In case you missed Washigton Post film critic Stephen Hunter's insane piece on Seung-Hui Cho and the influence Asian cinema may or may not have had on him, please check it out. I had planned to skewer it for the tripe that it is (whoah, mixed metaphor), but the New York Times' own A.O. Scott did it for me. Regarding Hunter's wild speculation about Oldboy and classic, genre-defining John Woo/Chow Yun-Fat Hong Kong action films Hard-Boiled (pictured) and The Killer, Scott has this to say: "It is hard to say what all this proves, other than that Mr. Hunter has no peer when it comes to wielding the conditional tense on deadline." Damn. Cold for the streets. This could prove to be as entertaining a film-critic related feud as that time Vincent Gallo said of Roger Ebert, he's a "fat pig with the physique of a slave trader."
3 comments:
speaking of metaphors, i think holden should go soak in the moisture of dubya's soiled and bloody underwear.
by holden i meant hunter, of course.
While I love Pravda on the Potomac, my hometown paper, their film critics are a bunch of soiled and bloody asses. No doubt.
Doesn't Sewell Chan have time to review movies on the weekends?
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