hamachi@UCBRENOIR (Gordon Hamachi) (09/04/85)
A bad movie. Year of the Dragon is disgustingly violent. You will see a decapitated head, people getting shot in the face at close range, people getting stabbed in the chest, people getting machine-gunned down, quarts of blood, bleeding bullet holes, and people crashing and burning. The audience cheers. Year of the Dragon is pointlessly profane. You will see meetings where seemingly every other word refers to copulation or feces. This is supposed to show that these guys are real tough and mean business. Year of the Dragon is implausibly plotted: Our "hero" the police officer mistreats an Asian woman television journalist. He drags her into the sack and spouts strange stuff about how "you beat us in Vietnam" and "chinks don't know how to love". She is furious when he takes over her apartment and refuses to leave. She falls in love with him. The "good" guy and the bad guy shoot it out. Wounded and disarmed, the bad guy reveals the location of the heroin cache. In return the "good" guy hands the bad guy his loaded gun! Then, rather than shooting his enemy, the bad guy shoots himself. I guess he couldn't stand to be a part of this bad movie any longer. Don't see "Year of the Dragon". You might hate yourself afterwards. On the other hand you might find yourself starting to cheer during the slaughter, which would be just as bad. --Gordon Hamachi
boyajian@akov68.DEC (JERRY BOYAJIAN) (09/05/85)
> From: ucbrenoir!hamachi (Gordon Hamachi) > Year of the Dragon is disgustingly violent. You will see a decapitated > head, It would be difficult to show a decapitated arm. :-) > people getting shot in the face at close range, people getting > stabbed in the chest, people getting machine-gunned down, quarts of > blood, bleeding bullet holes, and people crashing and burning. The > audience cheers. As far as I'm concerned, that says more about the audience than it does the film. > Year of the Dragon is pointlessly profane. You will see meetings where > seemingly every other word refers to copulation or feces. This is supposed > to show that these guys are real tough and mean business. What makes you think that real people in similar situations wouldn't use such words? I've heard guys in the computer industry utter profanties as every second word. Why wouldn't criminals and thugs do the same. Can you say "verisimilitude"? I knew you could. --- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, Acton-Nagog, MA) UUCP: {decvax|ihnp4|allegra|ucbvax|...}!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-akov68!boyajian ARPA: boyajian%akov68.DEC@DECWRL.ARPA