Dr. Raymond Stantz: Everything was fine with our system until the power grid was shut off by dickless here.
Walter Peck: They caused an explosion!
Mayor: Is this true?
Dr. Peter Venkman: Yes, it’s true. This man has no dick.
Some things never get old.
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Was bowled over by Royston Tan’s Shiwu (15) at the Sydney Film Festival. Tan got real teenage Singaporean gangstas to play the alienated, “no future” kids in the film, and as one would expect, it’s some fucked up shit, refusing both humanism and pomo sarcasm with moments of pure pain and strange humour. But despite all the constant references to hopelessness and despair, most noticeable thing about the film is the amount of care and tenderness that the boys demonstrate to each other. It even gets self-consciously tear-jerky at points, but true to my own prejudices, Shiwu seems proud of that emotional truth. And it helps that one of the guys looks just like Richey from the Manics.