The_Mob_Has_Spoken

This is an excellent short form documentary. Werner Herzog is a bit of a character and you never know what his movies are all different* so I always try to catch his stuff. But what I really want to know is why he made this one. My theory is that Herzog got caught in California text messaging while driving a couple times and the judge made him do a movie about it instead of community service. If anybody knows, please PM me.

9/10

*Herzog makes documentaries, feature films, and even acts in other people's movies.

That's about it. The movie follows a moment or two every few years in the life of Philip Seymour Hoffman's somewhat tortured playwright. All of the performances in the film were great. The writing here was circular but brilliant. I've said it before and I'll say it again: Charlie Kaufman must do a ton of LSD (in fact I read here that the film was like a bad LSD trip, which I completely agree with). This is an actor's movie, a playwright's movie, but also an easily accessible film for the masses. Warning: this movie is funny and hallucinatory, but also very, very sad. Although there are no suicides in the film, it is definitely not for the potentially suicidal. Seriously. I'd never say that about anything else I've ever seen. Watching this movie is like that Stephen King short story from the 1980s about long-distance space travel wherein a person stays awake (they are supposed to be unconscious and sees EVERYTHING and perceives/experiences eternity, which drives him irrevocably insane: you will never see the world the same way or be the same person again.

"Golgo 13," while being my favorite comic book character (although he is not likable; after all, he's an assassin), has not for the most part received very good, faithful screen adaptations. For the uninitiated, Golgo 13 is the alias of Duke Togo (also, probably an alias, but people seem to know his name routinely), the world's deadliest assassin and foremost sharpshooter. Now, TokyoTV has made a very faithful, beautifully rendered, decently animated animated series based on the long-running manga. I would recommend this for fans of manga/anime, comic books, and assassin/action movies and even mysteries. The episodes are self-contained and even non-linear, much like the comics. Catch this sweet show on the video-hosting sites, someone is in the process of translating them all into English, Spanish, and French.