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It was a double dose of Asian comedy tonight. First up the 1993 Jackie Chan action comedy City Hunter. Jackie plays a private detective in this Wong Jing adaptation of a Japanese comic. I have seen this movie many times and I really have a good time watching it. There's a lot of good and bad comedy, and much punching. Good fights with some good villians. While the opening of the movie was causing some consternation to some of our viewers, and I can see why, Joe and I were re-enjoying a movie both of us had seen many times. The opening introduction to the world of Ryu is a pretty broad bit of comedy, but after the characters are established, and everyone's on the boat, everything turns a different shade of funny. Blood burst death funny. Ryu was hired to find the runaway daughter of a rich business guy. She takes a cruise and Ryu plays the stowaway game by disguising himself as a piece of luggage.

Jackie's character Ryu Saeba is a bit of a letch and a girl chaser. He doesn't want to settle down with one girl, he wants a little bit of all of them. And there are many beautiful ladies in the movie, many in tiny little costumes, like Chingmy Yau to the right. Also on the ship are a bunch of robbers and kidnappers. In their matching red outfits the bad boys hold up the ship and shoot people pretty much for snoring to loud. Richard Norton plays the delightfully evil leader of the over the top villians. He lines up some of passengers and forces them to play games of baccarat with him while his men rob the rest. If you win, you play another hand. If you lose, Richard shots you in the head with his big ass gun. They aren't a nice bunch. There are lots of fights and shooting, some more serious than others. The death count is pretty high even for a Hong Kong comedy. I like that unapologetic mix of genres in Chinese movies. On the way over to Movie Night I heard Guillermo del Toro on MPR talking about his new movie El Laberinto del Fauno. He talked about mixing the genre's in his films and that being a Mexican thing. He really shares that with many other people. I learned to like genre blended movies by being exposed to them over time. I now seems like a natural thing for film to cross boundries.

Joe brought the copy we watched, the Fox US version at about 99 minutes. I have a copy of it myself and three others. All from different places and all different lengths. Wong Jing is the king of "makes-no-sense" comedies in Hong Kong. He's directed 114 movies and there are some great ones there. God of Gamblers, God of Gamblers' Return, High Risk, The Kung Fu Cult Master, The New Legend of Shaolin, My Father Is a Hero, and The Duel are all fun to watch. He worked with Jet Li several times, only this one time with Jackie. You can see a clip of the Street Fighter parody at YouTube.

Our second feature was Kung Phooey! It's a parody of Kung Fu produced, written and directed by the actor Darryl Fong. It's pretty fun, some good jokes and some bad jokes and lots of them. Art Chew, a monk from the Shur Li Temple, comes to San Francisco to find the long hidden magical peach. It was stolen from the temple 500 years ago. It's hidden in the resturant of Helen Hu. She's got henchmen and ambition. Her character is a favorite of mine, wonderfully over the top, she's a delightful bad girl. There are so many jokes of all kinds. Movie jokes, Chinese jokes, black jokes, stunt jokes, slapstick jokes, and many of each. The bad guys are defeated and the good guys win. The fights aren't too good but that works in the movies favor. It's just like watching Kung Fu the TV series, those fights weren't very good either. Amazingly, you can see the what might be the whole movie on YouTube.

Colferific

I finished The Wish List by Eoin Colfer and really liked it. It's a stand alone book with an unusual story. Meg, a 14 year old runaway, is blown up while helping to rob an old man. Her partner Belch is a 16 year old murderer. He helped her and now he's forcing her to help him rob an "oldie" named Lowrie. Belch is also blown up along with his dog, a hostile pitbull. They are melded together in the afterlife. Meg is stopped on her trip through the tunnel of light to the Pearly Gates. She has an evenly balanced soul. She can't go up or down. She must return to earth and tip the balance. Up or down. Get what I mean. She's sent back to help Lowrie, who's slowly dying, complete a wish list of wrongs he wants to make right. His first wish, kiss the girl he didn't kiss over 50 years ago. Turns out she's the most popular granny on tv. She hosts her own highly watched talk show and that's where Meg and Lowrie figure to get to see her. They get on tv in a nicely written comic and touching scene. Belch/pitbull is sent back to earth as an instrument of the devil to stop Meg from doing good. Satan has his eyes on her soul.

And that's part of the book's appeal to me, a nice combination of seriousness and comedy with some nice sentimental moments. It's got a good message that isn't shoved down your throat. Uplifting but not preachy, and funny to boot. It's book like these that make me like Colfer all the more. His books are a delight to read.

The Artemis Fowl Files is really two short stories packed in with some filler. It's a nice addition to the Artemis series but it's a lightweight. I'd prefer another novel. The two stories are both fine. The first story is about LEP cadet Holly Short and it's set before the first Artemis book. Holly's got to complete a trial before she can become the first female police elf. The other is a Mulch Diggims and Artemis story with lots of stealin', dwarfs and fun.

After I read the two above books I lucked out and found two more Colfer books at the Half Price Books post Christmas 20 percent off sale. The Legend of Spuds Murphy and Legend of Captain Crow's Teeth. Both are for the younger set but still fun to read. The first book's main story is about the discovery of reading by the 9 and 11 year olf protagonists. Forced to stay at the library for 3 whole hours Will and Marty first try to defeat the librarian but she's a terror. Their boredom leads them to try reading a book to pass the time before mom comes a picks them up. They like it and the librarian turns out to be a nice lady. The second book has Will and Marty at the seashore on holiday with their 3 brothers and mom and dad all stuck in a small caravan. Marty and Will get to go to the local kid disco. On the way home Marty tricks Will into crossing the dangerous rocks called Captain Crow's Teeth. They both learn a lesson and there are jokes. What could be better.

Forbidden Planet

I found some nice photos of Robbie online today. Thought I would share.

Dog and Gun

I saw this over at BoingBoing and thought it funny. What were they thinking in 1895? It's from some sort of Christmas Card but the web site didn't say what the format was. People did hunt more in those days and I bet non-joke cards with guns and hunting dogs were common. Hunting dog paintings are still popular although hunting seems to be less popular. Merry Christmas, stay in, don't shoot anything. 

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We watched the newly released Dust Devil: The Final Cut. Joe is out of town visiting his mom. He dropped the veto a few weeks ago. I can see not wanting to see this again. It's not a happy film. I have seen the film 7 or 8 times and still find it highly re-watchable. This is one of Richard Stanley's two feature films. He also directed the highly entertaining Hardware. DD:TFC is set in South Africa and Namibia. The country side is amazing. Some of it reminds me of the US west. The police think there is a serial killer working the sparsely populated desert. We know from the title there is something else going on. As the movie progresses we see the real face of the killer. He's a nasty guy and he doesn't look too human to me. A woman hops into her VW beetle, leaving her shirtless husband in the street. She drives from SA into Namibia heading for the coast. She's unhappy and needs to get away. Her path intersects with the killer. He's a handsome long coated big hat wearing hunk. The basic boy chases girl story is common enough, even with demons, but it's well told with nice visuals and sounds. It's intriguingly gruesome, delightfully dark, and confusing if your aren't paying attention while watching the older American edition. I think The Final Cut has the best presentation of the story. The dvd comes with two versions of the film, some documentaries and the soundtrack. You can read more details here, and here and see a few more pictures here. I got mine on Amazon for under 17 bucks. A bargin. Now if someone would put Hardware out in a nice dvd.

The Hearse was pretty poor. Some lady recovering from her divorce moves into the house of her deceased aunt. The town people shun her because of aunties Satanic past. A young man, hired to help fix up the house, falls for the lady. He's jealous of her new interest, the dark and sophisticated guy. There are bad dreams and a recurring hearse. It keeps chasing her around and the driver with the scarred face keeps attacking her. What the hell is going on. Not much as it turns out and the ending is even more disappointing. Give this pile of boredom a miss.   

Some books are good

I found both the latest Artemis Fowl - The Lost Colony and Eoin Colfer's new series Half Moon Investigations at HPB last weekend. I barely spent a day on each, that's good in my book. I hate those books that drag on. The Lost Colony was fast paced and fun. Artemis, Butler and their elf friend Holly Short work together, with the usual-gang-of-idiots, to save some demons from being destroyed when the magic that holds their island out of time comes undone. There's some globe trotting, including a trip to Barcelona's famous Casa Mila. A brief trip into the past yields a visit with the great architect Antonio Gaudi himself. There are more pictures of the Casa Mila here. Newly introduced to the series is Minerva Paradizo. This 12 year old young lady attracts the eye of our anti-hero. She's a genius and completely willing to break the law to get what she wants. As the series has progressed Artemis has slowly moved to the good. He's down to 20 percent of his previous criminal activities. He's a good boy, he just has to dig it out.

Fletcher Moon is a good boy from the start. Colfer seems to have a real passion for criminals and Half Moon Investigations is a real detective novel. His books have criminal characters galore. And really who doesn't like a good criminal. All Fletcher Moon has wanted, in all of his short 12 years, is to be a detective. He took a course, passed with honors and got a badge. He lives with his parents and sister in the Irish town of Lock. Not a real popular kid, more the marginal weird type of kid. He doesn't seem to have many friends. But he's got clients, mostly from his school, who mostly pay in chocolate. One of the popular girls, who normally would not talk to him, is missing a keepsake. She offers him real money, ten euros a day, to find her missing lock of Popstar hair. Presented with the facts and crime scene Fletcher picks his suspects and starts working, and at first his latest case seems pretty cut and dried. But something more is a foot and Fletcher, who's also mockingly called Half Moon, gets tossed into a pretty dangerous bunch of situations. He winds up in the hospital after being badly beaten in the dark. I wasn't expecting that, and I was actually worried about this kid. I like him. Most of Colfer's books have a fair and even handed touch of mortality and morality. Not many people die but they are often hurt or damaged. Red, the kid Fletcher thinks beat him, appeals to our hero to clear his name. When Fletcher is framed for arson he joins forces with Red and Red's wonderful criminal family to clear both their names. It's a pretty darn good book. There is great dialog and the style is a nice appropriate hardboiled light. It's got all the elements of a typical hardboiled novel set in Fletcher's school. And there are a lot of fun characters, many of whom seem to watch a lot of American TV. Me too, but I also like to read and I'm glad I picked this novel up. All of Colfer's books have been good so far.

More on The Wish List and The Artemis Files when I finish them.

Some film news

Here's some film news:

OEDEKERK ON RIPLEY'S... BELIEVE IT OR NOT! Paramount Pictures has tapped Steve Oedekerk to rewrite the script for RIPLEY'S BELIEVE IT OR NOT!, according to VARIETY. The project will still be a starring vehicle for Jim Carrey and a directing job for Tim Burton. Studio hopes to start production in China in winter 2008 with an eye on 2009 for a release date.

Production was shut down on the film earlier in the fall when Burton and especially Carrey were calling for more rewrites to a film that had a budget climbing north of $150 million. Oedekerk, who penned ACE VENTURA: WHEN NATURE CALLS and BRUCE ALMIGHTY, will be paid a seven-figure few to revamp the script from Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski.

DEL TORO SWINGS WITH TARZAN. Guillermo del Toro is in talks with Warner Bros. and Jerry Weintraub Prods. to direct a new big screen adaptation of TARZAN, reports VARIETY. John Collee (MASTER AND COMMANDER, HAPPY FEET) is also in talks to pen the more
faithful take on Edgar Rice Burroughs' famed character.

"I'd love to create a new version that is still a family movie, but as edgy as I can make it," Del Toro said. "There are strong themes of survival of a defenseless child left behind in the most hostile environment. John will be writing it alone, as I'll be in production on HELLBOY 2 and pursuing writing projects of my own. He's got a great sense of adventure and the wilderness."

WALT DISNEY DVD TREASURES WAVE 6 RELEASED. Wave 6 in the popular WALT DISNEY TREASURES DVD series has arrived Dec. 19, 2006 (Walt Disney Home Ent., $32.99 each). Included in the four new two-disc sets are MORE SILLY SYMPHONIES, THE COMPLETE PLUTO VOLUME 2, YOUR HOST, WALT DISNEY and THE MICKEY MOUSE CLUB FEATURING THE HARDY BOYS.

This second volume completes the SILLY SYMPHONIES collection with more award-winning shorts, which showcase Walt's technical and narrative innovations. Over the years, SILLY SYMPHONIES has been used as a model of how best to combine sight and sound and included in this volume are more than a dozen never-before-released shorts from 1929-1938. Included in this collection are THREE ORPHAN KITTENS (Oscar winner Best Short Subject 1935); MOTHER GOOSE GOES TO HOLLYWOOD; and two seminal shorts directed by Walt himself: SPRINGTIME and NIGHT. Bonus materials include audio commentaries; "SILLY SYMPHONIES Rediscovered"
featurette on this trail-blazing series of short films; "Animators At Play" featurette and extensive production art galleries.

Mickey's best pal Pluto stars as top dog in a new set of popular animated shorts. This collection offers all of the zany, madcap comedy that Pluto is famous for, in a full-color collection that spans 1947 to 1951. Included are PLUTO'S BLUE NOTE (Academy Award nominee, Best Short Subject, 1947), BONE BANDIT, PLUTO'S SWEATER, FIGARO and CLEO and CAT NAP PLUTO.
Bonus materials include: a "master class" with modern-day Disney animation masters Randy Cartwright and Andreas Deja. Cartwright discusses BONE TROUBLE and Deja discusses HAWAIIAN HOLIDAY. Plus, there is "Pluto's Process": a deconstruction of PLUTO'S JUDGMENT DAY, along with a very rare pencil test from this short. Also featured are extensive production art galleries.

YOUR HOST offers a wonderful chapter in the fabled DISNEYLAND TV show, hosted by Walt himself. Included here is the complete FOURTH ANNIVERSARY  episode of Walt's show, a wonderful surprise party by the Mouseketeers and a 10th anniversary special program on the Disneyland Imagineers, creating some of Disneyland's most famous attractions, such as Haunted Mansion and Pirates of the Caribbean. Bonus features include a rare interview with Walt's daughter, Diane Disney Miller, and production art galleries.

Adventures from the famous HARDY BOYS books were serialized on the MICKEY MOUSE CLUB, and this WALT DISNEY TREASURES volume includes the complete HARDY BOYS debut serial from 1956-1957, "The Mystery of the Applegate Treasure." This superb story features Tim Considine (Disney's THE SWAMP FOX, THE SHAGGY DOG) as Frank Hardy, and Tommy Kirk (OLD YELLER, SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON) as Joe Hardy. The boys, both amateur detectives, are the sons of a famous sleuth who tells them that detective work is too dangerous for boys. But that doesn't stop them from going on a rousing quest to find a legendary treasure. Bonus features include: "From Dixon to Disney" on the HARDY BOYS' journey from print to TV; "The Hardy Boys Unmasked" featurette; and production galleries.

Each collection of animated and live-action programs is hosted by noted film historian Leonard Maltin and packaged in unique keepsake tin cases.

DEAD MAN'S CHEST STRIKES GOLD ON DVD. The #1 DVD of the holiday season and the #1 movie of the year, Walt Disney Pictures' PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MAN'S CHEST, is now firmly in place to become the #1 live-action DVD of all time and the #1 DVD of the
year, selling 10.5 million units on DVD in North America in its first week of release, the highest initial week for any title this year, it was announced by Bob Chapek, president of Buena Vista Worldwide Home Ent. Chapek commented, "With the incredible success of the release of PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MAN'S CHEST, it is evident that the home entertainment
industry continues to flourish. It also further illustrates the worldwide phenomenon of everything PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN."

PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MAN'S CHEST, featuring cutting edge vfx from Industrial Light & Magic, has become an international DVD phenomenon, sailing into the top spots in the U.K. and Japan. In the U.K. market, nearly 1.5 million copies were sold in its first week of release, the nation's largest week one ever. Japan had similar results, also selling nearly 1 million units in the first week of release becoming the #1 live-action title of all time in that market. The film's theatrical opening weekend was the biggest in U.S. box-office history, and the high-seas Hollywood tidal wave continues with a worldwide box office gross of more than $1 billion to date, making it Disney's most successful movie of all time.

PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MAN'S CHEST was released as both a deluxe two-disc Special Edition DVD set and as a single-disc DVD. The single-disc DVD features screenwriter audio commentary and the never-before-seen "Bloopers of the Caribbean." The Special Edition features limited availability holographic packaging and includes all single-disc features, plus a treasure-chest of bonus booty: a behind-the-scenes documentary; a Captain Jack featurette; a sword-fighting featurette; "Creating The Kraken" on the film's stunning sea beast; "Fly On The Set" - an on location view of filming; a featurette on the legend of Davy Jones; bonus program on the
newly "re-Imagineered" Pirates of the Caribbean resort attraction; star-studded, red-carpet Hollywood premiere footage; producer Jerry Bruckheimer's personal on-set photo diary and more. Much of the bonus material is exclusive to this DVD release.

I like some of Steve Oedekerk's work. He also did those Thumb movies which are sort of funny and Jimmy Neutron and High Strung both of which I liked. I liked his Kung Pow movie but I didn't like the look of The Barnyard.

I have been buying those Disney Treasure's boxes since they started. I like the mix of most of them. There are some repeat cartoons across the different series. The cartoons and show look good and even the slightly politically incorrect cartoons are run in their entirety.

I'm always interested in Del Toro. Tarzan, I wouldn't have guessed that. I have those books to read. While I was working at DreamHaven I stocked up on a lot of Burroughs books. The early 70's Ballantine editions of the Tarzan series have Richard Powers covers. I have always liked those covers. I finally got a whole set three or four years ago.

I wouldn't have picked Pirates of the Caribbean as such a big seller. I do like pirates though.

The Lost Room

I watched The Lost Room, the Sci Fi Channels original 6 hour miniseries last night. In real time, no timeshifting, with commercials. I thought it was okay. If there was a dvd down the road I bet I would buy it. There was an interesting premis and a fairly complex story. Peter Krause, whom I liked in Six Feet Under, is a detective investigating a robbery at a pawn shop. Two men are dead, their skins burnt but their clothes not. One guy is embedded in the ceiling, upside down. Neat, huh. Try to figure out that shit. Krause and his partner work the case. Among the effects of one of the guys, a key to the Sunshine Motel. Turns out that key will open a door to anywhere there is a door. It gets more complicated as more magical objects start turning up, all leading to the Sunshine Motel. As Krause gets more information his world is shattered by the forces at play. His daughter is kidnapped, lost in the room, and he's framed for the murder of his partner. And that's only in the first hour.

Keep an eye out for The Dresden Files. Jan 21,2006 on Sci Fi. I have mixed feelings about the books by Jim Butcher. Dresden whines alot, especially about getting beat up so much. Not the best books and it's doubtful they will stay in my collection forever.

When I was a young science fiction fan we used to dream or joke about an all science fiction channel. I didn't think it would have wrestling, or as many bad movies as it does.

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Uwe Boll, the director of our first feature House of the Dead, is more interesting than his film. He's a German guy who works in Canada a lot. His movies get panned universally. Really, it's like reviewers come from other universe's to boo his films. HotD got a 2.0 on the IMDb. Three of Boll's films reside in the IMDb's Bottom 100. Boll challenged his harshest critics to a boxing match. Here's a bit from the IMDb biography page.

Challenged his critics in June 2006 to "put up or shut up". His production company issued a press release stating that Boll would challenge his 5 harshest critics each to a 10 round boxing match. To be eligible, the critic must have written two extremely negative reviews of Boll, in print or on the Web, in 2005. Footage of the fights will be included in his upcoming film Postal.

On fighting (and winning) against all of his critics in a boxing ring: "You see what happens when people get hit in the head? They like my movies!"

Boll had boxing experience. Greg said he saw pictures of one of the fighting critics and the critic's face was pretty fucked up. Boll's pretty wacky I guess. And wacky is pretty much the way to describe Boll's directorial style. It's very frantic and jumpy. He uses some weird choices for cuts and edits. He switches back and forth from the film to the video game graphics when zombies are getting blasted. It's mostly annoying.

HotD is based on a video game. Some kids with more money than brains hire Jurgen Prochnow to take them to an island where a big rave is happening. Clint Howard is his first mate. Clint gets it pretty early on and returns later as a zombie. You could hardly tell the difference.When they get to the island all the people are gone. Nearly untroubled our gang runs about until they are attacked by some sort of zombies. The zombies move fast but are easily killed. Jurgen is a smuggler. Besides the Cuban cigars he's got a big bunch of guns. Jurgen and the remaining kids hold up in an old church. Most everyone dies as the zombies keep on attacking. I didn't care much.

Satan's Cheerleaders was pretty funny. You can see the trailer over at YouTube. The movie even has a fan site. There are a lot of movies about the bad girls of Satan. And really who doesn't like a bad girl. These high school girls aren't that bad and only one gets turned to the dark side. Hardly anyone dies. It's more of a comedy. There are a bunch of cute girls in skimpy clothes. A couple of them take their tops off. There are several vetran actors who play the minions of Satan, including Yvonne De Carlo or Mrs. Munster. There's one bad scene after another, but it made me laugh and that's worth something.

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A bad hair day double feature tonight. We started with the low budget pooptacular Beyond the Wall of Sleep. It's based on an H.P. Lovecraft story. It takes a few basic elements from the story and adds a more modern touch to this period piece. I didn't think they captured what the story was about, nor the feel. They made it their own for better or worse. I'm going for worse. The film is set in 1908 and about the only thing good were the dusters on the posse. Really! Nice hats! Tom Savini was the sheriff, he had a nice black hat, perhaps that's what was hiding his acting ability. It took two amateur directors to bring this  82 minute hunk to the screen, and they co-wrote it. I won't write down their names out of spite. It scores a 2.8 over at the IMDb and justifiably so. Well, maybe not that much. I bet it was this one guy who threw the rating off.

Fascinating to say the least, 7 June 2006 Author: plentyoffishhere from United States       *** This comment may contain spoilers ***

This movie is interesting. I love horror and love Lovecraft. I have an extensive collection of horror and am proud to say that I own every Lovecraft movie made. Even the short for Beyond the Wall Of Sleep put out years ago in Canada at a film fest. Thank you EBAY!

I hope this give me the credentials to review as I have never reviewed a movie publicly before.

With that said I disagree with the reviewer who posted before me. I watched this movie with low expectations as I based my expectations on its predecessors who have always fallen short of the mark. This one however I thought has a lot of merit. A lot of chutzpah as Shakespearians might say. It was overly flashy with the editing and the acting at times did stretch into the painful realm. but, I love it and the overall story that drove the movie. That is why I gave it a ten.

The acting is obviously meant to be a bit top heavy in style and the script is an interesting take on one of Lovecrafts most promising stories. Not an angle I would go with, but an interesting one at best. The inner cut between black and white and color works. I actually wanted to see more. I believe that the black and white world is the real world and the color world is the celestial other world (in this movie of the demon) as mentioned in the story. Well done!

The montage where Edward starts to understand what is going on is amazing. The music really added the punch of that moment and everything after that for me was just candy. I have seen a few comments of people turning this off half way through and that is a shame as I didn't think the movie really kicked in until half way through. But, isn't that what all Lovecraft stories are like? They never really begin until they are actually over.

The ending left a cliff hanger. Will there be another one? Personnaly I hope so as I really enjoyed this film.

There is always that one guy. Now that I know I can count on finding him, it makes it somewhat less interesting. Most of the rest of the reviews were like me and everyone in the room watching the dvd Joe brought. Complaining. About everything. The acting sucked, the editing sucked, the wigs sucked, the special effects sucked, and by sucked I mean they were fuckin' awful. This guy did a good review over at Beyond Hollywood.

William Sanderson was fairly good but he didn't have much to do and he wasn't in the film very much. I know a guy who can't sit still all the way through a movie. He has something wrong with his head I guess. He marvels at my telling him we can sit quiet all through a movie, and not one in a theater where you used to expect that. I don't go the theater much. When I do I am quiet there. He doesn't go to the theater, at all. This is a good thing, he wouldn't be able to be quiet there, nobody needs that. We couldn't be quiet watching BTWOS. There wasn't much of anything to keep our attention focused and our traps shut. Give it a miss.

Joe brought the Sarah Silverman DVD Jesus is Magic and we watched her music video Give The Jew Girl Toys. It was about convincing Santa to give her presents even though she's jewish. Like a girl like that wouldn't get enough presents. It was ok, but I didn't laugh all the time like Joe. Man, he's all up in that. Course, I know the difference between sugar and dextrose. I'll let you ruminate on that. Then we watched the first 5 minutes of the new Lloyd Kaufman Troma film Poultrygeist, Night of the Chicken Dead. It's about human's turning into zombie chickens. It looks awful, but maybe not in a good way. Greg got a promo dvd from some magazine and it had the first five minutes, a video and some more trailers. The video made me less interested in the film than the first five minutes did. It's looks even more rude than Lloyd's last film. My mom would not like to see this.

Our second feature was the Trey Parker feature Cannibal! The Musical It's in my top 100, always.