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Warrior
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We have Cinemax for a week so I’m binging this. 

E2 had a sanguineous start. Still a race war between the Chinese and the Irish. I should watch this with Greg. We could wear team colors and wave pennants. The peacemakers are the rich token wife of the mayor and the Georgian cop. Not convinced album the Irish accents. Fookin cunts.

E3 It’s all about Joe Taslim fights. He’s the only one with any panache. The other fights cover with dark lighting, shaky cams and gore. It really needs more better fights. The drinking is wrong. Chinese always drink toasts with two hands. And a tonfa? Really? Not a nunchuck?

E4: At least they got a shillelagh right. But a James West forearm derringer sling? Like we’ve never seen that before. Hong Bao are also passed with two hands... even when passing bribes. Especially when.

E5: A divergent story - on the road transporting a corpse - yeah we all know that old plot twist. A nod to Lee’s Bill Wallace kill in ETD. It’s the seven samurai only it’s just two tong men facing bandits in a lone desert saloon - dragon inn - and rallying the civilians. It’s the spaghetti western tribute, complete with the ride into the sunset, man with no name hat and Kwai Chang Caine hat (1st real ref to carradine) and the classic ‘the end’ credit. All those guns and no one can hit a thing. This is almost a stand alone ep - it does nothing to advance the overarching story. 

E6: Chinese New Year parade because Chinatown. The opening sex scene had both actors in the buff but their pelvises were too far away to be effective. Rich Ting as Bolo isn’t bad in a scrap but the fights are still mediocre. Lots of throat slitting. Tobin’s double dagger work is wrong - Kung Fu uses them ice pick style, not straight stabbiness. Then there’s the Irish boxing. 

The soundtrack echoes Badlands with the rock guitar riffs. Same with the blood spattered faces. Also even though they say it’s sf, it doesn’t feel in the least bit sfish.

Still not that into this obvs. But it’s for work. I do like Koji. And Jason Tobin. And Taslim or course.
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Warrior - by Drunk Monk - 12-14-2018, 09:40 AM
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