Quiet Few Weeks

Posted by Juanito at 08:46

As the title suggests we haven't been up to much here in Japan this last few weeks. This is partly as we went to Tokyo a few weeks ago and are planning to go to Osaka and Okayama in a few weeks (with Mother in Law). So we don't really want to stray too far as transport is expensive. We have managed to get out to both Fukuchiyama and Omiya again though as they are both close by.


The trip to Fukuchiyama was mostly an excuse to eat donuts and KFC.... we had cravings. We also went to Fukuchiyama Castle which was nice, well it looked nice from the outside but it turned out to be little more than a small museum. This wouldn't have been a bad thing only it was Japanese language only so I couldn't actually read anything. We were able to get up to the top of the castle and take a few pictures of the surrounding (small) City.


These day trips have also been a chance to stock up on food and clothes for the cold season, which has started in earnest. Still no snow though which is surprising allot of the locals.

I've also managed to have a couple more English lessons, which is nice but I'm still unsure as to whether I'm finding enough of them yet.

.... Its now time for a small Movie Review....

We got round to renting "the Mummy 3" yesterday. It sucked. Big surprise really as we both figured it would. The script was terrible and contained some truly bad lines such as "the Yak Yakked" and another that I shan't mention out of context. The story was just a rehash of the first. The caste were mostly irritating. The special effects were over the top and mostly unnecessary. But worst of all (for me) was the action scenes. They just lacked any of the rawness that was so good in the first film. In the first "the Mummy" the fighting scenes staring Brendan Fraser arguably made the film. They were gritty battles that were less about style and more about hitting the guy harder and getting hit less. Flash forward again to "the Mummy 3" and you find that the inclusion of the Chinese characters has been used to try slot in more stylish fight scenes like you'd expect from Jet Li and Michelle Yeoh. But it just seems tacked on, and if I wanted Kung Fu I'd watch a Chinese film.

It's a shame really as it wouldn't have been difficult for them to put out a bad film that at least got the action right. I could end by concluding that even though it had so many faults it was still an entertaining way to spend two hours (like I might conclude of Indy 4). But I can't. I'm glad I watched it, but it was painful to watch, and there are so many better bad movies to waste 2 hours on. Leave it on the shelf unless your a "the Mummy" fan that just doesn't care how badly it sucks.

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Well that enough for now. If I don't post again for a few weeks (I will try though) - 

Merry Christmas (to those that celebrate it) and a Happy New Year to all.

 

1 comments:

Andy and I watched Mummy 1 and 2 a few nights back, we wondered if Mummy 3 was going to be as poor as 2 was to 1, looks like from your review that it may well be.

Hope both you and Lok have a good festive season, be thinking of you both :)

Laters

Lurch Kimded said...

21 December 2008 at 16:41  

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