These Vermin
Is unjustice served yet?
I'm still waiting... to hear your verdict
I'm still waiting... to clear my purpose
I'm still waiting... to snare these vermin
Cause they deserve it
They've been murdered
Is unjustice served yet?
I'm still waiting... to hear your verdict
I'm still waiting... to clear my purpose
I'm still waiting... to snare these vermin
Cause they deserve it
They've been murdered
A gangster boss's daughter learns that the only way to cure her father (who happens to have an incurable disease) is to get a special crystal, so she embarks on a quest to get it. Turns out that this one crystal that can heal her father is also an item of great value, and another league of (less honorable) thugs set out to get it as well. Donnie Yen's the boyfriend of the girl who's father gets killed by this gang, and he's friends with a female cop, so somehow they all get involved in this crystal hunt and it ends with a massive fight-out on top of a mountain.
That's the finale, but before that there's plenty of scheming and chasing going on, and plenty of good martial art fights. The movie feels a bit exotic in how it's a regular 90s HK action flick that actually takes place, at least towards the end, in the woods! Most of these movies take place on the concrete, so even if it's just for a short while, that adds somewhat of an Indiana-Jones-like atmosphere to the film. And it's not just the forest, there's a shrine, there's an air of mysticism even if it is mostly just action. Gunfights, fistfights, of which a few feature the one and only Michael Woods, one my favorite martial artists to never have made it as big as he deserved.
Somehow he always ends up dying in somewhat grotesque ways in the movies he's in, like getting impaled by things or choked to death, which is probably because he looks way too tough to be beaten in a legitimate manner. Arnold doesn't have shit on this guy. Imagine this guy staring in something like the Terminator movies! It'd be a reshaping of history... but it's fine as it is, no prob with Arnold, I just wish this guy had made a bigger impact on the movie biz somehow.
Anyway, this movie is a B-movie no doubt, but it's a good one, with a grand selection of all-star martial artists. Bruce Fontaine included. And best of all, the stunts are real! Good watch.
rated 3/5: not bad
So that's what an uber computer was back then! :D
If you haven't heard of Baboom yet, check it out, it's a new music service about to be launched by Kim Dotcom, that in difference from the competition strives to drive the profit towards the users rather than the service. He was about to launch something similar a couple of years back when MegaUpload was raided and shut down, but I'm glad this thing is still happening, no matter the odds! His new album is first up, for free, along with tweets and videos and interfacial stuff. The rest of the service is only in preview-mode for now, an appetizer of things to come, but it looks promising!
That's not what I was going to write about though, I was going to write about the phenomena of email actions being included as buttons on the subject line of a message, in list-view, in Gmail. Apparently it's a new thing, just recently announced, and this time is the first time I see it in action. And it's good! Finally a change for the better in a long series of changes for the worse and more-complicated.
Wonder how long it'll take the other main email providers to catch on.
I woke up early
I looked at the clock
Too early to get up
I stayed put
I couldn't sleep
I looked at the clock
Just five more minutes
Till seven
I turned around
I thought of the clock
I looked around
I thought
My clock looked
Like it had stopped
I fell asleep, woke up
And forgot