Finding the Sang-Froid: We Interrupt Our Mythical Schedule (Three Brief Reviews)
I had something witty to say about something or another. Give me a moment.
[Beat]
I'm pretty sure it was either snarky and slash or biting. Harumph.
[Beat]
. . . . . . . . . . . Oh!
[Beat]
No, I didn't remember it.
Dark Water: From the makers of the adaption of the Japanese horror—or J-Horror, if you're a loser and use phrases like that, like me—film The Ring, and the makers of the original J-Horror film Ringu (I'm not entirely sure how one accredits such things, really, so I guess I'll be docked for proper APA style), comes a movie less hinged on scare-jump tricks and chase scenes, much more centred on mystery and suspense. All in all, it reminded me a lot of The Shining, in that it was paced to set a very specific mood of tension and paranoia. 16% FR.
Kung Fu Hussle: Hands-down the funniest movie I've borne witness to in a good long while, this Stephen Chow film is, as my friend put it, "live-action, Hong Kong Looney Tunes with kung-fu." Seriously, it's just . . . Great. From the dance sequence at the beginning to the very last absurd fight scene, the only complaint that can be had was that the DVD we rented was scratched so ten minutes, give or take, were unplayable near the end, at the beginning of the last fight. It was, for a comedy, rather lengthy, but it progressed very naturally, and I was vaguely surprised that everything you expected to happen did happen, insofar that I kept wondering if the movie was going to end or keep going at certain junctures, and it always continued, yet when it ended, it felt like the ending. Wonderfully put together, well-written and unique comedy, aesthetically pleasing with well-choreographed kung-fu scenes, complete with a reference to The Shining; I'd put some of the fight scenes in that movie above the bland, multi-million dollar tripe they pushed as "content" in the second Matrix movie. I thought Shaolin Soccer was cute and funny, but Kung Fu Hussle was leaps and bounds one of the best comedies ever made in the last decade. 0% FR, Titanium Imaginary Trophy for Doing Everything But Sucking.
Stanley Kubrick's The Shining: The only Shining that should've happened. 0% FR, Titanium Imaginary Trophy for Being A Kubrick Film, Period.
[Beat]
All that build-up to that comment earlier, you'd think I'd at the very minimum put something in its place, even if I forgot the first remark I was going to make.
You'd think—
[Beat]
I'm pretty sure it was either snarky and slash or biting. Harumph.
[Beat]
. . . . . . . . . . . Oh!
[Beat]
No, I didn't remember it.
Dark Water: From the makers of the adaption of the Japanese horror—or J-Horror, if you're a loser and use phrases like that, like me—film The Ring, and the makers of the original J-Horror film Ringu (I'm not entirely sure how one accredits such things, really, so I guess I'll be docked for proper APA style), comes a movie less hinged on scare-jump tricks and chase scenes, much more centred on mystery and suspense. All in all, it reminded me a lot of The Shining, in that it was paced to set a very specific mood of tension and paranoia. 16% FR.
Kung Fu Hussle: Hands-down the funniest movie I've borne witness to in a good long while, this Stephen Chow film is, as my friend put it, "live-action, Hong Kong Looney Tunes with kung-fu." Seriously, it's just . . . Great. From the dance sequence at the beginning to the very last absurd fight scene, the only complaint that can be had was that the DVD we rented was scratched so ten minutes, give or take, were unplayable near the end, at the beginning of the last fight. It was, for a comedy, rather lengthy, but it progressed very naturally, and I was vaguely surprised that everything you expected to happen did happen, insofar that I kept wondering if the movie was going to end or keep going at certain junctures, and it always continued, yet when it ended, it felt like the ending. Wonderfully put together, well-written and unique comedy, aesthetically pleasing with well-choreographed kung-fu scenes, complete with a reference to The Shining; I'd put some of the fight scenes in that movie above the bland, multi-million dollar tripe they pushed as "content" in the second Matrix movie. I thought Shaolin Soccer was cute and funny, but Kung Fu Hussle was leaps and bounds one of the best comedies ever made in the last decade. 0% FR, Titanium Imaginary Trophy for Doing Everything But Sucking.
Stanley Kubrick's The Shining: The only Shining that should've happened. 0% FR, Titanium Imaginary Trophy for Being A Kubrick Film, Period.
[Beat]
All that build-up to that comment earlier, you'd think I'd at the very minimum put something in its place, even if I forgot the first remark I was going to make.
You'd think—
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