Merantau

[Drunk Monk]

My boss

I like the sound of that.

Here's G's review of the RAID: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://ezine.kungfumagazine.com/ezine/article.php?article=1033">http://ezine.kungfumagazine.com/ezine/a ... ticle=1033</a><!-- m -->

I have one outstanding question - didn't you interview Gareth and Mike?

[Greg_phpbb3_import1]

I did. I threw some of their quotes into the article.

[cranefly]

With Merantau You Get Rumspringa, the long-awaited sequel to With Two You Get Eggroll, holds up quite well as an entry in this revitalized franchise.
I don't have a lot to add to the above discussion, except to agree that the plot was weak but I very much enjoyed the fight scenes. It's been a while since I've gotten a triple-scoop of martial arts in a movie. This had lots, and a lot of it impressed me.

But the women didn't do anything in this movie. They were just damsels in distress. This was most apparent near the end when the trafficked women are locked in a big trailer and the protagonist is being choked to death against its outer wall, and while the women are pounding the walls and crying for help, the main babe, who's been in a stupor, slowly murmurs the barest, "help." Somehow this penetrates the wall and enters the protagonist's being, sparking a comeback like the one I was hoping for from the Indiana Colts against the New England Patriots, but do you think that goody-two-shoe Stanford-grad Luck would give it the Gipper try?

No. Not a fucking chance. Wiener boy. He should go back where he came from.

[Drunk Monk]

I just rewatched this as research for the Iko piece that I'm blocking on.  After a decade, it's better than I remember.  Jakarta is so lush.  And the choreo is so complex - so many single shot scenes that go a dozen plus complicated sequences. It's a solid first effort for Iko and a notable second film for Evans (his first film, Footsteps, is pretty obscure).  

I may just have to resort to rewatching Iko's movies until I break through this block.  I've already re-read our reviews here.  I'm bummed that I'll have to rent Raid, Raid 2 & Force Awakens if I go there now.  Then again, I may just push through the writing block because I don't have the luxury to be blocked.