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Brotherhood Of The Wolf

Published by Steve Lam on January 13, 2002 in Friends and Movies. Closed Tags: , .

Went to Century City again. It’s a nice city, pretty classy. My friend says parts of it reminds him of New York. Lots of good looking and well dressed people, which kind of reminds me of Old Pasadena.

We went to watch the Brotherhood of the Wolf. I thought it was a well made movie. Yet another good foreign film. I’m pretty impressed by the cinematography. The three years of French that I took during high school is starting to pay off since my view of the subtitles was obscured by someone’s head.

Why can’t they put subtitles at the top? This movie would make an excellent video game. Lots of hack and slash action, something like Devil May Cry.

School starts tomorrow, sigh. I need to add more classes.

Black Hawk Down

Published by Steve Lam on January 7, 2002 in Friends and Movies. Closed Tags: , .

I went with my friends to Century City to watch Black Hawk Down. The movie moved me. I nearly cried a few times during the movie. When I got home, I cried. I really think it’s the best war movie I have seen.

The sad truth is that this is the new style of war for the 21st century. We will no longer see large scale wars with tanks a-blazing such as during the Gulf War. The next war will be fought in the streets, among the office buildings and homes, against foes hidden in the darkness. The thing that got to me was seeing that little kid holding a machine gun. Too young to find true love but not too old to know how to kill.

I have great respect for the men and women serving in our armed forces. If the Navy would give me another chance, I would re-enlist within a heartbeat. God bless America.

Good Ol’ Pasadena

Published by Steve Lam on July 13, 2001 in Games and Movies. Closed Tags: , .

Today is a pretty good day despite the fact that it’s Friday the 13th. I love hanging out at Old Pasadena. Good food, good shopping, and lots of beautiful people. What more can you ask for? The food at the Cheese Cake Factory are pricey but very delicious. I had the best shrimp pasta that I have ever tasted.

I am both impressed and disappointed with the movie, Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within. The computer graphics are simply mind-blowing. The skin texture looks so real, you can even see the veins and winkles.

The storyline needs a few more revisions. At the end of the movie, I was like “Huh? What? It’s over already? You call that an ending?” The movie has a strong resemblance to their Final Fantasy 7 PSX game: meteor, lifestream, gaia. In fact, the ending sequence looks like the ending scene of FF7 where Holy emerges.