TCBOO... I mean, The One, with Jet Li
Nov. 25th, 2006 08:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethI'm watching The One on one of those channel 5 digital channels... Five US. It lacks subtitles. This is very annoying. Especially since theres bits that aren't in English. I'd kind of like to understand those bits too.
ANYways
they're running around and he's got evil twin problems.
so what I'm left wondering - and I admit I missed the first ten minutes so maybe they answered it but - why is anyone freaked out by this? I mean, evil bazillions, yeah, freaky, but evil twin? Maybe you think you need to have a word with your mother, but you surely don't go to OMG WTF!!!
Killed 123 people. So there's only 124 universes? Meh.
I rather like the setup, especially to set up the martial arts (emphasis art) fun. But the way people are reacting? There's nothing in seeing your identical twin that would have you sent to psych assessment. Or an MRI.
Though as ways to get the identifying differences erased, I do rather like that one.
The evil one likes growly rock music. Oooh, scary. :eyeroll:
... I'm not knocking Jet Li, but I really need subtitles to cope with his accent.
I think I like the film but I can't really tell.
Okay, end of the film reached. That was kind of boring. Didn't really deliver, to my mind. I mean, if it's all about who gets to be The One, then by the end of the film there should not in fact be two of them. Even if one of them goes to always-fighting and the other gets sent to an alternate where his wife is still alive and hasn't met him yet. Which, incidentally, I'd have to call a creepy kind of reward. I mean, hello? Not his wife! Some other completely different lady who happens to look like her! Plus the guy who sent him there was earlier on talking about how some alternate version of him has a husband. How is he to know this alternate her doesn't have a wife? So the ending was kind of dumb.
And the fights were... well, I thought they sucked, but then that turned out to be the 'good guy gets his arse kicked' phase of the fight, and after that they sucked much less. Still, higher magic to skill ratio than I like. All that floaty bullet time defying gravity stuff, not my favourite bit. I like the stuff that is theoretically possible after a lifetime of obsessive training.
Also, the picture quality on my TV is crap. I mean, utter crap. Pixellated, ghosted, blurred, crap. I don't know if it's the signal or my display, but it weren't pretty.
But watching Torchwood is *very* pretty, so I guess when it has the good stuff to work with it do turn out good.
Anyways, took paracetamol, now going to see if the next movie is worth watching. I suspet otherwise, but there aren't much on.
ANYways
they're running around and he's got evil twin problems.
so what I'm left wondering - and I admit I missed the first ten minutes so maybe they answered it but - why is anyone freaked out by this? I mean, evil bazillions, yeah, freaky, but evil twin? Maybe you think you need to have a word with your mother, but you surely don't go to OMG WTF!!!
Killed 123 people. So there's only 124 universes? Meh.
I rather like the setup, especially to set up the martial arts (emphasis art) fun. But the way people are reacting? There's nothing in seeing your identical twin that would have you sent to psych assessment. Or an MRI.
Though as ways to get the identifying differences erased, I do rather like that one.
The evil one likes growly rock music. Oooh, scary. :eyeroll:
... I'm not knocking Jet Li, but I really need subtitles to cope with his accent.
I think I like the film but I can't really tell.
Okay, end of the film reached. That was kind of boring. Didn't really deliver, to my mind. I mean, if it's all about who gets to be The One, then by the end of the film there should not in fact be two of them. Even if one of them goes to always-fighting and the other gets sent to an alternate where his wife is still alive and hasn't met him yet. Which, incidentally, I'd have to call a creepy kind of reward. I mean, hello? Not his wife! Some other completely different lady who happens to look like her! Plus the guy who sent him there was earlier on talking about how some alternate version of him has a husband. How is he to know this alternate her doesn't have a wife? So the ending was kind of dumb.
And the fights were... well, I thought they sucked, but then that turned out to be the 'good guy gets his arse kicked' phase of the fight, and after that they sucked much less. Still, higher magic to skill ratio than I like. All that floaty bullet time defying gravity stuff, not my favourite bit. I like the stuff that is theoretically possible after a lifetime of obsessive training.
Also, the picture quality on my TV is crap. I mean, utter crap. Pixellated, ghosted, blurred, crap. I don't know if it's the signal or my display, but it weren't pretty.
But watching Torchwood is *very* pretty, so I guess when it has the good stuff to work with it do turn out good.
Anyways, took paracetamol, now going to see if the next movie is worth watching. I suspet otherwise, but there aren't much on.