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I love Charlotte Gainsbourg, and not even she could hold my attention in this movie. Maybe I’m just not the target audience.
Movie review: I’m Not There
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Movie review: The Reader
I honestly didn’t like this movie all that much. And I wasn’t so impressed with Kate Winslet here. I thought Revolutionary Road was better, as a movie and for Winslet’s performance. I didn’t think this movie was as nuanced. I suppose it should be applauded for playing it straight, but it got kind of boring.
The last 10-15 minutes of this movie were terrible. Just terrible. And didn’t make a ton of sense. If the prison was so worried about Winslet’s character that they reached out to Fiennes before Winslet was released, wouldn’t they call him before he came to get her and tell him that she’s dead? Or at least “something’s happened, please come to see us” etc.? Fiennes is definitely the king of slow, quiet, go nowhere, but not necessarily bad movies.
Movie review: Traitor
This movie reminded me of “The Negotiator”. Only with great character actors taking the parts played by Sam L. and Spacey. I am a big fan of both Don Cheadle and Guy Pierce and thought they did good work here. Pierce did an okay blown out Southern accent. I thought Cheadle was great showing nuance of emotion throughout. Saïd Taghmaoui I guess is the go to guy to play Arabic characters. It’s a wonder he wasn’t cast in The Kingdom [Blu-ray | DVD]. But he does a good job always. He should get some roles outside of this kind of movie though.
There wasn’t too much surprising about this movie. No big twists and turns, save kind of one. I didn’t really expect Cheadle’s character to engage in terrorism, so I didn’t expect his end bombs were real. But they were.
I don’t think the cat and mouse between Cheadle and Pierce was as grabbing as Sam L. and Spacey, but it was still very good.
800 Days – Galbi Tacos
So in Korea apparently they do anniversary dates (when you’re dating) by 100 day intervals, rather than months or years or whatever (though I suppose people also expect one year celebrations as well). So even though I’m married now (and as far as I’m concerned, only yearly celebrations for that), I’m keeping up with the 100 days things through 1000 and then I’m done with it.
Anyways, so sometimes it’s gifts, sometimes it’s trips, sometimes it’s dinner. It happened to be dinner this time around. I saw a link to Kogi BBQ (via @sidneylo) and wanted to eat some. Now seeing as it’s thousands of miles away, I thought I’d do what I could to replicate it at home.
I should say, I’m pretty much against Asian fusion cooking as it seems to be a fancy way of saying “I’ll do whatever the hell I want and say it’s Asian fusion” and more often than not, it’s rather disappointing. The only real “fusion” food I’ve ever loved in this world is Tex-Mex. As I’m originally from Texas I love Tex-Mex. I’m Korean and love Korean food (what a revelation I know). In the past I’ve done basic kind of mix of these two cuisines just because I’m lazy and was a bachelor. It mostly consisted of cooking bulgogi and tossing in a few spoonfuls of salsa for a little twist.
So anyways, @sidneylo put up the link and I watched this video:
I checked out their site and saw their tacos. Here’s a Skitch with their description of the taco:
A mouth-watering image. So I went about making it myself and here’s the result:
The only thing I didn’t make from their description was the garnish. I can’t say it tastes the same or better (or worse for that matter) as I’ve never had Kogi’s food (hell it’s a TACO TRUCK, you have to follow on Twitter here or here to even know where to find the taco truck), but I thought it was good, and more importantly the wife thought it was good.
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Credits:
Gentle Rain – The Night & Sweet
Movie review: Redbelt
This wasn’t a great movie. It was not bad at all though. How I felt about this movie kind of changed as the movie went on. I liked it, but just okay, but then liked it more and more and then a little less and less and ended up in the middle. In a way I kind of got a Tarantino vibe off of it. Not so much the look or dialogue, but in as much as he took another genre and put it into a different context. This movie is basically a samurai/noir movie, but set today. David Mamet didn’t go the full on Tarantino and use the same style of dialogue from other movies, but the vibe was there. It’s basically one long morality tale, which I suppose most movies are.
Mamet really just dropped you into a story without much back story. You just have to go with it. And it’s pretty rewarding to do so.
I can’t say enough how much I love Chiwetel Ejiofor. He’s great. In everything he’s in. Though I caught a tiny bit of the British English in his speech once. Does Ricky Jay ever play a straight man any more? Always a bit of con to him.
Movie review: W.
This I thought was, as everyone has said, a pretty fair depiction of George W. Bush. Unlike many other biopics of late, I did not feel any of the actors really, really embodied the characters they played.
The cutting flashbacks were okay, but nothing too great. All in all a pretty average movie.
learning
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Zucchero – Everybody’s Got To Learn Sometime
Slumdog Millionaire
I don’t think I posted a review of Slumdog Millionaire. I thought it was alright, but nothing amazing. I thought it was a visual spectacle for the most part click for more. The story was kind of trite, the performances were okay. But here’s what John Gruber of Daring Fireball had to say:
I’ve seen Drivers Ed. movies that were less predictable and more engaging than “Slumdog Millionaire”.
I can’t say I disagree.
Movie review: The Descent
This movie wasn’t at all what I thought it was going to be. Well I knew it was going to be a monster movie, and in a cave, but I thought it was going to be a traditional kind of dumb, pretty college girls get preyed upon on by the monsters.
This played out a little, but not the character part. Well the characters were kind of stupid.
I thought the ending bits were kind of interesting. Visually I thought it was nice. Having to work with the dark and color casting with the lights was nice work. That’s about all I could say about it.