Jessica Alba in Japan

by **twww** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 1:13 pm

The Orient express! Jessica Alba hits the tourist trail on family holiday in Japan

by **Screwed-down Hairdo** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 1:22 pm

What's all this Alba tross?

by **Coligny** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 1:34 pm

Come on...

You never saw one of her movies ?

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004695/

Me neither actually...

Wait... maybe sin city... but can't admit this in public...

by **cstaylor** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 2:12 pm

Coligny wrote:Wait... maybe sin city... but can't admit this in public...

This coming from the man who can quote Firefly at will... have you never seen Dark Angel? :wink:

by **Coligny** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 2:46 pm

cstaylor wrote:This coming from the man who can quote Firefly at will... have you never seen Dark Angel?

Seriously...

I NEVER SAW EVEN 1 EPISODE OF FIREFLY...

Same for Dark Angel...

It's not snobism, religious or sumthing... I just have yet to try... But they are not exactly high on my viewing list...

I discovered "Lost" "Heroes" and "Nikita" only 6 month ago... and for "Lost" it was really hard to even finish the 1st season as it was quite fast getting clear that they were making shit on the fly and had no clue where they were going... I can't remember anything from Heroes... and For Nikita I watched without the sound because I'm a big fan of the wooden acting of Maggie Q since her seks tape with that actor from the live Initial D movie... (NOT anthony wong...)

by **cstaylor** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 2:56 pm

Coligny wrote:Seriously...

I NEVER SAW EVEN 1 EPISODE OF FIREFLY...

You've never seen the "I'll be in my bunk" episode?

by **gaijinpunch** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 3:30 pm

Machete?

by **Netherlander** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 3:43 pm

Coligny wrote:... and for "Lost" it was really hard to even finish the 1st season as it was quite fast getting clear that they were making shit on the fly and had no clue where they were going....

That is so funny. That was the same thing I thought. I thought so around the end of season 2. The story was going in circles. Don't get me started on "Heroes". That was so painful to watch. Especially the other "Japanese guy" who wasn't Japanese (not the main J actor). I think he was Korean. Everytime he spoke Japanese it made me want to blow my brains out. I quit watching that after 3 to 4 episodes. :noose:

by **Samurai_Jerk** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 3:58 pm

Netherlander wrote:That is so funny. That was the same thing I thought. I thought so around the end of season 2. The story was going in circles. Don't get me started on "Heroes". That was so painful to watch. Especially the other "Japanese guy" who wasn't Japanese (not the main J actor). I think he was Korean. Everytime he spoke Japanese it made me want to blow my brains out. I quit watching that after 3 to 4 episodes.

I'm such an idiot I stuck with both shows till the end. I guess I'm a glutton for punishment.

I try to ignore the bad Japanese accents in movies and TV shows because I know it only affects me because I know Japanese. According to my Korean friends the Korean character in LOST had a horrible accent but it didn't bother me at all since I don't know Korean.

Now I'm into to Dexter (last season was horrible though), Walking Dead, Game of Thrones and Breaking Bad. I also just watched a couple of episodes of True Blood but I haven't decided to whether or not I like it yet.

Speaking of bad accents the accents in True Blood are horrible. It seems like few people who aren't from the South and actually do a Southern accent. Tom Hank's accent in Forrest Gump ruined the movie for me. The Walking Dead is better because they actually use a lot of Southern actors and at least the guys faking it like the main character aren't overdoing it to a cartoonish level.

by **cstaylor** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 4:28 pm

Samurai_Jerk wrote:Game of Thrones

8-)

Samurai_Jerk wrote:The Walking Dead

:robot:

I liked the comic, but the herds shown on television are amazing.

by **Netherlander** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 4:31 pm

Samurai_Jerk wrote:I try to ignore the bad Japanese accents in movies and TV shows because I know it only affects me because I know Japanese. According to my Korean friends the Korean character in LOST had a horrible accent but it didn't bother me at all since I don't know Korean.

This comment really surprised me. My wife was a big fan of Lost, but she never had any complaints about the Korean actor's Korean. I did some research and I read that he was originally from Pusan (in the south east of the peninsula). Apparently their accents are quite terrible down there.

by **Screwed-down Hairdo** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 4:46 pm

Samurai_Jerk wrote:Speaking of bad accents the accents in True Blood are horrible. It seems like few people who aren't from the South and actually do a Southern accent. Tom Hank's accent in Forrest Gump ruined the movie for me. The Walking Dead is better because they actually use a lot of Southern actors and at least the guys faking it like the main character aren't overdoing it to a cartoonish level.

I know how to squeal like a pig....

by **Coligny** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 4:48 pm

cstaylor wrote:You've never seen the "I'll be in my bunk" episode?

Nope, I got that meme from Fark.com...

Seriously guys... the walking dead ? How can you stand that crap... You just wish the actors to be muredered... The only worse TV shows (as in truly awefull) are the reboot of V with a psychorigid bitch replacing Jane Badler as Diana AND the reboot of the prisonner... who was criminally bad...

I discovered Doctor Who around 2 weeks ago... Just to realise that I don't like it at all... Watch the 9th Doctor because of Billie Piper... Then the awesum 10th because David Tennant(*)... And could not watch the 1st episode of the 11th Doctor until the end... as it was unbearable with some sort of child molester trying to play David Tennant playing the Doctor... ((*)Check the remake of Fright Night... it's good... they completly rewrote Peter Vincent from grandpa' with dementia to awesome coward)

by **Screwed-down Hairdo** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 4:50 pm

Coligny wrote:Nope, I got that meme from Fark.com...

Seriously guys... the walking dead ? How can you stand that crap... You just wish the actors to be muredered... The only worse TV shows (as in truly awefull) are the reboot of V with a psychorigid bitch replacing Jane Badler as Diana AND the reboot of the prisonner... who was criminally bad...

I discovered Doctor Who around 2 weeks ago... Just to realise that I don't like it at all... Watch the 9th Doctor because of Billie Piper... Then the 10th because David Tennant(*)... And could not watch the 1st episode of the 11th Doctor until the end... as it was unbearable with some sort of child molester trying to play David Tennant playing the Doctor... ((*)Check the remake of Fright Night... it's good... they completly rewrote Peter Vincent from grandpa' with dementia to awesome coward)

I think you'll like Survivors...the one from the '70s is awesome! Should be online.

by **Cyka UchuuJin** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 5:06 pm

Samurai_Jerk wrote:I'm such an idiot I stuck with both shows till the end. I guess I'm a glutton for punishment.

I try to ignore the bad Japanese accents in movies and TV shows because I know it only affects me because I know Japanese. According to my Korean friends the Korean character in LOST had a horrible accent but it didn't bother me at all since I don't know Korean.

Now I'm into to Dexter (last season was horrible though), Walking Dead, Game of Thrones and Breaking Bad. I also just watched a couple of episodes of True Blood but I haven't decided to whether or not I like it yet.

Speaking of bad accents the accents in True Blood are horrible. It seems like few people who aren't from the South and actually do a Southern accent. Tom Hank's accent in Forrest Gump ruined the movie for me. The Walking Dead is better because they actually use a lot of Southern actors and at least the guys faking it like the main character aren't overdoing it to a cartoonish level.

i couldn't make it through even the first episode of Heroes.

it's Californication, Nurse Jackie, The Big C, and Modern Family for me. Used to really be into House, but kinda went off it when the obvious House/Cuddy thing finally happened.

Southern accents...yum.

by **Samurai_Jerk** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 5:27 pm

Netherlander wrote:This comment really surprised me. My wife was a big fan of Lost, but she never had any complaints about the Korean actor's Korean. I did some research and I read that he was originally from Pusan (in the south east of the peninsula). Apparently their accents are quite terrible down there.

He moved to the States when he was really young and doesn't speak the language.

by **cstaylor** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 5:45 pm

Coligny wrote:Nope, I got that meme from Fark.com...

I always pictured you like this when you post from your bunker:

by **Coligny** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 5:56 pm

Cyka UchuuJin wrote:i couldn't make it through even the first episode of Heroes.

I was tricked into watching it by the Rifftrax version... who make anything watchable... I even watched the Rifftrax of the first 2 twilight... while I can't stand the real movies...

(also check:The Room... it's a cult inside a cult...)

For survivors, I started watching the reboot... There is something missing, not gloomy enough... I much preferred Days of the Triffids (original and reboot).

Also one awesum TV show that I discovered lately isDoomwatch but it's one of those incredibly not archived Beeb early TV shows... There have been a reboot (sort of)...

called X-Files... (at least the season 1) after it get weird... up until "The lone gunmen" for which the episode 1 could be titled... uhm... AWW SHIT SHIT SHIT... (it's basically a remake of 911 were the US governement decide to crash a jet into the WTC in a false flag operation -they didun't think aboot using camel jockey instead)

by **Coligny** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 8:04 pm

cstaylor wrote:I always pictured you like this when you post from your bunker:

Nah... I look much more normal...

by **nikoneko** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 9:42 pm

Coligny wrote:

Wow Coligny you're even more normal than I pictured.

And there is a great French post-apocalypse film actually you might like if you don't know it. I'll ask my Parisian friend when he gets back from LA.

Too lazy too list all my shows right now but most have been covered except Mad Men. More quality from AMC.

Also...
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by **nikoneko** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 9:48 pm

Ah! Malevil found it. Also Fukatsu no Hi for the Japanese offering.

by **Coligny** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 10:36 pm

Yup Malevil and Virus (fukatsu no Hi) are personnal favorit since I was a kitten

(The blue train engine in the tunnel being my favorite model since forever)

You can also add to the dystopian list:
By Dawn's Early Light (1990)
Nosutoradamusu no daiyogen (1974)
Rain Of Fire (a.k.a. Holocaust 2000) (1977)
Countdown to Looking Glass [1984]
On the Beach (1959) and (2000)
Special Bulletin (1983)
The Omega Man (1971)
Wrong Is Right (1982)
The day after (1983)
Silent Running (1972)
Contagion (2011)
Margin Call (2011)
Carriers (2009)
Dead Air (2009)
Pontypool (2008)In the mouth of madness (1994)
Split Second (1992)
The mist (2007)Silent Hill (2006)
World War Three (1998)

by **Screwed-down Hairdo** » Tue Apr 24, 2012 8:31 am

Coligny wrote:Yup Malevil and Virus (fukatsu no Hi) are personnal favorit since I was a kitten

(The blue train engine in the tunnel being my favorite model since forever)

You can also add to the dystopian list:
By Dawn's Early Light (1990)
Nosutoradamusu no daiyogen (1974)
Rain Of Fire (a.k.a. Holocaust 2000) (1977)
Countdown to Looking Glass [1984]
On the Beach (1959) and (2000)
Special Bulletin (1983)
The Omega Man (1971)
Wrong Is Right (1982)
The day after (1983)
Silent Running (1972)
Contagion (2011)
Margin Call (2011)
Carriers (2009)
Dead Air (2009)
Pontypool (2008)In the mouth of madness (1994)
Split Second (1992)
The mist (2007)Silent Hill (2006)
World War Three (1998)

Concur with all of these!
I love dystopian cinema/literature...reminds me of life in Japan!

by **GomiGirl** » Tue Apr 24, 2012 8:38 am

You guys have WAY TOO much time on your hands. I can barely get through an episode of the Wiggles on DVD before I have something to do.

I used to love LOST and watched it all the way to the end. Heroes - I kinda forgot about it. But what are all these zombie shows on now? Crikey..

by **gaijinpunch** » Tue Apr 24, 2012 8:52 am

Thanks for that list, Coligny. Need to check out.
Heroes went way off the deep end pretty quickly. Lost I thought was written pretty well, even though as stated, on the fly. Was hoping one of the girls would get into Kate's pants too, but that never happened.

Jason Kee (sp?) is the fake J-guy in Heroes. His Japanese is tolerable, and actually pretty good for a non-Japanese. I dare say better than most people's here. Daniel Dae Kim speaks learned Korean, but I as well never heard it ranked as awful.

Breaking Bad: Best show evar. The Good Wife is pretty good for a serial-drama that doesn't have to do with narcotics or being stuck on a stranded island.

by **Screwed-down Hairdo** » Tue Apr 24, 2012 9:06 am

GomiGirl wrote:I can barely get through an episode of the Wiggles on DVD before I have something to do...

Once I start wiggling, I have trouble stopping, too...

by **cstaylor** » Tue Apr 24, 2012 9:42 am

GomiGirl wrote:You guys have WAY TOO much time on your hands.

Well, Firefly was only 14 episodes, 15 if you count the movie. :wink:

by **GomiGirl** » Tue Apr 24, 2012 10:55 am

I used to watch loads of TV but with work and a toddler there just aren't enough hours in the day.

Hubby still gets to watch lots - he has a huge collection of crap movies and watches them when he gets home from work in the middle of the night - what is wrong with this picture?

by **nikoneko** » Tue Apr 24, 2012 10:58 am

Awesome list Coligny thanks. I'm closer to GG these days and just have time for random comedies mostly but will check it out.

by **matsuki** » Tue Apr 24, 2012 1:12 pm

GomiGirl wrote:what is wrong with this picture?

Your lack of appreciation for crappy movies?

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