At World's End Review

[itasianinvasion]

I wanted to have this written earlier, and I saw it a week ago, but I kept expecting to see it again with my folks, and it kept getting called off or pushed back, so I couldn’t see it again, to maybe clear up my review, but them’s the breaks.

The review is pretty spoiler heavy, but I imagine most of you have seen it by now, but just in case:  the

Comments

[anonymous]

Didn't see it yet, not that you give too much away I couldn't discern for myself. At any rate, I'm really upset to hear about Chow Yun-fat. He's one of those actors that shine no matter what he's in and frequently misused. Remember that flick the replacement killers or that one with Marky-Mark about internal-affairs or some such nonsense. Both near-worthless films made totally watchable by Chow Yun-fat's preformance. His appearance was the only reason for my desire to see the third Pirates movie; as much as I like Rush in all that he does I found myself not caring about his return as Barbossa given how incomplete the second film was. You're absolutely right about the attempted rape. I mean seriously it's as if all of the Hollywood big-wigs got together at a giant evil table to converse about this movie:
"Hey, we want to make this character a villain but we need to really cement his evil...evil-ness."
"Evil-ness? Couldn't you have said somethin like villainy? Or berhaps his black-soul, or treachery?"
"What are those? They don't sound like buzz-words to me? Who the hell is this guy? Security! Get this fucker out of here!"
"Hey, I got an idea! Slap a swastika on him, make him a Nazi. I mean, everyone knows Nazis are evil right?"
"Can't do it, this movie takes place way before World War II."
"There weren't nazis before then?"
"That's what everyone keeps telling me. I don't get it either but they say it just doesn't work, besides, the character is Asian."
"Well he's a pirate right, aren't they all bad?"
"This is a movie about pirates. Johnny Depp plays one of the pirates."
"Shit. Well, he could try to rape someone."
"Oh snap, he COULD try to rape someone! Nothing says evil like rape."
"Why can't he just act evil? I mean is this really necessary?"
"Who the hell let you back in here! Get the fuck out of here the big boys are talking! So, rape?"
"Sounds good to me!"
"Then it's settled."

But who knows, maybe there's an entire demographic of people who really need shit like this to happen to discern good from bad these days. I mean most people are, I'm convinced, hopelessly stupid. Anyways, I'll get around to seeing it soon. Saw Paprika and Daywatch. The former was ridiculously good, the latter seemed, like the majority of the movie-going public, hopelessly stupid.

Cheers sucka,
Buz

[itasianinvasion]

I don't think Chow Yun Fat will have a great action/adventure role ever again except maybe that video game sequel to Hard Boiled, Stranglehold.

What's paprika about?

Matt

[anonymous]

It's in the vein of Paranoia Agent. Essentially a company makes a dream machine that gets stolen and misused to create a kind of viral dream that invades other people's consciousnesses and then somehow merges with reality. A police officer who has been secretly getting therapy via the dream machine undercover from its creators, and a split-personality who is a kind of dream super-heroine must find out who is behind the theft and stop the menacing dream from... uh... destroying the world? I don't know man, it's anime. How can you possibly ask me to describe an anime without sounding totally batshit crazy? Anyways it looks amazing and the plot and characters are pretty compelling. Check it out if it comes your way, but seriously, I don't know if you saw the first movie, Nightwatch, but don't touch Daywatch with a 10-foot-pole. It's fucking useless.
BUZ