THE MODEL FROM HELL IS BACK
The knife, sword, assault weapon, kung-fu and pistol weilding action-babe from Naked Weapon (aka: Chek law dak Gung) Maggie Q will reportedly join the last of the eighties action stars Bruce Willis (read: "The Fifth Element" was a long freakin' time ago wasn't it) as well as "The Break-Up" newcomer Justin Long in cast of "Underworld: Evolution" director Len Wiseman's latest entry in ageing "Die Hard" series known as "Live Free or Die Hard."
Until then, Q fans will have her appearance alongside Christopher Walken in director Ben Garant's undercover ping-pong comedy actioner "Balls of Fury" to look forward to—and I really don't know what to make of that.
The "Dragon Squad" starlet, seen most recently stateside in J.J. Abrams' misguided misfire "Mission: Impossible 3" appearance in "Live Free or Die Hard" will see Willis' beleaguered detective John McLane, standing between the U.S. and a band of terrorists planning to rob us of our computer infrastructure, (if it weren't for Maggie it wouldn't sound very cinematic would it?) Work on "Live Free or Die Hard" is scheduled to begin shortly.
Until then, Q fans will have her appearance alongside Christopher Walken in director Ben Garant's undercover ping-pong comedy actioner "Balls of Fury" to look forward to—and I really don't know what to make of that.
I caught a little bit of Underworld yesterday. I know several people (well, at least one) who quite liked the movie, and not in a this-is-bad-like-Planet-of-the-Apes-sequels way. She is a good decade younger than myself, so I'm not sure if it has something to do with the way one begins to measure art on a different scale as one gets older. Similar to the way I now don't appreciate people driving too fast for no good reason.
I do think there is something seriously wrong with the movie. For instance, there is a scene where the protagonist is doing some target practice in a shooting range. The targets are not the usual paper outlines but are rather gothic looking busts. Why? The more the movie pushes out any element of the real world, the more it becomes apparent one is watching a bunch of people in funny costumes shouting commands at each other. Even in a film as synthetic as the Matrix, time was taken to indicate 'This is a spoon' before indicating otherwise. Underwold seems more like something that would accessorise the fashion choices of the kind of person who would live in an exurban area, attend the local renaissance faire, and maybe wear a cape. Eventually the kid spills some diet soda on the DVD and it goes into the trash, soon to be followed by the replica of Aragons sword they got for their 18th birtday.
Sorry, I think I had a good idea in there, but I have to get back to work. Think amongst yourselves.
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Anonymous |
11:23 AM
The thing is that UNDERWORLD'S unmitigated crappiness revolves around the fact that it is soo unbelievably derivative a hack-thief like Wes Craven could've directed it.
There are bits and pieces of every major "genre" film of recent memory in it. So what I'd recommend is that you hold an in order of production film festival of sorts featuring say: ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK, THE HOWLING, ROBOCOP, TERMINATOR 2, THE CROW, BLADE and THE MATRIX.
Pretty much anyone watching those films in order will quickly spot the scenes shamelessly lifted for UNDERWORLD and conclude, as I did, that a fantasy without an imagination of it's own is useless.
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Anonymous |
10:27 PM