I like how he throws up his hands in triumph after the schoolgirl part

Crank, with Jason Statham and Amy Smart. Popcorn action, which was pretty much what we were looking for. I was hoping for more martial arts from Statham, though - but I suppose the gratuitous nudity kind of made up for that (tangent to that, one of the oddest sex scenes ever). The stylization of the movie was nice, that's something I always enjoy, and that can carry a movie for me, as it did in this case. It's funny, because I could have used more character development, but the frenetic, short nature of the narrative simply precludes doing that at all. That seems like it might be a greater commentary on something, or could be...but, on the other hand, we have T&A and violence. And that's okay too.

A History of Violence, by John Wagner and Vince Locke. Huh, very different from the movie in some ways. It's much less violent overall, but then has a doubly violent and grotesque ending. I thought the husband/wife relationship in the movie were both more intense and more sensical, however they were more disturbing...and yet, perhaps the relationship (and main character) in the graphic novel is more plausible, in the end. There's more character development...though it's kind of a letdown compared to the movie...but again, it's probably more realistic, and perhaps should have a greater weight in that regard...obviously, there are thoughts provoked.

Suicide Kings, with Christopher Walken, Dennis Leary, and several people who apparently went on to have successful careers in television. Interesting, but it moved a bit slowly for me, and I just wasn't sympathetic to any of the characters except the straight up mobsters and the victimized woman, basically. They're all...well, dicks. Everything's tied up nicely by the end, I certainly didn't see the ending coming in that way, but at the same time, I didn't really care about it all that much.

random amusing quote:
"At the Constitutional Convention,, Elbridge Gerry would make a famous remark (curiously absent from modern high school textbooks) in which he compared a standing army to an erect penis – 'an excellent assurance of domestic tranquility, but a dangerous temptation to foreign adventure.'"

Knitta - silly, but benignly cute