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Bait and Stupid
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Today, I got up early to see The Forbidden Kingdom. I was expecting this:
What we got instead was this:
Turns out, the movie isn't a Chinese epic where superstars Jet Li and Jackie Chan team up to save the world. It's about an idiot from South Boston who's totally into kung fu and who gets transported to an "otherworldly" place, where several centuries of political and philosophical struggle exists to teach him kung fu.
My favorite moment: At one point, early in the process of learning martial arts, the Idiotic Southie is being made to strike at grass with a bamboo stick. "WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO TEACH ME KUNG FU!?" he whines.
Because in all of the hundreds of kung fu movies he claims to have seen, he has apparently never watched The Karate Kid.
When it was about Jackie Chan and Jet Li teaming up to save the world, it was a pretty good movie. And when it was about Jackie Chan and Jet Li teaming up to beat the crap out of Michael Angarano, it was also a good movie. Otherwise, not so much.
Today, I got up early to see The Forbidden Kingdom. I was expecting this:
What we got instead was this:
Turns out, the movie isn't a Chinese epic where superstars Jet Li and Jackie Chan team up to save the world. It's about an idiot from South Boston who's totally into kung fu and who gets transported to an "otherworldly" place, where several centuries of political and philosophical struggle exists to teach him kung fu.
My favorite moment: At one point, early in the process of learning martial arts, the Idiotic Southie is being made to strike at grass with a bamboo stick. "WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO TEACH ME KUNG FU!?" he whines.
Because in all of the hundreds of kung fu movies he claims to have seen, he has apparently never watched The Karate Kid.
When it was about Jackie Chan and Jet Li teaming up to save the world, it was a pretty good movie. And when it was about Jackie Chan and Jet Li teaming up to beat the crap out of Michael Angarano, it was also a good movie. Otherwise, not so much.