霍元甲

Fearless  is kind of a random title probably chosen by marketing people.  In Chinese the film is just the guy's ^ name.  Beautifully filmed.  I kind of have a soft spot for martial arts movies.

Speed

I re-watched Speed  for some reasons.  Uh, yeah, what can I even say about this movie?


Apparently nothing.

Anyway, I remember when I was a kid seeing something on Entertainment Tonight or some similar such show about a lady who entered some kind of contest or raffle.  She was homeless, and she could pick between two prizes...a million dollars or the bus from Speed.


GUESS WHAT SHE CHOSE.

Bangkok Dangerous

Bangkok Dangerous:

1. Made want to visit Thailand
2. Made me really, really want Thai food

Anyway.  Bangkok Dangerous is a Hollywood remake of a Thai movie of the same name.  Directed by the same people (two brothers, one of whom is named "Oxide").  If I were a director, I don't think I'd want to make the same movie twice...but I might make an exception if the remake were to star Nicolas Cage, who is just awesome. I love him.  I love him so much that he gets his own tag on my blog.

This movie had too many cuts to black.  The ending was a surprise and refreshing.  You don't often see such bleak endings in movies like this.

There was a scene in a really interesting Buddhist temple, but I couldn't find any screen caps and google searches couldn't tell me where it was (weird!)!  Not even asking my Thai friend helped.  If anyone can tell me the name of that temple, pleas do!

I wanna see the original Bangkok Dangerous now.

The Bourne Identity

For some reason, I'd seen The Bourne Ultimatum (the final movie in the Bourne trilogy) before I'd seen The Bourne Identity (which I just watched tonight).  Standard spy action movie.  The scene where Bourne is climbing around the side of a building was a pretty impressive stunt job, though.  

What is it about trilogies?  That is, the number 3?  Why 3 movies all the time, I wonder?  I guess it's just a good number.  Any more is a bit much...like 7 Harry Potter books/movies (8 movies, actually).  Ridiculous!  Who can even remember the first one by the end of it all?  There are a lot more Jason Bourne books, but they never made them into movies.

Three is just the magic number, I guess.

Lethal Weapon

I'd never seen Lethal Weapon, so I thought I'd give it a whirl.  It was...a cop movie.  Lots of helicopters.  Lots of bullet holes in cars.  Mel Gibson was shirtless for so much of this, I guess this was back when he was maybe a stud rather than a creepy nutjob?  MEL GIBSON WITH A BLOWN OUT MULLET?!  The big wet fight scene at the end was ludicrous.  

...I kind of can't believe they made four of these