Buffista Movies 4: Straight to Video
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Signed, the woman who owns Untamed Heart.
My sistah, only I suspect for very different reasons.
Watched The Saint last night with Phillip Noyce's commentary.
Noyce seems to have a heart as big as the great outdoors, and his professorial commentary speaks to a preparation you don't always see when folks sit down to do dvd extras. I learned a lot about Russia I didn't know.
The extras on Noyce's Rabbit Proof Fence absolutely broke me.
Even more than the actual, heartbreaking, story.
It's wonderful to listen to someone how loves what they do.
Jessica, how was Sean Bean in North Country? I was pleasantly surprised to see him (briefly) pop up in the trailer, since, unless he's playing the heavy, he rarely has a role big enough to give him trailer time. I didn't see Flightplan yet (I'll probably Netflix it), but I heard he was good as the captain in that movie.
Watched The Saint last night with Phillip Noyce's commentary.
I was just talking about this movie last night. I generally found it fun, but pretty stupid (especially the "science" and the ending), but I very much liked the fact that Kilmer's Saint fires a gun exactly once in the film, not in anger, and not at a person. Not that I'm inherently against guns -- I'm not -- but I would very much love to see more action heroes get away without using guns a bit more often.
Jessica, how was Sean Bean in North Country?
He was great -- his character doesn't have a ton to do, but he fills an important emotional niche, and he does it very well.
The Saint really is pretty silly...but, as you say, fun. And the villians are all very pretty.
eta: Oh, here's one...Jet Li in Romeo Must Die...much with the fu, which may disqualify it on the 'brains' front...but no gun that I recall.
I'm with you on the brains over ballistics action hero. I'm trying to think of other examples...
MacGyver! The penultimate brains over ballistics hero. Of course!
I would very much love to see more action heroes get away without using guns a bit more often.
I would just like them to get
hit
by gunfire more often. I mean, with current accuracy rates, sure Val's just as good off without one as with.
If it is action, and there is combat -- wanking around weapons is a lot of work for me. I love a good hand to hand scene, more than the next person, but there are too many of them to make sense.
The good guys are accurate enough to shoot the gun out of the bad guy's hand, but the bad guys are horrible shots and usually only connect with the good guy's shoulder. Said good guy is walking around with a sling a day later and has full use of the arm within a week. Feh.
Medical accuracy in films is something my nurse mother had me watching out for at a young age. I remember seeing Deathtrap with her in the theaters, and when either Reeve or Caine got knifed in the back (I can't remember who right now), she said that it wasn't a mortal wound. Sure enough, when the "dead" guy popped up a few minutes later to freak out the audience, Mom was gloating, "I told you so!"
I would just like them to get hit by gunfire more often.
Yeah, right! Bad guys are the worst shots in the world. And the worst of all of them? Imperial fucking Stormtroopers. The fucking military can't even train them to shoot straight.
No wonder the Rebels kicked their fucking ASSES.
