You were always a cunning linguist

Hmm, even though Army of Two got lukewarm reviews (I'm surprised X-play gave them a 4 out of 5!) you have to admit, it at least looks cool. I mean, skull masks and full body armor are tight! Although it seems like the Penny Arcade guys are a little offended by the psychopathic callousness displayed by the protagonists.

Owel, not having to study anymore, I don't know what to do with myself! Its quiet right now, so just entertaining myself watching peoples' tributes to cool, bad ass psychotic bad guys like Anton "Call it, friend-o" Chigurh or Kazuo "..." Kiriyama on youtube. Geez, people will make youtube videos about anything!

Friday night TV commentary:

( Degrassi )

( SGA )

He was serial crushed by a huge friggin guy

Just watching Boondock Saints on the telly while perusing youtube. One thing cool about youtube is I'll look for a video on a particular subject, see one with a cool song, then look for other videos with that song, and find out about cool movies I haven't seen, like Flashpoint. I think dashoka recommended this when I was talking about Donnie Yen's SPL, but the fights in Flashpoint look pretty bad ass.

In particular, I like his end fight with Collin Chou (i.e. Seraph from the Matrix). I mean, I think its brilliantly choreographed. Its get your standard, fancy, high flying multiple kicking, but I think Donnie does an extremely good job of mixing in "practical" moves from mixed martial arts as well. He's known for his kicks, but here he throws in lots of brazilian ju jutsu chokes and locks, muay thai elbows and knees, even some boxing movements as well. Ha, Donnie even frickin' suplexes Seraph through some concrete blocks! And it doesn't look fake, even when they're doing gravity defying moves.

Jet Li is cool and all, but I am disappointed that some of the moves he does in movies seem "fake", particularly when he's obviously doing wire fu. I mean, the difference is noticeable- see guys who're not doing it with wires, like Tony Jaa, and compare it to some of Jet's stuff (or anything from the Matrix or its rip-offs). Even if you cgi out the wires you can tell when someone is doing something physically possible or when its special effects- it just doesn't look right. You can't fake momentum!

Another all time cool movie scene is helicopter attack in Apocalypse Now where they're blaring "Flight of the Valkyries" over their loudspeakers. Woah, watching it right now, is one of the random helicopter pilots R Lee Emery? Yes, according to imdb, though its an uncredited part. Speaking of having musical accompaniment while fighting in real combat, I remember when I first saw the trailer for Stop Loss, and was all, "what's with them playing Drowning Pools' 'Bodies' at the start?" But clevemire was telling me he saw some documentary or some news special where the troops over there did have that particular song blaring on their vehicles' radios while shooting it out with insurgents. Ida know, while "Bodies" is pretty rocking, it does seem kinda LCD compared to "Flight of the Valkyries".

And its postings like this that make me wonder if we (or maybe just me) have been so desensitized to violence because of modern media? After all, I'm nonchalantly talking about what is appropriate music to be playing on your stereo while shooting down "terrorists" in the country you're "peace keeping" at. Of course, don't we choose what we watch, and thus isn't it our own fault if we become desensitized? Like as I type this, I don't have to watch Jin and Mugen cut down people left and right with their katanas on Cartoon Network while simultaneously watching watching Animal Mother crazily charge a chick-cong sniper with his M-60 blazing in Full Metal Jacket on youtube.