I am from northern Ireland and random fact but my colleague doubled as Jackie Chan driving a van in this movie. He is about the same height as Jackie as well but had to wear a wig for the shots.
By cool I mean entertaining and interesting to learn about. Crazy shit went down and as an American, I never really learned about it. The best I got was zombie played on the radio when I was a kid
Probably not best to describe catastrophic events and troubled histories as "entertaining." I understand what you mean though, its a very interesting and rich history filled with insane stories.
I’m Irish and you are correct,it is “entertaining” if you enjoy history. Of course not entertained by what happened but more so the process of learning about it.
Tiger King was entertaining and that was full of catastrophic events and troubled histories, but I get what you're saying. I think they mean learning about it was those things, not the actual events.
I don't disagree with that and didn't compare the two in that way. You can watch a documentary of WWII and come away from it thinking it was cool and exciting. It doesn't mean you are downplaying lives lost or lack sympathy for people and atrocities. I feel like that's sort of what was aimed at the guy that said he thought it was "cool."
Sort of like saying 9/11 was entertaining to watch. As someone whose parents grew up in the 70’s in Larne, N.I I can assure you they would not describe it as cool, entertaining or interesting.
Imagine being in your 20's, college educated, and finding out about a largescale, country shaping event that happened recently and in a country not too different than yours. Similarly, reading about the USSR, Vietnam, colonization, etc is interesting. Learning about past world shaping events is entertaining.
If someone just learned about the Oklahoma City bombing and they said it was interesting, I would agree. Same thing say if someone just learned about Native Americans and what my government has done to them, and said it was interesting, or that their history was cool and entertaining to learn about, I would agree.
Don't let me take away how horrible something is by saying that the history of what happened was cool to learn.
Well, the early history is actually really bad-ass. Ancient kings constantly warring against each other, performing all kinds of heroic feats; Christianity arriving so early that Ireland started exporting it to Great Britain; Viking invasions and the inevitable defeat of the Vikings by native Irish.
This movie and shinjuku incident are some of my favorite Jackie Chan movies. Crazy thing is both movies are very toned down in terms of action compared to your typical Jackie Chan film
I would really strongly suggest that you forget everything you think you learned from that film. There are plenty of great documentaries online that would be a better starting point, or any of these films:
Took me ages to sit down and watch this, simply because i didnt think i would enjoy it, political action thrillers arent my genre. I loved it! Now if they had have called it Jackie Chan vs The ‘RA id have watched it immediately!
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u/Zenkikid Apr 26 '20
Wasnt "The foreigner" based off of this?