I know its not always a good idea to watch two movies one after the other, but seeing as I had just got my unlimited cinema card back again I wanted to use and abuse it! And catch up with the films i wanted to see. I always like a Jackie Chan movie and I liked Karate Kid the first time round so I didn’t think it could go so far wrong.

It wasn’t so bad aside for some overly obvious cultural stereotyping and seriouls the whole ‘Can I touch your hair’ was a bit :/ from anyone over the age of 13 , i mean, little kids i can imagine being fascinated with foreign hair, but teenagers when they first meet??? please.

It wasn’t so bad, it had some nice touches and twists on the original version, updating it as you would need to and Jaden Smith is good in the role. I was reading in an interview with Jackie Chan that he is very talented in martial arts and Chan wants him to continue training too, says he has a lot of potential. If Chan says that … well… I would say go for it!

Took time to watch these two films again this weekend. Anyone who knows me well, knows I am a sucker for any films that have subtitles. Maybe I am a cinema snob, but really, I do love the sound of other languages and seeing the imagination of other countries at work. I often find Hollywood ideas a little repetitive and predictable, and some films, despite the fact this is the industry i work in, a little too effects driven rather than plot driven and too many of these is like eating too much candy.

These two films are based on the books by Sergei Lukyanenko and some elements have been changed from the book, only to be expected in any film environment i guess, but as I have yet to read them myself I am keen to know what they are (Amazon sellers must love me!) so i ordered the four books from the series.

If you haven’t seen these films, I really do suggest you do, they are atmospheric and smart and the lines between good and bad are nicely blurred. The grand finale in Daywatch is an awesome sight and very nicely executed. I only posted the trailer for the first one as i wouldn’t want to spoil it, besides which you need to see Nightwatch first to make sense of Daywatch anyway.

Fox apparently bought up the rights to the third book, but nothing seems to have been done about it yet, thankfully. Nothing would ruin a Russian Tetralogy more than having half of it in English and that particular half repackaged in bright shiny Americanised newness. I hope the director of the Russian two, Timur Bekmambetov, gets to finish all four books.

I bought this because of my current Brendan Fraser kick and as i buy second hand i usually just get what is a low price rather than a desperate need to see. I hadn’t heard of this film before, but it has an interesting cast of Forest Whitaker, Andy Garcia, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Julie Delpy, Emile Hirsh and, an appearance of John Cho at the start!

Its a really good cast for the writer/director Jieho Lee who is a Korean American who has based this film on the proverb that life can be broken down into 4 emotions:  Happiness, pleasure, sorrow, love

“Sometimes being completely f****d is a liberating experience”

Again there is the wonderful interconnectedness of events and people who would normally not know each other. Its a real gem of a film as the director pulls no punches with characters and plot

http://www.floatingmedia.com/nurserytale/director.html <– jieho lee

Just watching the credits roll on ‘School Ties’ a Brendan Fraser film that I’ve seen before and always enjoyed. I guess its a bit on the cliche side of things – school and honour codes, but its still a good watch. It has heaps of other successful actors in: Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Anthony Rapp, Chris O donnel, Cole Hauser, Amy Locane… but i guess seeing as its from 1992 its to be expected.

I have 3 more Brendan Fraser films to go through today as well, and next up is ‘Twenty Bucks’ which I have also seen before and follows the trail of a $20 note and the people it gets handled by. I like the interconnectivity of films like that (maybe that’s why i like ‘Lost’ so much) and that too has a long list of notable people in it including Steve Buscemi who is always very awesome.

I’m doing a whole host of clearing up while i watch as a continuing of my spring Clean. I had NO idea how obsessed i am with stationary until i started clearing things out. I now have several notepads that I’ll be giving away to friends when i see them tomorrow and halting my stationary fetish (i am in denial i have one)

I am also trying to do 3 loads of laundry while the sun shines which makes me think i am turning into my mother *doh*