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From: hamachi@UCBRENOIR (Gordon Hamachi)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Year of the Drag-on
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Date: Wed, 4-Sep-85 03:29:27 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep  4 03:29:27 1985
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A bad movie.

Year of the Dragon is disgustingly violent.  You will see a decapitated
head, people getting shot in the face at close range, people getting
stabbed in the chest, people getting machine-gunned down, quarts of
blood, bleeding bullet holes, and people crashing and burning.  The
audience cheers.

Year of the Dragon is pointlessly profane.  You will see meetings where
seemingly every other word refers to copulation or feces.  This is supposed
to show that these guys are real tough and mean business.

Year of the Dragon is implausibly plotted:

Our "hero" the police officer mistreats an Asian woman television journalist.
He drags her into the sack and spouts strange stuff about how "you beat us in
Vietnam" and "chinks don't know how to love".  She is furious when he takes
over her apartment and refuses to leave.  She falls in love with him.

The "good" guy and the bad guy shoot it out.  Wounded and disarmed, the bad
guy reveals the location of the heroin cache.  In return the "good" guy hands
the bad guy his loaded gun!  Then, rather than shooting his enemy, the bad
guy shoots himself.


I guess he couldn't stand to be a part of this bad movie any longer.  Don't
see "Year of the Dragon".  You might hate yourself afterwards.  On the other
hand you might find yourself starting to cheer during the slaughter, which
would be just as bad.

--Gordon Hamachi