I'm glad that you brought that up. That seems to be a big trend lately and I hate it! Just because they are speaking English doesn't mean they need white people in a Chinese movie. :( Totally ruins it for me.
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 8:41 PM, Keith Johnson <keithbjohn...@comcast.net>wrote: > > > I really liked "Who Am I?", but agree with you. His humour gets a bit over > the top, especially that movie "Rumble in the Bronx". I know that Chan's > thing is humour, but I really wish he'd do more serious stuff. His moves > lent to pure drama could be amazing. It's why I prefer Jet Li: serious and > seriously skilled. I was looking forward to their pairing in "The Forbidden > Kingdom", only to be crushed when it turned out to have more humour, and > they felt the need to add a dopey white kid to the story. What a waste... > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Martin Baxter" <truthseeker...@hotmail.com> > To: "SciFiNoir2" <scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com> > Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 3:48:08 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern > Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] Movie - Geisha Assassin > > > > I'm not fond of his recent stuff, the "Rush Hour" movies in particular. I > loved his stuff from the 70s and 80s, especially his "Police Story" movies. > Not much in plot either, but I think of the action in AD&D terms, hit points > for each blow taken/delivered. > > "If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in > bloody hell hired the director?" -- Charles L Grant > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik > > > > > ------------------------------ > To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com > From: hellomahog...@gmail.com > Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:18:26 -0800 > Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Movie - Geisha Assassin > > > I'm not a fan of his. I enjoyed some of his big stunts, and the stuff he > did in the 70s, but that's about it. > > The Geisha movie is just a bit cartoony. It isn't a complete movie really. > Like I said no plot. > > > On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 1:01 PM, Martin Baxter <truthseeker...@hotmail.com > > wrote: > > > > If it's primarily wire fu, then I won't like it. Even when I was young, > watching the Saturday afternoon kung-fu movie block, I found myself frowning > at the wire sequences, without really knowing why. My first Jackie Chan > flick was like manna from the gods. Just saw "Operation Condor" for the > umpteenth time, and I still found myself jumping with glee, as if seeing it > for the first time. > > > "If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in > bloody hell hired the director?" -- Charles L Grant > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik > > > > > ------------------------------ > To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com > From: hellomahog...@gmail.com > Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 18:43:12 -0800 > Subject: [scifinoir2] Movie - Geisha Assassin > > > First off this movie is definitely Saturday matinee faire. Very little > plot and mostly all action. It took over half of the movie before I learned > what the main character's name is, but she is apparently out to get revenge > for her dead father. This required her to attack her father's killer while > dressed as a geisha. Anyone that has studied geisha would know that being a > geisha is a martial art within itself. > > She takes on many different fighters from ninja to a monk. Many of the > fight scenes are run of the mill "wire fu" scenes, but there are some > exceptions. One scene in particular drops the wire fu and goes for realism > in a hand to hand combat scene. Very nice job. > > But alas it is mostly martial art eye candy. :) > > > -- > Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! > Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ > > > ------------------------------ > Hotmail: Trusted email with Microsoft’s powerful SPAM protection. Sign up > now. <http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/196390706/direct/01/> > > > > > -- > Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! > Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ > > > ------------------------------ > Hotmail: Trusted email with Microsoft’s powerful SPAM protection. Sign up > now. <http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/196390706/direct/01/> > > > > > -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
