Kung Fu Bustle
Posted on | December 7, 2008 at 9:33 am | 3 Comments
Movie Mention Monday Sunday!
For all of you complaining that I haven’t been watching manly enough movies lately – ha! Last night N and I watched a flick that was filled with fast action and violence. Kung Fu Panda is the story of an incompetent, clumsy son of a noodle chef who is called upon to become the legendary Dragon Warrior and save the village from the wrath of a martial arts master gone rogue (Ian McShane – it’s good to see he’s not getting typecast from Deadwood). It’s a classy flick that not even Jack Black (who stars as the titular hero) could… um… “declassy”. Sure, it has all the clichés of this type of movie, but at least it does it in a different way. For example, the training montage involves food and made me very hungry.
The Blu-Ray presentation was spectacular. N kept remarking on how colorful and live and vibrant it looked in glorious 1080p, and I agreed. Nice TrueHD sound too. The perfect holiday season pick-me-up movie. Watch through the end credits!
In a bit of synchronicity, I watched this movie on the same day that my 14-year old nephew got his Black Belt in Tae Kwan Do. That’s a very young age for such an accomplishment and I’m very proud of him! His parents held a a victory celebration for him after the belt test. Even though he was stressed out beforehand about the test, he kept saying afterward that it wasn’t as difficult as he thought it would be. It’s good to know I’ve got a martial arts prodigy in the family! I certainly couldn’t have done what he did.
Latre.
Pet Peeve of the Day: The Q company! As I figured would happen, they charged me more for the DSL upgrade than they said they would. Guess I’ll be spending a lot of time on the phone with billing on Monday!
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3 Responses to “Kung Fu Bustle”
December 7th, 2008 @ 1:13 pm
I’m afraid of 14-year olds with black belts. Wait, I’m afraid of all 14-year olds! But I’m jealous. I always wanted to learn some form of martial arts but was to undisciplined and/or lazy.
December 7th, 2008 @ 4:25 pm
I’m complaining that you don’t read enough books lately.
December 10th, 2008 @ 12:01 am
And that you turned off comments on the next blog entry.