Re: You're being too kind
by
Isabel76
07/31/2008, 2:29 AM
Here here.
I read a revies that Bale's martial arts' were a low-tech pleasure to behold, but damn if I could see any quality thanks to Nolan's (lack of) choreography.
Look, sometimes I think the choppiness works, especially for brawl type fights, but when our hero is using the martial arts- jujitsu, karate, kung-fu, or even Jackie Chan's Chinese Opera inspired stuff- I want to SEE it. The martial arts are just that- art forms. I would like to be able to appreciate them. They're beautiful and exciting and deserve to be displayed. Also, the visceral street-fight or bar-room brawl are great when they're choppy and fast and disorienting, but the mixture of the brawl type camera work with martial-arts fighting style in a word, sucks. I find myself continually disappointed that I can't see my hero dispatch the villain because since I can't figure out what the hell he did, I don't believe that he did it. It's unsatisfying and lame. I would love for Nolan to pull back the camera during a fight scene just once and let us see what is going on. I always think of Jet Li's scenes in Lethal Weapon 4- his simple Tai-Chi flavoured style was goregeous in it's simplicity and lethal efficiency.