Juliane and I watched Hunger Games. I've read the book, she hasn't. I thought the start wasn't done well, and dragged to much because they included too many unneeded story elements, but the part in the arena was actually better than the book. It concentrated more on the kids fighting than Catniss and Peter running out of food. The demon dogs turning up was foreshadowed so didn't just come out of nowhere, and without the human faces fitted in better with the other controlled threats in the arena (fire, wasps, traps, etc).
I found the violence pretty good for what I thought was a kids movie, though just like in the book, many, many punches are pulled. Juliane liked the movie more than I did, I think.
I thought the disorientation was overdone. It was effective, but I think it could have been done by more than shaky camera work and too-close closeups.
hopy shit how have i just not been watching the raid on loop eternally
If you liked it, watch another Indonesian movie that's a collaboration between many of the same people, including the fight choreographers - Merantau. Silat makes for some great martial arts movies, very fresh and interesting.
I started downloading that movie literately the moment the machete fight happened and I realized that this is what I've been waiting for my entire life.
I started downloading that movie literately the moment the machete fight happened and I realized that this is what I've been waiting for my entire life.
To borrow a phrase from another movie, would you like to know more?
I think the funniest part about the guy who took a door to the neck was that his hair reminded me a lot of Rufio, so that's what I was calling him in my internal commentary. Then he gets impaled on a bunch of splinters and I yelled "RUUUUFFIIIIIIOOOOOOOOOO!"
Oh my god that whole hallway fight was so beautiful. When he stuck the knife in that dude's thigh and dragged it down I almost fell out of my chair, that shit was vicious.
I love how he went for the knees and inner thigh with pretty much every single nightstick blow. I had similar training with stick fighting and swordhandling; get your opponent off balance, and then wack them as hard as you can right in the nerve clusters.
Go see The Raid. If just the conversation about it is affecting you, it will blow you away. Seriously, I have placed it on the same tier as Die Hard in my internal movie rating system. Nothing gets Die Hard tier.
I just noticed in the fight scene in the drug lab, the other cop, the one that still has his vest on, had a really interesting style I didn't see before. He pivots into every blow with his body, and usually in the contrary direction to how his foe is pivoting, so he isn't hitting as often as Rama or Mad Dog, but you see in that scene that every time he connects somebody gets wrecked real bad. It's a shame he pretty much just had that one moment in the limelight, because it was really cool to watch.
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I found the violence pretty good for what I thought was a kids movie, though just like in the book, many, many punches are pulled. Juliane liked the movie more than I did, I think.
Good movie though.
Mad Dog = beast. That last fight scene was intense.
Also the guy having his head smashed 4 times into the wall from top to bottom was most excellent.
I love how he went for the knees and inner thigh with pretty much every single nightstick blow. I had similar training with stick fighting and swordhandling; get your opponent off balance, and then wack them as hard as you can right in the nerve clusters.