Sky High has got to be one of the stupider movies I’ve ever seen. There are other factors contributing to it being bad, as stupidity doesn’t necessarily undo a film, but it’s real stupid. Shockingly, the screenwriter worked on Kitamura’s perfectly fine Azumi. Sky High’s a prequel to a TV series, which is an adaptation […]
Entries Tagged as 'Toei Inc'
Sky High (2003, Kitamura Ryuhei)
August 7th, 2007 No Comments
Golgo 13: The Kowloon Assignment (1977, Noda Yukio)
May 1st, 2006 No Comments
Certain films I don’t even bother asking my fiancée if she wants to watch. Golgo 13 was obviously one of them. Sonny Chiba as an invincible hitman, bopping around the hip and neon 1970s Hong Kong… I figured she wouldn’t mind sitting it out. I think I might have known Golgo 13 started as a […]
Go (2001, Yukisada Isao)
January 6th, 2006 No Comments
Go opens with an unbelievable shot. Pimples. It opens with the bad skin of the protagonist’s forehead. Once my initial reaction–ick–was over, I started watchingGo wrap itself into a drug-free, fighting-heavy Trainspotting homage. Then it started reminding me of True Romance, if only because the theme sort of sounds like it (the one from Badlands). […]
