Bulletproof Monk
Jul. 17th, 2007 04:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jackI *didn't* manage to get to the film festival, but while I was busy with other things I saw several films over the weekend, though nothing of great value.
I think I owe Bulletproof monk an apology. I still think it's very stupid, but it does it with a will and sense of humour. The Nazis *did* take an interest in Tibet before WWII, so that wasn't (edit: was->wasn't) as arbitrary as it seemed.
The monk fulfilled three prophecies, first being fighting an army of enemies while a flock of cranes circled above. Kar finds himself fighting off a cockney-ish sewer gang, and the monk sees and looks up, and you realise some of the steampunkness on the ceiling are a circle of hoisting cranes. That's a prophecy -- the idea of updating prophecies is an old one, but it fulfills the "don't understand it till you see it" well!
I saw some others. Inside man: It seemed the perfect example of a clever caper movie. It had all the elements -- ironic mastermind, white-collar villain, dedicated cop, Chiwetel Ejiofor. But never quite reached the dizzy heights of actually caring what the hell happened.
Bride and Prejudice: It told the story quite well. It fit the story into modern times well: Wickham is if anything more convincing than ever. But I'm bored of P&P remakes :)
ETA: What I was going to say was that the social relationship between Darcy and Lizzie mapped well into that between Darcy and Lalita. It's hard to choose something that captures the feel of the original, this was well chosen.
I think I owe Bulletproof monk an apology. I still think it's very stupid, but it does it with a will and sense of humour. The Nazis *did* take an interest in Tibet before WWII, so that wasn't (edit: was->wasn't) as arbitrary as it seemed.
The monk fulfilled three prophecies, first being fighting an army of enemies while a flock of cranes circled above. Kar finds himself fighting off a cockney-ish sewer gang, and the monk sees and looks up, and you realise some of the steampunkness on the ceiling are a circle of hoisting cranes. That's a prophecy -- the idea of updating prophecies is an old one, but it fulfills the "don't understand it till you see it" well!
I saw some others. Inside man: It seemed the perfect example of a clever caper movie. It had all the elements -- ironic mastermind, white-collar villain, dedicated cop, Chiwetel Ejiofor. But never quite reached the dizzy heights of actually caring what the hell happened.
Bride and Prejudice: It told the story quite well. It fit the story into modern times well: Wickham is if anything more convincing than ever. But I'm bored of P&P remakes :)
ETA: What I was going to say was that the social relationship between Darcy and Lizzie mapped well into that between Darcy and Lalita. It's hard to choose something that captures the feel of the original, this was well chosen.
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