Garrulus Grommeler

It's been a long time since I've blogged about a movie in this fashion. Hopefully, this new version of my blog won't degenerate into nothing more than a movie-reaction-fest. That's not what it's meant to be. In any case, I watched this last night. It's one of six movies I recently rented (so, yeah, you are going to see a short spate of movie-related posts over the next few days). Bangkok Dangerous was not as good as I'd heard it was. Not in my opinion, anyway. For a paid assassin, Joe, played by Nicolas Cage, is too damned soft-hearted (not to mention too easily swayed from the principles he espouses at the beginning of the movie). I suppose that this is meant to be his character's fatal flaw, but it comes across as too convenient. The ending has a satisfying twist, I'll admit, but Cage has done better. I've a soft-spot for movies that take place in Thailand since I lived there during my early teens. I like it when I can see not only parts of Ba...

Added links to more destinations in my ever-growing list of links deep down below at the bottom of this blog page. Added links to . . . Belgium (not been there . . . yet) Denmark (not been there . . . yet) England (lived there for about 3½ years, when I was a teenager; lived in the village of Shenington, and later in Bloxham; this was during my high school years) Guam (been there; was a stop-over when I moved to Okinawa and again when I moved to Thailand) Japan (lived there for about 3½ years, when I was very young; lived on the island of Okinawa; went to kindergarten there, in fact) Philippines (been there; was a stop-over on the return trip from Thailand) Poland (not been there; have had several friends over the years from there; currently have one friend who lives there, in Bialystok ; good reason to go visit, if you ask me) Scotland (been there; visited when I lived in England) Sweden (not been there; for some reaso...