Two football matches on TV at about the same time, featuring two teams who'd just come off respective losses. First there was Indonesia, away to Malaysia on the second leg of the Tiger Cup semi-final. They'd lost the first leg 2-1 in front of about 80,000 fans at Senayan, so they had to turn things around and repay the favour. After making things worse with some really ugly play and falling behind 1-0, Indonesia came back with four goals in the second half to set up a date with Singapore in the two-legged final. The first game will be on the 8th at Senayan...might be a hoot to catch. Hope things won't get too unruly, especially if Singapore do the business.
The second match was Liverpool away to Norwich. Fourth game in two weeks for all teams in the Premiership, so you can imagine they were running on fumes. After the 1-0 loss to Chelsea two days ago, Liverpool had to work extra hard, especially considering their away form which has been woeful for most of the season, but has been picking up in recent weeks. Fortunately they got the much-needed win, and the next game will be on the 15th against Manchester United. Televised, of course. Looks like another date at Sportsman with the foosball table.
Elsewhere, I've just seen the trailer for
Sin City, and all I can say is OH. MY. GOD. Words can't express how cool it looks. It's co-directed by Robert Rodriguez (
Desperado,
Spy Kids) and
Sin City creator Frank Miller, who you might've caught from his cameo as the corpse with the pencil in his forehead in
Daredevil (he also did a couple of definitive runs on the book, plus
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns and
Batman: Year One). Apparently Rodriguez was a huge fan of
Sin City and wanted to do a straight translation as is. This meant giving up membership in the Director's Guild so he could get Miller to co-direct, and making the movie look exactly like the comic: black and white, with occasional hints of primary colour. Plus he got a shitload of big-name actors: Bruce Willis, Jessica Alba, Benicio Del Toro, Josh Hartnett, Mickey Rourke, Elijah Wood, Clive Owen, Brittany Murphy, Michael Clarke Duncan...the list, as they say, goes on. And he also got Quentin Bloody Tarantino to direct a scene. For a dollar. He probably could have got QT for free, but paying him a buck makes it cooler. Anyway, this is by far the coolest trailer I've seen in a long time, and it's made me drool even more than
Batman Begins. If you're need of drooling...well, check
this out.
