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This was worse than a Rickroll.

[13 Assassins]

13 Assassins
It delivers.  I didn't expect it to, and I was entertained.  12 samurai and 1 freakshow set out to kill a perverted brother of the local shogun.  Swordplay ensues.  Very, very pretty diversion.  Need to watch it dubbed so that I don't read and miss all of he scenery!

http://www.13assassins.com/

I need a new beater with a heater...

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I'm glad that the World War Hulk notion has officially been debunked.  It was mild fun in the comics, but a big-screen translation would probably hurt my spirit somehow.

[Lenny Zero]

Out of curiosity, LZ, has civilisation broken down where you live and democracy and decency come to an end as many right-wing commentators have said would be the case if MJ was ever legalised?

Didn't you read the Christopher Dorner thread Lenny Zero started? The LAPD's Cop Stash is obviously particularly potent.

Its interesting that the right-wing commentators are all about "gun rights".  If there is a problem here, its that people should be smoking more weed and putting their guns down.  I put that on the LAPD.

Since you mentioned Dorner, I'll add something to that one:  Since that happened, I have noticed an uptick in copkilling around here.  Its almost as if the sacred "never shoot a cop" line was obliterated by Dorner and his vendetta.

More weed, less guns. - Sounds like a bumper sticker/t-shirt slogan that could make an entrepreneur a stack of cash.

Krull put me to sleep when I was a teenager in the movie theater back in the 80s.

I tried to find what I'd missed by playing the Atari 2600 game by the same name.

The sedative solution is a good one, and if not, my experience is that the film itself produces its own "knockout narcotic".

Absolutely not.

You mention the right-wing commentary, and its unfortunate that their lens is the one that a lot of the world views us through.

The civilization breakdown that I'm aware of is that crime is rampant (weed growers/dispensaries getting robbed).  If this happens, growers and dispensaries have no real authority to turn to for backup.  This could all be removed if there weren't mixed messages coming from the govt.  Its legal in California for anyone to grow 99 plants if they have a card.  But the Federal government still has the right to toss your farm if they choose to.  In short: The door has been opened and it will probably take another decade of governmental bigwigs handwringing before its "safe" to grow and sell this stuff.

I'm not a proponent of mass MJ sales.  I do understand that if this whole issue were aligned correctly, our national debt could be seriously curbed. Also,  the US government holds all sorts of medical patents for various MJ concoctions. Its a no-brainer that the Fed Govt should to step in, okay it and tax the hell out of it.  This a damn cash pinata.  The US govt needs to wake up.  This nation could smoke itself out of the red-zone.

A lot of the stigma and taboo has been removed from MJ.  Those who fight it are still using age-old arguments like "its a gateway drug" and the like.

I wish to God my father would have considered it when he was on his deathbed.  There are undeniable aspects to it that can help a final-stage cancer victim.

I kind of liked the whole plane thing - it was audacious and a cool WTF moment.

I felt a bit too lead up the garden path. The foreshadowing didn't really integrate well in the overall arc of the episodes and the season. It seemed like the stylised set-ups were just thrown in out-of-sequence for no real reason other than to create a false sense of foreboding. It was too much of a trick because they knew they couldn't just throw the plane crash in at the end, out of nowhere, whereas at least Hank's faux pas came via his character.

I'm hoping that the plane was a greater foreshadowing of the amount of destruction we're going to see in the last 8 episodes in a few months.  I'm gleefully expecting a bunch of unexpected, quirky and downright pigheaded chaos.

I can't wait.  Been clicking "reload" on my tv for months now lol.

Watched the Blu-Ray of SUCKER PUNCH the other night.  Dear Lord what a pretty film.

I think in several years, this movie will find its footing.  When it came out, most were irked with its rough-hewn ending.

I'd forgotten Scott Glenn was in there pulling a David Carradine.

The dream sequences are borderline hypnotic.

Did I mention that it was PRETTY?

The show is a reality TV doc feel showing what marijuana growers are up to in Northern CA.  Its fascinating.  For the record, medical marijuana dispensaries are EVERYWHERE in the city I live in.  If you want to smoke weed, all you have to do is pay the right doctor about 50$ and he'll put you on the program.  Lots of doctors are like "If I can't put you on the program, you don't have to pay 50$".

I don't know if you guys even have this in your television programming there. 

Its also free to view on the Discovery Channel website.  I find it mesmerizing that these people show their faces on TV when there is such a war afoot.

http://dsc.discovery.com/tv-shows/weed-country/videos/smugglers-blues.htm

I'm a big Cronenberg fan, but COSMOPOLIS just about killed it all for me.  What a spectacular waste of time, and not in a good TROLL HUNTER way.

Django

I was expecting it to be a bit shite from reviews I've read here and elsewhere, so my expectations were well lowered going in; consequently, I enjoyed every second of it.

I expected a little more on the "crackling dialogue" tip.  But that's what you expect from Tarantino.  I think that any lowered enjoyment I had from the film was simply the knowledge that this scriptwriter/director is capable of better.

I honestly thought the cancer was going to lead to the long walk, and the long walk would be left open-ended.

Also managed to check ARGO this weekend.  Again, it was kinda rote.  If you know the actual Iran hostage crisis story, then you know that no one got smoked.  This only allows for tension in the film.  Anytime a gun is waved around, you know that hostages are safe.  This was my problem.  Well, that and the fact that Ben Affliction is just about the most soulless, dead-eyed actor out there these days.  He's lost something of his emoting skills.  I think I should have seen that zombie love movie instead.  ARGO could have been a tv movie primer to that other tv movie, ZERO DARK THIRTY.

Honestly, I don't know if you can consider that a spoiler.  Anyone watching the show should know that Omar is gonna go.  There is a bounty on his head and there is no real way out.  The question is "how?"  Its no serious reveal that Omar is taken out.  And yes, the edit button isn't lit on my end.