Headed down to Midvalley GSC after work with Airin to watch Rush Hour 3. There was a huuugeee bunch of us – besides Jacq, Andrew, Woon Wai, Caroline, Angeline, & Anthony, Elaine brought along 3 more cousins to make a grand total of 12 people. 
Rush Hour 3 (2007)
I went in with a little too much expectation I guess. Or maybe the Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker formula was getting old. Rush Hour 1 was fantastic, Rush Hour 2 dropped a notch, this one hit the belt. Admittedly, some scenes were exciting, and some scenes were hilarious but it didn’t feel ‘whole‘ to me. There were some massive plot holes, while Jackie & Chris didn’t really gel together like they once did. When ANY movie decides to blow off continuity, storyline logic and character development for the sake of blind entertainment, pacing and flow – it insults my intelligence (do all directors think that moviegoers are stupid?).
I still had fun nevertheless, and I’m sure most people did too including the cast and crew. If you do decide to watch this – please don’t expect anything spectacular, and you might walk out more satisfied than I did.
As for the day before…
The Big Lebowski (1998)
I finally got a bit of time to sit back and relax with one of my overflowing unwatched DVDs.. ‘Randomly’ decided on The Big Lebowski..
I thought the movie was pretty good.. It was very Quentin Tarantino-ish especially in regards to its use of extensively long dialogues and outlandish personalities to flesh out certain characters. And boy did it FLESH out those characters indeed. Jeff Bridges play The Dude – an unemployed decent laidback chap who happens to share the same name with a bigshot (Jeff Lebowski). The story is a little complex to tell here but let’s just say that after meeting his samenamesake, The Dude gets thrown into a progressively bad and improbable situation – no thanks partly of course to his good buddy Walter (John Goodman) – a slightly disfunctional war veteran with a short fuse.
The show is so well shot, scripted, directed and acted that every character during their screen time (no matter how small the role they play) stands out in your memory. Did I remember to add that the acting was crazily superb? It’s a pretty unique formula for a comedy – put a normal carefree logical guy, smack right in the middle of absurd friends, insane world, and freaks – and see how he saves himself from it all. Sure made me laugh out loud more than a few times in my hall as I was watching it, and it definitely makes this movie one to remember. 
At the time of this posting, The Big Lebowski is currently rated as #172 on IMDB’s Top 250 movies of all time with a score of 8.1/10 (92,556 votes)
Okay, here’s one of the more memorable scenes from the movie – introducing Jesus – the Dude’s new bowling arch enemy..
“Nobody Fucks With The Jesus..”
I laughed like an idiot every time poor Donny (the guy that noone listens to) gets shot down with a.. “Shut the Fuck Up Donny!”
The bowling ball licking scene was a CLASSIC – you can find pictures of it everywhere. And Jesus was only a minor character making only 2 appearances in the movie (this was 1 of them).
And guys, feel free to join the slowest growing religion in the world..
Edmund Loh on August 16, 2007
Foo,
Don’t know why you think Rush Hour 3 had “dulled down” – I think the show’s winning formula has been kept really good like its last 2 pre-quels!
Unlike most films with sequels, Rush Hour 3 maintained its “winning elements” quite well if you ask me. Lee and Carter (Jackie and Chris’ characters) always fight each other anyway.
But yes, there are some “holes” in the story like:
-> how did Lee come to know of Kenji as a “brother” through an orphanage childhood? In Rush Hour 1 & 2 (especially 2), it dealt greatly with Lee’s father (so how can he be a total orphan to earn a place in the orphanage house to meet Kenji?)
-> The show ended too abruptly without seeing the proper ending for Soo Yung and the bald French women – Soo Yung escaped the gangsters by lift and was never seen again; the French bald woman was freed when the last bad guy was shot in the back by the French Taxi Driver (abruptly too).
Haha!
tcfoo on August 16, 2007
Edmund : perhaps you should put up a spoiler alert if you are gonna be talking about the story hehe
Like what I’m going to do right now..
SPOILER ALERT!
There were a lot more worse plot holes dude.
Kenji knew about Genevieve’s existence way before AND after ambassador Han was shot – he could very easily have knocked her off first (at the casino bar in particular?). Why he didn’t was beyond me.
And what are the ODDS that Reynard will be RIGHT at the fountain with a gun pointed at Genevieve just immediately after our 2 heroes pulled of that impossible parachute jump?
And then what are the odds that the taxi driver happened to be there too? All in the span of a minute? Even if they had GPS trackers on Lee & Carter, they couldn’t have gotten there so fast
And that’s not counting how the show just keeps shrugging off a lot of the characters.. both DURING the show and especially at the end. Throw in the lame lines like when Lee shouted “Carter I’m not constipated anymore!” as they landed in the fountain..(wtf) oh I could go on
It’s a movie for mindless popcorn fun. I did laugh at a lot of the scenes, but I cringed at quite a many too. I hardly found myself gripping the edge of my seat during any of the action scenes (the beginning chase scene in the recent Bond movie was wayyyy better than the chase scene in this one for example).. It’s like comedy – I know better comedies, action – I know better action, etc.. hence me being unable to review this movie in a positive light..
Sorry but I do have crazy high expectations for my movies – I’m a critic
Karan on August 20, 2007
I think the movie trailer absolutely sucked.
I don’t think you will ever see a black and asian man singing “voulez vous coucher avec moi, cest souz?” (i’m guessing the spelling, cos i have better things to do than check) EVER in the back of a taxi..
and even if they did – it’s not funny. It’s lame.
They’re making Jackie Chan look stupid – and i think he doesn’t really care cos they’re paying him shit loads of money.
And it’s the same in the movie, too.
And one more thing, how can Jackie Chan’s English NOT improve after so many years!!!
I mean, he’s a nice guy and all – but c’mon, you’re an International star – stop speaking haltingly. It’s annoying.
I watched Evan Almighty on Saturday. It was good.
Not great. But definitely worth a watch.