Movie Reviews pt. 1

I have decided to start doing short movie reviews here since I tend to get alot of new releases and I feel guilty about just watching them and not producing anything.
If you don't want to read a movie review, don't read on...
White Coats - Garbage 2/10 (I couldn't finish it) GOOD: Canadian actors may have been paid money. BAD: Everything else.
Tideland - Mentally stimulating 6/10. A kind of depressing movie directed by Terry Gilliam (Monty Python). This movie is kind of like the sound of wind getting caught between windows, at least that's how I felt watching it. Some cool new visual effects (not special effects) and a great acting performance by BC native Jodelle Ferland, but overall a dreary feel. If you like watching kids kiss you will be happy. GOOD: Performances by Ferland and co-star Brendan Fletcher (also of BC!), talking dolls, stuffed human at the dinner table. BAD: for me it was a bleek movie, ie painful to watch.
Miami Vice - Pretty good 7/10. Good macho acting stuff, wicked non-Hollywood ending. GOOD: John Ortiz's acting, a good young promising cast, written by Michael Mann of 80's gangster flick Thief. BAD: can't remember.
Wassup Rockers - Good 8/10. Modern-day story of tight-pants wearing Latin kids from South Central LA. They go to Beverly Hills to skate and shit happens. All the featured young Latino actors are great, everybody else sucks. The story is a little bit contrived, but overall interesting and well-paced movie by the same guy who did Kids. GOOD: the kid actors, the skating is real. BAD: all non-kid actors, dumb stereotyping.
District 13 - GOOD 8/10. This movie is pretty ghetto in terms of production and some of the acting, but makes up for it with the wicked freestyle running techniques featured ('parkeur' style?). Paris (2010) has built a wall separating a poor suburb from the main city, and one resident of the ghetto has to get in to disable a bomb (or should he?). GOOD: entertaining, excellent parkeur stuff, practice your french, learn about Paris. BAD: some of the acting sucks.
Ok that's enough for now.
BA

You owe me.

So they say a picture is worth a thousand words, well this should be worth several thousand, I'll expect them on my desk by Monday.
In brief, the one with the dudes (yes, they're dudes) is to illustrate one of the most striking styles here. Glam is back in Korea, and it's a bitch.
The one of the garden restaurant shows a beautiful spot where I'll be taking those of you ballsy enough to make the trip out here.
Korean subway car. Nobody even looked up while this pic was being taken. Actually I've taken many, many pics of various street scenes with all kinds of people in them, and not one person has objected, or even turned to avoid being photo'd. I always turn or cover my face cause I'm a bad man, and I can't risk being tied to any place at any time.
The following five are of the coolest place you've never been to! It's a market in the north-east of downtown Seoul called Dongdaemun. This magical spot is open all night, the market part of it open early morning and goes until late night. The malls (!) open in the evening and stay open aaalll night. Great lamping out place. People all kinds, food all kinds, bargoons all kinds. Also, Dongdaemun is famous for being the only place I've eaten a corndog with french fries mixed in the batter! We were so hungry we didn't even think to catch a pic of it.
The next two are of my good friend Gisella and I at Apgujeong. The sign says Rodeo Drive (seriously) and this is the main club and bar scene south of the river. Since it's in the most expensive (richest) area, the stars and starkers go there. Good place for hot bunnies and expensive drinks (think strip club plus %50). The rainbow sign is the gate to the area and reads Rodeo. This area is also famous for being the first place I ever did Norebang, or karaoke (good times).
The weird pic is of me at World Cup Park (one of the stadiums from the 2002 World Cup - now a play area with an outdoor soccer pitch, a movie theater and a shitty mall. I'm pointing to our next destination, something like 'Delight Square' (listen, it was a while ago, I forget what it said exactly, lay off. It was funny enough that I insisted on getting a shot of it). Also note the innovative way of packaging an egg sandwich.
The last pic is one of the finer shopping establishments in Dongdaemun.
B.A.