Project A and
Project A II (1983 and '87) Hong Hong theatrical cuts in Cantonese.
My 31st and 32nd Jackie Chan movies. Once again the fights and stunts (Actors will never suffer like Chan for the camera again.) are great and the stories are crappy, all over the place, kinda boring. A frustrating actor.
PA1 has Sammo Hung,
PA2 loses him, but at least has the lovely Maggie Cheung.
PA1 is the one with the bicycle chase.
Ripping these UHDs, I noted...
Project A
Track 1 in the M2TS structure is actually Mandarin, not Cantonese. They're swapped.
Project A II
The original mono (track 1) is too muffled. Sounds terrible. Remixed mono (track 2) and Japanese Cantonese mix (track 3) are good.
I heard another set of very quiet voices underneath the Atmos. Lol. They just dubbed on top of some mix. Would never watch such movies with Atmos anyway.
The Legend of Drunken Master is the one that bothered me the most, because of how late in his career, 1994. Sixteen years since
Drunken Master and he never thought to hire good screenwriters. It's contemptible. In this story that's all over the place he plays a character that is written twenty years younger, with a father who is visibly barely older than him. If I wrote a sequel to
Drunken Master all those years later, Chan's character would be independent. His 31-year-old mother is at least his stepmother. She was amusing.
I like the actors. I can still get into the style, can bear through the boring parts.
Romancing the Stone and The Jewel of the Nile (1984 and '85)
3/5 both.
First movie had too many coincidences, second movie was so contrived, with the Kathleen Turner novelist character asked to write a biography about the false prophet of a fake Middle-Eastern/North African religion. Neither really had good action scenes. Lots of white guys painted as brown people in the second one. But Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner were a fun pair. They liked each other, which is probably why later they were in that movie directed by their costar Danny DeVito, War of the Roses. I like these movies.
Remember finding the F-16 fighter jet driving scene so cool as a kid... "I'm out of quarters."
As the couple hung over the pit while the rats and acid ate their ropes, I thought about Nathan Drake and Elena Fisher and how dumb video game stories are. Uncharted, with its couple that stays together as opposed to Indiana Jones, can't even be like these movies, can't have such moments between lovers, because the constant shooting and climbing around like monkeys can't be interrupted for too long. Train scene also made me think of Uncharted 2 and how such scenes are typically so long in games that they lose their impact. Would never try to copy movies if I made games. Not in this way.
Not sad the second movie's critical reception killed any prospects for a third one, because it ends with them getting married, and a third movie was just gonna cycle through the same beats again, find some lame excuse to bring Danny DeVito back, and the third Indiana Jones was boring and pathetic anyway.
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Knew there was a reason to raise her!
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