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This seems like a massive stretch to me. He breaks into his childhood home, unaware of who (if anyone) lives there, he asks one woman for a job, and tries to convince the other he really is her childhood friend. Both of which were motivated by a desire to not be left homeless and alone in NYC. To my mind the only…

I can imagine. I briefly did Tae Kwon Do, and the closest thing to all that that I practiced was one-step sparring which was just 'Student A punches and Student B counters'. It was decidedly unsexy, but then again my own inelegance plus the fact that most of my opponents were middle-aged men kind of precluded any…

I wanna jump to the defence of Finn Jones here - while I'm not saying he couldn't have made better use of the material, I think that perhaps the blame lies (mostly) with the writing. It seemed like, at first, they were going with 'innocent kid with a repressed dark side brought on by years of brutal training and…

I get that. I guess their chi makes it sexy, or something.

Agree that Danny and Colleen are lovely together, although TBH I think that maybe has more to do with the actress who plays Colleen than anything else, who is both stunning and badass and brutal and cute and vulnerable all at once and I may have slightly fallen in love with her watching this. Which is weird because I…

Agreed, and also that earlier scene with them fooling around with nunchaku. There was an interesting POV-type direction in that one that conveyed the chemistry between the two really well.

I think they did a little bit. There's definitely at least one scene where she talks about liking the feeling it brings to actually use her skills. But yeah, at the very least they were hedging their bets on this, and certainly the cash seemed like more of a motivating factor.

I think it's also the setting of a scene in John Wick 2, right? I'm not sure where it is but I swear I've seen that place in more than one movie/TV series. (And I think there's a mission in GTA4 that's set in a place like it)

A Taiwanese friend of mine made me try it basically on the first day I was there. The smell isn't good but it doesn't taste too bad, and actually the stuff I've tried has, if anything, tasted slightly bland (the smell obviously notwithstanding). Overall not something I'd actively seek out, but it's okay.

A bit of semi-relevant knowledge: 'Taotie' reads like the romanization of 饕餮, which is a monster in Chinese mythology. My friend explained it to me that in Chinese mythology the Dragon is good, but he had nine sons and they were all evil and the taotie is one of them, and it likes to eat people. The Wikipedia for it…

Haven't seen it cause I wanted to read the book first, but fair enough. I know the BBC generally does alright with costumes and sets, but the daemons might be tricky to handle. Either way, I can stand a few ropey effects if the rest of it's done right.

Hester's goodbye is the Subtle Knife, right?

"And so you've returned to your argument, which is: "This guy who was 100% involved in the process…"
I didn't say that, but certainly more involved than you or I.

The BBC are doing a TV series of the trilogy. I have no idea how they're going to manage it given their usual budget restrictions but it has to be better than the movie.

I heard another rumour that the battle scene in that book was included at the publisher's behest, basically to give the book some big action climax. I can't remember where I heard that though.

"… And then you come over here, and there's a second guitar!"
"Why?
"To fuck with their heads!!!"

Yeah, only a writer. I'm sure he had zero conversations with the studio about this.

"How is it a sellout to China to NOT cast an Chinese actor for something?
And how have you got the balls to just ignore what I already told you…"

Cargill added: “He originates from Tibet, so if you acknowledge that Tibet
is a place and that he’s Tibetan, you risk alienating one billion
people who think that that’s bullshit and risk the Chinese government
going, ‘Hey, you know one of the biggest film-watching countries in the
world? We’re not going to show your…