two years. easy. :-)

We saw it today, and OMG I loved it! So so pretty. However the nurse at my appointment was a little concerned that my idea of relaxing and taking it easy was to go see a vampire movie.

This made me laugh and laugh.

I wanna see this--it sounds really interesting: ‘The Search for General Tso’, A Documentary About Americanized Chinese Food (link has a preview)

Laughing Squid sez:

Written and directed by Brooklyn-based filmmaker Ian Cheney, The Search for General Tso is a new documentary exploring the phenomenon of Chinese food in the US — particularly General Tso’s Chicken, often considered the most popular Chinese dish in the States.

Using this Americanized dish and its mysterious mastermind as a lens onto a larger story of immigration, adaptation, and innovation, the film follows a lighthearted journey, grounded in cultural and culinary history, through restaurants, Chinatowns, and the American imagination.

The film premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in April 2014 and is currently making the festival circuit rounds.

I do know that General Tso's chicken was not created by General Tso.

I'm pretty sure chow mein was invented in San Francisco.

Now I'm interested in seeing this movie too!

Not only is Johnny Storm black (Michael Initial Jordan), but Papa Storm is too (Reg E Cathey). I wonder if Sue is the adopted one, or if it's a blended family? Either way, I like that Johnny's not.

And to take someone else's line--I will sip on the tears of racist and traditionalist fanboys. I will let them ferment in oak barrels and get drunk off them.

And to take someone else's line--I will sip on the tears of racist and traditionalist fanboys. I will let them ferment in oak barrels and get drunk off them.

That is a splendid line.

That is a splendid line.

Magnificent, even.

Just got back from Godzilla.

Short reaction: HAIL TO THE KING, BABY.

Slightly longer reaction: They got Godzilla right. The design is somewhat different, but the motion is good, and - you know how, in the Toho movies, like once a fight he'd pull a move that clearly said, "I'm the King, and you're not, asshole." He's got a couple of those here, and they use the classic end-of-movie bit.

That said, this is very much a post- Cloverfield movie, not in the found-footage sense, but how you know there's a Godzilla movie going on, but you're always in the viewpoint of one of the human characters. There's almost no time where the camera pulls back to kaiju-scale and just watches them whale on each other.

In summary, very good Godzilla, but I agree with the early reviews that said they were too stingy with the kaiju action.

ETA: I don't think any of this is really spoilery, but if a mod-ista could look at it, that'd be cool.

so I didn't care for Godzilla. and much of what I didn't care for would reveal too much of the plot.

Suffice it to say, I really dug the opening credits. Loved the first 10 minutes or so. Right after that, the movie went way the fuck downhill. I liked it a bit more than Beau who is a godzilla aficionado. Beau was deeply offended by the movie and felt it was disrespectful to the notion of godzilla.

I mention the above because godzilla purists might have a hard time with the movie. I am not a purist, but felt that the movie's main character is not who I wanted it to be. Further, the armed services were so stupid as to take me completely out of the movie. I wish they had written around the technological limitations of fighting monsters rather than show abject stupidity and lack of planning.

My stepson has been looking forward to this movie for literally half his life (he is a HUGE Godzilla fan) so I am hoping it will not disappoint him.

He's waiting until next week to see it , when his dad will fly to PA for his birthday.