July, 16, 2001 archives

crouching tiger, hidden dragon is a pretty amazing movie. some of the "flying" scenes are a bit silly, but there are more than enough other moments that more than make up for that. but the person who cut the us trailer should be strung up by their toes. the international trailer is beautiful and intriguing. the us trailer is a hack job, complete with painful voiceover by that standard movie trailer voice guy. the marketing genius behind that one deserves some purple yin in their frappucino.

today marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of catcher in the rye, so i figured i better finally read it. (for whatever reason, i didn't read it in high school like you're apparently supposed to, and i hadn't yet read the copy i bought for myself back in december while doing christmas shopping.) it was grand.