The Big Hit (* 1/2)
Woo...@hotmail.com
In article <199804201650...@ladder03.news.aol.com>,
trav...@aol.com (Trav 1138) wrote:
>
> Wow, what a piece of crap. Whatever props Marky Mark:) got with Boogie
Nights
> is flushed down the toilet with this s**tfest. Woo actually put his name on
> this travesty??
>
**** I haven't seen "The Big Hit" and don't plan to. But I'm glad to hear it
sucks!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Kailin
Woo...@hotmail.com wrote:
>
> In article <199804201650...@ladder03.news.aol.com>,
> trav...@aol.com (Trav 1138) wrote:
> >
> > Wow, what a piece of crap. Whatever props Marky Mark:) got with Boogie
> Nights
> > is flushed down the toilet with this s**tfest. Woo actually put his name on
> > this travesty??
> >
>
> **** I haven't seen "The Big Hit" and don't plan to. But I'm glad to hear it
> sucks!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
Sorry, it doesn't suck as bad as you think. And it will probably be the
number one film at the box office this weekend. Take an aspirin, it will
feel better that way when you have to eat crow.
> THE BIG HIT
> A film review by Steve Rhodes
> Copyright 1998 Steve Rhodes
>
> RATING (0 TO ****): ***
>
> Too many movies these days aren't smart enough to realize they
> would have been infinitely better recast as parodies - FIRESTORM and
> HARD RAIN come immediately to mind. Arguably the best thing that can
> be said about THE BIG HIT is that it is smart enough to realize how
> dumb it is and to make the most of it. Never taking itself seriously,
> even for a moment, the movie features silly dialog ("Ladies, you're so
> fine I want to pour milk over you and make you a part of my complete
> breakfast.") and shoot 'em up action played for maximum camp.
>
> A group of macho hit men lead by Cisco, played in a hilarious
> over-the-top performance by Lou Diamond Phillips, kill people left and
> right. Mark Wahlberg, who was the well-endowed porn star in BOOGIE
> NIGHTS, is Cisco's number one gun, Melvin Surley. Mel is a sensitive
> contract killer, whose biggest worry is that people will not like him.
> Cisco and the other members of his crew like to show off their buff
> bodies, and the picture includes some conspicuous rear male nudity to
> titillate the audience.
>
> With the military precision and the weaponry of commandos, the hit
> men can take on any challenge. That is until they decide to pick up a
> little money on the side by kidnapping a millionaire's daughter, Keiko
> Nishi, played with a delicious mixture of schoolgirl innocence and
> tough-woman attitude by cinematic newcomer China Chow. When she reads
> her kidnapper's ransom note, misspellings and all, the scene will have
> you in stitches. Her father, Jiro (Sab Shimono), turns out to be a
> bankrupt filmmaker, whose best friend is Cisco's boss.
>
> Taavo Soodor's set decoration is a hoot. Mel lives in an upper
> middle-class development in which the men engage in synchronized lawn
> mowing reminiscent of L.A. STORY. His garage has all the standard
> household tools as well as enough guns to supply a small army.
>
> The movie has a side plot so ridiculous that it's great dealing
> with an obnoxious, pimple-faced, video rental clerk, played by Danny
> Smith, who keeps calling and threatening to kill Mel if he doesn't
> bring back his overdue copy of KING KONG LIVES. The clerk has a wanted
> flyer posted with Mel's picture on it for being a "video truant." One
> of the other hit men, on the other hand, is a video store award winner,
> who has his picture on display for entirely different reasons. But
> this funny subplot is basically unprintable.
>
> Among the movie's more absurd scenes is a car chase and demolition
> derby, during which Cisco uses his car like Paul Bunyan to fell the big
> trees in his path. The movie even uses instant replays to show you
> exactly how the characters manage to escape certain death.
>
> Just to make sure that he's covered every comedic base, writer Ben
> Ramsey has a part for Elliott Gould as a hen-pecked Jewish husband who
> can't be let near the alcohol or bad things will happen. Well, lots of
> bad things do happen in THE HIT MEN. And its director Kirk Wong has
> the audience laughing at most of them.
>
> THE BIG HIT runs a fast 1:39. It is rated R for violence,
> profanity and brief nudity and would be fine for teenagers.
-
Peace, Love and Rock & Roll,
Kailin
"When hell freezes over, we can all play hockey there."
Benjamin Morrison
Oh this movie more than sucked. It transcended the odd realm
of suck that we KNOW ceartin flicks go to wheeze out thier last
dust-filled gasp. This fim went farther than this, this film was so
amazingly bad it could never, ever, even by the highest group of
college students, EVER be perceived as any viable form of on-screen
entertainment. I'm not going to go into my reasoning for this, but
trust me, PLEASE trust me, this sucks. It's NOT an action film, rather
it reads like a rejected UPN sitcom, with a car-chase or two. Do NOT
go and see this film.
]On Thu, 23 Apr 1998 14:33:06 -0600, Woo...@hotmail.com wrote:
>In article <199804201650...@ladder03.news.aol.com>,
> trav...@aol.com (Trav 1138) wrote:
>>
>> Wow, what a piece of crap. Whatever props Marky Mark:) got with Boogie
>Nights
>> is flushed down the toilet with this s**tfest. Woo actually put his name on
>> this travesty??
>>
>
>**** I haven't seen "The Big Hit" and don't plan to. But I'm glad to hear it
>sucks!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
Kailin
Benjamin Morrison wrote:
>
> Oh this movie more than sucked. It transcended the odd realm
> of suck that we KNOW ceartin flicks go to wheeze out thier last
> dust-filled gasp. This fim went farther than this, this film was so
> amazingly bad it could never, ever, even by the highest group of
> college students, EVER be perceived as any viable form of on-screen
> entertainment. I'm not going to go into my reasoning for this, but
> trust me, PLEASE trust me, this sucks.
Is that "not going to go into reasoning on this opinion" or is it more
like "can't go into reasoning on this opinion", because you have no
rationale to back up your statements. Come on, if you like something,
you have a reason, and by the same token, if you don't like it, you also
have a reason.
It's NOT an action film, rather
> it reads like a rejected UPN sitcom, with a car-chase or two. Do NOT
> go and see this film.
>
> ]On Thu, 23 Apr 1998 14:33:06 -0600, Woo...@hotmail.com wrote:
>
> >In article <199804201650...@ladder03.news.aol.com>,
> > trav...@aol.com (Trav 1138) wrote:
> >>
> >> Wow, what a piece of crap. Whatever props Marky Mark:) got with Boogie
> >Nights
> >> is flushed down the toilet with this s**tfest. Woo actually put his name on
> >> this travesty??
> >>
> >
> >**** I haven't seen "The Big Hit" and don't plan to. But I'm glad to hear it
> >sucks!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> >
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