Movie Nite!

[Catoneinutica]

Mrs. Catone and I decided to take in a movie last weekend. Pretty exciting, huh? The choice was the Keanu Reeves police actioner Street Kings, which was actually pretty good - infinitely better than the Keanu Reeves reiteration of The Day the Earth Stood Still (Mrs. Catone is a Keanu Reeves fan - yeah, she's heard the gay rumors). Street Kings started off solidly, with this exchange of dialogue between Reeves' Detective Tom Ludlow and some Korean bang-gangers:
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Boss Kim: Yo dawg.

Tom Ludlow: Konnichiwa.

Boss Kim: What?

Tom Ludlow: Konnichiwa. Konnichiwa. It means what's up. So what the fuck's up?

Thug Kim: [upon seeing a huge gun in Ludlow's trunk] The fuck is this? We said a machine gun.

Tom Ludlow: It is a machine gun.

Boss Kim: The kind you can carry.

Thug Kim: Konnichiwa is Japanese. It's insultin' to Koreans.

Tom Ludlow: How am I supposed to tell if you can't?

Thug Kim: Fuck's that supposed to mean, white boy?

Tom Ludlow: It means you got eyes like apostrophes, you dress white, talk black, and drive Jew. So how am I supposed to know what kind of zipperhead dog-munching dink you are if you don't?

Boss Kim: Yo. D'you know who the fuck we are?

Tom Ludlow: Yeah. You're a couple panheads buyin' a machine gun out of a trunk.
[/INDENT]

(Quotes courtesy of IMDB:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0421073/quotes)
Political incorrectness! Plus, it was very credibly filmed in and around Hancock Park and Silverlake.

Some general observations about Cineplex Makuhari:

You can walk in with a big bag of combini goodies and not be challenged. (As a courtesy to the other patrons, though, I wait until a noisy preview has begun before commencing digging through the plastic sack.)

Your gaijin-osity won't necessarily spare you from the indignity of being asked to produce your ticket stub if you leave the theater.

Japanese still apparently like to buy programs for movies. Kind of sweet.

They're still showing that Eiga Dorobo camera-head mofo wearing the stylin' Elvis Costello c. 1982 black suit with narrow black tie. He's an annoying rascal, but he's vastly preferable to that black-tear-crying waif they were showing a few years back.

Another film being shown there was Premonition, a Sandra Bullock farce from 2007. 2007! We all know that Japanese film distributors like to cut costs by waiting one or three or six months before releasing a foreign pic, but two years?

[Behan]

I like that movie theater. I think it was one of the first one's in the Chiba area with reserved seating and that allowed you to pick the seats.

[wuchan]

Street kings was pretty good.

Tom Ludlow: It means you got eyes like apostrophes, you dress white, talk black, and drive Jew. So how am I supposed to know what kind of zipperhead dog-munching dink you are if you don't?

[dimwit]

(Mrs. Catone is a Keanu Reeves fan - yeah, she's heard the gay rumors).

Worse than that are the Canadian rumors. Movies are airplanes. The only thing that might force me to reconsider would be a bad movie festival. 'They Saved Hitler's Brain' just never get shown enough on TV.

[Kuang_Grade]

I haven't seen this myself yet, but I know that one of the writers on the film was author James Ellroy, who has written a number of LA cop books that were then made into movies (such as LA confidential)...I've read some of his stuff and he has a real flair for dialogue

[Mike Oxlong]

Clint Eastwood had some nice dialogue that in Gran Torino...

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[Tsuru]

Thanks for that, Street Kings was great.