Originally posted on 1 year 9 months 22 days. This blog is no longer being updated - you should come check out my new blog: Too Short To Be A Storm Trooper The other night on YouTube I was following a thread of progressively more and more outlandish trailers belonging to asian cinema with more than a couple featuring cyborgs and nurses who kill people. It was then quite by accident that I happened upon the Alien vs Ninja trailer:
Now apart from the obvious fact that I would have to see this film as quickly as possible there were at least ten things that I learned whilst watching:
- Ninja can leap tall buildings on nights of the full moon
- Ninja yo-yos are messed up
- Traditional Ninja greeting between the sexes is to class swords (do I detect some jealousy from the other Ninja??)
- Evil Ninja think that weapons fall from the sky
- Good Ninja are an inquisitive bunch
- Evil Ninja have mad skills when it comes to throwing stars
- Evil Ninja and good Ninja will join forces when faced with aliens
- A Ninja will continue to battle even when everything below his waist has been dissolved in possibly acid
- The Ninja lady has some cool Ninja moves
- Aliens can fly and possibly explode in the air with Ninja erupting from them.
Each and every one of these facts makes my life a little more complete and reminds me why I didn’t fill my precious brain cells with maths and stuff.
I will let you know what it’s like after I watch it and if you get a chance I’d love to hear your own raptures.
So did you pick up any lessons that I missed?
I liked the bit where he stepped on his head.
Ninja heads are apparently much more likely to go pop than normal people’s.
You actually learnt 10 things from this? I saw this a while back looks so terrible I have to watch it
It’s the wisdom of the ninja, I’m hoping to learn more from the actual movie though it would be hard to live up to the title AND that trailer!!!
It’s moved up with alien speed as my #1 priority of movies I need to watch.
So bad, it’s entertaining.
I think that’s completely fair and valid -- I’m sure whatever you bumped from #1 wasn’t going to be as educational anyway!
I learnt that aliens don’t just kill their prey they explode them.
Have you ever seen the Japanese film ‘Versus’, its basically ninjas vs zombies oh and gangsters. Its pretty cool
I’ll put that on my list Phil -- I’m going to watch Robogeisha and Machine Girl hopefully this weekend as well.