01-31-2005
87) The Actress. It must be Jean Simmon's birthday or something because TCM is showing her movies all day long. Spencer Tracy is hilarious as her unbelievably grumpy father, but everything else is done at such a hysterical and frenetic pace that it just gets old after awhile.
88) Ong-Bak. After The House of Flying Daggers debacle, Sarah took it upon herself to restore my faith in Asian cinema. She and Charity saw the trailers for this while they were still in Korea, and when they got back she bought the DVD off Ebay. Apparently this guy is the Thai Jackie Chan, and this whole movie is definetely something Chan would do, but he doesn't have that same humor that Chan does and it makes it different, but not in a good way. The comic relief is still provided by a goofball sidekick, but in Chan's movies he's always the one with the good natured sense of humor while this guy is all business. I think in Chan's fight scenes it's always him fighting for his life and all the crazy high flying stunts and prop fighting is out of desperation, while in this it's done out of skill and purpose. Like when Chan does it you kind of see it as "hey, his back's to the wall and there are twenty guys coming after him, of course he's going to use a toaster for a weapon" whereas this guy is all "I'm so skilled that even a common toaster is a deadly weapon in my hands." I don't know, it was still 1000 times better than that Flying Daggers BS, but I would have rather watched Rumble in the Bronx.
88 down, 912 to go.
88) Ong-Bak. After The House of Flying Daggers debacle, Sarah took it upon herself to restore my faith in Asian cinema. She and Charity saw the trailers for this while they were still in Korea, and when they got back she bought the DVD off Ebay. Apparently this guy is the Thai Jackie Chan, and this whole movie is definetely something Chan would do, but he doesn't have that same humor that Chan does and it makes it different, but not in a good way. The comic relief is still provided by a goofball sidekick, but in Chan's movies he's always the one with the good natured sense of humor while this guy is all business. I think in Chan's fight scenes it's always him fighting for his life and all the crazy high flying stunts and prop fighting is out of desperation, while in this it's done out of skill and purpose. Like when Chan does it you kind of see it as "hey, his back's to the wall and there are twenty guys coming after him, of course he's going to use a toaster for a weapon" whereas this guy is all "I'm so skilled that even a common toaster is a deadly weapon in my hands." I don't know, it was still 1000 times better than that Flying Daggers BS, but I would have rather watched Rumble in the Bronx.
88 down, 912 to go.
posted by Todd Jones at 11:28 PM
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