SCIENCE! Movie: Riki-Oh (post-thread)

[mario]

Those kung-fu techniques were something else. I'm a big fan of his kung-fu "photo uncrumpling" technique. It requires that you have a two-pronged hook pinning your hand to a desk. Slam the desk downward with your other hand, shattering the desk, freeing your hand and uncrumpling the photo. Beautiful.

[Pollinator]

Yes, or the kung-fu technique you use while completely buried in sand with a bamboo tube for air. If some dude kicks a dog heart into the tube, you can use kung-fu to play it as an instrument. (or eat it.)

Edit: Man, training for that must have been fun. o_O

[geoko]

Suddenly, I have a greater understanding of the plight of the 4. There's tarzan, the soft spoken quiet, secretly caring one who is treated as a huge ape, and Rikki killed his friend oscar, the only one who really understood. There's the guy with the funky hair and string weapons, who can't really fight, yet he's given this responsibility over his head, only to end up shot in the ass with an exploding bullet, while running away from Rikki. And then there's the pretty boy, who got raped so many time in prison that he HAD to learn to fight, (which made him totally bitter) and only earned respect by getting everyone addicted to drugs, and then Rikki burned it all down, leaving him vulnerable again.

This Rikki guy is a jerk, and I can't wait for all the prequels that reveal it!

[Apathy]

You've forgotten the fact that, as Pollinator already mentioned, he completely destroys an entire graveyard. Which is about as jerky as it gets. I'm pretty sure it's bad luck too.

The best part of the movie has to either be when Tarzan crushed a random's head. Or when they randomly kick a dog in half.

Also, it appears that Geoko watched the dubbed version. Hilarious name-changes abound. The huge Mad Dragon (the fat dude that apparently ate a horse and gets Riki's fist right through his gut) gets renamed Zorro. And Oscar is just not the name you would expect for a guy who pulls his own intestines out and tries to strangle somebody with them.

[Hamelin]

My favorite part was when Riki punched Oscar's skull in. Not only did Oscar seem suprisingly apt at running when he had just disemboweled himself, but the way he swung away from the skull-crushing punch was just so great I had to watch it like three times.

But, wasn't the Assistant Warden threatening Riki with hurting his girlfriend, when a later scene revealed that she was already dead?\

Also! Even though the inmates were being mistreated, they were still criminals right?

[mario]

I did find it highly amusing that Riki released all the prisoners. Presumably this was a fairly high-security prison full of tough criminals (the leaders of each quadrant and the warden were all kung fu masters, after all).

[Apathy]

The best thing about Riki's girlfriend was the way she just ran off the roof of a building without even pausing.

And I'm not so sure about it being a high-security prison. I mean, they hardly seemed to get locked up all that often, the prisoners just seem to wander around all day wherever they want. And the guards were uniformly wimps. Seems that privatisation just led to a decline in service-standards.

[mario]

Then why didn't any of the kung fu masters ever just break down a wall and take off? Was life really that great as the leader of a cell block?

[Apathy]

It beats working for a living.

And I'd say that they weren't as hardcore as Ricki anyway. I mean, Tarzan was supposed to be the strongest of the four and Ricki punched right through his hand. And his face. Although you've got to give him credit, that didn't actually kill him.