Oh! Saw Harold and Kumar 3. Admittedly, I missed 2, and, duh, I just worked out which one is Daneel Ackles. I am the worst Supernatural fan EVER. It was so way beyond wrong, and really stupid, which was what I needed to see, and quite funny. The 3D is all pretty obvious--there's not a subtle thing about the movie, but that's not why you go see Harold or Kumar, is it?
Jordan Hinson is in this, and I am totally freaked out at the idea of Colin's TV daughter in a stoner comedy. Then again, if I knew the triplets that played...Ava? I'd be even more traumatised.
Infernal Affairs is totally a better movie.
You take a movie, you translate it into your culture, and you retell it. So, yeah, it turns out to have the racial demographics of your culture.
What are the characters' names? What will their backstory be?
They haven't announced their names. But they will be from New York. That's all we know so far. Helena Bonham Carter has also been cast.
If their names and backgrounds are not supposed to be Japanese, then I guess I'm okay with the casting not being Japanese. Although I'm not sure what would make it Akira if it's not that character set. I was pretty upset with the original announcement, and I'm not yet placated by the move to New York.
I guess just, overall, you have the opportunity to have a major motion picture with a Japanese cast and you remove it entirely from its original cultural trappings, then you take away a rare opportunity for Japanese actors to perform for a mainstream audience. Again, if it were possible for Japanese actors to play roles perceived as white in the normal process, then I wouldn't have such an issue with it. I'm Caucasian (or any other race), you know.
I'm determined to finish the rest of my Halloween list, but I've got so much else to do. Okay, once I finish my next Horror piece for HiLo.
Emmett and I are back from seeing
50/50.
It was very funny, and very affecting. Just really had the details of dealing with cancer down. The humor came from inside the experience. And the two biggest crypoints for me were
Adam's breakdown in the car,
and
Adam finding Kyle's copy of Getting Through Cancer Together (or whatever it was called) and seeing all the underlined and annotated passages.
Emmett's crypoint was
Adam's little freakout as he's getting anesthesia.
Mine was the same as Emmett's.
And also:
just before that, when he told his dad that he knew that it was confusing for him, but that he loved him.
50/50 looks like a good movie, but I have to get a lot farther away from cancer before I can see it, that's for sure.
Oh, fuck yeah. My sister saw it shortly before my mother's diagnosis. I wish I had.
Finnick? I have no idea how well he can act. Someone just showed up on The Secret Circle that looked kinda like my mental picture too.
