Okay, so with our internship coming to an end, I went out with old friends to watch GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra. Granted, I do love action movies, comic book based ones even more so. But GI Joe… This movie I enjoyed for a completely different reason.
Cool gadgets, check.
Huge explosions, check.
Missiles, bombs, heavy artillery, check, check and check.
It was altogether a great combination for a Friday evening movie with my friends, and I was totally enjoying myself till
Lee Byung-Hun came out, wherein I totally spazzed in my seat. All suave and stoic in white, he played Stormshadow, the bad guys’ ninja assassin. In the midst of his totally tight fight with the GI Joes’ Snake Eyes, his shirt inevitably gets shredded to pieces, exposing his torso and inducing squeals of delight from the theater’s female audience.
In my mind, I stood up and clapped. It was just that… spazz-worthy!
… All in all though, this post’s got to have a point, right? At least besides the fact that Lee Byung-Hun, despite being more than a decade older than our generation, is nonetheless extremely attractive…
Ahem, the point, yes, the point of this post. Seriously though, lately there’s been an influx of Korean stars making their way to Hollywood. Rain’s admittedly somewhat embarrassing performance in Speed Racer being one, of course.
For a long time Asians in Hollywood movies meant that they were either 1. Martial Artists or 2. Owners of Chinese Restaurants. It takes quite a lot to break into Hollywood, regardless of how popular one is in Asia. So it made me really proud, and happy, to see him be so popular suddenly.
Anyway, I’m off to rent the dvd for Bungee Jumping Of Their Own, a movie Lee Byung-Hun starred in in 2001. Also, All In, his drama featuring the casino world, is showing on Starhub Ch 172. 