the patron saint of mediocrity ABSOLVES YOU
Monday, August 16, 2010
Sunday, August 15, 2010
Rocksteady's Batman: Arkham Asylum
In game logic, when your hero is in a cut scene, he becomes the ultimate pussy and is taken out by 3 goons after slaughtering a couple hundred of them single handedly. This is not Batman.
In game logic, once the screen goes black, something is going to pop up and scare the shit out of you or what bad guy was there a second ago will have disappeared. This is not Batman.
In Batman, you aren't worried about taking on 8 guys at once, you're worried about losing your combo meter.
More later.
In game logic, once the screen goes black, something is going to pop up and scare the shit out of you or what bad guy was there a second ago will have disappeared. This is not Batman.
In Batman, you aren't worried about taking on 8 guys at once, you're worried about losing your combo meter.
More later.
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
Jackie Chan's Project A 2
What is this movie? A sequel thematically unlike its predecessor? A ode to silent comedians? A good kung fu movie? A political statement about colonialism, China's relationship and history with Hong Kong, socialism, and the police?
I don't know.
This could be the "best" Jackie Chan movie, if only in its coherence, not in its stunts or fight scenes. Why does John Woo get acclaim and Chan doesn't? This film is pieced together better than Hard Boiled, but film cannon will never savor over Chan the way it does a lot of other filmmakers.
There's the state of Chan's movies in America. Most are edited, poorly translated and dubbed with the same actors over and over again. They're relegated to studios that put out pointless trash. The Criterion Collection this isn't. Do movies need some sort of serious undertaking in our economics (in our DVD library) before they can be studied academically or on the merits of filmmaking?
I don't know.
This could be the "best" Jackie Chan movie, if only in its coherence, not in its stunts or fight scenes. Why does John Woo get acclaim and Chan doesn't? This film is pieced together better than Hard Boiled, but film cannon will never savor over Chan the way it does a lot of other filmmakers.
There's the state of Chan's movies in America. Most are edited, poorly translated and dubbed with the same actors over and over again. They're relegated to studios that put out pointless trash. The Criterion Collection this isn't. Do movies need some sort of serious undertaking in our economics (in our DVD library) before they can be studied academically or on the merits of filmmaking?
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