No, I thought the same thing.

Christ himself never took a Holier Shit, even after the lamentably uncommented upon Miracle of the Jerked Prunes.

The Lord High Executioner
As Todd squirmed and struggled, and gurgled and guggled, and blathered on and on about his life's backstory, The Mikado drew his snickersnee.

@ the now formerly Unregistered Migrant - semi retarded, as I've read Tennyson's poem but not the Hagakure. Ignoring your juvenile pejorative, just because there's a rigid social structure in place doesn't mean there aren't different ways to live under said structure. Miike presents a heaping helping of them, and…

Calling codes and traditions into question?
Really? Going in, I though the most subversive thing that Miike could possibly do in remaking a Samurai film was to do what he did - by not subverting the genre, by not questioning the Samurai Weltanschauung of that era, but rather to simply present it for what it was,…

Marwencol
If I had made a Top-10 Films list for 2010, I would need to bump something, as Marwencol just leapfrogged into the top 5. From the 1940's style fonts and music cues to the non obtrusive and non exploitative style, and the supremely humane portrait of a broken man healing himself via his work, the film is a…

SATRERMETRICS - Society for American Television Research. Classy of Landgraf to speak even speak to Sean, to answer those probing questions, and to admit he frequents the site, but I really like his stat nerd approach to his decision making process.

Like, not at all. Forget quality wise, they're just radically different films.

Weakest To Action Film in Ages
First To action pic in forever that I was fidgety and bored with throughout. That may be due to suffering in comparison to EXILED - I don't think To has a masterpiece to his credit yet, but if he does, that's it. The plotting and story of EXILED, with it's stylistic riffing on Leone…

Reminds me of A Far Side
"First your pants, then your shoes."

"Something Else" takes "All Yr Songs" behind a glitter factory and bad touches it.

Over the Edge.
My Bodyguard.

"This is what happens when you fuck 8 year olds up the ass!"

One nifty difference between "The Killer" and "Hardboiled" is how the action is staged. Watch the gunfights in "The Killer", they're mostly done via static shots and editing (awesome editing, mind you); shot of Chow blasting some henchman, cut to henchman getting blasted, cut back to Chow.

What, no one stepping into the snobbery breach and exclaiming that it's "Bullet in the Head"?

Olyphant, on Smith, somewhat pertaining to CATCH AND RELEASE:

@ Manny - YES! I mentioned that theory/tie-in to the special lady friend during last week's episode, but she didn't buy it (mostly 'cuz she didn't remember it).

@ that higher Being Whom we revere - Ilana's counting both Kwons, as she said in the episode to Sun. I like that you bring up Kate though, and while I can't imagine this is an original theory/guess, I've been itching to post it and read what others think.

Motherfucking Charlie Bronson
Harding gives such a naked (literally, think Viggo in "Eastern Promises" but stretched (heh) to near short film length, or Brock Samson in full on "preying on their fear, moving like an animal" glory for about 15minutes), raw, theatrical, method out the wazoo perf* that him not getting a…

Champ is a picture of a log. Nessie is a toy submarine with a head made out of plastic wood.