Why do movies Suck so hard nowadays?
What is it with movies nowadays? Do the people in Hollywood think that the movie going public is a bunch of idiots? The reason for this is that I just saw a piece of Tripe on HBO
called the Replacement Killers. This sad excuse for a movie starred Chow Yun Fat, Mira Sorvino and some other actors that hopefully can wish that they were never in this movie. It was about assassins. What is the point of an assassin? Isn't it to kill people quietly, stealthily and most of all not getting caught.
Well this movie would have you believe that assassins run around with fully automatic Kalishnakov Rifles and fire at everything. In this movie not once did I see a silencer on any weapon. Not one friggin silencer. Maybe the
assassins thought no one will notice a twenty caliber machine gun going off near my proximity. This movie just sucked . The story behind this whole thing is that a cop ,we will call him....Joe, busted up some Chinese Mafia operation and accidentally caused the death of the Godfather's son.
So the godfather thinking that family is the most important thing to someone, orders his best assassin(Chow Yun Fat his character has an original name, John Woo.) to go and shoot Joe's kid. The godfather wants the boy to die in Joe's arms so that Joe will know the pain of losing a child. Anyway this assassin gets an attack of conscience
when he is about to shoot the kid. Whaaa? An oriental assassin getting an attack of conscience. The orient made the granddaddy of all assassins the Ninja. It make cold blooded killers like nothing else. Ask people which is scarier the Yakuza or The Mob and the people that know about the Yakuza will say Yakuza for sure. Anyway if one can believe that
this assassin can get an attack of conscience, I guess can one believe that the rifle he was going to use on this kid had no silencer for a reason. He was less than one hundred feet from the Kid and I guess he felt that Joe wouldn't notice the muzzle flash and the loud resounding BOOM. Man this makes me nuts. Ok so this scene goes by, he doesn't shoot the kid
and he realizes "d'oh!! I crossed the Godfather, who happens to have my family under his control and will kill them for my failure. I know I'll go have Mira Sorvino make me a fake passport to get to HongKong where I'm sure that the GodFather will have more influence that here. YAY!!!!! Maybe I can save my family." Some gun fight scenes go by and needless to say
Godfather realizes that he needs to get better assassins to kill this kid and to kill John Woo. Well John realizes this to and goes to stop the assassins from shooting this kid. Now assassins usually work alone. Especially when sniping, but no these two assassins like to work together because two bullets are better than one.
The assassins decide to shoot the kid in a movie theatre while he watching a movie with his dad. This is a packed theatre and of course it has a convenient balcony that no one sat in except the assassins. Ok theses assassins procured a LASER sight for their guns, but again no silencers in this theatre full of people. As you can see this has a nice fun gunfight and the kid survives,
assassins die and John Woo is happy that he saved the kids life. No he goes on to decide that Heck I took out 2 assassins a Chinese crimelord won't be so tough. The movie from then on proceeds in a downward spiral of cliched crackshots and other bad stunts until it reached the blessed end. Assassins are smart people, and they hate to get caught. None of these assassins thought
hey poisoned darts are quiet and work fine. Hmmm. . .Poisoned arrows are quiet and kill kids nicely. Silenced weapons kill nicely. No this was just another way that Hollywood can insult our intelligence.