Big Man.  Big Fists.  Filipino Action Goes Old School With ANTIHERO

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1. TheHappyKnife 05/08/2008 @ 10:29am

   This is a godsend.  I wonder where the first clip came from?

2. IEDParty 05/08/2008 @ 3:56pm

   The whole thing looks, at best, like an exercise in formalist mockery - by people who clearly have transparent little empathy for their own cinema, let alone society.  The genre is clearly being treated from a measly distance; meaningless irony whipped up to save face.  Better than risking genuinely bringing back filmic ammunition that might just make the man at the street spit at their faces deservedly.
   
   Did Tsui Hark had to make it apparent that he’s making a ‘ Kung-Fu’ flick ?  No. He just DID. If this director even had a semblance of true vision than empty headed snobbery, he would have, at least, tried to whip up something that can genuinely garner attention.  He would actually entice us with an action movie. 

   Please start treating the viewers as audience and not an archetype.

   Smacks of empty-headed gesture; no more, no less.

3. IEDParty 05/08/2008 @ 3:57pm

   Who forgot the ‘ Pinoy Action Film ‘?  Pakners by Fernando Poe Jr. was done as recently as 2003. So was Batas ng Lansangan ( 2002 ). This esteemed actor – and not so esteemed presidentiable – got emotionally downed into death by an apparent massive cheating, but that’s beside the point. 

   Oh, I know. These same bunch of lame-ass, invertebrate indie pricks that has been busy since 2005 in drowning selected theaters with their lame-ass, uninspired, self-absorbed claptrap to emasculating people away from getting legitimately pissed at THEIR favorite ( non ) President . Parasite sentries of recent pop-cultural colonial tract that has been dissuading the media or cultural discourse against anything amounting to ‘ aggression ‘ or mention of ‘social class struggles’, or political debate, or actual balls. Yeah, these same jerks who have built their itty bitty limelight off the systematic corruption, and the mass murdering of their own flock – because this is the only way people could actually be made to bother with their mediocrity - when nobody ELSE is left speaking.
   
   So when they were done ridding the nation of its self-integrity and respect, they get the gall to regurgitate the only conceivable social mouthpiece the masses ever had, and spit it back as plastic simulacrum ? 

   Really, fuck this.

4. TheHappyKnife 05/08/2008 @ 5:26pm

   No offense to your politics after all (you make some important points), but some people may just want to watch a kickass Filipino action film now and again.

5. Yano 05/09/2008 @ 8:45am

   The Pinoy Action Film is coming back.  Maybe not with this movie, but it is coming back.

6. Aidan 05/09/2008 @ 5:39pm

   Can someone please hire on IEDParty and have him write the first comment on every new post?  Thank You.

7. ChevalierAguila 05/09/2008 @ 9:46pm

   Why was Tsui Hark’s name thrown in Party’s rant?

8. The Amazing Psycho Per 05/09/2008 @ 10:19pm

   What the hell does “social class struggles” has to do with this Filipino action flick? You obviously had something on your chess but maybe it’s time for you to change your medication.

9. Swarez 05/10/2008 @ 12:02pm

   Maybe he has a better idea of what he’s talking about than you maybe?

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