Questionable quality

If you follow my Instagram then you know I was in Chinatown the other day picking up goodies like candy and bootleg movies!  

I got this Blu-ray copy of My Lucky Stars, an 80's Jackie Chan movie.  Well it's known as a Jackie Chan movie, but he's only in it at the start and at the end for the big fight.  That's good enough for me.  I probably already have this tucked away somewhere, but it's probably easier to just buy another copy than try to find it again.

This is a Korean movie called Assassination and I just watched it tonight.  I liked it!

Phantom is an Indian flick that I've had on my radar for a while now.  I actually found a few other Bollywood movies in the sale bin that I wanted to watch, so hopefully they'll still be there next time I go back.

A bootleg Disney movie?!  While I actually have the legit Disney Blu-ray for Big Hero 6, I bought this 3D version because for some reason Disney released it on 3D everywhere else in the world except North America.  Doesn't make sense to me.  

Bootleg Castle DVDs!  I bought this Castle Season 5 three disc set for $9 and I thought it was a pretty good deal.  It didn't turn out to be that good of a deal as I thought it was the complete season 5, but how can they fit an entire season on three discs?  Unlike what the packaging says its not Blu-ray, it's DVD and there is only half a season on the three discs, but I guess that's what I get for buying bootlegs.  When I learn?  Never probably...

I watched the first couple episodes and while the picture quality is pretty good, anamorphic widescreen and clear, it's just a rip from the CTV broadcast!  The start of the episodes have the rating logo and there is the CTV watermark in the bottom corner.  

X'd!!

Did anyone watch the X-Files?!  If not, why not??  The first episode of season 10 aired Sunday night and the second episode aired Monday.  The remaining episodes will every Monday night.  I like the new X-Files so far, the first episode was aliens and crazy conspiracy stuff which kinda opens up stuff.  The new season is only a mere 6 episodes, so I'm not sure how they can resolve much after the first episode.  It doesn't help much that the second episode is a kinda of stand alone episode too.  Maybe they will just set up a bunch of storyline threads and hope it's popular enough to bring back as another mini series.

Today I went to HMV to look for a movie, and while I wasn't sure what movie I wanted I knew I could find something if I tried.  I didn't have to try very hard because instead of buying one movie I ended up buying three.  I almost got the Ghoulies/Ghoulies II double feature, but got some old school anime instead.  Next time I'll definitely get Ghoulies.

Blu-rays for Venus Wars and Ninja Scroll!  Venus Wars is cool, so I wasted no time and watched it tonight.  It's widescreen, has Japanese audio with English subs and the old school English dub you all remember from the VHS days.  No special features except some old trailer taken from the old CPM DVD which looks pretty crappy.

If you haven't seen Ninja Scroll it's crazy and violent and gory and ninjas.  That's pretty much all you need.  Can't believe it was only $12.99!

I also got the 3 disc DVD Armitage set.  It contains all 4 OVAs plus the two movies, Polymatrix and Dual Matrix, for 317 minutes of  sci-fi cyberpunk goodness.   That sounds like a lot and while it is, there is some overlap.  The 4 OVAs were later re-cut into the movie Polymatrix for release in North America.  I've seen the two movies, but it will be good to see the original OVAs because they did cut out about 17 minutes when editing Polymatrix,

Well see ya, I got movies to watch.

This is the end

Finally, we made it the the 24th, the final day in the Lego City advent calendar.  I'll admit this turned out to be a real chore.  I just used it as an excuse for posts instead actually coming with something of my own.  Now that's done, I'll be back to posting fun and interesting topics!  Haha, just kidding.

I told you it was Santa!  Now you guys all owe me five bucks!

He even came with an extra beard.

Here is a group shot of all 24 days of Lego kits.  I didn't want to waste my time setting them up or anything,  Now that it's all done I can toss them in a bag and pack away in box in the basement.

Blast off!

We are getting close with the 22nd and 23rd days of the City Lego advent calendar.

The kit for the 22nd looks booster rockets.

And for the 23rd we have a space shuttle!

I just have this feeling that the last kit tomorrow will be Santa.  I've got a hunch.

Three way

It seems like the more we get into the Lego City advent, the lazier I get at doing it.  Next year it's definitely the Star Wars calendar or nothing.  Luckily, we are almost done with this year's, so I just gotta grind it out a few more days. Until then here are the past few days of kits from the City calendar.

The 19th is a snowman which looks a bit creepy with no face.  They could have easily gave him a face, not sure why they didn't.

The 20th is girl with a cell phone and an ice cream cone.  She is the second mini figure in the calendar to come with a cell phone.  Also, who eats ice creams cones in the winter?

Of course she came with extra accessories, so now she can have two phone or two ice cream cones.

The 21st is a fire with some marshmallows!  Okay, it's simple, but it's still pretty cool.

Let's be friends!

Hello this is doge.

Today's kit for the 18th is the dog mini figure...

The assembly on the mini figures is pretty easy, put the head on the torso, the torso on the legs and you are done.  Sometimes it gets a little complicated if there is a hat, but nothing I can't handle.  The assembly on the dog kit consisted of putting the bone in the bowl.  Luckily I got an extra bone, so it was a little more extra work putting it together.   Still it took longer for me to open the damn baggie than to set it up.

I'm hoping tomorrow's kit is a more complicated.  But not too complicated.

16/17

Here we go with day 16 and 17 of the Lego City Advent Calendar...

Day 16 is policeman mini figure.  He comes with a pair of handcuffs and a megaphone?  I'm going to pretend that's a gun, not a megaphone.  He also came with an extra pair of handcuffs and another megaphone, er I mean gun.

Day 17 was the cop's ride, a snowmobile!  I wonder if Kristian has one of those?  The snowmobile was the first kit to not have an extra piece.  

Choo-choo

I keep falling behind on these Lego posts as today is the 16th and I'm just getting around to posting the 14th and 15th days.  I was "busy" last night watching Chopping Mall, so that's why I didn't get around to it then.  I was going to do it earlier today, but Cody and I went out to watch Star Wars: The Force Awakens again.  I then watched Open Season tonight and almost didn't do it again, but felt guilty about not doing it, so here it is finally.

Day 14 is train "engine"...

...while day 15 is the train car.

These two kits at least make something interesting, not something boring like a lamp post.  I'm hoping tomorrow is the dog from the picture on the box.