  Finally saw shaolin soccer yesterday, legally ...cough... liz...cough. But seriously, you should all either come to new york and watch it with me or check out liz's bootleg cuz americans are way to slow to pick up on something like this and itll never make its way out of ny and la. it was brilliant and like six people walked out within the first 15 mins of the show that i was at. this was a ten dollar ticket and most of them had there own popcorn and soda. what kind of person walks out after making that kind of commitment?!?! No wonder divorce has become such commonplace in ou society. Did u not know what u were going to see. When i bought my ticket i was told, or was it warned, that the movie had subtitles and i kind of blew the ticket person off with a look like, "what am i illiterate, who gives a shit.
" And i later thought how can a person who seeks this movie out not know what to expect. It has basically had zero pub so if you even know it exists, u either saw a trailer like a year ago or u read about it somewhere, for example last weekends NY Times,where the difficulties of release and exceptence were pretty clearly laid out.
enuff about stupid people, let me just say that i loved this movie and recommend all come to new york and see it with me. its spoof with out being too spoofy. its got all types of visual and music cues that riff on hong kong and americas most memorable moments and styles. its got all the great action beats but also its your basic sports movie where ragtag bunch comes together to beat the juiced up baddies, its just happens that this ragtag bunch happen to be shaolin masters each with their own specialties (iron head, iron shirt [he could hold the ball with his abs], and iron leg). And the Bruce Lee lookalike/wannabe goalkeeper in the game of death outfit was fantastic. the post game interview.
the musical number in the bar. the dancing in the streets. a must see for all. I wanna see this again. what miramaz needed to do was give this a wider realease and let the local word of mouth permeate in those cities. oh and a tv commercial or two wouldnt hurt. you fucking advertise this flick during conan or the daily show or south park and itll do bank without a question. 
