Tuesday, August 23, 2005
I liked Kung Fu Hustle better than Shaolin Soccer. I was really expecting a different ending, right up until the Beast showed up.
I thought for sure that the 'hero' of the story was so destroyed by his defeat at the hands of those urinating bullies in his flashback that he was driven to more and more kung fu, to the point of becoming the Beast. He finally lost it after killing someone (for example, the Lover's son) and created the shell of a personality that is our lame protagonist - never able to go down the path of evil again, yet always striving to become a 'bad guy'. Fighting the big bad villain in the end would release the Beast again, only to be tamed by the stalwart Mute girl.
Anyways. The villain dancing at the start was fun. To portray true evil, you really have to show that evil is just like everyone else. They do things for fun. Why would a gang boss and his axe-wielding cronies hustle in sync in their gang lair? They were having fun. A villain that sits and broods in the darkness isn't having fun, so why is he doing it?
Cliche.
Man, I hate that word. I choose to bastardize it by not adding accent.
I also watched Eurotrip tonight. Fairly mindless T&A with the occasional laugh-out-loud content. The Scotty Doesn't Know running joke, the various 'guest appearances', the R-rating, and the robot fight made it memorable. I forgot about the freaky guy on the train.
I thought for sure that the 'hero' of the story was so destroyed by his defeat at the hands of those urinating bullies in his flashback that he was driven to more and more kung fu, to the point of becoming the Beast. He finally lost it after killing someone (for example, the Lover's son) and created the shell of a personality that is our lame protagonist - never able to go down the path of evil again, yet always striving to become a 'bad guy'. Fighting the big bad villain in the end would release the Beast again, only to be tamed by the stalwart Mute girl.
Anyways. The villain dancing at the start was fun. To portray true evil, you really have to show that evil is just like everyone else. They do things for fun. Why would a gang boss and his axe-wielding cronies hustle in sync in their gang lair? They were having fun. A villain that sits and broods in the darkness isn't having fun, so why is he doing it?
Cliche.
Man, I hate that word. I choose to bastardize it by not adding accent.
I also watched Eurotrip tonight. Fairly mindless T&A with the occasional laugh-out-loud content. The Scotty Doesn't Know running joke, the various 'guest appearances', the R-rating, and the robot fight made it memorable. I forgot about the freaky guy on the train.
