Southie (film)

The Forbidden Kingdom (2008)

Actors: Unjoo Lee Byars (miscellaneous crew), David Magdael (miscellaneous crew), Woo-ping Yuen (producer), Jack W. Haddox (miscellaneous crew), Michael Paseornek (producer), Jack W. Haddox (miscellaneous crew), Jet Li (actor), Jackie Chan (actor), Michael Angarano (actor), Jet Li (actor), Jackie Chan (actor), Ryan Kavanaugh (producer), Collin Chou (actor), Woo-ping Yuen (miscellaneous crew), Peter Hric (miscellaneous crew),

Plot: An American teenager who is obsessed with Hong Kong cinema and kung-fu classics makes an extraordinary discovery in a Chinatown pawnshop: the legendary stick weapon of the Chinese sage and warrior, the Monkey King. With the lost relic in hand, the teenager unexpectedly finds himself traveling back to ancient China to join a crew of warriors from martial arts lore on a dangerous quest to free the imprisoned Monkey King.

Keywords: action-hero, alley, ambulance, american, archery, artifact, based-on-novel, battle, beating, bird
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Romance,
Taglines: The path is unsafe. The place is unknown. The journey is unbelievable. The battle for eternity is the fantasy of a lifetime. (Canadian poster)

Quotes:

[Lu Yan meets the Silent Monk for the first time]::Lu Yan: Ahh, good to get off my feet! Long day. So, where you from? Shangdong Province? You look like the Shangdong Province type. You come here often? [the Monk doeesn't answer]::Lu Yan: That staff doesn't belong to you. You have to give it to me, or somebody might get hurt.

Jason Tripitikas: I can't understand you.::Lu Yan: That's because you're not listening!

Jason Tripitikas: He needs wine. It's his elixir.::Medicine Monk: We will send a walking monk.::Lu Yan: Don't you have a running monk?

The Silent Monk: But, he's not even Chinese.

The Monkey King: You have freed me traveller, now go free yourself.

Lu Yan: Don't tell me you consider it sinful to drink.::The Silent Monk: It's sinful if you don't share.

Lu Yan: It is said that master and student walk side-by-side, sharing their fate, until they go their separate ways.::Jason Tripitikas: I'll never forget you.::Lu Yan: I guess that's what being immortal truly means.

Lu Yan: [the Silent Monk does a Praying Mantis stance] Praying Mantis! Very good... for catching bugs! But not Tiger! [does a Tiger Stance]

Golden Sparrow: [as she lies dying] Jade Warlord?::Jason Tripitikas: [tearfully] He's dead.::Golden Sparrow: I... I thank you.

Jason Tripitikas: [seeing guards approaching] What do we do now?::Lu Yan: How good is your Gung-fu? [Jason stares at Lu Yan]::Lu Yan: He who speaks, does not know; He who knows, does not speak. Surely you're masterful.

Two for the Money (2005)

Actors: Carly Pope (actress), April Telek (actress), William S. Taylor (actor), Jeremy Piven (actor), Al Pacino (actor), Veena Sood (actress), Gedde Watanabe (actor), Adrian Holmes (actor), Gerard Plunkett (actor), Stephen Dimopoulos (actor), Gary Hudson (actor), Matthew McConaughey (actor), Armand Assante (actor), Christophe Beck (composer), James G. Robinson (producer),

Plot: Brandon Lang loves football: an injury keeps him from the pros, but his quarterback's anticipation makes him a brilliant predictor of games' outcomes. Needing money, he leaves Vegas for Manhattan to work for Walter Abrams advising gamblers. Walter has a doting wife, a young daughter, and a thriving business, but he has problems: a bum heart, a belief he's a master manipulator, and addictions barely kept in check. He remakes Brandon, and a father-son relationship grows. Then, things go awry. Walter may be running a con. The odds against Brandon mount.

Keywords: addiction, advisor, airliner, airport, anger, audio-cassette, bar, baseball, based-on-true-story, basketball
Genres: Drama, Sport, Thriller,

Quotes:

Walter Abrams: After the therapy, and the psychiatry, and the meetings, you know what it all comes down to? You're all fucked up.

Toni Morrow: I'm married to Walter.::Brandon Lang: Ooooo... bogey.

Walter Abrams: Oh man... You better hold on to the coin you flipped. Because this game keeps up like this, I'm going to have to borrow it.

Walter Abrams: Know what you know, and know what you don't know. And know that I gotta know everything you know as soon as you know it... or sooner

Walter Abrams: There's no such thing as too far. You understand? You push everything as far as you can. You push and you push and you push until it starts pushing back. And then you push some goddamn more. Remember that when you're with this guy today.

Walter Abrams: This is dangerous territory we're getting into. You understand that. But I'm gonna bump you. Now talk to me about Monday night because everyone, and I mean everyone, is gonna double down after the hole you put 'em in.::Brandon Lang: Monday night's fine.::Walter Abrams: You bet your mother's house on it?::Brandon Lang: I don't bet, Walter.::Walter Abrams: If you did?::Brandon Lang: I like the pick, Walter.::Walter Abrams: On your mother's house or not?::Brandon Lang: With my mother in it.

Walter Abrams: Stats are not enough, you need a voice! These are gamblers ready to risk what they can't afford for what they can't have, you're selling the world's rarest commodity: certainty, in an uncertain world.

Walter Abrams: You're a lemon. Like a bad car. There is something... there is something inherently defective in you, and you, and you, and me, and all of us. We're all lemons. We look like everyone else, but what makes us different is our defect. See, most gamblers, when they go to gamble, they go to win. When we go to gamble, we go to lose. Subconsciously. Me, I never feel better than when they're raking the chips away; not bringing them in. And everyone here knows what I'm talking about. Hell, even when we win it's just a matter of time before we give it all back. But when we lose, that's another story. When we lose, and I'm talking about the kind of loss that makes your asshole pucker to the size of a decimal point - you know what I mean - You've just recreated the worst possible nightmare this side of malignant cancer, for the twentieth goddamn time; and you're standing there and you suddenly realise, Hey, I'm still... here. I'm still breathing. I'm still alive. Us lemons, we fuck shit up all the time on purpose. Because we constantly need to remind ourselves we're alive. Gambling's not your problem. It's this fucked up need to feel something. To convince yourself you exist. That's the problem.

Walter Abrams: You know, the best part of the best drug in the world isn't the high. It's the moment just before you take it. The dice are dancing on the table. Between now and the time they stop, that's the greatest high in the world.

Walter Abrams: I will match my dysfunctional childhood and Tony's against yours, any day of the week.::Walter Abrams: My father,five foot,arms like this... he had a cock like a Hebrew National.::Walter Abrams: I even looked at him the wrong way... he smacked across the room like Jake LaMotta::Walter Abrams: By the time i was five,he yelled at me so much,i thought my name was Asshole.