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Wachowskis. McTeigue. NINJA ASSASSIN Trailer. Badass Poster.
Merrick here...
MTV has unveiled both a a trailer and poster for NINJA ASSASSIN - from the Wachowskis and V FOR VENDETTA director James McTeigue.
You can view this via the embed below, which originates HERE.
Here's a look at the poster. Click it for a fuller, larger, clearer version!
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That's it, just first!
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Jul 23, 2009 11:54:12 AM CDT
"You can either whip me or cut my throat, make up your mind!"
by mrmysteryguest
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Jul 23, 2009 11:54:58 AM CDT
it's no Octagon (which was just on, but I missed it)
by just pillow talk
but I'll eventually give it a look. It seems to be all matrix-y...
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Like fuck she did.
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Looks ca. 1995 DTV, where's VanDamme?
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looks flat, boring, and cliched. lots of unnecessary cgi too.
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OOOOOFFFF COURSE IT IS
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Jul 23, 2009 11:56:34 AM CDT
Isn't NINJA ASSASSIN kinda redundant? A ninja is an assassin.
by mrmysteryguest
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Ticket sold!
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It sounds like all of those straight to video movies I used to see on the shelves in the video stores back in the 80's.
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since the wacko bros are avid fans of anime, why not make a film based on ninja scroll instead? the poster looks like a asian crow/blade wannabe.
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The first part of the trailer obviously rips off 300, but the rest looks badass.
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...sounds like a character from The Muppet Show. Can't quite put my finger on who, though...
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Really, who watches shit like this? Earth to AICN, no one gives a flying flarn about the Wachowskis anymore.
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he'll kill you, then makes fun of your dead body, then brags about it all over town!
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No disrespect to "The Octagon" which does kick all kinds of Chuck-o-licious ass.
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This is transparently a video game plot sent to the big screen. In fact, it looks like it should just have been a video game.
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for posting the same fucking phrase over and over on every talkback? Could somebody figure out a way to ban IP addys instead of just handles and get rid of these pest-fucks? Please?
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RAIN. hahaha
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...a little bit. I'd love to see the Wachowskis back in top form...
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it's weird! :P
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Looks like some punk in a leather jacket trying to shit a large shard of glass from the glass bottle he had shoved up his ass, and someone kicked him in the gut.
Besides, 'Ninja Assassin' is redundant... and is a perfect example of why other countries laugh at us when we name things. -
It's the Wachowski's.... CAN'T WAIT!!!!!!!
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That looked like shit. Way too cartoony and video gamey - fuck that. When he killed the fat guy in white from behind, they even used a video game scream we've all heard millions of times over to add that extra bit of artificiality. Hollywood taking Asian kung fu flicks and trying to soup them up with a lot of money and CGI is a formula for high octane crap.
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Jul 23, 2009 12:10:46 PM CDT
Fucking YES! That looks awesome! The WACHOWSKIS OWN YOUR ASSES
by johnno
Bad ass over the top fights are the kind of thing I crave! There all kinds of Ninja Scroll imagery in there with the throwing stars and all that other crazy shit! The poster is also bad ass! If you fuckers flocked to Shoot 'em Up, then I don't see why this isn't exciting you! Oh wait... you are the same assholes who troll every Wachowski talkback because of your insane unappreciation for Speed Racer and the Matrix Trilogy. Well fuck you, this looks awesome!
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They look awful!
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Maybe it's because he's an assassin who specifically kills Ninjas. Not just your regular run of the mill Assassin... A NINJA ASSASSIN!!!
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looks like it could be cool.
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check out that trailer for real fucking action as opposed to this.And Johnno, whether one "appreciates" the Matrix trilogy or not, that's a completely different animal than a 'true' martial arts flick, or at least one that should be. Watch Donnie Yen or Tony Jaa for real action.
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Not a fan of cgi weapons....takes you out of the movie...Not too sure on this one...I'll wait to pass judgment since its the Bros.
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I love me some silly kung fu, ninja, star dart, samurai sword, flying acrobatics, black pajama wearing, you've dishonored/betrayed me, fight to the death, I can take a thousand punches and bullets and still kick your ass with a smile cuz I am a ninja assassin with a beef. The only thing missing from the trailer is your standard super hot asian woman - LOL!
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And there's nothing insane about not enjoying Matrix 2 & 3, overwraught messes that they were.
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...that little fucker doesn't always have the best taste...he was pretty impressed by the Sears catalog woman's underwear section, so...
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If I didn't suspect that the germ of this movie has been incubating for years, I would say that's one of the most derivative things I've ever seen. If they know what's good for them, there will be about 5 pages of dialogue in this movie and EVERYTHING else will be action.
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right?
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from TMNT???????? i just cummed.
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Yup. It will be followed by Ninja Assassins vs. Pirate Plunderers. And yep. Chuck Norris STILL fuckin wins.
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"Ninja Assasin" sounds like some lame generic comic book you'd at a convention. You know the kind that are printed in black and white with Jim Lee rip-off artwork?And the poster is boring as hell. Am I too cynical? I'm really not excited by this one.
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Wet, shirtless sparring *drool*
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And Thief Stealers? And Viking Raiders? And Painting Artists? This is a cash cow franchise.
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And I can dig both methods of doing things. I like my bone crushing grounded reality athleticism of Tony Jaa just as much as I love impossible wire/gun fu exaggerated CGI spectacle.
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*slits a goat's throat in sacrifice to the gods that they grant him an EDIT BUTTON!*
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Ninja AssAssIn begs and borrows. Looks run of the mill. Yawn....
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Jul 23, 2009 12:35:07 PM CDT
I'll stick to playing the Xbox game Ninja Blade instead of this
by stalkeye
NB was unapologetically campy, but still a fun game, plus the protagonist had a more convincing outfit than say this "ASS ass in"
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I don't know where these people live where their time time is blue. Oh the place to hide CGI effects.
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...as a favor to the Wachowskis, apparently. Very interested in checking this one out, especially given McTeigue's work on VENDETTA. JMS recently mentioned that there's going to be a Comic-Con screening this weekend.
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sure maybe there's too much cgi, cliche plot. but this is right up my alley. i love action and i will definitely see this. i know, ong bak 2 will be the movie of the year, tony jaa is the man, but i think this will still be fun for me to watch. the wachowskis made my favorite movie of all time, matrix reloaded.
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yes the fights were great but once again you have to sit through way too much BS and the ending was a giant cocktease.
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Why do all movies look like I would have really loved them back when I was 7? This looks like the ninja equivalent of Transformers 2. It's like each action movie brings us one step closer to 'Ow! My Balls.'
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How much money you wanna bet that American Ninja gets a quickie reboot next year to capitalize on a new ninja craze?
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Jul 23, 2009 12:42:08 PM CDT
The second movie from the V for vendetta director?
by talkbacker with no name
That's got to be worth a watch. I'll give it a go.
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or did this look a little cheap?
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Jul 23, 2009 12:47:05 PM CDT
Series7! what the fuck does that even mean!?
by talkbacker with no name
!I don't know where these people live where their time time is blue. Oh the place to hide CGI effects." wtf?
I don't know about anyone else here, but I'm fucking sick of seeing yours and lockesbrokenleg on every single fucking talkback talking fucking shit about shit you have no idea about. Pack it in! -
it's not the footage that looks cheap, it's the fucking terrible titles that come up between. It's a badly made trailer. I've heard from somenone who was on the set that the action is incredible. really! there is a scene with like 100 ninjas (or so he said). Guessing it's that scene near the end of the trailer in the dojo.
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Jul 23, 2009 12:56:13 PM CDT
I'm sold. Too bad they didn't make a SNAKE EYES prequel to JOE
by yackbacker
In this style, a whole movie on Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow leading up to the GI JOE movie... that would have been masterful. (sigh) No dice, as Chuck Bronson would say...
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Sorry, off topic. But I thought that of the 2 new Middle Earth movies, only 1 would be based on the Hobbit, but apparently, both movies are The Hobbit. It's in 2 parts. with the Appendices been added throughout each movie where appropriate.
That's straignt from Comic Con by the way. The panel is on now. -
Looks very Crabcore!
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about a month ago
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if you are there now, feed us the juicey bit as they happen :)
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Ah ok. Back to cgi ninja movies then
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Who fucking cares? The plot is straight out of some grade D 80's ninja movie. I was hoping for an historical setting when I heard about this, unfortunately this just look stupid. Give me Ong Bak any day over this tripe.
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they del toro and jackson spoke to empire or something. Don't know if it was posted on aicn or not though.
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Wish I was. Just catching the live blogs on G4.
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on the blog now :)
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Anyone remember the mega collection on the Sega Genesis/Megadrive, with Golden Axe, Streets of Rage and Revenge Of Shinobi?
There are a few Shinobi games but the plot of that one was: Master dies, apprentice seeks revenge, takes on organisation bent on world domination...or something.
Simple, effective, same as every ninja movie out there.
Or how about Ninja Gaiden?
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And my book is a best-seller among my friends and family.
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The ninja attack sequence in "The Last Samurai" is still the one to beat.
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It's more like a Weta "self-promotion" panel
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I think that was him getting his face slashed.
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With all of the ninja stars and chain-knife thingys stabbing out of the screen and into my eye every few seconds, it makes me think this movie should have been in 3-D.
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Dammit.
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Fuck this movie, fuck it ten ways from a County Fair
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A Shinobi or Ninja Gaiden film would have more potentual for a bigger box office draw as both IPs are well known throughout the gaming community. That and both were great games.
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it's finished...but i'm a richard taylor nut, so enjoyed the small titbits.
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Needs more practical effects. Plus it looks like Ra's Al Ghoul's training camp mixed with Ninja Gaiden on the Xbox.
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So they said they're in preproduction, the movie will be out Holiday 2011 and then promoted a bunch of Weta gear. Yup...that was it. Next.
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Why do people persist in using that crap, at least let the thing cache! I don't want to watch at anything but high quality, wake me up when there is a quicktime version.
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Ninjutsu is back, baby! 80's Style!
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comic con said Sigourney Weaver will be there for the wonder woman panel. interesting.
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Nothing to do with the Amazon princess, just a girl power panel or something
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I suppose that could work. It's just that it looks EXACTLY like Batman Begins.
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If not, fuck this movie.
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This looks AWESOME!
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my bad, vadakinX
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All these comparisons to Ong Bak... you like the more realistic fights with Tony Jaa... okay... I get that... I like 'em too... But are some of you here seriously trying to tell me that fucking Ong Bak has some kind of amazing plot/storyline??? Or any Tony Jaa movie thus far for that matter??? ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME???Hell, we don't even know what kind of shit goes down in Ninja Assassin outside of a bunch of cliche ninja things that are typical of ninja movies and typical of trailers and entirely vague anyway that tell us nothing!!! But I feel I can guarantee you it'll be far better than any of Tony Jaa's sorry story excuses to kick ass, not that I'm complaining about the man!
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So if the fights were awesome, then it succeeded. Of course the plot/dialogue/etc are silly, but that goes with the territory of a Tony Jaa movie.I know there's an alligator is this one, was it thrown in the air like the elephant in The Protector?
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Fair enough.
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called Rain? How pompous can you get?
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You know...the one where a rich kid from Fiction City, Japan, travels to the west to learn western fighting styles and techniques so he can battle crime following the tragic death of his parents.
Japanese Batman fights the Yakuza, attempting to clean up the streets of Fiction City where he takes on vicious villains like Mr. Serious and Ray Albert Grant. -
It's all about timing: yup, I don't give a shit that Tony Jaa movies have razor thin plots. I'm there to see FLAMING LEG KICKS and lots of broken bones. Throw in wild animals into the story, and I'm all set.
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It really is a terrible film. BUT....the no-wires action makes it worth while although I wish the editor would stop showing every stunt from 5 angles. It cheapens the experience.
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http://tinyurl.com/np86zl
No more Barth Burgers, friends.
Eat a crappy hamburger in his honor tonight.
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It's pretty much what I expected from the Wachowski's and McTeigue: it looks like a ninja comic book or anime brought to life.
Anyone who expected action in the vein of the classic Hong Kong "Seven Little Fortunes" movies or a Tony Jaa film was just not being realistic. This movie stars a guy who was trained for this movie specifically, not a life-long martial artist, and was written and produced by people who worship comic books and anime and the accompanying visuals. -
Is fucking Flash Dance with Ninjas and I loved that gay fucking movie.
Totally not in print and no where on the interweb, maybe it was renamed or some shit.
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Thats funny because me and lockesbrokenleg got into yesterday right good. Sorry about that earlier post I meant to put night time. What I mean is that I'm sick of movies that take place at night look like the moon engulfs the world in this nice blue hue. It just seems like a lame effect to hide the bad CG. Plus that poster looks like every other Asian import poster. I guess if what they were going for is just another recent Asian kung fu movie then they nailed it.
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Also who cares what your sick of. You don't like what I have to vomit out of my mouth and onto the keyboard, don't fucking read it.
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I think Rain is some huge Briney Spears big pop star in Asia.
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for action films? there was some nice fighting, yes, but taken as a whole it was pretty much garbage. not that Ninja Assassin will be much better (its title alone pretty much ensures this), but still...
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Sounds like it.
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I can't believe you folks don't know about this? www.hkdvdstore.com. Its cool. The story is shit, but martial arts movies are like porn when it comes to a story.
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I don't know? Some asshole has been wasting Stephen Chow's time promising him to make some bad ass update of a campy old TV series, but when he found out that he had to work with someone incapable of anything physical he quit. 6 months down the tube.
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Part of it might be that my monitor is pretty dark, and so I couldn't see half of what was in there, but I dont know... It just didn't grab me.
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Shit Chocolate is better then Ong Bak at times.
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Well he's some kind of pop star sensation anyway. If American rappers can get away with using their stage name I don't see why we need make an exception for him. Besides... why the fuck does it matter anyway? Is this some kind of bad point against the movie that people are trying to come up with now?
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It's still no Ninja Gaiden the Movie.
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It's like a porn title: you know exactly what you are getting, i.e. MILFS SUCK DICK VOL. 5 (best in the series).
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You are a gentlemen damiz707. My order is placed!
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Yup and "Ninja Assassin" is the name of the ballet that she is set to perform in but she can't until she finds her shoes. Add Adrian Brody and we have ourselves an Oscar contender.
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You are correct brother Series. And Chocolate is ridiculously awesome, even the outtakes at the end are crazy.
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...yes, that movie was awful.
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Music by Yo-Yo Ma. Lyric by Celene Dion.
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Well Rain was in Speed Racer.
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Never say something "can't be worse" than something horrible...because it CAN...dear God it can...
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Self pompous indeed and somewhat gay as in bruno gay.
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That's why Dwayne Johnson is no longer the Rock, and Mark Wahlberg is no longer Marky Mark.
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...forty eight days and forty eight nights straight? Suck on that Asia...
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raugh out roud round eye. ass ass ass I mean in. Now go and be predictaboo. Is yoo destiny. Hyaaaaa
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...no.
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That's reason enough to watch it. Been awhile Mr. Kosugi.
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...off making a music video?
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...to touch little boys it wouldn't even be wrong?
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Fiendish Ninja Assassin! Your scientific ability is matched only by your zest for kung-fu treachery! hehehe
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Yawn. seriously yawn.
More teenage boy, Alpha male fantasies, that are hollow empty shallow moments thqt glorify violence and dehumanise the viewer.
The best movie in terms of the context of the business of killing people and how distrubing it really is has to be The Bourne trilogy, The International, Hostel 1&2 and Friedkin's The Hunted.
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What? How? All Asians are good for are fast food and obeying laws! Not for films! At best an Asian person should not have a role higher than a tertiary character. Fourthery film roles is where its at for Asians.
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THAT looks awesome. kung fu and effects means my ass is gonna be in a seat to see this.
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Fuck yo couch ninja!
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Jul 23, 2009 2:20:51 PM CDT
HOLY FUCK AN HONEST TO BUDDHA ASIAN NINJA!??!!?!?!?!?
by bringingsexyback
Fuck me that looks hot! I'm there.
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I'll still see it though, I'm a sucker for Kung Fu movies.
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Sure looks like it.
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... as in, he ASSASINATES ninjas. which would make him a Ninja Assasin.
geez.
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... assassin :P
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The dialogue was horrible...the stunts ok but nothing we haven't seen before. I'm underwhelmed.
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Why cant I just get 2 hours of just pure ninja ass kicking and leave the plot aside. Fucking bastards.
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God forbid we ever watch an action movie just to have fun...
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the music, the kid's training, and the blood splatter on the poster is very 300ish.
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Sister Mary Kickass, trained since birth in the martial arts, breaks free of the convent and whips out her rosary beads.
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That's probably because some of the 300 staff are involved, at least that's what John Gaeta tells us John Gaeta interview
tinyurl.com/mbcg8xAnd for those who already saw this video the last time AICN reported on it, then you can see that the majority of the action are real physically choreographed stunts!Training & Stunts choreographytinyurl.com/nzjhf9 -
It's tiny url, so I don't know why my post has that space in it, I didn't put it there...
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One man made the impossible, possible. In 98 minutes, he will make you believe the Bush years had a single positive impact upon American society.... and kick you in the face standing behind you.
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best ninja movie ever made.
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http://tinyurl.com/mzyhbx
Basically it's more of a guy protect girl flick similar to stuff Jet Li and Jackie Chan have done. Involves political assassinations and police investigations too... Nothing new, but there's more to the film I guess... -
Staff involved are the fight choreographers from 300, Bourne, Fight Club etc. Wachowskis are in producer role along with Joel Silver, though I'm guessing they are also doing 2nd unit directing stuff like they did on V as well as involved with some fight choreography and visuals and storyboarding. Script and story are not by them.
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H1M G0NN4 CUT YU F4C3!!!
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The Wachoski's make stuff they want to see, with intelligence and soul. You whiny bitches make me sick to my stomach. What Do You Want To See In Theatres?!?!??!! Cause all I read in every talkback is how much shit sucked. There is always crap music and crap movies in every era cause it's for a mass audience. Every time you crap on an authentic voice like the Wachoski's three Ratners pop up in their place ready to cash a paycheck and fuck a casting couch girl...I hate you all.
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Non CG fighting. http://tinyurl.com/lun5ag If you ever wanted to see what Eddy Gordo fighting looked like for real, check it out.
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And SHO KOSUGI is fucking back! Looking very damn forward to this!
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All those ninja movies he made were terrible, but that didn't stop the 10 year old me from loving every last second of them.
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Get it?! THAT WAS FROM THE MATRIX! YEEAAAHHH!!!
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I agree, those ninja movies were great, although American Ninja really kinda sucked. Love action aimed at sadistic adults rather than OCD pre-teens. It's the one thing the 80's did right.
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You know he did. Probably gotta a mouth full of N1NJ4 KUM right now.
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Jul 23, 2009 3:48:09 PM CDT
You know, in the 21st century, there is a thing called a gun
by kirttrik
why all the swords? Sword vs sniper rifle= sniper rifle wins.
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Then the follow-up Ninja Vs. Pirate Assassin.
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Believe that shit!
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That looks awesome! Got my action boner in full action mode!
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Really? i guess it does if you spend a lot of time playing Yu-Gi-Oh while watching reruns of Robotech....but personally, that dialogue made my ass twitch. Once again, hollywood appears to have buttfucked all the cool out of the ninja mythos.
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You want to see real ninja action watch America Ninja, America Ninja 2, America Ninja 3: Blood Storm, or America Ninja 4: The Annihilation.
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IMO the awesomest ninja film is still "The Hunted" with Chris Lambert. Would like to know others if anyone has 'em
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Ninja Terminator was definitely the better movie. It was one of those movies where they take two completely different movies, slap them together, dub over them, and make something completely new. The main ninja wears a DEER CAMOFLAUGE ninja outfit. The movie also featured this genius dialogue exchange:
"Why are you so greedy?"
"BECAUSE THERE'S NOT ENOUGH FOR EVERYONE!"The main badguy ninja blows himself up with ninja magic at the end, and it looks like he goes shooting off into the sky, while the main deerhunter camo ninja looks over his shoulder with a "hmph" of uncaringness.
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Ninja weaponless vs deer= maybe ninja wins.
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... That was a terrible trailer. And, why does it take so many companies to make such an awful-looking movie?
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But even that had better dialogue than this (which is saying something for a Christopher Lambert movie). The dialogue in this trailer is just bad...which is consistent with the reviews from the preview screening: they simply couldn't maintain a decent script to go along with the balls-out action.
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Revenge of the Ninja, American Ninja, Enter the Ninja, Ninja 3: The Dominition and Pray for Death.
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This guy was over his head with V For Vendetta. Maybe this movie is closer to his level.
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Ninja High School Janitor
Ninja Ballerina
Ninja Shock Jock
Ninja Micro Biologist
Ninja Bathroom Attendant
Ninja Tug Boat Captain
Ninja Astrophysicist
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The entire reason for a ninja movie to exist is to watch ninjas flip around and kill people. That's it. Plot, acting, special effects, even synched audio...not required. If you actually make posts on a forum criticizing the quality of a ninja movie...basically, you're a fucking retard. End of story.
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It has a Indonesian witch with a snake in it. Later on she puts on a leather jacket and terminator shades and her Indonesian magic protects her from bullets. Awesome movie.
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been waiting for this one since I first heard about, finally a poster & trailer come out...now its AVATARs turn.
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Every each of them wants to be The Matrix. Thing is, in The Matrix, the impossible feats achieved by the characters was justified because they happen inside a computer world, where the character were either hackers whoc ould bend the rules of the program, or they were programs who were designed to do that from the start.But movies like this one, they are supposed to happening our world. even accounting the artistic license so they can portait the protagonists as special people with far more skills then the regular joe, still their achievements are so extreme, so over the top that makes everything they do impossible. The movies just became a collection of impossible moments one after the other. It robs the movie of suspension of disbelief. When the characters do impossible things routinely, what's so special about what they do, anyway? It becames mundane and unintenresting and uninvolving. and without a real connection to what's doable in real life and without limits that look plausible and realistic, this movies are just a bunch of CGI show off sequences with little restrain or even imagination. It's too easy to go over the top with the CGI of today. and that's, frankly, terribly unimpressive. Every hack does that today, and it's not interesting.
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The only ninja movie beyond criticism is Batman Begins. Which, technically, is a ninja movie.
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this is a well cited claim, with strong evidence and statistical testing to back it up. In other words, it's basically law.
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BOLO! CRUSH NINJA ASSASSIN!
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If Mel Gibson directed this it would of been set in Feudal Japan with the actors speaking in that crazy jibberish language Ken Watanabe made up for Batman Begins.
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The man can beat vampyres in his lunch, ninjas wouldn't be much of a stretch to him. Also, Kronos is a master of the use of the samurai blade as well, so, he's fully trained even on eastern weaponry. Captain Kronos eats ninjas for breakfast.
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...made a good film once. It was called Bound.Since then...zip worth talking about.This DTV-looking shit will be no different.
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Vampires are much more deadly foe.
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Isn't as exciting as I thought it would be. I'll probably give it a rent or something.
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Don't even pretend this movie has a story.
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hard to believe that The Hunted came out 15 years ago. I miss ninjas. Not like Snake Eyes and Ninja Turtles and Surf ninjas, I'm talking Golan Globus ninjas that feed you your nuts and rape your bitch before taking on a small army with stars and a sword. can't fucking wait.
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Those days are gone, friend. Today it's emo ninjas played by WB actors acting ninja thanks to CGI. Deal with it.
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WB will offer them Superman. Just a thought...
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2 FAST 2 FURIOUS 2 NINJA.
Fucking piece of wank. You want martial arts respect then fucking earn it. Through skill. Through artistry. Through physicality.
Not with fucking godawful CGI fighting stars and synthespian stuntmen.
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Jul 23, 2009 5:27:19 PM CDT
Besides, it was the shittiness of the Golan-Globus ninja movies
by asimovlives
that killed the ninja sub-genre. People just got fed up with it, and rightly so. Where they ever to make actual good ninja movie,s but no, they wee just contented with producting cheap silly action movies with pseudo-eastern mystical mumbo-jumbo crap. Golan-Globus killed the ninja sub-genre, if you liked those ninja movies, you helped the death of the sub-genre. Good job, fellas.
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Right on.
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Ninja ledgend Sho Kusgi is in this motherfucker? I have to see this now
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Wow. There hasn't been a decent ninja movie in years. I'm glad that 'Ninja Assassin' is rated R and isn't marketed for Naruto herbs.
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And of course most of us will watch it. I certainly will.C'mon, that scene with the car fishtailing into the backside of unnamed anti-ninja assassin #72 offers promise of similarly shot guilty pleasure goodness.
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bound, matrix(1st one only), speed racer, v for vendetta... all cool stuffs.
the bros are far far far above the league of ratner, mcg, sommers, bay. remember that before you slam the bros. if you watched and love transformers then you have NO FUCKING BUSINESS talking down to the men who gave us matrix. -
the matrix, i mean. have to keep stressing that. :)
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I fail to see the point of casting an asian actor if the movie is gonna be in english
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..a complete waste of my time. Actually, none of the "Wokalski Bros" films are any good - this one will suck as well.
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Sure it's not realistic, but you're one of few who gets all hot and bothered by it... Least we forget most people on this site grew up reading colourful books with characters who wore tights, flew up in the air and got into boxing matchess with other flying villians, dress up like bats, shoot spiderwebs out of their hands, have flaming skulls on their heads, have wizards, goblins and hobbits and aliens and robots that turn into humvees and tons of other unrealistic shit... hell most of our sci fi movies are filled to the brim with scientific nonsense!!! Now we're gonna get all up in arms over a movie with ninjas who do flips and shit and throw a bunch of sharp metal stars and swing around a knife on a chain??? If you watch the behind the scenes, most of the stunts are all done without wires and pure physical strength and speed!!! You tell me what's more realistic!!! Or are the only movies you watch romantic comedies, historical films and dramas with an occasional slasher?
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You made me laugh.
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You must be referring to the poster from Comic-Con 2008 - because this new one sucks a fat cock.
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Jul 23, 2009 6:55:12 PM CDT
And anyone who doesn't find some merit to the first Matrix film.
by johnno
Is simply from a universe that I cannot even begin to comprehend. I liked all three of them, and hell I'm willing to give some leeway for those who didn't like the sequels... but if you didn't even like the first one then I don't even want to know you or ever want to see any film with you ever. If people like you ran the industry, there would never be anything like the Matrix or Star Wars or LOTR or Avatar. It's clearly obvious that the subject matter of these films does nothing for you... Hell I don't watch romance films or character driven dramas, I don't like em, but you don't see me criticizing something and putting it down just because it's topic has no interest to me and you don't ever catch me trolling any talkbacks dedicated to that stuff. Damn...
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Some kinda fucked up xxxtreme anal gang bang beastality pan sexual prolapse implosion from the mind of tranny bro Wach-wow-ski.
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Resulted in several terrible ninja movies I enjoyed as a child. It is the very essence of 80s Badfilm.
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horrible resolution!
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The poster sort of looks like he lost control of his chain-whip and is trying to untangle it. Cool title, cool people involved, though. This will be something to keep an eye out for. I love V for Vendetta and the first Matrix. And I hate to admit it but I enjoyed the hell out of Speed Racer, ridiculous as it was. It was a helluva lot better than the feces-fest known as Spiderman 3.
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last i check 'crouching tiger' made money and won oscars, so yeah... asians in an asian story(it's ninja after all) with english language is a step back. and casting a caucasian as avatar aang in the 'last airbender' movie is ten steps back.
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Problem is they're all asian so they have tiny tiny dicks. Not good.
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I'm truly shocked a how boring this looks. Image after image of pedestrian CGI action beats, it looks like something that's going to be aired on the USA channel until the last scene of the trailer. They better come harder than this, Matrix + Ninjas should equal awesome. It's only a trailer but the warning flags are waving.
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reminds me of Shinobi.
I think this is a remake of a movie I saw as a kid called Ninja Assassin.
It played at this theatre called the McVicka's back in the day in Chicago. Man that place was disgusting. I remember the floors being all sticky and shit (FROM LORD KNOWS WHAT) and they had rats the size of popcorn boxes running across the top of the seats in front of you. However the beauty of the place was that you could see three flicks for the price of one. (For like two or three bucks I think.)
Two Karate joints and a shitty Horror flick, never failed. The movies would have titles like Blood Beach or 7 brothers Vs. Dracula.
and of course Ninja Assassin.
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It was a Piece-O- Shit
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--Look at the shit, I had to deal with,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Mkl9rtttog
Imagine growing up thinking this was the coolest thing ever, only to be brought back to reality trying to watch it 20 years later!
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Giant robots- great
Dinosaurs - great
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Oh, yes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =PAtrYgNut1E
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Could you imagine what the full scenes will look like? It's already so intense!Director James McTeigue revealed that the Wachowskis directed the action scenes. Early word is that these fight scenes are so bloody and so intense that they make the House of Blue Leaves fight in 'Kill Bill: Vol.1' look like a Teletubbies ticking contest.Bring it.
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I actually enjoyed both V and Speed Racer, and thought we'd be infor a real ass kicking treat with this. But this trailer makes it look like a DTV production. Hope I wrong, guess its just wait and see at this point.
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Fuck off.
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You'd get Ninja Assassin?
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REVENGE OF THE NINJA is an 80's masterpiece. I remember it as being the one that started America's love affair with ninja-dom.Apparently, Sho's son, Kane Kosugi, has competed on that crazy-ass show, NINJA WARRIOR.
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I'm just curious and want confirmation...
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Jul 23, 2009 9:52:31 PM CDT
Would it be regular Rain...or would it be Chubby Rain?
by nasty in the pasty
[cue generic thrashing metal guitars]
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Jul 23, 2009 9:53:28 PM CDT
And the ninja sequence in The Last Samurai was pretty sweet
by nasty in the pasty
Say what you like about the movie as a whole (I liked it), but the ninja scene kicked ASS.
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If you're asking about the Wachowskis directing the action scenes, I got that from an interview with McTeigue I read a couple of months ago.If you're asking about the action scenes being so super-intense that they dwarf the House of Blue Leaves fight, then I heard that from a few people on IMDB who saw a test screening of the film. Yes, I know it's not the most reliable source in the world, but there were a number of them and they sounded genuine enough.Plus, Warners are screening the FULL FILM at Comic-Con this year, which likely means they are very confident with about their product. So expect a swarm of audience reviews in the coming days.
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It seems that the Wachowskis blocked out all the action scenes in the film. I'd guessed they must've only been involved in the storyboards or something, but good to hear, those bros know how to put action on the screen and it shows! Apparently the movie is way more violent than what the trailer shows...
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If you have a link to the interview I'd love to read it!
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One of those "perfect movies" we so rarely get.
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Right?
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crouching tiger hidden dragon is in mandarin, which Chow Yon Fat had to learn for the movie since he's from Hong Kong and only speaks cantonese, a lot of people in China made fun of his fake mainland accent...clearly is not in english, maybe you always watched on DVD with the english dubbin and never noticed it
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This looks like a splendid and glorious clusterfuck.
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i live in asia. i loath english dubbing, and i especially loath asian actors forced to speak english in an asian story. getting chow to speak mandarin is nothing compared to every chinese actors speaking english to each other in a hollywood movies, just some backward kids and their redneck dads dont have to read subtitles.
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is what i meant
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This looks like a pretty decent action movie, but why didn't they just try to get the Ninja Gaiden license instead of ganking everything about it? Anyone who's played the games is sure to get a Ninja Gaiden vibe from watching the trailer. Add to that the fact that they use the Ninja Gaiden font at the end of the trailer and even stole the tag line (Fear not the weapon, but the one who wields it) makes me wonder why they didn't just go ahead and dress him like Ryu, probably would have been cooler...
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Above postings mention that McTiegue said that Wachowski's directed the action sequences but I thought that when V. for Vendetta came out it was revealed that they hired McTiegue because he was a second unit director on Matrix films and was pretty much responsible for all the action in those films. Also, you'd figure if Wachowskis did direct all the action in the film and it looks like its mostly action anyway that they would just take directing credit unless its not a great film and they didn't want the responsibility of bad film on their hands. I don't know what is actually accurate in who directed what, I'm just recalling why I thought McTiegue directed V. in the first place.
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better than Inglorious Bas TERDS. Based on this trailer alone, I will shell out my hard earned dollars to see this. Good Job!
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This feels like a CGI-enhanced version of beauties he used to make like "Duel to the Death". I love it!
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looks fucking awesome. Sho Kosugi will cut your fucking liver out and jack off on it.
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The footage from the practice sessions of the fight choregraphy for this movie looked 1,000 times better than the movie itself??? It was free of the over used, and outdated slow motion effects, and free of ugly video gamey special effects. This is a blunder of the highest order, that they allowed such elaborate, and great fight practice sessions to degenerate into Speed Racer all over again??? What a mess????? Note to the Wachowskis: Get off the drugs, or get out of the way!!!
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And they're definitely not the Wachowski brothers anymore.
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Err, on Crouching Tiger-- you know why Chow (& everyone else) was speaking Mandarin, accents and all, right?
It was the common tongue-- and the main characters had no reason to speak to each other in dialect since they came from different parts of China.
Which makes Ninja Assassin another story....
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soo I have to visit a homepage with ads (acn) not too bad ok I suppose, in order to get a link to an ad (a trailer for a movie) embedded with an ad for the original hompage it was on (MTV) that is proceeded by an ad (for chicken noodles). What the fuck! Fuck this! I'm tempremental enough to avoid this movie just for this reason alone.
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Think of when you were a kid in the 80s watching Ninja films. Its totally a popcorn film. You'll have a good time. Don't expect Shakepear!
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You premuse too much of me and you didn't understood my post. I have a problem with unrealism in movies which don't set up well the world it's set in. The Matrix did a marvelous job in settting up the impossibilities in it. I accept and dig a lot the impossibilities that happens in Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon because i understand the proper asian milieu which it's set. I acept quite well the impossibilities of LOTR or the Harry Potter movies. I'll accept quite well the impossibilities of Avatar: The Last Airbender. That's not where my problem is. My all time favorite genre is SF, and i accept many impossibilities that happens in that genre, as long it's properly set up.The problem with all the american ninja movies and the vast majority of the american action movies is that they don't set up a reasonable reason as to why the impossibilities happen. It's all about showing off cool exagerate stuff for the sake of showing off cool exagerate stuff, regardless if they belong to the story or not.The real problem is that too many of this movies are terrible at setting a suspension of disbelief, but it seems they don't nedd to make that effort anymore because there's too many kool-aid drinking people around who accept without quaestioning any type of impossible bullshit just because. As if that's an imperative from us the audience to accept anything the movies thrown at us. No, it's not our duty to bend to the movies. It's the movies' duty to make the effort to convince us. They want our money, they better deliver the goods.I'm pretty now convinced that people who accept any stuff from the movies are people for whom moeny cames easy and without any effort, either for them or their parents. If money came the hard way, and you had to work for it, there would be no way for so easy acceptance of the action mvoies' bullshit of today, people would demand more quality, and would vote it with their wallets unquestionably.
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The most retarded argument imaginable to defend a movie, second only to "it's good because i had fun, shut up!".And clearly, this people know nothing of Shakespeare to post this nonsense.
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and I've seen you post a lot of bullshit: "The problem with all the american ninja movies and the vast majority of the american action movies is that they don't set up a reasonable reason as to why the impossibilities happen" You are such a dickhead, and that is such a twattish phrase that I'm nearly lost for words. It's called suspension of disbelief, you ginormous asspickle. You don't need "reasons" why the unreasonable happens, you just have to be able to accept it. For example did Die Hard provide any rationale for John being able to jump off the roof with a firehose wrapped round him and not die?
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No, you cannot exzcuse that on suspension of disbelief. Suspension of disbelief IS EARNED, the movie has to set it up. Obviosuly you have a poor understanding of suspension of disbeleif, if you think that's some thign that mvoies should demand from the audiences. No, the movie has to earn it, not demand it. And if you give it away as a matter of fact, just because it's a movie, then you are helping the movie getting more and more dumb, because they have no long the need to be smart of good, you do everything for them,f ree of charge. Worst, you even pay for their laziness. that's bad. That's wrong. And you act suprise anytime a bad blockbuster exists? Look at the mirror for the answer, friend.Small wonder retarded bullshit like Jar Jar Abrams' Star Trek gets confused with a good movie this days!
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And i understand your mind. Say, for example, that you really love 2001. As soon you would learn i love 2001 too (which is true), you would find some way to mentaly try to convince yourself that 2001 is not good, or that i could not in any way like it. You are so fucked up in your detesting of me, i could be saying the God's own truth and verified by God hismelf, you would still problems with it. Becasue it's notwhat i say that matters to you, it's because I SAY IT. And that's fucked up. Teach you right to accept what that idiot Mr Nice Gaius says at face value on blind faith. I would hate to be you.
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Jul 24, 2009 9:02:57 AM CDT
Will the NINJA ASSASSIN wipe out those stupid 3 NINJAS?!
by mrmysteryguest
Find out in this movie!
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I just made you remember some bullshit! hahahaha
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Once again that more than one ninjas at a time, are cannon-fodder, and one lone ninja is Fucking death incarnate.
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I think Roger Ebert hismelf coined some catchy-phrase to describe that phenomenum in martial arts movies. One adversary is very hard to win over, but many are easily dispatched without much effort. Should be called like the Diminishing Return Of Quantity or soemthign like that. The vilalisn shoudl learn by now that if you want to kill the hero, don't sent an army, just send one guy. And always have a back up plan to go imediatly into action when plan a fails, which always will. And never, ever explain what you want to do to the hero.There are times when i really want the villains to win in this movies. It would be a nice break from formula cliche and banatility.
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Lu Feng implaes him on a Trident
I actually hop this is good but the first post "Metrosexual LA Shirtless Assassin" is not only the funniest thing I have read in some time but so fucking true.Look I'm all for gay rights and Ibelieve in gay marriage but enough with the gaying of everything. maybe we need some actual hetrosexual creators in hollywood at least consulting on these films, maybe tempering the seemingly overpowering inclination to go straight to the metro, leather, bondage look. Cause really I don't want to see another gay S&M fantasy film. Kind of tired of it. -
this sweet looking. The biggest problem is, you mistakenly assume the reason why is your 12 year old counterpart was so much less intelligent and discerning than you, when the truth of the matter is simply that when you were 12, you weren't such a douchebag.
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But isn't accusing this particular film of it before seeing it unjust? Maybe the film does sell you the idea through training sequences at the start and whatever. We've seen too little, and again practically EVERYTHING in that trailer isn't THAT over the top. All those stunts look possible and the training video shows plenty of them. They're all physical. The wirework is used for a few jumping sequences from a height. The only outlandish things in there are a bunch of throwing stars and for all we know the film has a method to get us to believe it is 'possible.' What's probably annoying some people are the obvious uses of CG, but how else do you get cool shots of a blade on a chain so close to the camera? And that doesn't suggest anything impossible at all! Please point out for me what precisely is in that trailer that shows anything 'impossible'??? There are a few like the dude that moves quickly in a blur, but other than that it all looks pretty grounded. The CG is only used for particular cool shots in slo mo just to be stylish, other than that everyone seems to move and fight realistically. Sure there are a bunch of whack Hollywood movies that don't earn our suspension of disbelief, but there's nothing in that trailer to suggest this is one of them. I get the feeling most backlash from some folks here is just some knee jerk reaction based on other shitty films or just band-wagoning Wachowski hate.
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The Wachowskis always direct the action in their films. McT was 2nd unit for them and I'm sure also contributed somewhat but overall as far as I've followed what they've done since the Matrix they've always been carefully involved with, choreographed and fine tuned their action scenes. I believe even Yuen Woo Ping praised them as being the best Directors he's ever worked with in Hollywood or Hong Kong, because unlike most Hollywood directors, they don't film their action scenes with multiple cameras and edit them together, but use only one camera and know and study and plan precisely what shots and from what angles they want to see stuff from so you get a very defined action sequence with excellent end results.
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McTeigue wasn't second unit director, but first assistant director. The action was extensively storyboarded, pre-visualised and directed by the Wachowskis.I suspect the reason they don't want to take credit for the film is because this isn't a priority project for them (i.e. it isn't groundbreaking in the way that 'The Matrix Trilogy' or 'Speed Racer' were, which are the kinds of films they like to make) and so directing the action scenes is almost like a way to kill time between projects. Kind of like how Michael Mann or David Fincher make adverts and music videos between projects to keep the ol' directing muscles loose.Also, it may interest you to know that the Wachowskis directed the climactic knife fight in 'V for Vendetta' where five seconds of real time are expanded into a full and spectacular action scene.
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Regarding your point about a film earning suspension of disbelief, may I respectfully suggest that you may have overlooked certain fantasy aspects of the trailer.At 1:27 there is a shot of a ninja who teleports. Also, if you look closely at the shuriken, you can see they have light vapour trails following them.It seems clear to me that, in the same way that Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was made in the tradition of traditional Chinese wu xia stories in which the line between fantasy and reality are blurred, so too does Ninja Assassin appear to be made in the Japanese tradition of warriors with supernatural powers. Among other source, McTeigue cites Ninja Scroll as one of his inspirations, which is a film that clearly shows Japanese warriors with supernatural abilities.So while I understand and agree with your contention about suspension of disbelief, I think it may be a little to early to judge Ninja Assassin negatively in this regard since evidence from the trailer shows that this will be taking place in a quasi-fantasy world.
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GYYYYYMKATA!!!!!
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No Tokyo in this Dojo, baby. Only Edo. They Should of based this on PATH OF THE ASSASSIN manga.
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Ninja Proctologist: Finger of Death
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"STEAMED CRABS?!"
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...Buckowskis's...Bound...shitallworthcariingabouteversince.Sorry that was so hard to grasp.
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Can't wait! Release it now!
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