09-16-2020, 12:06 AM
Dayum. You're memory is on point. Except for the piece on the white sidekick. I don't remember doing a piece on him. Louis Mandylor (had to look that up even though I just saw it in the opening credits twice). His character is named Louis Malone. I don't know a thing about him beyond what I just read on wiki.
There's a blonde cop that I didn't remember at all - she's not going to make it to ep8 tho. She's rather stiff and can go.
Not only did I remember the auto shop fight, I remembered that flip and the NG scene at the end of the flip.
Despite Sammo's clunky English (his diction is well rehearsed but his timing is painfully off) he does emote well. I liked when he said he learned from Chinese opera. It was a lost line back then but for those who know Sammo, it rings true. Sammo has always been one of my favs. I'll watch him in anything. He always delivers. It's reaffirming to see that he's true to form in this and that it holds up okay, despite the typicaly TV cop show format and the wailing guitar riffs for the fight scenes. That feels so dated now.
On a side note, I've met the showrunners. Al Gough and Miles Millar did Into the Badlands. I talked to Al about it a little in Dublin. He was very pleased that I remembered it (the other reporters were in their 30s so they were teens when Martial Law came out. I remember how excited we all were about it in the Wulin. It's really unprecedented and the martial arts shows now don't quite hold a candle to the level of choreo this was bringing. It's all Sammo and Stanley Tong.
There's a blonde cop that I didn't remember at all - she's not going to make it to ep8 tho. She's rather stiff and can go.
Not only did I remember the auto shop fight, I remembered that flip and the NG scene at the end of the flip.
Despite Sammo's clunky English (his diction is well rehearsed but his timing is painfully off) he does emote well. I liked when he said he learned from Chinese opera. It was a lost line back then but for those who know Sammo, it rings true. Sammo has always been one of my favs. I'll watch him in anything. He always delivers. It's reaffirming to see that he's true to form in this and that it holds up okay, despite the typicaly TV cop show format and the wailing guitar riffs for the fight scenes. That feels so dated now.
On a side note, I've met the showrunners. Al Gough and Miles Millar did Into the Badlands. I talked to Al about it a little in Dublin. He was very pleased that I remembered it (the other reporters were in their 30s so they were teens when Martial Law came out. I remember how excited we all were about it in the Wulin. It's really unprecedented and the martial arts shows now don't quite hold a candle to the level of choreo this was bringing. It's all Sammo and Stanley Tong.
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