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The Action-Movie-Badass Guide to Self Surgery

I saw No Country for Old Men last night. It’s a good movie, certainly, but since it followed many of the rules of a typical genre action/chase/thriller. In that context, which you’ll understand if you’ve seen it, it’s ultimately unsatisfying. One of the classic action genre moments is where character of Anton Chigurh performs self surgery using [...]


Look at what they made us give

I’ve just watched The Bourne Ultimatum. It’s an excellent action movie/travelogue, but not as all-round entertaining as, say, Die Hard 4.0 due to the utter lack of humour. Bourne’s been described as an “anti-James Bond” in some of the publicity interviews. Principally, because Bond, like anyone who works in a field dealing with death, has [...]