THE BORE
General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: The Fake Shemp on August 13, 2007, 03:06:50 PM
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It was awful and I enjoyed the first two. It's not even remotely funny, it's short, it's cliche on top of cliche and probably killed Ingmar Bergman by association with Max Van Sydow permanently wrecking any career he might have had.
The best part, in my opinion, is when the film is apparently going nowhere fast (with a brief partners split up, but miss each other montage - Tucker eats Chinese food, Chan orders soul food)... Sydow appears from nowhere to describe the plot of the rest of the movie. And I mean, from nowhere. He doesn't even know who Chan or Tucker are, or where they are, but he abruptly shows up at Jackie Chan's front door after he gets out of the shower. He gives some cliche-ridden exposition and then promptly leaves, as if he was checking out from a hard day's work and going to the bank to cash Brett Ratner's check.
The film has spotty continuity and unexplained questions (What the fuck happened in New York? Why is Carter directing traffic? When did Chris Tucker become completely unfunny?). In the end, this is just one of those films that is a complete waste of time, because it's not even bad enough to mock or has a single element stand out.
In a film starring Jackie Chan, there literally feels like there are no action sequences. I'm not kidding. The most involving sequence is a taxi/motorcycle chase that is filmed so pedestrian that it does a disservice to all other car chases in the history of cinema.
And contrary to popular belief, Roman Polanski did not rape anyone. I came for the rape, but there was none. :/
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No real action whaa? Now that I think about it...there wasn't much action in the trailer either.
How many race related jokes were there, off the top of your head?
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You saw Rush Hour 3? In a theater?
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I saw it too, lol
Yeah, it was damned horrible. Nothing about it was good.
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The series has gotten progressively worse, although the gap of quality from the last one to this one is big enough to fit Harry Knowles in.
Again, the lack of legitimate action sequences is astonishing. There is some action in the film, all of it very generic and boring. Either Chan is getting too old for actual stunts or Brett Ratner spent the fight choreography budget on cheeseburgers during production.
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http://alex.cloudwalking.net/The%20John%20Steinbeck%20Trio%20-%20Don't%20Stop%20Believin'.mp3
This MP3 > Rush Hour 3
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Jackie chan is getting old, thats why he's been doing movies like the tux or medallion, that use special effects instead of straight kung fu.
It to bad that this isn't good, i loved the last 2 and was really hoping it would be a return to form for jackie. :(
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I don't think Jackie is going to get a chance to return to form. And isn't it fucking typical that the film that finally pairs Jet Li and Jackie Chan together is a fucking Disney production, helmed by the halfwit that directed The Haunted Mansion?
In other kung fu superstar news, Jet Li is in WAR with Jason Statham in a few weeks and looks to promise a boatload of action and ultra shittiness. I'm probably still going to see it -- I'm hard up for a new martial arts flick.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/ff/Warposter.jpg/200px-Warposter.jpg)
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I don't think Jackie is going to get a chance to return to form. And isn't it fucking typical that the film that finally pairs Jet Li and Jackie Chan together is a fucking Disney production, helmed by the halfwit that directed The Haunted Mansion?
In other kung fu superstar news, Jet Li is in WAR with Jason Statham in a few weeks and looks to promise a boatload of action and ultra shittiness. I'm probably still going to see it -- I'm hard up for a new martial arts flick.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/ff/Warposter.jpg/200px-Warposter.jpg)
now THAT movie is gonna kick all kinds of Ass. Statham vs Jet Li is a dream come true.
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I don't think Jackie is going to get a chance to return to form. And isn't it fucking typical that the film that finally pairs Jet Li and Jackie Chan together is a fucking Disney production, helmed by the halfwit that directed The Haunted Mansion?
In other kung fu superstar news, Jet Li is in WAR with Jason Statham in a few weeks and looks to promise a boatload of action and ultra shittiness. I'm probably still going to see it -- I'm hard up for a new martial arts flick.
wait whats this?
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Looks like I was wrong about the Disney production; it's being handled by The Weinstiens and Lionsgate.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Forbidden_Kingdom
You can read the summary, but it's basically about some American kid who is obsessed with kung fu movies, finds some Chinese relic in a pawn shop, gets sent back to ancient China where Jet Li and Jackie Chan escort him on some mission. (I think I just rewrote the wiki summary in cruder language.) And even though Chan and Li are on the same side, there is definitely at least one fight scene between them.
I don't know, it might be decent. We haven't seen anything on it yet, I'm just going off precedent.
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Was it worse than Smokin' Aces? That movie was one of the worst pieces of excrement ever committed to film.
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zomg, if only they edited in old bruce lee clips and jennifer garner was in it, this could be the best movie ever!
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I recently viewed the Trailer for Rush Hour 3 and Chris Tuckers comedic delivery was fucken ASS. It felt like he was trying to push the same old jokes in the past two movies but with a wink and a nudge. Its so transparent its not even funny.
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I recently viewed the Trailer for Rush Hour 3 and Chris Tuckers comedic delivery was fucken ASS. It felt like he was trying to push the same old jokes in the past two movies but with a wink and a nudge. Its so transparent its not even funny.
agreed. Its like Austen powers 3 all over again.
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Rush Hour 3 has officially made George Lucas do something right for the first time in 10 years. The guy who wrote Rush Hour 3 wrote a Indy IV script that Harrison Ford and Spielberg approved but Lucas rejected.
After seeing Rush Hour 3 I fear that script and the film it would have been. :-\
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That's what you get for liking buddy cop movies! :punch
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That's what you get for liking buddy cop movies! :punch
NO we had our suffering with bad boys.
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it was very horrible. I only went because my friends already saw everything else. I expected it to be at least as good as the last ones but it was just shit.
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WAR is going to rock my face.
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so I'm 25 mins in, which is like 1/3 of the movie and so far it's like two 16 yearolds sat down one weekend and watched rush hour one, two, and the godfather and decided to write a fan fic.
I'm so glad bruce lee went out the way he did so i didn't have to see him get old :'( :'( :'(
O and I bet the old white guy turns out to be the bad guy, because he looks like the lethal weapon 2 bad guy.
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O shits girls in thongs. best movie ever!...ok it's improving, 5/10 right now.
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Brett Ratner's pretty sweet though. He's totally living the life and getting away with it, and I can respect that. Not like I respect Bergman or anything, but still.
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I dont respect noone. Im young and rebellious like that.
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Ok just finished it. It just kind of ends :'( the fighting on the tower was well done besides some of the special effects, which shouldn't be in a chan movie. There wasn't nearly enough action, but at least it stops being a poor fan fic after the first 3rd.
I really wish they come out with a dvd of all of chans out takes. him saying he likes horse porn and hitting himself in the face with the foot stool was awesome.
6/10.
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I'm a huge Jackie Chan fan. Loved the first Rush Hour, like the second, and absolutely will NOT see the third. It looks like utter trash.
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I'm a huge Jackie Chan fan. Loved the first Rush Hour, like the second, and absolutely will NOT see the third. It looks like utter trash.
it's worth a rent when it hits dvd and you can drink while watching it.
btw, lol, I finally read your essay boogie :-*
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I'm a huge Jackie Chan fan. Loved the first Rush Hour, like the second, and absolutely will NOT see the third. It looks like utter trash.
it's worth a rent when it hits dvd and you can drink while watching it.
btw, lol, I finally read your essay boogie :-*
heh, that took a while. What'd ya think?
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I liked it, and learnt some things I didn't know. The best part was about the soviets groups unable to be used as intelligence for the powers; being more a secret police than intelligence agency. And would have preferred if the focus was on that, with say a comparison to other agencies, instead of on continuity but thats only because that was one of the things I didn't know before, lol.