a rather tumultuous history

Check out this trailer for the upcoming Sleeping Dogs



WASN'T THAT SHIT AWESOME?! If Sleeping Dogs was a movie trailer I'd totally be looking it up right now, but as you probably figured out from the Square/Enix logo at the beginning it's a video game, and since it didn't feature any gameplay or even game footage you are probably wary. Totally understandable, unlike a movie, which cost about 10 bucks, this is probably going to come in at a good 60 bucks. Yeah, yeah, 59.99, whatever, it's 60 bucks. What if it sucks? I suppose one could rent it first, or wait for it to go down in price. Sleeping Dogs was originally the reboot of True Crime from the previous gen of video games, ps2, xbox, you know. ALAS! This title bears a rather tumultuous history dating back to at least 2010(source: kotaku). I'm trying not to get too excited, but I am a sucker for Hong Kong action.

If you want some almost Shakespearean Hong Kong crime check out Election on ye old netflix or whatever.

It's chock full of betrayals, counter-betrayals, tested loyalties, and there's some ass kicking tossed in.

Recently I also watched Full Contact, it's more light hearted than Election and has some ridiculous action scenes. Yeah I know the trailer is in German, but there's no real need for words.

Chow Yun Fat would've made a great Batman. I really liked both of these movie for different reasons. I've seen dozens of these kind of movies and it was only until recently that I noticed that there's always a scene where the major players are drinking tea. Thus I came to the conclusion of: Only real badasses drink tea. Yeah, yeah, it's probably a cultural thing, but still.