Big Trek on the Beat
I saw three movies last night:
Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)
A big dumb action movie in which a group of high school physics dropouts display their knowledge of Star Trek characters and demonstrate how little they care about plot. They lost me at the "cold fusion" bomb, but, in a reversal of the experiences of my of my friends, I liked it more a couple of hours later than I did when I stepped out of the theatre.
The Big Heat (1988)
A cop drama that follows four cops on the hunt for a friend's killer. The Big Heat plays it straight behind Waise Lee's impassive visage before escalating to an explosive finish. The sound editing is bad and the characters sometimes jump confusingly between scenes, but the characters and plot are good.
Tiger on the Beat (1988)
This buddy cop movie (lazy senior cop and enthusiastic rookie) plays it for comedy until the "love" interest is killed, then gets serious. It had many great scenes and Chow Yun-fat is awesome as always. Conan Lee gets the best fight scene at the end; it's totally worth watching for that alone. However, it is the most straight up misogynistic HKA film I've seen. The first such scene in which the cops release a suspect so that Chow Yun-Fat's character can seduce her (for information?) on the department's dime is weird and would be fine on its own. Howver, the scene that stops my buying the DVD of this otherwise great movie has Chow Yun-Fat's character beat the same woman into giving up her criminal ways and she ends up falling for him. Ugh.
Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)
A big dumb action movie in which a group of high school physics dropouts display their knowledge of Star Trek characters and demonstrate how little they care about plot. They lost me at the "cold fusion" bomb, but, in a reversal of the experiences of my of my friends, I liked it more a couple of hours later than I did when I stepped out of the theatre.
The Big Heat (1988)
A cop drama that follows four cops on the hunt for a friend's killer. The Big Heat plays it straight behind Waise Lee's impassive visage before escalating to an explosive finish. The sound editing is bad and the characters sometimes jump confusingly between scenes, but the characters and plot are good.
Tiger on the Beat (1988)
This buddy cop movie (lazy senior cop and enthusiastic rookie) plays it for comedy until the "love" interest is killed, then gets serious. It had many great scenes and Chow Yun-fat is awesome as always. Conan Lee gets the best fight scene at the end; it's totally worth watching for that alone. However, it is the most straight up misogynistic HKA film I've seen. The first such scene in which the cops release a suspect so that Chow Yun-Fat's character can seduce her (for information?) on the department's dime is weird and would be fine on its own. Howver, the scene that stops my buying the DVD of this otherwise great movie has Chow Yun-Fat's character beat the same woman into giving up her criminal ways and she ends up falling for him. Ugh.