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And also a couple of things I watched while I was there.
We ended up watching half of Bellator 147 on Fox Sports Mexico. Mostly because I could follow the sports without a need for a translator.
I have one question about the Anderson vs Patricky fight. How did Anderson get the win? One of them was bleeding and one was not. And it wasn't Patricky that was bleeding. Small words please for any explanations.
I also saw the first episode of 'Into The Badlands' which looks like precisely my kind of nonsense. Swordfights, a kickass, conflicted, slightly mysterious hero (Daniel Wu), actually interesting mystery (even if it makes me think of the Wizard of Oz) and Marton Csokas, even if he's putting on a Southern accent last heard on Foghorn Leghorn, although even the Baron becomes interesting in the last scene. I've not seen any channel in the UK carrying it, which is annoying, because I want to see what happens next.
On the flight over I watched 'The Emperor's New Groove', which is as good as people say, a documentary about the Lipizzaner called 'Perfect Horse', because of course I did (they are the perfect horse, and I am biased). It's very interesting, if a bit bizarre and probably not suitable for a plane flight.
I also ended up watching 'Wild Card' which is a miscellaneous Jason Statham film. In it's defence, the fight scenes are very well done and Michael Angarano is really good as the pencil-necked geek he is supposed to be playing. The setting and the feel of the thing are also well done. The problem is it just sort of stops when you think the story is about to kick in. Definitely not as bad as people would lead you to believe but some pacing issues. And also Milo Ventimiglia either doing a very bad job of playing a gangster or doing a very good job of playing the son of a gangster who is about as dangerous as kitchen towel but plays at being a bad guy. Stanley Tucci meanwhile is very good at playing one of those happy, polite people who is still terrifyingly dangerous.
On the way back I watched Man From U.N.C.L.E again and confirmed my main thoughts, which is to say, it's fun but it's not UNCLE.
Followed by Hitman: Agent 47, the Hitman reboot that no-one wanted or needed. It's not Rupert Friend's fault that he's not as good an actor as Timothy Olyphant. When the film gives him something to do other than look mean and moody (and lets him have facial expressions), he's actually quite fun. Ditto the heroine.
( Spoilers )
The same problem, more or less, was the problem with the fight scenes. Agent 47 is so over-powered that there is no threat to him, so there's nothing interesting about the fights. In the one fight where he is at risk, even though there's no more flair to it that the others, it's suddenly a lot more fun.
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I also feel tempted to e-mail the BBC to ask them to ask Tolsen Tullet who does the sport on the World Service to enunciate more clearly because I could barely follow him and I'm English as a first language so I don't know how EFL people cope and that's pretty much who the World Service is aimed at. It's not just me for once, my mother, whose hearing is better than mine, had the same problem.
We ended up watching half of Bellator 147 on Fox Sports Mexico. Mostly because I could follow the sports without a need for a translator.
I have one question about the Anderson vs Patricky fight. How did Anderson get the win? One of them was bleeding and one was not. And it wasn't Patricky that was bleeding. Small words please for any explanations.
I also saw the first episode of 'Into The Badlands' which looks like precisely my kind of nonsense. Swordfights, a kickass, conflicted, slightly mysterious hero (Daniel Wu), actually interesting mystery (even if it makes me think of the Wizard of Oz) and Marton Csokas, even if he's putting on a Southern accent last heard on Foghorn Leghorn, although even the Baron becomes interesting in the last scene. I've not seen any channel in the UK carrying it, which is annoying, because I want to see what happens next.
On the flight over I watched 'The Emperor's New Groove', which is as good as people say, a documentary about the Lipizzaner called 'Perfect Horse', because of course I did (they are the perfect horse, and I am biased). It's very interesting, if a bit bizarre and probably not suitable for a plane flight.
I also ended up watching 'Wild Card' which is a miscellaneous Jason Statham film. In it's defence, the fight scenes are very well done and Michael Angarano is really good as the pencil-necked geek he is supposed to be playing. The setting and the feel of the thing are also well done. The problem is it just sort of stops when you think the story is about to kick in. Definitely not as bad as people would lead you to believe but some pacing issues. And also Milo Ventimiglia either doing a very bad job of playing a gangster or doing a very good job of playing the son of a gangster who is about as dangerous as kitchen towel but plays at being a bad guy. Stanley Tucci meanwhile is very good at playing one of those happy, polite people who is still terrifyingly dangerous.
On the way back I watched Man From U.N.C.L.E again and confirmed my main thoughts, which is to say, it's fun but it's not UNCLE.
Followed by Hitman: Agent 47, the Hitman reboot that no-one wanted or needed. It's not Rupert Friend's fault that he's not as good an actor as Timothy Olyphant. When the film gives him something to do other than look mean and moody (and lets him have facial expressions), he's actually quite fun. Ditto the heroine.
( Spoilers )
The same problem, more or less, was the problem with the fight scenes. Agent 47 is so over-powered that there is no threat to him, so there's nothing interesting about the fights. In the one fight where he is at risk, even though there's no more flair to it that the others, it's suddenly a lot more fun.
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I also feel tempted to e-mail the BBC to ask them to ask Tolsen Tullet who does the sport on the World Service to enunciate more clearly because I could barely follow him and I'm English as a first language so I don't know how EFL people cope and that's pretty much who the World Service is aimed at. It's not just me for once, my mother, whose hearing is better than mine, had the same problem.
