But this was the best—except for the human element

[sovay]

I am skeptical of remakes. So many of them seem unnecessary at best, offensively pointless at worst. Every now and then I think of The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008) and I still don't understand.

. . . If you tell me that Peter Capaldi is going to play Professor Marcus in a stage version of The Ladykillers (1955), I want tickets.

(The rest of these are kind of stupid, but I approve of John Oliver: "You're not a man unless you own at least three monocles.")

Comments

[larryhammer]

Apropos of an entirely earlier post, I just finished watching Jade Warrior, and loved it. Not the least for the most beautifully choreographed and convincing belligerent courtship scene (though of course all the few fight scenes were beautifully choreographed), but also the werid and wonderful crossover of Kalevala x Chinese mythology.

(My one small nit is that while the characters on the container were archaic, they weren't archaic enough for 2000BCE -- more like 200BCE I think?)

Thank you for recommending it.

---L.

[sovay]

Apropos of an entirely earlier post, I just finished watching Jade Warrior, and loved it.

I am so very glad!

but also the werid and wonderful crossover of Kalevala x Chinese mythology.

You should write it up; I'd love to read your further thoughts on this subject.

(My one small nit is that while the characters on the container were archaic, they weren't archaic enough for 2000BCE -- more like 200BCE I think?)

Yeah, fair; bird-script really isn't Bronze Age. And no one was speaking archaic enough Chinese or Finnish. But I'd take it in exchange for the other stuff, like a more intelligent than usual use of recognition-tokens.

[larryhammer]

I was willing to give a pass on the Mandarin, on the basis of the translation convention. I was also willing to give a pass on the steel weapons a good eight centuries before the Iron Age, for no good reason (beyond the necessities of the Rule of Cool). But that one bugged me.

Will write it up tonight, if I've the time.

---L.

[larryhammer]

And circling back, posted.

---L.