I Can't Eat This

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Yes, I admit that I am a Star Wars addict. Since I got the “new” blu-ray edition, I own every episode in two versions at least.I know it could be worse, some people have four or five or six or seven different versions of each Star Wars movie to waste their homes with.

While watching “The People vs. George Lucas“ I noticed an interview partner who is involved in originaltrilogy.com.
Original Trilogy? Sounds interesting, as I still think the un-restored, original trilogy has more trash-appeal (what I like!). So hushed on their site and surfed around a little bit and came across FANEDIT.ORG. And that’s the place where it all happens!

Disappointed and/or highly inspired movie fans re-edit, cut, insert deleted scenes, insert or delete soundeffects, etc. etc.
And make it downloadable for free (if you own the original version)

One of the first fanedits (if not the first one) was “The Phantom Edit” by, guess who, The Phantom Editor. Who made his first edit of Episode I with the VHS-Version, and did a retake of it when the DVD came out.

I must point out that this is more Star Wars than the original edit. In this version Episode I is no comedy anymore. One reason is that most of the clumsiness of Jar Jar was cut!

Give it try! Enjoy the prequel trilogy as you never did before!
There are many other edits of it and more movies, e.g. Matrix oder Kill Bill.

MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU

Hello everyone!

I just, in fact I didn’t do it “just”, decided to take a break in blogging.

Will I be back, soon?

I don’t know……………………………..

Intro Edition Asien -- Vol. 1 -- Saibogujiman kwenchana (South Korea 2006)

Commercial quote from intro.de:
Kinky, disrespectful fairy tale of two isolated souls, which breaks the dimension of the imaginable.

The film: Young-gun (Lim Soo Jung) believes to be a Cyborg. In a psychiatric clinic she meets Il-sun (Jung-Ji-hoon), who believes he can steal abilities from other people. Their fantastic romance leads them over the clouds, in a bed pulled by ladybirds, nevertheless it never loses relation to reality.

The director: Park Chan-wook (“Oldboy”) is known for his revenge trilogy. “I’m A Cyborg, But That’s OK” should’ve become his first romantic comedy. The result has amazed himself. Last but not least for this enchanting pleading for love the Korean director has to be one of the outstanding directors of Asian cinema.

So much for intro magazine’s sleevenotes. I just can say: This is the first movie I watched from this series and still the best one for me. If it’s for the camera work, the story, the special effects, or the performance of the actors (ok, a little overacting here and there) it get’s 10/10 points in all.
Right at the start at the movie I was amazed when the credits are written on little mechanical parts and signs in a factory, shown by a camera move all over them. This factory is where the first scene takes place. You can see several workplaces from above where they put transistor-radios together. You hear, what I first thought was a radio commentary, but is a spoken work instruction instead. Then camera zooms to Young-gun’s workplace and the instruction tells her to connect herself to the transistor radio, and she does! This is a little bloody and with that she will fall off her chair. A few scenes later we’re in the psycho hospital where she will meet Il-sun and other strange characters.

Strange and nice to see also is that Young-gun thinks she cannot and does not have to eat anything (because she thinks she’s a Cyborg, remember?), but just has to hold a battery between her forefingers to load herself up with energy. Crazy shit!
Then there are the outstanding dream sequences, which remind me of the things Terry Gilliam does. In one of them scenes Young-gun morphs into a killer-robot with gun-barrels in her fingertips and an ammunition magazine in her mouth. There she runs berserk!

So that you won’t think that this movie is just about crazy things (oh, but it IS) with blood and violence, let me tell you that it is also silly, romantic and a little magic. In a few scenes I choked on laughter, maybe you will, too?

If you can’t get the intro-DVD in your country, open your eyes for the UK, Hongkong, South Korean or Thailand version.
Maybe available at amazoon, but better check out your local dealer instead.

I’m A Cyborg, But That’s OK at imdb.com

This is their second and I think their best one.
The broken guitar sound, like on their first EP, is gone, but you can still sense it under the surface of the songs.

DANCE WITH THE DEAD is a dark hit, maybe a little too long (approx. 6 min.), but you can’t listen to beautiful, melancholic melodies long enough, can you? Side 2 opens with IN ANOTHER TIME which reaches almost side 1. HUNT THE HUNT is a pogo-smasher just to get you out of the chair to flip this record over again and again and again and again.

To fully understand what I mean:

Dance With The Dead
In Another Time
Hunt The Hunt