Ken Jeonggg

Nice piece on Ken Jeong, the Asian guy who's been appearing in every movie and tv comedy lately.  Read on angryasianman.com

Ahhh been so busy lately, not as much time to scour the internet and keep the unread items on google reader down.  OH, and check out Shannon Brown's monster dunk against the warriors a few nights ago:

Good Advertising

always liked companies that spent the extra effort to make their products stand out with packaging and clever commercials. in this case a really well cut trailer for 'where the wild things are' has suddenly made it one of my must see movies. i think i've read the book as a kid, but i really don't remember. the production and style of the movie looks very promising and stays true to some of the original elements. too bad embedding has been disabled but here you go:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RY-dXsR_ZFg

another one is for the new halo 3 odst game, which even though i don't have an xbox360 has kind of made me a fan of halo. very well done and lots of money put into the marketing machine utilizing live action. the old halo3 commercials were very good as well, really liked their motto 'finish the fight'



and here's one more bit of advertising that's more of the clever side: dog food advertising with nutri balance... give your dog bad food, prepare to get stabbed in the back

Korea's first huge disaster movie, looks decent!

Ponyo!

Here's a link to watch Miyazaki's Ponyo in japanese with english subtitles. It's a story about a little fish who wants to become human. It's so cute!! Ponyo's in theaters right now, but it's in english. Miley Cyrus' little sis and the Jonas' bros little brother are the voices of the little girl and boy in the movie. Matt Damon, Tina Fey, Liam Nielson and some other big names are in the english version of the move too. I haven't seen the english version yet, but i think the japanese version is reallly good! Miyazaki made spirited away, totoro and some other japanese animated movies too. Here's an article about Miyazaki's Ponyo! : )

Inspiration from Infernal Affairs

Well, this is pretty inspiring... if you haven't seen Infernal Affairs yet I would highly recommend it (original movie that Scorsese's The Departed was based on), but basically this guy Nick from England saw the movie and was so awe struck by the different lifestyle/culture in Hong Kong it motivated him to move there and pursue a career in the film while learning Cantonese. The narration is in Cantonese at the beginning but for the majority of the video it's Nick speaking in English telling how he got to the point in life he's at now. No more spoilers, watch the video yourself! Definitely a must watch if you're low on the motivation gatorade