Mama tomato, papa tomato...

...and I'm gonna ketchup...

Finishing up the work from during break - it's now a week back to school. Between the holidays, we took a second look through Kung Fu Hustle. We'd enjoyed the heck out of it in the theater - subtitled there - a year or so ago. This time we couldn't get the subtitles to work just right, so we went with the dubbing which, in this case, really changed the feeling and style of the movie. Instead of being the semi-spiritual comedy romp we remembered it being, Kung Fu Hustle ends up a fair bit crasser. The language in the dubbing is way coarser. The comedy's still there, just a little less obvious, we thought.

There was also Spider-Man: Countdown. Decent enough story - Doc Oc kidnaps the Prime Minister of Israel and holds him hostage 'til Spidey takes off his mask in front of the world news. There's the usual angst from Petey Boy about "ooh...maybe the world would be better if I quit..." - pansy. If the collection wasn't drawn in the most ridiculously cartoonish artwork, the semi-serious tone of the story (psych analysis of why Oc's a bad guy) might've worked well. As it is, however, it directly flies in the face of the storyline. Blech...

There was some music around...I gave the Shin's Oh, Inverted World because I'd heard the soundtrack of Garden State and enjoyed their contributions there. I don't know that I gave it a full, undivided listen, but it didn't exactly come out and grab me. Felt kinda boring to me, honestly. The two songs from that soundtrack were good, but the rest left me cold. Nothing too thrilling.

I'm currently almost finished with Silent Bob Speaks from the tubby bugger himself. The book bounces back and forth among fawning articles, broad humor, and thorough vulgarity. It's not the kind of thing that anybody who isn't a fanboy of Smith would enjoy. It's kind of neat to hear some of the backstage stories from before the movies came out, but the rest is fawning interviews and portraits of his acting friends. It's pretty gross all in all, and it's not a thrilling read along the way.