Friday, July 18, 2003
Day 330 Bad Boys II -- yoiks, symptomatic of this summer's sequelitus... Imagine if you have a movie graphed. You find people enjoy most of it, but some things click and there are spikes of enjoyment. Now, imagine if you turn down the base enjoyment level and amplify the spikes..... almost like turning a colour picture into black and white. The giants spikes stand out and nothing connects them...
To use a wrestling analogy - originally matches had a storyline or a pyschology where the back and forth built through the match, puncuated by better and better "highspots" (i.e. impressive moves). But in today's 15 minute World, wrestling matches are now just "spotfests" that is, a string of highspots with no story behind them...
And there you have Bad Boys II - all of the high spots of BB1 are turned up to 11 (to the point of being offensive) - and there is nothing underneath. Smith and Lawrence basically dial-in their performances (especially Smith). The car chase in T3 was more compelling. This one is just flying cars, Martin yelling "Oh sh*t" and Will saying "No worries, Im driving." Anyhoo, see Pirates twice...
To use a wrestling analogy - originally matches had a storyline or a pyschology where the back and forth built through the match, puncuated by better and better "highspots" (i.e. impressive moves). But in today's 15 minute World, wrestling matches are now just "spotfests" that is, a string of highspots with no story behind them...
And there you have Bad Boys II - all of the high spots of BB1 are turned up to 11 (to the point of being offensive) - and there is nothing underneath. Smith and Lawrence basically dial-in their performances (especially Smith). The car chase in T3 was more compelling. This one is just flying cars, Martin yelling "Oh sh*t" and Will saying "No worries, Im driving." Anyhoo, see Pirates twice...
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