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In the New York Area? Catch Ninja Assassin's Rain at Giant Robot New York This Friday!
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Column by Scott Green
Exciting event news has come in from Giant Robot, of brilliant Asian/Asian American popular culture and art magazine/stores fame.
Jeong Ji-Hoon, better known as Rain, will be at their New York store at 437 East 9th Street Friday, November 13, 2009 8:30pm - 9:30pm to promote his upcoming film Ninja Assassin.
The entertainer played Racer Taejo Togokahn in The Wachowski film Speed Racer, and is back as the vengeful protagonist Raizo in the Wachowski produced, J. Michael Straczynski written, James McTeigue (V for Vendetta) directed Ninja Assassin, set to hit US theatres on November 25, 2009.
If you're not a regular Asian media follower, you may have previous heard of Rain in connection to his Madison Square Garden concerts or his commanding performance in Time Magazine's World's Most Influential People poll, which resulted in a joke-spat with Stephen Colbert.
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dammit
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Why would I want to see him in person?
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He's got this huge ass cult following, I just want to see how he is in real life.
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Nov 12, 2009 10:26:35 PM CST
Rain is a bigger star than the likes of Channing Tatum, or...
by maxthesilent
... that pansy-ass Robert Pattinson. This picture just has to be better than BLOOD: THE LAST VAMPIRE. And that shouldn't be too hard. That movie sucked balls.
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Nov 12, 2009 10:36:50 PM CST
I thought this read "Catch Ninja Assassin's giant robot...."
by gibsonusa returns
I was expecting a picture of a huge robot walking down the street.
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My name's boring.
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..and his sister Sleet is a real crack up. But I think we can all agree that his cousin Precipitation is an absolute fucking tool. And Hail, well, we don't even talk about Hail... He was a bad, bad man.
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Everyone should have a Giant Robot.
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less posts here will sort that out.
As for Ninja Assassin. I am really looking forward to seeing it! The trailer got quite the bashing here when it came out. Dunno why. Looks like pretty mental fun to me. -
The commercials are extremely underwhelming, I guarantee people get the impression this is 1) based on a videogame, even though it isnt 2) has zero story and 3) is something akin to the Dead or Alive movie or something like that. There is no hype around this at all, and it will probably as big a bomb as Speed Racer. I will laugh when this is released.
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Not to mention his adopted son Partly Cloudy?
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Or something.
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i am pretty sure the movie will have a mediocre b.o. success at its best,and nothing more
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Nov 13, 2009 8:43:38 AM CST
Was teh headline written in Korean then translated into English?
by xiphos_2
via a bad Russian translation sight?
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Where did that guy come from? Not only can't he act, he doesn't seem to show any interest. I mean, Sienna Miller and the rest of the cast gave it 200% effort and that's what made it fun. And here I was worried about Marlon Wayans all along.
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Can't act for shit and GIJoe was more than enough proof not to mention stop loss and fighting..i could never get through the rest of that shit.poor terrance (howard) following the sucess of ironman, he has resorted to doing d grade flicks with lame ass actors like tatum.a brutha just can't catch a break.as for Rain the emo ninja, giant robot is almost walking distance from where i work, but i'm not going to even waste my time with this guy. NA looks promising, but then again i thought the same thing about Matrix Revolutions.
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is he an assassin of ninjas or a ninja who is also an assassin? or dont let your minds blow with this here but...maybe he's both!!!!!
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...and lost. I thought he was worth the extra money, but Marvel obviously didn't. Anyhow, there will be plenty opportunities for Howard to reboot his career. Until then, the poor (rich) guy made his bed and he can lie in it.
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guy is a huge asian star. he sings, he dances, he acts(even good enough for the director of oldboy to cast in his film). he has huge following young and old. i'm not even a fan, but seeing a clueless a-hole saying "this guy" is just a waste of his time... it just boils my blood. what an arrogant thing to say! if your time is so precious you wouldnt even be wasting it here posting junk. only an american cannot see beyond his own borders.
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If so you're misquoting it. Seriously, though, I'm sure his appearance was full of annoying 12 year old Asian girls and effeminate Asian boys. Not somewhere I'd wanna be.
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i hear what you're saying, however one of the best things about IronMan was the chemistry between Stark and Terrance's character; Jim Rhodes.The comedic scenes between the two added more dimension to the Movie IMO. Just when I was skeptical of Howard's casting and now after pulling it off Marvel replaces him with Chedale?!? Don's a good actor, but i would rather give the part to Micheal Jai White who actually looks more like Rhodey than both Howard and Chedale.Not to mention if white would incorporate his martial arts skills in the sequel.I'll reserve judgement until IM2 comes out next spring.
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"Ninja Assassin." It's like calling a the movie "Green Beret Special Forces" or "Gay Queens".
And even if he is an assassin of other ninjas, it would be like having a movie called "Hitman Assassin". Just redundant. -
Anybody?... Anyone?... Mr. Rain, do you have any comment?No one fucking went, did they?!
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