Twins DVD ~ Arnold Schwarzenegger
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It's been a long time since I saw the movie years ago, so I thought I'd take a trip down memory lane with this 80's classic. I was a little disappointed. The story itself holds a lot of promise and Danny DeVito and Chloe Webb perform spectacularly. The story is a well-woven tale of a family separated at birth. The twins played by Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito are the product of a Los Alamos experiment to create the most genetically advanced human being ever by mixing the genetics of several of the world's top performers in various professions from sports to science. The egg splits during incubation and all the good genes go into Julius (Arnold) and all the rest of the… Read more
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Tom Selleck plays Jack Elliot in this funny and insightful comedy about an American baseball player 'demoted' to the Japanese league. It has all the cultural in-jokes that you'd expect including "Taking a bath before washing", "Wearing shoes indoors", and "You say one thing, the translator will make it sound nice". But at the heart of the movie, the story is all about accepting foreign culture. Jack butts heads with Japanese culture. He is loose, relaxed, and immature. The Japanese are tight, uptight, and very serious. As long as everyone sees him as an outsider, they will respect him in public but doubt him in private, and he will never truly fit in. After a series of humiliating… Read more
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This long and preachy novel by Miyabe falls far short of expectations. The primary character detective Honma sets out on a hunt for his nephew's fiancee who has gone missing. In the process he learns all about how the Japanese credit system works and how the unwitting are sucked into the whirlpool of debt. He gets a nice long lesson from several characters about how people who are in debt up to their eyeballs are just everyday folks who got caught up in something they didn't realize was so bad for them. After too many pages of that preachy 'debt is bad' prose, Miyabe sets Honma off in search of the missing fiancee. It's almost miraculous how just when Honma seems to have run into a… Read more
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