trailer break: ‘Ninja Assassin’

Take a break from work: watch a trailer…


Isn’t that the same remote mountain monastery/martial arts training ground where Batman went to study? Or is it a franchise?

“Raised to become an assassin” made me hope that the next placard would be something like “but he really wants to dance!” But it wasn’t.

Wow. This looks supersupersuper awesome. And by that I mean “dumb.”

Ninja Assassin opens in the U.S. on November 25 and the U.K. on November 27.

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PJK
PJK
Wed, Nov 04, 2009 1:19pm

MaryAnn, you are aware that the script was written by the great J. Michael Straczynski (he of Babylon 5)?

Of course, how much of his script makes it into the final movie remains of course to be seen, but I’m at least willing to give it a chance based on that fact.

Bill
Bill
Wed, Nov 04, 2009 2:29pm

i might check this out. i like that they called it ‘ninja assassin’. no beating around the bush. with the title, they just announce to the world that they’re here to do one thing – deliver some cool fight scenes. i appreciate the absence of pretense. that knife-on-a-rope thing looks pretty cool. i’m lookin forward to seeing what kind of nonsense battles they come up with.

CB
CB
Wed, Nov 04, 2009 2:36pm

“Raised to become an assassin” made me hope that the next placard would be something like “but he really wants to dance!” But it wasn’t.

I would so go see that movie. West Side Story meets Footloose meets Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon. I love it.

I might give this one a try on DVD. I too like the no-nonsense name. :)

The “but he really wants to dance!” version would, of course, have to be named “Ninja Dance”.

Bill
Bill
Wed, Nov 04, 2009 3:00pm

if ‘ninja dance: the musical’ comes to town, i will be there.

Tim
Tim
Wed, Nov 04, 2009 3:09pm

Check out this G Band Trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4hbSB3kDtM

Drave
Wed, Nov 04, 2009 3:24pm

It’s grammatically ambiguous! Is he a ninja who is also an assassin, or is he an assassin who targets ninjas? Inquiring minds want to know!

CB
CB
Wed, Nov 04, 2009 4:12pm

It’s grammatically ambiguous! Is he a ninja who is also an assassin, or is he an assassin who targets ninjas? Inquiring minds want to know!

If it’s the latter, then that sets up an obvious premise for the sequel: Ninja Assassin Assassin.

PJK
PJK
Wed, Nov 04, 2009 5:32pm

Damn, that makes me think of the Big Hit’s Trace-Buster-Buster-Buster

Accounting Ninja
Accounting Ninja
Wed, Nov 04, 2009 8:02pm

We must Kung Fu fight!!

Josh C.
Josh C.
Wed, Nov 04, 2009 11:57pm

If there ends up being a sequel, it would probably err more toward MaryAnn’s idea for this one (“but he really wants to dance!”) than be about his assassinating people who assassinate ninjas. “Ninja Assassin 2: Electric Boogaloo,” they could call it. And a fine boogaloo it would be.

bzero
Fri, Nov 06, 2009 10:40am

*grin* My sister used to have a computer disc labelled “Ninja Hardball.” I was so sad to discover it was two different games.

Hank Graham
Hank Graham
Mon, Nov 23, 2009 4:00pm

Ninja Assassin 2: Electric Bugaloo?

Damn, I’d watch that. At least I’d be pretty certain it would surprise me.

Tonio Kruger
Tue, Nov 24, 2009 12:19am

The “but he really wants to dance!” version would, of course, have to be named “Ninja Dance”.

And, of course, it would include cover versions of such songs as “Turning Japanese”, “Lucky Star”, and–of course– “Total Eclipse of the Heart”…