Fabricio the Guido

"Justice" and "the law" make uneasy bedfellows. That and relationships represent the triumph of hope over experience.

Winning is relative .

It's been a while since I was in uni but I end up learning stuff now I should have picked up years ago.

Actually, Silverfox, you can have an impression of a concept, so you can feel that an idea is sound or valid, which would still be a feeling about an abstract concept. Ever heard the expression love is a feeling?

You feel pedantry is an acceptable pastime.

You are pregnant or know someone who is pregnant or have 2.4 already.

You think a bauernbrot is better than a tesco toastie...

How come they all live in Enfield?

Rapier or sabres ?

Aint nothing going on but the rent ?

its up man

Jail House rock - 'im wot died on the toilet. Elvis, innit?

Moderate to highly satisfied.

*comes out of lurking* Likes this topic! *returns to lurk mode*

Anyone having problems with extortionate service charges? Am thinking of taking my Landlord to the LVT over very high service charges, anyone with experience doing this?

Burning spear and lovers rock

So about the unfortunate dead Tory in teh tent at glasto, any ideas what caused it? Any loss of human life is regrettable......

This is goignt o sound awful, but some times all you wantis some salmon and cream cheese and some prosecco .. ok maybe some parma ham too. But my lovely sunday afternoon was nearly runined as I had to spend half and hour traipsing all over the place to find something for the basket! Ok rant over.....

Windtalkers was indeed pretty awful. N cage is a bit hit and miss with the acting job.

Where's the cleaner from? No actually, dont answer that.

Mr Motivator

Martial art ingredients ( feel free to add further points) 1. Traditional principles of martial arts, philosophy and techniques, monkey, dragon, shoalin monks, bushido,samurai, ninja. 2. Weapons: swords, blades, assorted objects used to inflict pain and death, but excluding guns, so a yakuza film with no guns might be included. 3. Plotlines : revenge, training / culminating in a a final showdown. (KIll BILL!) Old Boy has all three elements as the fight scenes included a mix of hand to hand combat and brawling.

Enjoy .....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrBWHQtvmgE&feature=player_embedded I supposed the issue with Old Boy and (Taekukgi) is whether they are purely martial arts films. The vengence films are also are thriller but cross into other genres.

Is there a sub genre of martial arts/action films heavy in terms of references from Bruce Lee and the Low Budget Hong Kong Cinema from the 1970s. I think one strand has come back strongly in the Korean flicks. The heist movies are also a sub set but action properly speaking is like Die Hard, Con Air. Its a 1980s thing the blow em up with big guns. With changing notions of masculinity the genre has also changed and you have Fast and the Furious, Miami Vice etc, man and machine as opposed to Arnold and Bruce Willis, brute stength and guns and explosions that's why enemy of the state is so interesting because it crosses thriller/action genre rather than the raw actions. Anyway.. must dash