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you're right
i should start dealing coke
I started a new job and I'm still not pulling in money. My poor wee australian bank account is looking sadder every week.
ZING!
But nope
I just saw Kung Fury and oh my god
Should have just called it Tries Too Hard: The Motion Picture
It's like a film version of Blood Dragon but somehow worse
doesn't surprise me.
Satans..... hints.....
Okay there is blood and chunks of weird spongy grey stuff coming out of all my cranial orifices, but I am just going to ignore this for the sake of my sanity.
If you want to watch a funny kung-fu movie that makes fun of pretty much every typical martial arts movie trope, just watch The God of Cookery, or Shaolin Soccer, or Kung Fu Hustle.
I guess I should get on The God of Cookery
It fuckin' ruled.
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I liked the nostalgic nods to older bond movies strewn in, they also made it feel like this could be the last Craig bond. I don't follow movie news, so I don't know what the plans are or if they even have some.
I didn't like the, for lack of a better word, uninspired casting. Or maybe it's just that the characters were all so schematic. When he first appeared, I thought "oh hey, Moriarty is in this?" and then 20 seconds later "oh he's the manipulative weasel who's with the bad guys". Batista plays a mute bruiser, how original. Waltz in a reprise of the role that made him famous in the US.
The plot was also formulaic but I can forgive that since it's a bond movie and to be expected. The subplot
All in all it felt like they took bits and pieces of other Bond movies and stitched them together as a Frankensteins monster. This worked for me as a reference to the old films but didn't when it came from the recent films
Ew.
It's real good!
Was your theater super dusty during certain scenes as well?
Because man, during some scenes when the music started playing it was pretty dusty in my theater...
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a common (nearly universal) complaint in the negative reviews is of the mixed tone, which is something I really like in Trick 'R Treat, but it sounds like if thats not your thing, its no different here
Good sports movies don't really rely on you caring about the sport, and they give you all you need about the rocky backstory
(its boxing, btw)
One of them is punching and one of them is grappling
Also one of them is real and one of them is real.
Or it might suck.
I saw god of cookery after seeing his other movies and I actually didn't like it very much
Partly because the humor seemed a little more juvenile but also it confirmed that steven chow can apparently only make one movie and I'd already seen that movie done better twice before
His 90s movies were very heavy on Cantonese puns and wordplay, and were made mainly for a Hong Kong audience. Shaolin Soccer and Kung Fu Hustle just doubled down on the visual humor, which helped their performance worldwide.
I think at one point he was in one or two movies a year for several years consecutively.
Ah well maybe he really can do different movies and I just haven't seen enough of them, but I definitely didn't enjoy god of cookery enough to want to seek out any of his other older movies
Which kinda bummed me out because I liked shaolin soccer and kung fu hustle a lot (especially kung fu hustle)
The thing about the genre of humor that many of his movies are in is that it's best enjoyed with at least a passing familiarity with Cantonese. Like, you can still enjoy it based solely on subtitles, but wordplay doesn't always make it intact through translation.
Then there's the separate issue of them being Hong Kong 90s, so not only do you have to get over the language barrier, you've also got to get over another part of the world's version of the 90s.
Right sure, but like he does make different movies right
Like the 3 I've seen all felt basically the same, up to and including an unattractive who loves him but he doesn't notice or like her until she does something to become pretty (though I guess in kung fu hustle she was pretty but mute and he didn't like her until he realized his connection to her and also he stopped being an awful person)
Maybe I just can't enjoy 90s kung fu movies like I used to
He does make different movies, yes. They're not all kung fu movies. Out of the Dark, he plays a Leon the Professional-esque ghost hunter. From Beijing with Love, he's clearly a James Bond parody. Sixty Million Dollar Man, he gets blown the fuck up and rebuilt better, stronger, faster. A Chinese Odyssey, he's the Monkey King.
Man, I can never be disappointed in 90s kung fu.
90s kung fu is awesome and has my favorite martial arts film in it!
The Matrix?
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A crime comedy set in the 70s starring Russel Crowe and Ryan Gosling by Shane Black?
GIVE ME IT NOW
But obviously I'll watch it, it's a Shane Black joint
Like these seem like they are after very different things
But that looks pretty good