One movie a day until the reel change happens.
December 29, 2012 2 Comments
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPqUL9dCc9c
May have just found a woman that is about as tough or even tougher than Sonny Chiba. Yes folks it’s time to continue the Street Fighter series and today is Sister Street Fighter. Get ready to get karate chopped to death. HIYA!
December 28, 2012 Leave a comment
I have not done a Sonny Chiba movie in ages and the fact that my Sonny Chiba collection Vol. 1 is sitting within eye shot of my desk, scowling at me for not watching some of his amazing movies. It was an easy choice today in selecting a Chiba flick to talk about or barely talk about since today’s is a sequel to The Street Fighter which is not the Van Damme video game movie, but a pure kick ass martial arts movie.
May 20, 2012 Leave a comment
So a while back I did a post on the movie “Slap Shot“, which is a vulgar and crude hockey movie that is both enjoyable and hilarious if you are in the mood for a sports comedy. So when I posted this, I got asked about the movie Goon, which the trailer is at the top of the page. I surprisingly had a copy of the movie on my desk, but never willed myself to watch it. It should be noted that the film isn’t available until May 9th, but is available On-demand and VOD. From the initial trailer, it was a tone deaf, slugfest of a film that offered up the bare essentials of machismo and guttural fisticuffs that satiated a bloodlust that we all have. I didn’t truly discern a lot of comedy from the trailer and what the true essence of what the movie could be. It seemed like just a poorly remade version of Slap Shot, just with a new veneer and some more updated jokes. But after watching it, I changed my tune about this film as beneath the scabbed over cuts and black eyes the film leaves us with, there is a lot of sincerity, heart and vulgarity to make me a fan of Goon.
May 3, 2012 2 Comments
I am honestly beginning to think there is a new genre of action films that is purely defined as Statham. His movies are in a world of their own, where he is best driver in the world, one of the most difficult men to kill in his film and is an unmatched fighter. His films follow a particular structure of death and destruction that only pander to the base needs that film goers want when they see a Statham movie. I want him to either a) drive cars in the most actiony way possible, b) shot lots of guns at people, c) make quips and lots of them, and finally d) beat up everyone who gets in his way. The latest film, Safe, for a lack of a better word, is pretty much a safe film that delivers us what we come to expect with Jason Statham films. It’s not rocket science, but damned if the science isn’t fun to watch.
