THE MYTH REVIEWED AND MORE
12/5/2005
Sat Jackie Chan’s the Myth this weekend. It’s a decent movie- the first 2/3’s of the movie is awesome but the last 1/3 ruins it by introducing an evil tomb raiding immortality seeking antagonist the fact that Jackie’s past life lover was still alive. It’s a better ‘serious’ role for Jackie than the one he played in New Police Story (which isn’t a bad movie- it’s just that Jackie seems to be trying to hard and Daniel Wu was annoying but I loved the homage to the previous Police Story movies). The Myth starts off with an engaging story of a man’s dreams of a former life and his search for clues to it but ends as another wannabe Indiana Jones movie (the ending is similar to Michelle Yeoh’s The Touch- another movie that started cool but ended horribly). The best part of the Myth for me was the Indian scenes and Mallika Sherawat who was only in the movie for 20 minutes max- but she is totally hot and I was hoping her character was the reincarnation of the Korean Princess…but she’s not (too bad she seems like just another Sorority bimbo in the extras). Since Jackie’s already talking sequel, I hope they expand her role and the whole India bit especially the loopholes of why Jackie’s past life character was there and why his sword and body were buried there when he died in China…the action in the movie is classic Jackie Chan (despite the obvious wires in some scenes and digital stuntmen). If you are going to just watch one scene in the movie, you gotta watch the glue factory scene- it had me laughing out loud and just plain admiring the creativity of what they were going to do next.
My take: 3 stars out of five
Also finally saw Stealth this weekend. It’s an okay movie- very summer movie-esque. The planes (and the plane scenes) were very ripped off from Macross (especially Macross Plus). The Talon design (and the way they were filmed) are reminiscent of Isamu Dyson’s YF-19. I half expected a Gerwalk configuration here and there. One of those movies where you can leave playing in the background if all you want is some background noise and some nice visual distraction while doing something else. The Biel is a cutie as always but didn’t have much to do in the movie but get lost in Korea and pine over being lonely. Jamie Foxx’s character died halfway through- they just should have merged his character with Josh Lucas’. The funniest bit was in the extras was when the director said he wanted to make a war movie with a message- hence the stopover in Thailand to show what peace is/should be. Yeah- whatever. The only message I got was that things blow up pretty and that speed rocks! Gotta mention though that Rob Cohen used to do more serious movies- with the Bruce Lee and the Rat Pack flicks under his belt.
My Take: 3 outta 5 (should have been 2 but I really like the wannabe Macross plane action)
Also listened to the Sini-Gang podcasts (well, two of them). If you’re looking for discussions of Filipino American issues in a thought provoking manner- look elsewhere. If you’re looking for just a bunch of guys recording what they normally talk about anyway and they just happen to be fobs- listen in. Kinda like the Stealth movie- except with less explosions and stuff. But I give them more than 3 stars because I will be back to listen to more casts later.
More later…till then, MAKE MINE MARVEL!
Sat Jackie Chan’s the Myth this weekend. It’s a decent movie- the first 2/3’s of the movie is awesome but the last 1/3 ruins it by introducing an evil tomb raiding immortality seeking antagonist the fact that Jackie’s past life lover was still alive. It’s a better ‘serious’ role for Jackie than the one he played in New Police Story (which isn’t a bad movie- it’s just that Jackie seems to be trying to hard and Daniel Wu was annoying but I loved the homage to the previous Police Story movies). The Myth starts off with an engaging story of a man’s dreams of a former life and his search for clues to it but ends as another wannabe Indiana Jones movie (the ending is similar to Michelle Yeoh’s The Touch- another movie that started cool but ended horribly). The best part of the Myth for me was the Indian scenes and Mallika Sherawat who was only in the movie for 20 minutes max- but she is totally hot and I was hoping her character was the reincarnation of the Korean Princess…but she’s not (too bad she seems like just another Sorority bimbo in the extras). Since Jackie’s already talking sequel, I hope they expand her role and the whole India bit especially the loopholes of why Jackie’s past life character was there and why his sword and body were buried there when he died in China…the action in the movie is classic Jackie Chan (despite the obvious wires in some scenes and digital stuntmen). If you are going to just watch one scene in the movie, you gotta watch the glue factory scene- it had me laughing out loud and just plain admiring the creativity of what they were going to do next.
My take: 3 stars out of five
Also finally saw Stealth this weekend. It’s an okay movie- very summer movie-esque. The planes (and the plane scenes) were very ripped off from Macross (especially Macross Plus). The Talon design (and the way they were filmed) are reminiscent of Isamu Dyson’s YF-19. I half expected a Gerwalk configuration here and there. One of those movies where you can leave playing in the background if all you want is some background noise and some nice visual distraction while doing something else. The Biel is a cutie as always but didn’t have much to do in the movie but get lost in Korea and pine over being lonely. Jamie Foxx’s character died halfway through- they just should have merged his character with Josh Lucas’. The funniest bit was in the extras was when the director said he wanted to make a war movie with a message- hence the stopover in Thailand to show what peace is/should be. Yeah- whatever. The only message I got was that things blow up pretty and that speed rocks! Gotta mention though that Rob Cohen used to do more serious movies- with the Bruce Lee and the Rat Pack flicks under his belt.
My Take: 3 outta 5 (should have been 2 but I really like the wannabe Macross plane action)
Also listened to the Sini-Gang podcasts (well, two of them). If you’re looking for discussions of Filipino American issues in a thought provoking manner- look elsewhere. If you’re looking for just a bunch of guys recording what they normally talk about anyway and they just happen to be fobs- listen in. Kinda like the Stealth movie- except with less explosions and stuff. But I give them more than 3 stars because I will be back to listen to more casts later.
More later…till then, MAKE MINE MARVEL!
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