{"id":7223,"date":"2003-08-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-08-25T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2003\/08\/26\/2003-08-26\/"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"2003-08-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2003\/08\/26\/2003-08-26\/","title":{"rendered":"2003-08-26"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Movie day. We started out with Olga by watching “Rabbit-Proof Fence<\/A>“. Although it was a good movie, it didn’d fill me enough. Lots of nice scenery of Australia, but the plot is simple and action is mostly absent. So, I call up Hazard and we go to his place to watch something more disturbing – “Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life<\/A>“. Hilareous was it. Very brave movie even for our time. Lots of church humor and Douglas Adams atmosphere.
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\nI came home and felt almost filled with movies, but my appetite for some cheap action with lots of fighting and blood was still high. I went through the pile of CDs with DivX which my brother gave me recently, and came across “Evil Cult<\/A>“. It’s one of the early Jet Li movies. Chineese martial arts movie, so to speak. So I watched it. I didn’t like it much, although I am a fan of cheap chinese butt-kicking dancing. The fact that the movie was all in Chinese didn’t have to deal with my disliking it though. :) Martial arts were good as they were, but my position on fighting in movies like this is that it should be one guy fighting another one guy fighting a bunch of others. I don’t like a bunch of guys fighting another bunch of guys. It’s way off the style. :)
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\nIn other news, it’s my grandmother’s birthday today – Happy Birthday, Grandma! :) Though I doubt that she will ever read it – she’s from pre-Internetic generation. :)<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

Movie day. We started out with Olga by watching “Rabbit-Proof Fence“. Although it was a good movie, it didn’d fill me enough. Lots of nice scenery of Australia, but the plot is simple and action is mostly absent. 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