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Warriors of Heaven & Earth
The main thing that struck me was the beauty of this movie. If you’ve seen Hero, this is similar in beauty, more realistic in terms of action, and done on a grander scale. A lieutenant in the Chinese Imperial Army abandons his post, and a Japanese fighter is sent to bring him back or kill him. The two are forced to set their enmity aside in order to face a greater danger. There is an English audio track, but I recommend keeping the subtitles if you opt for English. As with most Chinese movies, there are differences in translation.
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Musa the Warrior
In 1375 a diplomatic envoy from Korea is sent to China, where they are banished into the Gobi desert. They must rescue a kidnapped Chinese princess from Mongolian raiders and march hundred of miles to their home, before the Mongol army can capture them. The subplot is fueled by the rivalry between the man in charge of the diplomatic envoy and the rebellious warrior Musa, who is dedicated only to the princess. This is a Korean-made movie, so audio is Korean or Cantonese with English subtitles.
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Trailer on Zhang Zhiyi’s website

Shower
The title may make this sound like porn, but it’s not. The elder son left home and went to the big city, starting a new life and becoming a successful businessman. He returns to his father’s traditional bathhouse because of a postcard from his mentally disabled brother. The movie presents a touching contrast of traditional and modern values. The elder son must decide between his life in the big city and his family obligations. I enjoyed this film on its own merits, but I also recognized two of the actors from stellar performances in several other films. Audio is Mandarin, Cantonese, or French. English subtitles.
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Waking Ned Devine
How can dead Irishman Ned Devine collect his lottery winnings? Well, after discovering that Ned croaked from the shock of hitting the jackpot, Ned’s friends Jackie and Michael mastermind a scheme to impersonate the lucky stiff and collect his prize money. Now all they need to do is persuade the rest of Tulaigh Mohr’s denizens to go along… This movie is sweet with a few disturbingly funny moments.
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Mean Machine
Imagine “The Longest Yard,” only redone in England with real football. (Soccer, that is.) If you liked Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch, you’ll love this film. It features the same sense of humor and some of the same actors.
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Tonight is a full night. It’s barely 1:00, and I’ve already got three gems. Rather than posting every 2 minutes, I’ll consolidate the best.

member i slow on fuel
Well, I can agree with that middle part.

power locks and windows - not sufre onaibags
I’m guessing “not sure on airbags.” It’s one of the questions they’re supposed to ask. Most reps just don’t.

tire is falt. member need help gettin g off.
Sure. Blame it on the tire.

Or at least a “How do you do?” with a handshake first. I mean, Sweet Mother McCree! I thought I was ordering checks, not the Great Anal Raping of ‘05. I didn’t know that the experience was likely to spawn a series of commemorative coins, each depicting me bent over a different piece of furniture with varied expressions of outrage, pain, and dismay.

Let this be a lesson to you all. Don’t order checks from your own @#$@% bank! Hot damn, but they stuck it to me good. I feel like I took a walk-on part in Deliverance II. I tried ordering online from two different websites. The first took my money and sent me an e-mail at least a week later saying that they needed a lot more information from the bank before they could complete my order. It smelled like a scam, so I chose the “decline and get a refund” option. I still haven’t seen that money. Liberty, the second company, just couldn’t complete the order because the address I wanted on the checks was different from what it had been previously. Liberty is the company my bank actually uses, and both were around the $10-20 mark, which is what I remember my checks being when I initially ordered them. To make it easier (and to finally GET checks about two months after running out), I submitted my third change of address form at the bank (which finally worked) and reordered checks in person.

So now I get the checks with a notice that $45.63 will be deducted from my account. For two boxes of checks. It’s my fault for not getting a price beforehand. I thought I had, but thinking back I realize that was one of the questions the English-deficient teller didn’t answer. Hell, nine times out of ten I’m equipped to repeat a question in the teller’s native tongue, but it didn’t work in this case because I don’t speak Farsi.

For the love of all that is holy, I only hope that I will remember this lesson when the next order time comes around. And I hope that I can find a good pillow. I think I’ll need some posterior cushioning for a few days. I feel so… violated. I need someone to hold me.

I once spoke with a guy who would only say that he was on I-95 at exit 153. He wouldn’t give me city and state. He just kept repeating the exit number, asserting that any idiot could find him with that. “Well, sir, we should have service out to you sometime in the next four hours.” “Why four hours?” he asked angrily. “First we’ll check Florida. That puts you a little north of Ft Pierce, I think. Next we’ll try Florence, SC. If you’re not there, I’ll send someone to North Carolina.” At that point he interrupted me and said, “You skipped Georgia, smartass.” “Well you see, sir, there are only about 100 exits in Georgia. At exit 153, you’re either in Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, or Maine. That’s why I said four hours - one for each state. If you’d prefer not to wait, you could help me narrow it down a bit.”