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Thegoon
Has more self respect than George Lucas
France
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 Posted - June 23 2006 : 6:18:17 PM
 
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Since coming to the boards I've made mention several times of my love for asian action films. My favorite type being the "Heroic Bloodshed" films done by directors like John Woo or Ringo Lam and I was wondering if anyone on the boards had any favorites of their own.
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manonfire
all you can eat buffetts fear me
USA
2012 Posts |
Posted - June 23 2006 : 7:34:45 PM
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| a chinese ghost story is a particular fav. |
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Styling Shatner
A Rhinestone Cowboy
USA
3206 Posts |
Posted - June 25 2006 : 6:33:39 PM
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| Out of the "Lone Wolf and Baby Cart" series I've only seen the first one (I found it in a library, of all places) but I certainly enjoyed that film. For what it was, it was well done, and lives up to the "bloodshed" idea too. |
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Ricky Ho
Lieutenant
Anguilla
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Posted - June 25 2006 : 7:09:03 PM
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| Bangkok Dangerous is awesome. I want to see if the American remake contains even 1/10th of the nihilism. |
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madpuppy
Sad songs are nature's onions
USA
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Posted - June 25 2006 : 7:28:10 PM
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Originally posted by Styling Shatner
Out of the "Lone Wolf and Baby Cart" series I've only seen the first one (I found it in a library, of all places) but I certainly enjoyed that film. For what it was, it was well done, and lives up to the "bloodshed" idea too.
The Baby Cart series is amazing- it was my introduction to movies set in that era, and it spoiled me for all others.
I'm also a big fan of Hard Boiled. |
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Thegoon
Has more self respect than George Lucas
France
4237 Posts |
Posted - June 26 2006 : 06:22:55 AM
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Bangkok Dangerous is awesome. I want to see if the American remake contains even 1/10th of the nihilism.
I am so glad someone has brought that movie up. It is indeed one of the most gritty films I've ever seen from this genre. I should also mention a movie called A Bittersweet Life which is also amazing. It's a Korean film that if anyone can get their hands on it is a must see perhaps one of the best "Heroic Bloodshed" films since The Killer. |
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Ricky Ho
Lieutenant
Anguilla
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Posted - June 26 2006 : 4:42:58 PM
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Bittersweet Life didn't really live up to the overwhelming hype. I found myself liking the introspective first half a lot more than the latter action half. It felt like a character study that suddenly wanted to become an action movie. It was incredibly slick and well-directed and the main character was cool as hell, it just felt kind of hollow and pointless after the final shootout.
Johnnie To's The Mission is another one of my favorites, but his Breaking News is heinously overrated. |
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Thegoon
Has more self respect than George Lucas
France
4237 Posts |
Posted - June 26 2006 : 6:26:24 PM
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Bittersweet Life didn't really live up to the overwhelming hype. I found myself liking the introspective first half a lot more than the latter action half. It felt like a character study that suddenly wanted to become an action movie. It was incredibly slick and well-directed and the main character was cool as hell, it just felt kind of hollow and pointless after the final shootout.
I will concede that after the final shootout it stumbles but I really enjoyed the film a hell of a lot and would gladly add it to my favorite Korean films list just below The Vengence trilogy.
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Johnnie To's The Mission is another one of my favorites, but his Breaking News is heinously overrated.
I don't even think that's up for debate. The Mission is one of my favorite films to ever come out of Hong Kong and Breaking News just sucks in general. |
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Edited by - Thegoon on June 26 2006 6:31:41 PM |
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Nick
Let's have sex
United Kingdom
2202 Posts |
Posted - June 27 2006 : 04:07:24 AM
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| I was really into them a few years ago, before the massive hype. My favourites being "Hard Boiled", "The Killer", "Bullet to the Head", "To Live and Die In Tsien Hu-Unpronouncable" and "Tiger on the Beat". |
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Thegoon
Has more self respect than George Lucas
France
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krylonman
Commodore
USA
2436 Posts |
Posted - June 28 2006 : 3:32:26 PM
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| I've kind of missed out on newer Asian action, but a really, really well-done kung fu film is some of the best entertainment there is, I venture. (A really, really badly done kung fu film is, unfortunately, usually boring as hell.) My favorites include Fist of Fury, The Five Deadly Venoms and—yes, I'm yet again stridently demaning you see this before you die—the unbelievably astonishing Game of Death II. |
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