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Tobias Carroll's avatar

I am glad that this exists, but I'm also a little bummed we haven't gotten a feature-length DON'T from Edgar Wright yet.

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DR Darke's avatar

I like DON'T, but I would truly love WEREWOLF WOMEN OF THE S.S.—especially with Nicolas Cage as Fu Manchu! Go figure, because normally I *hate* Yellowface and Racebending, but Cage's Fu subverts it by being so "Can't Be Arsed" that he looks less Chinese than Chris Potter playing Kwai Chang Caine's son Peter in KUNG FU: THE LEGEND CONTINUES. 🤣

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Che_Boludo!'s avatar

Kwai Chang Caine doesn't exactly look Chinese either, so it tracks. I'm shocked that somebody can name or even remember Caine's son from that show.

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DR Darke's avatar

I know, he's supposed to be half-Chinese, half-White American, but David Carradine never looked remotely Asian even as a young man, and in THE LEGEND CONTINUES he just looked like David Carradine showing up in some direct-to-video feature.

As to remembering? I ::sigh:: watched the series, and even liked it, finding it easier to swallow Chris Potter as quarter-Chinese (he described his mother as "looking like Rhonda Fleming") in the mid-Nineties than I do now:

https://variety.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/rhonda-fleming-2.jpg

Of course, by the Nineties Carradine wasn't in as near good a shape as he was in the Seventies, so the scripts had a lot of his "kung-fu" as having gone beyond simple kicks and strikes to more mystical sort of superpowers, which they could do with on-set effects and post-production trickery. One time he explained to Peter and another student that breaking a stack of bricks merely required brute force, while by using discipline he could crack only ONE brick in the middle! That way, all he had to do was barely tap the top of stack and they'd trigger a brick in the middle to break in half.... 😂

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Tobias Carroll's avatar

Especially for the potential of a triple bill of DON'T, Jordan Peele's NOPE, and Pablo Larrain's NO.

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DR Darke's avatar

Thought you'd enjoy it, Nabin!

Happy Thanksgiving!

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Neurozach's avatar

The shot of the trampoline girl with her shadow resembling a stuffed turkey is kinda brilliant.

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Tom Speelman's avatar

I, for one, am glad someone watched SUITS and realized Rick Hoffman is a born player of scumbags

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Not Merritt Stone's avatar

And he worked with Roth before in Hostel 1.

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mizerock's avatar

As I understand it: the trailer appeared in 2007, and the style implied that the movie was a relic of the grindhouse period, the 1970s or maybe the early 1980s. But then the movie came out in 2023, and it takes place "in the present". In one of those towns that appears stuck in the 1970s.

Is it important that all of these elements make sense? Not really! But it does seem to me that the movie fits in just fine with all of those apparent contradictions, it "works".

Neat.

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