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Case for the Prosecution: No, I don't mean that one, or that one, but the 2006 flimsy excuse for women wandering around in very little.
And that's the thing, everyone knows the game for two things only ... or rather various sets of two things, so I'm not sure that fans of the game can complain about any changes that were made.
The main problem is that the film is dull. The fights, the attempts at T&A, the utter failure of a plot.
The cry that I feel that way because I am not the target audience is rebutted by two facts. 1 - I knew the target audience and they felt the same way and 2 - in what way am I not the target audience for a fight movie directed by Corey Yuen?
The scene itself:
Why the scene is so good:
Into this land of bland wander the two best parts of DOA, Holly Valance playing Christie Allen and Jaime Pressly playing Tina Armstrong. Holly Valance treats the whole thing with the sense of humour it requires, and Jaime Pressly is almost as much fun. They are both in this bit.
Also in this scene playing Bass Armstrong is Kevin Nash, who has already been involved in another film on this list. Dude is either decent at this acting lark or needs to pick better films to be in.
While I am fully aware of the many bad things about the "mistaken for gay" trope, this is one of my favourite takes on it (another option is Victor/Victoria, which does it completely differently), because Tina's Dad is just so supportive.
In the tournament in the film, the fighters are allowed to fight each other the minute the fight is declared, and some of the other fighters have taken advantage of this previously, but because his darling daughter has a "special" friend, Bass Armstrong going to leave it till the morning. So adorable.
Christie meanwhile is having all the fun tormenting Tina, which fits in with her character in the film.
It's a scene where every character has a personality, and does things that fit with it. It's pretty much the only scene in the film where this is true. That everything is adorable is why it's a good scene.
And that's the thing, everyone knows the game for two things only ... or rather various sets of two things, so I'm not sure that fans of the game can complain about any changes that were made.
The main problem is that the film is dull. The fights, the attempts at T&A, the utter failure of a plot.
The cry that I feel that way because I am not the target audience is rebutted by two facts. 1 - I knew the target audience and they felt the same way and 2 - in what way am I not the target audience for a fight movie directed by Corey Yuen?
The scene itself:
Why the scene is so good:
Into this land of bland wander the two best parts of DOA, Holly Valance playing Christie Allen and Jaime Pressly playing Tina Armstrong. Holly Valance treats the whole thing with the sense of humour it requires, and Jaime Pressly is almost as much fun. They are both in this bit.
Also in this scene playing Bass Armstrong is Kevin Nash, who has already been involved in another film on this list. Dude is either decent at this acting lark or needs to pick better films to be in.
While I am fully aware of the many bad things about the "mistaken for gay" trope, this is one of my favourite takes on it (another option is Victor/Victoria, which does it completely differently), because Tina's Dad is just so supportive.
In the tournament in the film, the fighters are allowed to fight each other the minute the fight is declared, and some of the other fighters have taken advantage of this previously, but because his darling daughter has a "special" friend, Bass Armstrong going to leave it till the morning. So adorable.
Christie meanwhile is having all the fun tormenting Tina, which fits in with her character in the film.
It's a scene where every character has a personality, and does things that fit with it. It's pretty much the only scene in the film where this is true. That everything is adorable is why it's a good scene.
