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Watching old Shaw Bros movies (and LADY SNOWBLOOD) has ruined whatever enjoyment I used to get out of KILL BILL Volume 1 (the only one of the two parts I really enjoyed) I tried to re-watch it....like LADY SNOWBLOOD he just cribbed outright and stuffed white people into the roles...like whole ass shots and scenes and blocking are the exact same...may as well have just credited Toshiya Fujita for them...

BUT....

While I still dislike Part 2...that Hong Kong film education has given me a MASSIVE appreciation of the whole Pei Mai sequence where Shaw Bros. regular Gordon Liu plays the master teaching her Kung Fu....and I mean it's also copying the Shaw Bros superior work...(the "show me your skills" scene with the sword is really just the merchant tea cup scene from DIRTY HO with weapons)...but at least it tries to be interesting, and getting to watch Liu in one of his last major roles playing an elder statesmen to the young upstart that he started his career as, is super poetic. I realize he's in Part 1 two under a mask as a Crazy 8, but his role in Part 2 is just a love letter to the roles that made him what he was. If I give Tarantino nothing else (and I do NOT like that man)....I'll give him props for giving Liu one last chance to shine for casual western audiences (he was in a few other roles in HK before his 2014 forced retirement) who might not otherwise have seen him and see how brilliant he is. Similar to Ang Lee getting Chang Pei Pei back into a role that hearkened to her COME DRINK WITH ME days in CROUCHING TIGER...

Anyways, the movies didn't change, I did.

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Watched the Netflix documentary WHO KILLED THE MONTREAL EXPOS? and it made me freshly angry about it...even as a lifelong Blue Jays fan, it's hard not to see Jeffrey Loria and David (voted off Survivor after 3 days) Samson as the villains they are in stealing the only other MLB team Canada had when monetary opportunity presented itself...you don't buy into a team for 18mil, use a bunch of shitty cash calls to get a 93% stake and then sell for 120mil and come out of it without being the villain.

But the thing that annoyed me most is that they touch on Quebec Premier Lucien Bouchard balking at offering up the money to build the new stadium....and claiming "How can I build a stadium and close hospitals"...and the doc leaves it at that.....and while that is a valid reason for the province not to invest...they NEGLECT to mention that Bouchard had pissed away millions on an attempt to seperate Quebec from Canada that had ultimately failed....like THAT'S where all the money went, and WHY hospitals were closing....the documentary leaves that entirely out...I blame Bouchard at least as much as I blame Loria and Samson for taking advantage of the situation to steal the team.

[Tsundoku]

100% will watch.

[Whisperzzzzzzz]

 Tsundoku, on 30 October 2025 - 11:58 AM, said:

100% will watch.

Hilarious!

[Abyss]

QuickTidal, on 29 October 2025 - 02:38 PM, said:

Watched the Netflix documentary WHO KILLED THE MONTREAL EXPOS? and it made me freshly angry about it...even as a lifelong Blue Jays fan, it's hard not to see Jeffrey Loria and David (voted off Survivor after 3 days) Samson as the villains they are in stealing the only other MLB team Canada had when monetary opportunity presented itself...you don't buy into a team for 18mil, use a bunch of shitty cash calls to get a 93% stake and then sell for 120mil and come out of it without being the villain.

But the thing that annoyed me most is that they touch on Quebec Premier Lucien Bouchard balking at offering up the money to build the new stadium....and claiming "How can I build a stadium and close hospitals"...and the doc leaves it at that.....and while that is a valid reason for the province not to invest...they NEGLECT to mention that Bouchard had pissed away millions on an attempt to seperate Quebec from Canada that had ultimately failed....like THAT'S where all the money went, and WHY hospitals were closing....the documentary leaves that entirely out...I blame Bouchard at least as much as I blame Loria and Samson for taking advantage of the situation to steal the team.

You think what the the doc raises is bad, you should have been there when it was happening.
Probably the closest Montreal ever came to outright seceding from Quebec. ...i am only being semi-sensationalist/sarcastic, people lost their minds. I know at least three who (claim that they) moved to TO because of it.

[QuickTidal]

Abyss, on 31 October 2025 - 02:02 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 29 October 2025 - 02:38 PM, said:

Watched the Netflix documentary WHO KILLED THE MONTREAL EXPOS? and it made me freshly angry about it...even as a lifelong Blue Jays fan, it's hard not to see Jeffrey Loria and David (voted off Survivor after 3 days) Samson as the villains they are in stealing the only other MLB team Canada had when monetary opportunity presented itself...you don't buy into a team for 18mil, use a bunch of shitty cash calls to get a 93% stake and then sell for 120mil and come out of it without being the villain.

But the thing that annoyed me most is that they touch on Quebec Premier Lucien Bouchard balking at offering up the money to build the new stadium....and claiming "How can I build a stadium and close hospitals"...and the doc leaves it at that.....and while that is a valid reason for the province not to invest...they NEGLECT to mention that Bouchard had pissed away millions on an attempt to seperate Quebec from Canada that had ultimately failed....like THAT'S where all the money went, and WHY hospitals were closing....the documentary leaves that entirely out...I blame Bouchard at least as much as I blame Loria and Samson for taking advantage of the situation to steal the team.

You think what the the doc raises is bad, you should have been there when it was happening.
Probably the closest Montreal ever came to outright seceding from Quebec. ...i am only being semi-sensationalist/sarcastic, people lost their minds. I know at least three who (claim that they) moved to TO because of it.

I feel that....the Bouchard days feel so long ago ( I mean they were) but it feels like 3 Quebecs ago...