Movies: The Irregulars and Gunpowder Milkshake
Joanna Bourne, Historical Romance
For me, that’s icing on the cake rather than a requirement.
But — iced cake.
I’ve been looking at Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, and Paranormal books for a while now. Lately I’ve expanded to movies and TV series.
Endless delights delivered to my computer screen.
We live with such splendid technology.
First, consider the tongue-in-cheek, cynical, and bloody romp that is The Irregulars.
It’s “a British mystery adventure crime drama television series” created by Tom Bidwell for Netflix.”*
Some paths in the Magical Wood are well trampled. Beer bottles and McDonald wrappers litter the roadside.
I’ll admit to being jaded about powerful lost heirs, schools for angsty teenage wizards**, colorful squaddies on the battlefield of clashing magical empires, and other staples of the genre.
One could make the case that The Irregulars is wuxia
which is trope and utterly predictable,
but it’s a story I like.
Finding such a story with good tropework is sweet.
Irregulars is a nugget of gold in the spoils pile of the Sherlock fictive universe.
Gunpowder Milkshake also pleased me.
This one glows with subtle, intelligent acting from everybody on the set.
Now, there are long sequences of car chases and kung fu fighting and extras dying bloodily ***.
Presumably the intended audience likes car chases, martial arts, and gore.
Me, I fast forward through that stuff and it does not interfere with my enjoyment of the movie.****
Ain’t technology grand?
A study of Jackie Chan’s corpus of work might have kept the frenetic action scenes from being so boring.
I dunnoh.
Maybe it would have subverted the spirit of the story . . .
I have no wisdom in critiquing movies and my taste is not especially commercial.
Final thoughts on Milkshake is that it worked for me and I recommend it.
* I pulled the description from the wiki so it must be true.
** I wasn’t much interested in teenagers even when I was one.
*** Some of the violence is disturbing. Most of it is like those old Westerns where cowboys have 37 bullets in their handguns and spin and fall dramatically when hit,
**** Some Romance readers flip past pages of the explicit and go on with the story. It’s a skill.
RITA-winning author Joanna Bourne writes historical fiction set in Revolutionary and Napoleonic France and Regency England. It was a time of love and sacrifice, clashing ideals, and really cool clothing.
Source: https://jobourne.blogspot.com/2021/07/the-irregulars-tom-bidwell-gunpowder.html
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