tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21075435.post115460280925633220..comments2023-03-30T16:20:19.571+11:00Comments on Thursday Is Green Guide Day: Jackie Chan in Project A Part IIGGBloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04542090494810456657noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21075435.post-1154912685476401882006-08-07T11:04:00.000+10:002006-08-07T11:04:00.000+10:00I just wanted to critique Japanese Story for the b...I just wanted to critique Japanese Story for the benefit of your loyal audience. It was terrible. Terrible. Really terrible. It has an inane title for starters. Why Japanese Story? And the clichéd Japanese stereotypes! My goodness me. You know, I have met some real live Japanese people and they are nothing like that in real life. I think the Iron Chef is more realistic. The direction was boring- it looked like a cut-price tele-movie made in the early 1980s. The product placement for BHP Billiton and Hertz rent-a-car was almost as distracting as the shameless Pepsi promotion in T2. It was schmaltzy, melodramatic, unbelievable and, worst of all, dreary. If this is the sort of soporific claptrap that wins truckloads of AFI awards then I eagerly await the return of Yahoo Serious to the arena of Australian filmmaking. And, in a cheap shot I admit, the only things uglier than Toni Collete's face are her breasts.<BR/><BR/>Oh, and did I say it was terrible?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21075435.post-1154648081737732862006-08-04T09:34:00.000+10:002006-08-04T09:34:00.000+10:00I actually quite enjoyed Proof of Life, not a bad ...I actually quite enjoyed <I>Proof of Life</I>, not a bad movie. Once again GG has nailed it - the chemistry between Rusty and Ryan is pretty bad. But it didn't ruin my enjoyment of the movie at all.<BR/><BR/><I>Project A Part II</I> is Jackie Chan at his <B>absolute best</B>. If you've seen any of Jackie's US movies (sorry, all of them completely suck), watch this one and see why he's so famous. The jokes, plot, acting and action are all great! I even own the thing on VCD :) Some of the best bits are sadly lost in translation - there's quite a few jokes where he puts on a stupid accent, but of course it's pretty difficult to tell by just reading the subtitles. Pay attention to the plot otherwise you might get a bit lost !Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com