Could be option D: this guy re-edited "City on Fire" to bolster his thesis and make it look like they're more similar than they are. Having not seen the film I couldn't necessarily say, but I bet I could edit THE DEPARTED to make it look like it ripped of City on Fire, too (and we know that was an actual remake of a different Hong Kong film).

Also there's option E: this is genuinely unintentional coincidence. I mean it seems like a lot of similarities, but really, what is there that's unique about any given aspect of either plot? Undercover cop, jewel thieves, robbery gone wrong, chase with police...even elements such as carjacking some bystander, crashing the car, and a Mexican stand-off seem pretty standard fare for this kind of caper movie.

Tarantino's not above lifting things wholesale from other movies, but he also wears his influences proudly on his sleeve. If he'd "paid homage" to City on Fire, I'm inclined to think he would have happily told everyone as much.

That would be tomorrow.

At least here in the states.

Bitches. Be cool.

So: the people here who do not play video games feel that they are the best suited to espouse on the storytelling capability and value of the video games we've just established they don't play, and to tell the people who do play video games that they are incorrect in their direct observations of the video games which, as mentioned, they actually play.

...oh, I get it. You guys are joking. You had me going for a second there.

If we're after college students, I would have made "Free Booze" larger than "Live". But that's just me.

I also would recommend the exact address rather than an intersection.

I saw the movie before reading the book. I prefer (and love) the movie, actually. I had the same experience with KICK-ASS. I seem to like what Matthew Vaughn brings to the table.

Not that I hate the book, Gaiman's prose is always literary comfort food and plot-wise it feels very much like an old fairy tale which is exactly the point. But Vaughn diverged in precisely the right way, IMO, to make the story cinematically satisfying.

For future reference, it's generally preferable to say which movie you're spoiling at the outset, rather than making us read the spoiler in order to find out.

I love NETWORK hardcore.