Rush Hour 3

[Drunk Monk]

http://www.apple.com/trailers/newline/rushhour3/

http://youtube.com/watch?v=obDZ-OR2Bhw

[Greg_phpbb3_import1]

It's going to be bad. Maybe not Greg worked on it bad, but still bad.

And my slight slight slight tie to RH3 is that Brett Ratner was supposed to direct the Television show I did in April but he was delayed doing reshoots for that bad film RH3.

I mentioned it was going to be bad, didn't I? Still going to go see it . . .

[Drunk Monk]

I'm beginning to think I'm the only Jackie fan misfortunate enough to have sat through R-B-H.

http://brotherhoodofdoom.com/phpBB2/view...c&start=15

[cranefly]

From what I've heard about R-B-H, I'd like to sincerely thank DM for falling on that grenade.

So.
Who's gonna fall on this one?

[Drunk Monk]

I'll see it. It's my job.

[Greg_phpbb3_import1]

But True.

I didn't say I wasn't going to see it, I just said it was going to be bad. What do you mean I need a filter?

[Drunk Monk]

There's nothing that unexpected to report in this film that you can't already surmise from the title, so here are some spoilers. Jackie is unusually stiff. He's obviously phoning in all of his American films, which makes Kung Fu Panda look promising. Chris is funny, but not as funny as everyone claims (although DM might cop his line about Redbull and honey someday). The heavily-touted 'who's on first?' scene was already done in RH2 (or was it RH1?) and is not particularly funny. The NGs are some of the best bits, especially Jackie's list of fav porn flicks. The scene where Roman Polanski anally violates Jackie and Chris is very disturbing. The Jackie vs. Hiroyuki Sanada fight is mediocre - back in the day that would have really been atop the Eiffel Tower and it would have been death defying. The Jackie Youki Kudoh fight is also mediocre - never can figure out where all those throwing knives are coming from. The Chris, Jackie and Sun Ming Ming fight is funny mostly because of the way a kung fu school is depicted now - if only, if only... Max von Sydow's role can be seen from miles and miles away. Youki Kudoh and Jingchu Zhang turn in amazingly unimpressive performances, especially since they are positioned to do much better. The Chris-eats-mushu-pork-&-Jackie-eats-fried-chicken-to-Elton-John comes off as strangely racist. Ratner needs to redo Showgirls - there's several tips of the hat to it with the scenes with Noémie Lenoir - she's quite stunning, and that voice, that French accent, oh la la. Yvan Attal's comments as a Frenchman on Americans are funny. Honestly, my favorite part of this film was the Lalo Schifrin soundtrack, which echoes Enter the Dragon.

I feel it's my duty to check out the MA films for DOOM. I figure every brotherhood member has a duty to weed out the snoozers from the genre of their expertise. For me, it's martial arts flicks; that's a given. Greg must report on films he's worked on. HK must report on cartoons. PPFY must report on aging, balding action-hero flicks (and this one could well have gone that way). CF reports on posters he's seen. And ED, he's all about the necrophiliac defecation snuff flicks with dwarves. This is what makes the brotherhood strong.

[Greg_phpbb3_import1]

I could do that report now. Don't go. Simple. Also avoid the Television stuff.

[Drunk Monk]

I recently caught this again. Actually, I was folding laundry while it was on at my mom's house.   

It's still horribly bad.  Maybe even worse with age.  Chris Tucker is even more annoying than he was back then.  I'm a bit more amused by the Jackie v. Hiroyuki fight because of Hiroyuki's successive work.  And Paris.  It's set in Paris.  You kinda gotta do that for an Eiffel Tower fight.  The chase scene through Paris is disconnected like any chase scene through any famous city, but it was mildly amusing to be able to go 'I've been there!'