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- Jun 4, 2015
There's no talk about this movie save for a mention about the evil white man trope in the Tvtropes thread, so I feel the need to make a rambling ass thread about it because holy fucking shit this movie is incredible. I just got done with watching it with a friend on fucking netflix and it was a god damn masterpiece. the damn thing is 3 hours long but it feels longer, and not in a bad way. You know how you sometimes have really cool dreams that span several days but then you wake up and it's been only 5 or 7 hours? That's the kind of "feels longer" time distortion I'm talking about here. I am not shitting you when I say that not one of those 3 hours is wasted, this thing better pacing and plot buildup delivery than a majority of TV shows and movies out there right now shit's DENSE with detail. We went into this completely blind and came out the other end realizing we haven't seen an action movie of this quality come out in WELL over a decade. The action gets increasingly over the top but in ways that aren't the shitty kind that wouldnt make sense. The soundtrack is fucking incredible, filled with aggressive scatting and choirs singing about the characters. It's also got one of those things at the end plays sometimes do where basically everyone's on a stage dancing singing about how fucking much they love living in india untied to the actual plot. The whole movie follows a structure similar to a stageplay, so it's pretty much one of those cases the "random dance number" type of ending is fucking earned and a breath of relief after all the heavy shit that goes down in the final act.
So, the general gist of the plot is it's set during the british occupation of india. there's 2 really fucking strong guys, one working for the bri'ish military that keeps getting fucked out of a promotion because nepotism, and the other working to save his family from some fucking racist ass child traffiking scumfucks in the corrupt as hell british occupier ranks. They meet up due to some wild ass circumstance and then shit just keeps building up from there and does not fucking stop going. I'd explain more but I really don't want to make this fucking OP even longer of a text heap.
One of the fucking best parts during my time watching this shit with my friend was when my friend joked about them combining into a gurren-lagann esque mech and then like an hour later during the prison break scene they literally did the fucking human equivalent of that with the guy who's legs were fucking wounded. it's one of the most absurdly badass yet beautiful fucking things i've seen happen in a movie.
So, the general gist of the plot is it's set during the british occupation of india. there's 2 really fucking strong guys, one working for the bri'ish military that keeps getting fucked out of a promotion because nepotism, and the other working to save his family from some fucking racist ass child traffiking scumfucks in the corrupt as hell british occupier ranks. They meet up due to some wild ass circumstance and then shit just keeps building up from there and does not fucking stop going. I'd explain more but I really don't want to make this fucking OP even longer of a text heap.
One of the fucking best parts during my time watching this shit with my friend was when my friend joked about them combining into a gurren-lagann esque mech and then like an hour later during the prison break scene they literally did the fucking human equivalent of that with the guy who's legs were fucking wounded. it's one of the most absurdly badass yet beautiful fucking things i've seen happen in a movie.