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. -- 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.
