I (also a heterosexual male) went to a movie screening introduced by Mr. Leung. All he said was the equivalent of "Hey, hope you like it." The friend I went with said she'd never seen me so giddy and excited for anything ever.

Johnny To for Election, Election 2, Drug War…oh hell, I'm just naming everything. He's the one I want Hollywood or whoever to give gobs of money to and let him do whatever.

I watched a Bullet in the Head that way, and I would agree. But I also think you should track down that laserdisc and sell it for a bajilion dollars.

That one long take in hospital too, or that light my cigarette with things I blew up…

You know, I think it's still pretty good, but it is a lot slower than I remembered when I watched it again. No as incredibly slow as the original Tron, but it has a really slow rev.

The third book was also the first one that was more than a well executed basic adventures.

I wonder if they cast Johnny Rico to type or change the name? In in his fascist vision of it, Verhoeven liked throwing in that the races would be mixed and a coed shower scene. Man likes his coed shower scenes.

Yeah, I think so. I picked the one that looked the most fun for the big screen—I think Soldier of Orange in particular is pretty available. But one of those Q&As would be fun too.

I've never caught up to any of his Dutch stuff. The Lincoln Center retrospective is where I missed Spetters. Still a few I could catch though.

I definitely remember conversations about it revolving it being just a fun sci-fi action movie, even when I said I thought otherwise. Satire's just kind of a thing that a lot of people don't see.

See, I'm mostly with you, but when the movie came out and to most people, too subtle.

It wasn't the week where I could drag myself across the city for it, but now I regret missing the Spetters showing—which I've never seen.

I'm not much of a drinker so I don't know if it actually means anything, but the brewers for Europe might be someone else. Like Budweiser is brewed by Guiness in Ireland, for example.

Comedians tend to write their own from what I've gathered—for most of them words being their thing.

That's still like ten more years of stories than she has…

Maybe it's just a cult hit in the UK? I'd call the UK Office a cult hit in the US.

Oh, I just mean it'd be interesting to encounter a more ambiguous set of "villains" once in a while.

They've all got their hierarchical aspects, but basketball, and the NBA in particular, has more player say and coaches working closer with them than the other major sports. It makes sense to me that the NBA's vocal coaches are more anti-Trump.

Hmm…I read that Mortimer Ramsey paragraph and I came off with a different feeling about that "of course" that finished it. I'm wondering, what if he was a nobleman who didn't like a feudalistic system that left a preteen in charge and her murderous kill-father? Foolish maybe, but not a stretch i don't think.

Those "boss" kill scenarios were all pretty grim, and the one where the woman is carted away the most disturbing of the lot. You can argue some of it I think, a little dubiously, that you're taking effective organizers out, and disgrace is always more damaging than assassination.