Monday, November 05, 2007 @4:09 AM
LES FILS DU VENT IS NOWHERE AS GOOD AS YAMAKASI.
I is sad. :(
And disappointed.
It wasn't even much of a sequel. The actors are all the same, but the characters have changed. Sniff.
Ok, so I followed Ms Tan's advice that day and went to Serene Centre in search of Yamakasi. Except she didn't tell me that it was a video rental store! I WANTED TO OWN IT, NOT JUST RENT IT! Anyway, since I was there, I thought I might as well just get it first, then try and buy it elsewhere. I gave the store people the name, and just in case they didn't have it, I gave them the name of the so-called sequel, les fils du vent/the sons of the wind/the great challenge. They're all the same thing, except for some reason, they come under different titles around the world. The people (yes more than one) went in search of both dvds, and for about ten minutes, I stood there impatiently while they searched the entire french movies shelf. After that I kinda got really impatient, and decided to search for it myself. And guess what. Within about ten seconds I found The Great Challenge. I whipped it out from the shelf and told the person, "Here it is." The person looked up. "Ohhhhhhh." Sigh. I guess it was the fangirl motivation that helped me find it faster than the two people who were probably (or definitely) not as excited as me.
Anyway they couldn't find Yamakasi, although the person assured me that they have it, and would call me once they find it. Sigh. More sighs. So I rented The Great Challenge, despite what Ms Tan and other netizens said about the sequel not being as good as the first one. Which I found to be totally true. I just finished watching it, and was extremely disappointed. Looks like I've got to pay another visit to Serene Centre, and this time I'll go in search of it myself too.
Reasons why les fils du vent cannot compare to yamakasi:
1) yamakasi was light-hearted, funny, and nice to laugh at. Les fils du vent is too heavy and serious. And too much fighting!
2) yamakasi showed the seven guys combined as one, in one team. Les fils du vent keeps six of them in one team, and mercilessly amputated Baseball from the rest. Sob. Here, he's not Baseball alias Oliver Chen anymore though. He's Kien.
3) And that's another reason. I want Baseball back! Ok, Kien's a bad guy in this one, which is supposedly the type I like, but I don't like him separated from the rest. He does go over to the good side eventually, but Kien was too serious for my liking. Baseball was funny and cool, but Kien emo-s a lot (and I meant A LOT!), and is forever angry. I don't remember him smiling at all throughout the movie. Although his love for his sister was really touching. Makes me wish I had an older bro. :)
4) Spider, now named Williams, has his floppy hair eternally tied back in a ponytail! GOOOOOOOOOOOOSH NOOOOO, TAKE THAT FREAKING HAIR TIE OFF. I LIKED THE HAIR LET DOWN SO MUCH BETTER. Although there was a huge number of scenes with spider in it in this show. Lots of stuff about him communicating with his dead grandfather. I might just switch back to Spider now. :D
5) screen pairing of sitting bull, now called logan, and kien's sis, tsu. Nononono. That pairing so does not work. Couldn't they have given her to spider or something? At least they had a few nice scenes when spider and tango save her from the yakuza.
What saved the whole thing was baseball, honestly. He was a through-and-through bad guy in this film, with a tattoo on his arm. And his physique was a lot more rafa-like than from the last film. :D Somehow though, I prefer him in the previous film still. Sigh.
Back to Serene Centre for me. (that's the only good thing about having done SMP. otherwise I would never have been sent to serene centre for YSC and SSEF poster printing, and I would never have known where serene centre was. :D)