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[Edited] Brotherhood of the Wolf: Martial arts out of place?
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<blockquote data-quote="takyris" data-source="post: 1360955" data-attributes="member: 5171"><p>I liked it -- but then, I'm a sucker for cross-genre movies.</p><p></p><p>And the fighting is just a style. I mean, if the movie were trying to be realistic, it wouldn't have swashbuckling European fights, either -- it'd have someone lunging forward and someone else making an awkward attempt to parry and getting slashed on the arm and screaming and then lunging in and the two of them wrestling until somebody could get their knife out and gut the other guy. It'd be, ya know, a <strong>real</strong> fight.</p><p></p><p>So really, if the cinematography is going to be non-realistic, I'd rather it be non-realistic and fun to watch, too. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>Like <em>The Musketeer</em>... man, that movie was AWFUL, but it had great Hong Kong takes on every cliche in the swashbuckling book. Because I was watching it on DVD with my wife, we could just laugh out loud and make jokes about how bad Dude's acting was (I don't know the actor's real name; we just started calling him Dude, as in "Duuuuude, I'm <strong>totally</strong> rescuing the queen!") and then laugh in delight at some of the more interesting fight scenes (and still have some howlers: "Yes, you're charging a castle filled with guards using rifles. Draw your <strong>swords</strong> now, that's definitely the smartest thing to do...").</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="takyris, post: 1360955, member: 5171"] I liked it -- but then, I'm a sucker for cross-genre movies. And the fighting is just a style. I mean, if the movie were trying to be realistic, it wouldn't have swashbuckling European fights, either -- it'd have someone lunging forward and someone else making an awkward attempt to parry and getting slashed on the arm and screaming and then lunging in and the two of them wrestling until somebody could get their knife out and gut the other guy. It'd be, ya know, a [b]real[/b] fight. So really, if the cinematography is going to be non-realistic, I'd rather it be non-realistic and fun to watch, too. :) Like [i]The Musketeer[/i]... man, that movie was AWFUL, but it had great Hong Kong takes on every cliche in the swashbuckling book. Because I was watching it on DVD with my wife, we could just laugh out loud and make jokes about how bad Dude's acting was (I don't know the actor's real name; we just started calling him Dude, as in "Duuuuude, I'm [b]totally[/b] rescuing the queen!") and then laugh in delight at some of the more interesting fight scenes (and still have some howlers: "Yes, you're charging a castle filled with guards using rifles. Draw your [b]swords[/b] now, that's definitely the smartest thing to do..."). [/QUOTE]
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