So what about that Courtney Love eh? Being all stupid and fucked up on Letterman. Flashing her saggy ass tits all over the place. Eugh. And then getting arrested after throwing a microphone stand into the crowd at one of her gigs, injuring some guy on the head. Stupid crackwhore. I can’t stand that woman. Disgusting! I hope she overdoses on some heroin or something.

Anyhow, i think i’m starting to obsessed with Ryuhei Kitamura and his works. Been playing Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes a lot lately. The cutscenes in that game just kick so much ass. Hell, i don’t even really care about the game, i just wanna see the cutscenes. Good God, that first encounter with the ninja right after you fight Revolver Ocelot… bad. ass. Seriously people, you need to check out his first flick, Versus, some time. It’s fucking awesome. Azumi isn’t too shabby either.

I was on eBay again look up Japanese flicks and i stumbled upon this movie. It’s the latest Kitamura flick, Aragami! Happy happy joy joy! So anyway, i tried looking up a review but there aren’t that many out there… yet (only one so far). Oh and i also found this page. It basically talks about how Aragami came to be. It’s the result of… THE DUEL PROJECT. Which is probably one of the craziest concepts i’ve ever heard of.

Imagine, if you will, two Japanese directors who meet at a film festival, each familiar with (and appreciative of) each other’s work. Then imagine a night of binge drinking that leads to the gauntlet being thrown down – a little friendly competition to see who can make the best “Duel to the Death” film. Then throw in a few rules like 1) The script can contain no more than 2-3 characters 2) The film must be shot in seven days and on a small budget 3) the film can only take place in one setting, and most importantly 4) at least one character must die. Thus, the Duel Project was born.

Dueling directors!

It’s a pretty interesting article. It’d be awesome if there could be more ‘duel projects’ in the future between other well known directors. Like, Sam Raimi vs. Peter Jackson or John Woo vs. Tsui Hark or Quentin Tarantino vs. Robert Rodriguez or something. Oh well. Hopefully it’ll catch on.

Anyway, i’m getting myself a copy of Aragami. And a copy of Battlefield Baseball too.

Battlefield Baseball?

Get this. I think this is a first. It’s a baseball zombie horror comedy, complete with chainsaws, corpses sailing through the air and high-kicking kung-fu antics. It’s not a Ryuhei Kitamura flick but it is produced by him and it does star the guy who was in Versus (badass dude). Plus it’s directed by Kitamura’s former AD who worked with him on Versus and Alive (he’s also the guy who wrote the screenplays on those two flicks). So in essence, it sort of is a Kitamura flick and that’s why i’m getting it. I haven’t seen Aragami or Battlefield Baseball before but i have no doubt in my mind that both will kick ass.

Apparently Battlefield Baseball has been compared to Shaolin Soccer but i haven’t seen Shaolin Soccer (was never really interested in it. i hear it’s pretty stupid). So whatever. Shaolin Soccer doesn’t have zombies in it and Battlefield Baseball does. Any movie that has zombies in it HAS to be better.

Here’s a review.

“…Battlefield Baseball is destined to become a cult favourite.”

Holla!

I’ll post more later. Got a bunch of other stuff to talk about.

I’ve been sitting on this pic for about a day and a half now. I haven’t seen any other sites put it up yet so i figured i should get the ball rolling.

Ever wanted to see Jennifer Garner’s nipple?

Here you go

You won’t see ads like this in America.

• British Channel 4 TV Ad

Take that FCC!

Got a whole bunch of stuff in the mail the other day. I was so happy that i took pictures! Look!

(Ignore those DVDs. I was just too lazy to put them away.)

OMG. What could it be!??! And what could be so big that someone had to send it in a pizza box??

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Well it’s time once again for me to recommend a movie that 97% of you probably haven’t even ever heard of (ala the Infernal Affairs trilogy, which i hear is going to be remade by Martin Scorsese, possibly starring Brad Pitt and Leo ‘King Of The World’ DiCaprio. w00t!).

ANYWAY, to the 3% of you who’ve seen The Eye, whether it was during its super ultra limited US release last year or on bootleg VCD/DVD if you live in Asia (because seriously, nobody in Asia actually goes to the movies when they can just get all the latest releases on VCD/DVD like a day after [or sometimes even a fucking week before] its official theatrical release date), you might remember The Eye to be one of the better Hong Kong produced horror movies of the year. I definitely thought so. And for once, it was nice to actually watch a horror movie that actually had genuine scares in it. I can tell you that there’s at least one BIG scare in the movie and it wasn’t even a cheap BOO scare. I guarantee that it’ll make your girlfriend jump if you watch it with her.

A coupla years ago, i saw Ringu (aka The Ring) and contrary to what my roommate told me at the time, i didn’t find it in the least bit frightening. Then i saw the American remake last year and while i do admit that it’s scarier than the original, it still didn’t do anything for me (although i’ve heard that it scared the bejeezus out of most American viewers, mostly those who were unaccustomed to Asian style horror [you know… creepy girls with long hair covering their face kind of ‘horror’… which is so typical in Asia that it doesn’t really scare ‘us’ anymore… us being us azns of course… unless you’re Stacy and you get pretty much find everything scary, even silly Aliens and Predators like in that Batman: Dead End short. Yeah, she actually thought it was scary]). But anyhow, i think it’s safe to say that if the American remake of The Ring scared you, then The Eye will probably scare you shitless. And that’s saying a lot since, remember it isn’t a remake (although i think they probably ARE going to remake it and Americanize it at some point in the future.. the rights have already been bought by New Line) but yet it’s just as slick and as stylish as an American remake (Ringu = blah. not scary. The Ring = slick. scary. The Eye = very slick (for a Hong Kong movie). and twice as scary). But of course, with me telling you that it’s supposed to be scary, if you ever do decide to watch this movie someday, you’re probably gonna be bracing yourself for all the scares and thus, diluting the overall experience. Which is why it’s always good to go in as ‘fresh’ as possible (i.e not watching trailers and reading reviews prior to watching said horror movie so as to not know what to expect and subsequently be pleasantly scared shitless when you’re supposed to be).

ANYWAY, for those of you who missed out on The Eye, here’s the trailer for the first movie. Which is presumably the most you’ll ever see of it seeing that it’s a foreign movie with *gasp* subtitles and we all know how everybody HATES subtitles in these here parts.

• The Eye

And now for those of us who’ve actually seen the movie, treat yourselves to the teaser trailer for the SECOND movie, cleverly titled, The Eye 2, of course.

Note: FOR MAXIMUM EFFECT. TURN UP THE VOLUME. TURN OFF THE LIGHTS. AND WATCH IT ALONE.

• The Eye 2

It’s not much but FUCK. Lemme know how it went for all you Eye veterans.

SHIT. SCARY.

I think she looks better with her SNL glasses on.

Speaking of which, the Ben Affleck Gigli skit made me laugh tonight.

Well according to all the Olsen Twin 18th Birthday Countdown sites out there, as of today, there’s only 91 days left before the both of them turn 18.

June 13, 2004. 18 years old.

You know, i wonder what’s going to happen once they actually turn 18. I think it’ll be a sad thing. I mean, once they turn 18, we’ll all lose the novelty of waiting for the big day to come. And once it’s done and over with, there won’t be anything more to look forward to (well, except for their inevitable move to PG-13 or, heaven forbid, R rated movies of course).

The day they turn 18 will be like the day Return Of The King came out in theaters. Fans all over the world who’ve been waiting for the day to come will both be equally happy and sad. Like how LOTR fans were happy because the movie finally came out and sad because there won’t be anymore LOTR movies to look forward to anymore.

Like how Olsen fans will be happy because the girls will finally be legal (so they won’t have to feel guilty about having all those naughty thoughts about them anymore). And sad because they’re not illegal anymore, because i mean come on now, that was part of the novelty right? The fact that they weren’t legal and it made it even more naughtier to have those kinds of thoughts.

But oh well. There’s other dates to look forward to i guess. Hehehe. You fucking pedophiles.

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To: psykotik@gmail.com
Subject: you’ll love this
From: Chrisburkett1@aol.com 
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 10:58:55 EST

New York Minute
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Am i the only one who went through the trailer frame by frame during the towel scenes?

I wish i was Andy Roddick.

This deserves a new post. 3 part voicemail message.

• Part 1
• Part 2
• Part 3

You probably need to be a long time regular and a forum reader to ‘get’ some of these.

Missed the old voicemail posts? There’s one right below this one and the rest are here.