Bearserk wrote:What is sad though is that I am only adding to my pile of yet unwatched movies. There are just not enough time in a day to do all that I wish.
Which Perfect Match, lots of movies with that name
Haeundae seemed kinda strange, first half of the trailer seemed hilarious and fun, and then they started to add more serious stuff in the last part of it. Yet another one of those tragic comedies? Seen a few of those and they have just never been that big a hit with me.
Simpsons, mmmm Around season 12 they were still good as I recall, it was around S15 that they started to become not so good.
Brian Thibodeau wrote:It only gets worse as we age. You'd think it would get easier, but nooooo.
Brian Thibodeau wrote:This one: http://dddhouse.com/v3/product_details. ... ctID=10293. I think it may be Singaporean or Taiwanese. Not sure. On the packaging, languages are as Mandarin/Cantonese, with Mandarin first, which is sometimes a sign that it's the primary language, so I'm leaning toward Taiwanese. Guess I'll see. Haven't seen any reviews. LoveHKFilm has it on Terrence Yin's filmography as a 2005 film, so I'll have to do some screencaps to see just what the heck it really is! There have been other movies recently that seem to be delayed releases. PANDORA'S BOOTH comes to mind. Our DB says it's from 2007, but it just hit DVD this year.
Brian Thibodeau wrote:If you watch much Korean cinema, it should be exactly what you'd expect from a Korean disaster movie. In other words, plenty of melodrama, crying, "earthy" humour (i.e. "common folk" comedy) and some knockout special effects. It doesn't top anything Hollywood can do, but it comes closer than any Asian disaster film I've yet seen.
Did a review of HAEUNDAE on my blog, which I'm not that fond of because I don't think I write very well in long-form, but it might give you an idea of what lies waiting :
http://persistentvisions.blogspot.com/2 ... -2009.html
Brian Thibodeau wrote:I haven't had cable TV since about Season 13-14 of the Simpsons (sad, I know). I've just finished the Season 12 set, and it has many episodes I missed the first time around because I worked on Sundays back then, so I got a lot of big laughs out of it. Got it for $20 in a "Boxing Week" post-Christmas sale here. Should've grabbed Season 11, too, but I procrastinated. Going forward, I'll continue to wait until the sets go on sale. If they all were as space-saving as the Season 20 Blu-Ray (two discs in one single-width case, but no extras), I'd probably start getting them all in that format.
Bearserk wrote:First time I came across this was I think in Guns and Talks. I can be mistaken, been a while since I borrowed it from a mate of mine. I just couldn't deal with the emotional roller coaster as they went back and forth between outrageous comedy to the next second deep drama and sorrow. The genres is to far apart to be mixed well in my eyes.
Luckily there are good korean movies without it
Brian Thibodeau wrote:I can't remember last time I sat down to watch TV. Not one for schedules. Much easier to have it available to watch whenever you feel like watching it and have the time.
Masterofoneinchpunch wrote:Big Lots has been selling WB singles out of sets for awhile -- though you can't always get what you are looking for .
Jealous of GARBO SILENTS COLLECTION and THE CARDINAL.
The Art of Action: Martial Arts in the Movies (2002) BL
Superman Returns (2006)
At this point in the era of DVD—which is evidently nearing its end—I'll take whatever I can get for these prices.
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I can't count the number of "wanna see but maybe not own" titles that were on my Amazon wishlist for several years while I waited for price drops, sales, etc., and now they're turning up at Big Lots with stunning regularity. If that's not a sign that catalogue DVD is on its way out, I don't know what is. I'm betting you'll see a lot of these Warner titles go OOP within the next year or so, possibly to turn up on the Archive Collection (burn-on-demand DVD-R's) and eventually streaming. And I'm sure other studios will follow. Universal has already launched their own burn-on-demand service, through Amazon I believe. ...
The store I was in only had one Garbo set, so it was a no-brainer. Not to sound cheap or anything (which I am), but it'd be very cool if the Chaney or Laurel & Hardy sets showed up at Big Lots at some point, or even the films in the Forbidden Hollywood sets.
Masterofoneinchpunch wrote:But I agree I have already seen many films that have increased in price (like Vertical Ray of the Sun) which I bought for three dollars at Big Lots.
Brian, do you watch Smallville or have you seen the Lois & Clark episodes (I have seen the first three seasons and working on the fourth).
Harlock wrote:
but anyway, here's some Shaw Brothers titles* on DVD that I bought since my last post last year
- Many of the highly revered "martial arts" stars were actually only actors (ie: David Chiang, Liu Yung, Bryan Leung Kar Yan) who harboured the ability to mimic, exceptionally, the styles and choreography of their action directors.
ewaffle wrote:I have read--although I can't find the reference now, of course--that part of the training that Shaw Brothers contract actors received as a matter of course during their employment was in the cinematic version of martial arts.
Brian Thibodeau wrote:ewaffle wrote:I have read--although I can't find the reference now, of course--that part of the training that Shaw Brothers contract actors received as a matter of course during their employment was in the cinematic version of martial arts.
This is fairly well documented, actually, and shouldn't surprise by now, and it applies outside the Shaw universe as well, then as now. This is a key reason I'm puzzled when many contemporary performers (such as today's young pop star/actor crossover types) are criticized for essentially doing the same thing—mimicry—and often doing it exceedingly well when under the tutelage of experienced and inventive choreographers. The only surprise this late in the game is when relative newbies are unfairly compared to past performers who "did it for real" . . . apparently! Nothing new here . . .
Masterofoneinchpunch wrote:Well to be fair many of the MA performers complain today about the newbies as well.
Actually HK was still a bit behind on Europe and North America cinema in dealing with nudity, violence (though really HK cinema was influenced heavily by the chambara cinema in several of these aspects) and adult situations. Bergman had been doing nudity and topics such as abortion since the late 50s. Swedish cinema helped push Europe (which also was ahead of America in those situations, not counting pre-code films of course) and North America to eventually get past the Hays Code (and once it was past it, mainstream nudity and violence kept pushing further and further). But the change through most of the world was happening quite quickly in the cinema of the 60s though.
I found this quote from David Bordwell's book Planet Hong Kong interesting: "To satisfy censorship regulations, kung-fu films circulated in three versions: the tamest cut went to Malaysia, Thailand and Taiwan; a stronger one was made for Hong Kong; and the bloodiest version went to Europe and North America, where censorship was lenient."
Brian Thibodeau wrote:Masterofoneinchpunch wrote:Well to be fair many of the MA performers complain today about the newbies as well.
Hardly the most objective critics, then . . . "These kids today, they just don't suffer the way we did, walking to school in a snowstorm, uphill, in bare feet . . . "
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I'd also posit that Hong Kong's blood and skin quotient in the 60's and 70's was on par with that seen in popular/populist Japanese cinema of the same period and even earlier (i.e. That Which Was Not Kurosawa™), an acknowledged influence on many Hong Kong filmmakers; in fact, it's not unreasonable to argue that Japanese films were ahead of Hong Kong in terms of subject matter and "exploitable" elements by a fair margin, while the latter was generally in line with developments in major cinemas worldwide.
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dleedlee wrote:I want to hear about Seven 2 One and To Live and Die in Mongkok!
Brian Thibodeau wrote:. . . and finally, a couple Bearserk will undoubtedly want to borrow from me later on :
SOMETIMES, MIRACLES DO HAPPEN (1999)
FEARLESS (2007)
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