The movies

[Andromeda18_]

What? You mean to say you knew from the start that that guy in the middle of the room was still alive? I thought that was the best part. Movie kinda sucks if you knew that from the start.

Actually I did. I don't have a way to prove it to you so you'll just have to take my word for it. Right after the movie started and I saw the guy lying in the middle of the room I turned to my boyfriend and said "that's the killer", and sure enough he was. Same thing happened with Oldboy, long before the great secret was revealed I had already figured out what it was. I suppose I just have a good sixth sense for this sort of thing. :p But it doesn't really ruin anyhting for me, for one because I'm always eager to find out if I'm right or wrong but also because knowing the ending makes me want to know what happened in between even more. That's why I have the nasty habit of reading a book's final pages before actually getting there, I become even more curious. Sometimes I get the idea that the book ends in a particular way but after I read the whole thing and put those final pages into context I get really surprised. That's what happened when I read Banana Yoshimoto's Tsugumi, I thought Tsugumi was going to die in the end but afterall she didn't, even if it looked that way.

Brotherhood of the Wolf is a fantastic movie. I love that the French have finally enlisted the help of the Chinese for some of their fight choreography but still manage to keep the whole thing feeling like something not from HK or Hollywood. The dub is horrid though...

I watched this movie back in 2002 (when it premiered here) and thought it was really good. I watched it in it's original language though, the thought of dubbed films alone gives me chills!