Asian Cinema = yay

[블라스]

those were probably the worst 4 things i've ever seen.

i'll never get the love for asian cinema... i mean, they get it right from time to time (oldboy, advent children, etc...) but 98.7% of the time, you get lame ass power ranger and guyver (with worse stories and special effects) knock offs.

i'm willing to bet my middle testicle that the majority of people here (and most likely anywhere in america) only pretend to dig this crap so they can act like they're different, special, and "better" that the other movie-goers here.

Hahahaha again with this?

You're just so ignorant about Asian cinema, you seem to have, like..."zero" grasp of it.
There's a lot of bad Asian movies, and a lot of great ones, just like in USA or England or whatever.

Honestly, you shouldn't be talking about a subject you just know nothing about.

That fact that you bump "Oldboy" together with "Advent Children" says everything.
You'd definitely lose that testicle

"98.7% of the time you get lame ass power rangers and guyver knockoffs"? LOL you can't be serious, no one's that ******ed

 

[3 Dev Adam]

Advent Children? He means FINAL FANTASY'S Advent Children?

God, he doesn't know squat about Asian Cinema.

 

[블라스]

He really doesn't. He's proved that in a few threads now.

 

[GhostPoet]

I recently saw the 2nd Appleseed film (loved it!! amazing) And I was wondering...anyone know of any other cgi films like it or coming out soon with american release?

 

[블라스]

Has anyone seen P.T.U.?

 

[Sebastos]

Never.

 

[블라스]

Seems like it could be a good police/crime drama...

And Simon Yam always delivers

I'll have to get the Dragon Dynasty DVD

Here's the shorter DD trailer: http://dragondynasty.com/films/show/103

 

[Sebastos]

Yet another good recommendation man. I'll be sure to check it out.

 

[3 Dev Adam]

I recently saw the 2nd Appleseed film (loved it!! amazing) And I was wondering...anyone know of any other cgi films like it or coming out soon with american release?

There's this one...

They are not 100% CG but CG-assisted...

 

[3 Dev Adam]

Oh, and there's this one as well.

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[Ash J. Williams]

Has anyone seen P.T.U.?

No, but I am familiar with Johnnie To.

 

[Ash J. Williams]

Has anyone seen P.T.U.?

No, but I am familiar with Johnnie To.

 

[gkokujin]

I watched KUNG-FU DUNK the other day. and I LOVE IT.

i wish there were dvd extras though.

KUng fu dunk was so outrageous i had to love. I love how HK cinema and even japanese movies are non traditional and non linear with plot development, action and character development.

I almost let a tear drop at the end

 

[gkokujin]

oh yeah...

an american adaptation of Kamen Rider.

http://www.veoh.com/videos/v7050845QcENRzkG


this looks just awful


DAMN YOU SABAN for importing TOKU and making "power rangers" and screwing this genre for american audiences!!

 

[War Party]

Just watched Flash Point again and Donnie Yen is so ****ing awesome. Such a great film.

 

[Corpus Luteum]

This thread deserves a bump IMO.

 

[War Party]

Set in the 1930s Manchurian desert where lawlessness rules and many different ethnic groups clash, three Korean men fatefully meet each other on a train. Do-Won (Jung Woo-Sung) is a bounty hunter who tracks down any criminals with rewards on their heads. Chang-Yi (Lee Byung-Hun) is the leader of a group of tough-as-nails bandits. He cannot stand to be the second best. Tae-Goo (Song Kang-Ho) is a train robber with nine lives.
The three strangers engage in a chase across Manchuria to take possession of a map Tae-Goo discovers while robbing the train. Also on the hunt for the mysterious map are the Japanese army and Asian bandits. In this unpredictable, escalating battle for the map, who will stand in the end as the winner?

 

[Octoberist]

I saw the movie Chocolate by the same director who did Ong Bak.

It was alright. The leading girl was cute but..the story was set up like a video game. I know..I know..it's about the fight scenes but still..

 

[snakeinthegear]

Just watched Flash Point again and Donnie Yen is so ****ing awesome. Such a great film.

Great film! I watched that last night alongside 2 other great asian films...a bitter sweet life and city of violence.

These 2 films are amazing. City of violence is just marvelous. Korean movies are really making it big., reminds me of the late 80s early 90s hong kong action films.
I've always been a fan of asian cinema, simply because there's something so profoundly poetic about them.

 

[3 Dev Adam]

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[3 Dev Adam]

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[Corpus Luteum]

Have any of you guys seen Rough Cut?

I heard it is the best gangster film in the entire history of Korean cinema, better than City of Violence and A Bittersweet Life. It's about real gangsters pretending to be actors in a movie about gangs, except the director doesn't know they're real gangsters. So they're not actually acting when they act, if you know what I mean.

I heard it was better than Fight Club with touches of Tropic Thunder.

 

[War Party]

I actually just purchased Rough Cut last week and watched it a few days ago. It's a very good movie. Not better than Fight Club or Bittersweet Life, but still very good. But in the movie, there's this big action star who can't get anyone to act opposite of him since he keeps hurting all the guys he fights. So he convinces this gangster, which he encountered early in the film, to appear in the film with him. The gangster agrees on one condition that the violence has to be real. So these two just beat the **** out of each other during their fight scenes. And the director knows that the fights are real and that he's a gangster. The movie also deals with each man's lives and shows what life is like for them outside of the movie.

It really was a good movie. The last fight scene is awesome.

 

[3 Dev Adam]

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[Lunar_Wolf]

Kung Fu Hustle & Shoalin Soccer are fantastic.
Versus is another film I loved.