The movie has a pretty thin premise, and so it hands out action scenes like candy at Halloween. It's actually my favorite thing about the film- it knows it's not good so it makes sure there are plenty of explosions. The action scenes are deliberately gratuitous, as are most of the scenes featuring any woman who isn't Asia Argento.
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| She shows surprisingly little flesh, actually. |
It's a film that features style over substance, and if you don't dig the style then it's just not going to be a film for you. It was a perfect storm for me, I'd discovered Rammstein before the film, and thought it an awesome coincidence that they showed up at the beginning. I later learned that I probably wouldn't have heard of Rammstein if Feuer Frei! hadn't been released as a single due to being on the xXx soundtrack, but it seemed coincidental at the time. It's just kinda dumb and fun for me, something I enjoy because all it's trying to do is be dumb and have fun.
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| I really like almost all of the music in the movie. |
According to IMDB as well as other things I've read around the net, there will be a xXx sequel that once again stars Vin Diesel, which I am looking forward to. I liked Vin Diesel in this one and I've liked him in a couple of other things. I avoided (wisely, I'm told) the Pacifier, but I like watching him blow shit up and kill people.
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| Among other things. |
It's not something I'll argue has a whole lot of merit, and I admit it's not for everyone. I know plenty of people who don't like it, but it's a film I sit down and watch every few months, just because. There's an unrated director's cut that I don't believe I've seen, but it is my intention to own it at some point.
If you have any guilty pleasure movies, tell me about them in the comments. It's the sort of thing I love discussing, and I'm always out to find new ones.
I haven't seen this one yet, and I don't really know why. I developed a huge crush on Vin after Pitch Black and followed him to The Fast and the Furious and even Boiler Room, but never watched this. I know it's on Netflix Instant so I need to sit down with it one day and check it out.
ReplyDeleteAs far as guilty pleasure films, I'm mostly coming up blank, though I'm sure I've got some. Van Helsing comes to mind, but we've already discussed that. :)
We've been getting our DVD collection organized and into a more compact space. When we did that I discovered that we had two copies of both xXx and the Chronicles of Riddick. I'm about 90% sure that it's because my brother gave me his DVDs when he went to boot camp, but it's possible that I saw it for cheap and thought "Oh god, do I have that? I'd better get it, just be safe." Sometime I just need to watch Vin Diesel snowboard down an avalanche.
ReplyDeleteAnd now I need the unrated cut, because I just haven't owned enough copies of this film yet...
This is definitely my guiltiest guilty pleasure, is what I'm getting at.