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April 24, 2005

~~ADD~~ ADHD Media Reviews

Posted by Bill

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House of Flying Daggers: It's visually stunning, well-paced, intriguing and ultimately moving, continuing Yimou Zhang's mastery of the unique action/chick-flick genre of martial arts movies. 100+ minutes of watching Ziyi Zhang is worth the price of admission alone, and even she might not qualify as the most beautiful visual in the movie. Recommended.

The Office - Series One, Two and the Special: some of the most brilliant comedy I've seen in years. As funny or funnier than anything within recollection on TV, it reaches Spinal Tap proportions of drily delivered deadpan belly laughs. Buy it. Though if you're sort of daft and prefer to be bludgeoned over the head with Gallagher's mallet and Benny Hill's spastic waddle, try renting first.

Iron Maiden - Powerslave and the Number of the Beast: Bought on a nostalgiac whim, the bass-heavy strains of cheesy-thinky UK speed metal still hold up after all these years. I certainly can't generally recommend it, but if you were raised on Eddie, don't be afraid to "up the irons" once again.

Which begs a difficult question: when I'm 80, will I pop in the old Iron Maiden CD's and play air guitar with my IV stand? Because that's sort of an odd visual, ittn'tit?

UPDATE: Apparently, the "ADD Reviews" concept is already taken. Post title changed.

Posted by Bill at April 24, 2005 03:23 PM | TrackBack (0)

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The ADD Reviews concept is already taken by a friend of mine, and he has several years of prior art :)
http://addreviews.com/
http://addmovies.com/

Iron Maiden put out a new album this year, Dance of Death, that is quite good. They are still touring and making music.

Posted by: Chris at April 24, 2005 06:23 PM

Hmmm, I had no idea about the ADD thing. Altered.

Posted by: Bill from INDC at April 24, 2005 06:36 PM

Did you know the bamboo forest in HOFD is actually located in the Crimea? Apparently it was rainy season or something in China & they couldn't film. But I didn't like the movie as much as Hero. Zhang Ziyi has a nice website, & it was good to see her included on Vanity Fair's recent cover photo of hot actresses, along with people like Thurman & Blanchette

Posted by: beautifulatrocities at April 25, 2005 06:23 PM

God willing, I will still be playing air guitar at 80.

Posted by: HS at April 27, 2005 01:59 PM