Last night after burning my mouth extensively on Chicken Katsu from 88 Rice Bowl, I watched Tropic Thunder at the Century in Daly City.  This movie is over the top!  Right at the beginning you’re greeted with a soldier holding his intestines in and a war hero getting his hands blown off.  Of course it ends up being just a take on a movie set that’s spoiled when Ben Stiller’s character calls “cut” because he doesn’t feel the script is written well enough.  Meanwhile the itchy fingered pyrotechnics guy doesn’t realize the take was cut and gives the go-ahead to two fighter jets which fire missles near the set and set off a huge explosion.  Truely cinematic excellence.  The rest of the movie is semi predictable as far as the plot, but it’s the dialog between the actors and sticky situations that really make the film.  Two thumbs up!

**At first I thought it was a dude who switched to a female, but it’s the other way around; that makes a lot more sense.  But still, that is going to be one confused kid.

Ha, I think Mr. Bean is hilarious. This movie is the quest of Mr. Bean to find the beach in Cannes, France. On the way he befriends a young boy who was seperated from his famous father (Bean’s fault of course) and gets himself into many uncomfortable yet humorous predicaments. He ends up being a hero in a sense. Sure it’s silly, but whatever it was funny.