'Potential'
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Saw The Protector last night. Thai cinema. Huh.
There were truly fun parts, whoa!moments (the previously mentioned running up walls...I couldn't see the wires!) and some truly dumb stuff.
The animals in peril aspect was unexpected and was way more stressful than the actual fighting.
Jaa is a terrific fighter. We learned about 487 ways to powder an arm bone .
And the carpoeria (sp) dude, if he doesn't already have a great career, should.
Cashmere, Touching the Void was a movie that Nutty and I watched together. Well, Nutty watched and I kind of watched through my fingers... even knowing that the narrators survived, because hey, there they were, narrating.
even knowing that the narrators survived, because hey, there they were, narrating.
Yes! That fact really should have sapped all the tension right out of the film, and yet...
Yes! That fact really should have sapped all the tension right out of the film, and yet...
DH totally laughed at me because I commented something like, "I know they live and yet, I'm so scared for them!"
It was an incredible piece of work. The only thing that took me out of it was the weird, musical, hallucination part.
Oh man, that reminds me of marvel's Secret Wars being translated into Japanese as "Mindless Cosmic Fighting"!
Saw The Protector last night. Thai cinema. Huh.
Beej-
Aisha Tyler gave it thumbs down on this week's Ebert & Roeper, recommending instead Ong-Bak. Her video picks were Infernal Affairs and Old Boy. And by the way she spoke of them she knows her Asian cinema and she loves it.
As one who enjoyed Ong-Bak I'll skip The Protector for now.
Narrator note: didn't Kevin Spacey's character from American Beauty end up dead? He was the narrator, so I've never since assumed the narrator would be alive at the end or that it would matter.
didn't Kevin Spacey's character from American Beauty end up dead?
Yes.
What was that noir-ish movie that won Oscars a few years back... took place in LA. Danny DeVito was the narrator, and he was killed half-way through.
eta: LA Confidential.
I think Sunset Boulevard kind of set the trend, didn't it?
In fact, the only movie I can think of offhand that had a still-living narrator at the end was The Opposite of Sex. And I'm pretty sure Dede couldn't be killed...
He was the narrator, so I've never since assumed the narrator would be alive at the end or that it would matter.
True, but isn't Touching the Void non-fiction? I haven't seen it so I can't remember for sure, but I think it's a true story, told by the people who lived through it. (That's the one about mountain climbing, right?)