Jonbu the baker

Watched a few more movies lately..

CJ7
I had to watch this even tho I know it’d be so-so. The whole movie is anchored on the performance of a little boy, and an animated dog. Some good moments. I think the highlight is the last 20mins, which made the movie better than so-so. I watched a bit in Cantonese without subtitles, and then realize that my understanding of the language, is quite bad..

Fargo
Another Coen Brothers’ movie. Same style as No Country for Old Men, just not as dark. Some scenes are funny and sad at the same time. I liked it.

The Painted Veil
It’s a semi-Chinese movie. I saw INSPECTOR WONG in there. Otherwise a slow and emotional film.

I finished Silent Hill this weekend. I consider it an accomplishment, because it took maybe 4-5 sittings and I started watching maybe last Thursday. All that effort for a 2 hour movie. I think it’s gonna be hard to find people that sat through the whole thing.

Overall it’s a so-so movie, but it’s not at all like normal so-so movies. It’s got some awesome moments, plus some really crappy parts, all connected by lots of long boring scenes. And an ending that doesn’t satisfy.

I watched it for those awesome moments. Disco corpses are cool.

Days ago I bought a butternut squash, cuz it looks funny, and should taste pretty good. But when I googled for recipes, this showed up:

http://www.butternutsquash.net/

Apple, Orange, and Pear all have tech related sites as the top hits now.

Just thought it’s worth a blog.

(I didn’t realize WP won’t make a URL a link.. Too used to gmail.)

Every year in Vancouver we get about 6 months of Winter, followed by 2/2/2 months of Spring/Summer/Fall. And people say everything is colder because of global warming.

I took these last week when it was just about blooming. Now they’re in full bloom and slightly whiter. I think in few days they’d all be knocked down by rain.