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by Wasabi
13 Jul 2008, 05:16
Forum: Miscellany
Topic: highlight of your day?
Replies: 10687
Views: 3949199

Supergrass were disappointing? Or was the meal just really good?
by Wasabi
03 Jul 2008, 06:59
Forum: Books & Film
Topic: Recent films. A very brief opinion.
Replies: 2043
Views: 835144

Eagle vs. Shark was filmed around where I grew up. It's like an exaggerated version of the New Zealand of my childhood, made me very nostalgic watching it.

I saw Hancock tonight. The critical complaints about the jarring shifts in tone are dead on - it's all over the place. Plus the shaky ...
by Wasabi
03 Jul 2008, 06:55
Forum: Books & Film
Topic: Futurama Bender's Big Score + The Beast with a Billion Backs
Replies: 22
Views: 10843

I haven't seen the second one yet. I thought Bender's Big Score was good, but not great. Way too many winking in-jokes for the fanboys.

Jurassic Bark and Time Keeps on Slippin' have probably the saddest endings I've seen in cartoons.

Me too. I'm glad I'm not the only one who got choked up at the ...
by Wasabi
10 Jun 2008, 03:32
Forum: Miscellany
Topic: highlight of your day?
Replies: 10687
Views: 3949199

I found out today that I'm being sent to teach English in Osaka, rather than out in the countryside like most people on JET are. (Not that being in a small town wouldn't be cool, but I was definitely holding out for a big city).

Here's an artist's impression of what it will be like:

http://www ...
by Wasabi
19 May 2008, 05:44
Forum: Miscellany
Topic: highlight of your day?
Replies: 10687
Views: 3949199

Yeah. I initially got put on the reserve list - a little surprisingly, since my degree is in Japanese - but I just got upgraded to the shortlist today.
by Wasabi
19 May 2008, 05:00
Forum: Miscellany
Topic: highlight of your day?
Replies: 10687
Views: 3949199

Pardon me, I have to go post in the lowlight thread now...

But the highlight? I found out I've been accepted to the teaching programme in Japan in applied for. I'll be going over there in August to teach English. Fuck yeah!
by Wasabi
15 Mar 2007, 00:00
Forum: Miscellany
Topic: highlight of your day?
Replies: 10687
Views: 3949199

touchy feely";p="854793 wrote:i got a great look at this asian chick's enormous rack at my work
Niiiice....

I saw 'Hot Fuzz' for free this morning.
by Wasabi
14 Oct 2006, 07:58
Forum: Books & Film
Topic: I Heart Huckabees
Replies: 11
Views: 5420

Yeah, that is brilliant.

I also love the scenes involving 'pure being':

Tommy Corn : [after being hit in the face with a rubber ball] Awesome! Can we do the ball thing everyday?
Caterine Vauban : Don't call it the ball thing. Call it pure being.
Tommy Corn : Okay... so can we do the pure being ...
by Wasabi
13 Oct 2006, 23:55
Forum: Books & Film
Topic: I Heart Huckabees
Replies: 11
Views: 5420

I Heart Huckabees

Anyone a fan? I've seen it a couple of times now and find it to be a highly enjoyable watch. Mark Wahlberg's character in particular is fantastic.
by Wasabi
02 Oct 2006, 05:04
Forum: Books & Film
Topic: let's all try to not cheapen this forum with drugfilmthreads
Replies: 34
Views: 14769

The closest I've got to watching a movie on drugs was watching Lost Highway for the first time when I was half-asleep. It was a very surreal experience. Then I watched it again while wide awake and it was just as surreal.
by Wasabi
01 Oct 2006, 04:35
Forum: Books & Film
Topic: Mockumentaries
Replies: 17
Views: 9047

Spinal Tap was the one that started it all, though. I still think it's great. It's the best of all the Guest-type films.

I also really liked Waiting For Guffman, but I didn't care for A Mighty Wind.

Spinal Tap is brilliant, but Guffman would have to be my favourite. I don't know why, something ...
by Wasabi
06 Sep 2006, 05:34
Forum: Books & Film
Topic: Scene from Spider-man 3 you won't see in the movie
Replies: 6
Views: 3732

Graceful.
by Wasabi
01 Sep 2006, 08:10
Forum: Books & Film
Topic: Grizzly Man.
Replies: 7
Views: 4122

I left feeling pretty naseous from some of that shaky camera work... Plus from the thought of people getting eaten alive by bears, I guess.
by Wasabi
28 Aug 2006, 06:18
Forum: Books & Film
Topic: Lost in Adaptations..
Replies: 16
Views: 7302

Re: Lost in Adaptations..



Hitch-Hikers Guide To The Galaxy : Wow. This was shit. Taking into account the first bookof the five, then disregarding most of it, replacing it with a shitty new story, and basically reversing and highlighting the outcome of Arthur and Trillian's relationship. Great cast, travesty of a story ...
by Wasabi
28 Aug 2006, 06:03
Forum: Books & Film
Topic: Senses of Cinema
Replies: 25
Views: 12182

Tokyo Story is "important" as an influential and ground breaking film, in terms of technique. But quite simply, it is tedious. I watched it in stages, because there was a fair bit to be learnt from a film-history POV.


Yeah, it's not a film that gets your heart racing, that's for sure. I enjoyed ...