raw. NOBODY can top Tony Leung's acting, although Jacky Cheung playing wacko is a pretty good second here. And by the by, that scene in Bourne Ultimatum where Jason Bourne has to shoot the guy in the FBI room, way better done in Bullet in the Head guys...

Also of exceptional note is Ning Hao's Crazy Stone (the now already old and much celebrated surprise blockbuster)... sorry trailer is in Chinese only, but it's a jewel heist gone very wrong, which was produced by Andy Lau's most worthy First Cuts production company...

'Former President of Peru' losing it...

On the BBC:'Venezuela creates its own unique time zone on Sunday, putting the clock back half-an-hour on a permanent basis. President Hugo Chavez says that an earlier dawn means the performance of the country will improve, as more people will wake up in daylight. "I don't care if they call me crazy, the new time will go ahead," he said. But critics say the move is unnecessary and the president simply wants to be in a different time zone from his arch-rival, the United States.'

Yes, having your own time zone has done wonders for Economic Giants such as... errm... Newfoundland? Chavez is just not as cool as Fidel Castro whose 2004 switch from the US dollar to the Euro was a far better way to piss off Uncle Sam. But developing countries beware, one of the most important prior attempts to convert to the Euro standard - IRAQ 2000 - coupled by the unfortunate incident of 9-11 and the existence of evil doers paved the way for whole scale war. Not cool. And what's with the tiny books Hugo?

Asian Hair Simulator Software?!

This is better than hair implants, which make you look like a ragged Barbie doll. This is too funny and if only you didn't have to give credit card details I would encourage everyone to do it. I'm sure someone can find a free one, but I don't have time today to scour the internet for something so silly.