What´s HOT in Asian cinema right now?
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http://www.amazon.com/Journey-Fall-K.../dp/B000U788WU
Or I may rent it from Netflix.
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I never said Oldboy was painful. Quite the opposite, Oldboy is a masterpiece! Taegukgi I did see and was nothing special...And i've seen Seven Samurai, which is okay as well...My favorite Asian movies are Tampopo (or anything basically by Juzo Itami), anything by Miyazaki/Ghibli, Hero, House of Flying Daggers, IP Man, Battle Royale, The Great Yokai War, Mind Game, Akira, Ghost in the Shell. I've seen many of those art-house Asian films "Scent of Green Papaya on the Road Home Under the Green Lantern to say Farewell to My Concubine" which are okay, but nothing amazing or memorable. Also, any Tibetan related-movies are pretty good...But I want a little more from a movie besides fabulous cinematography...I still want to rent Vietnam's Journey From the Fall though. I'll someday check out the others on your list...I'm not too impressed with the new fresh crop of male actors from China, Korea, or Japan. Asian actresses on the other hand are so much better...Don't even start recommending me Wong Kar Wai as a good Asian filmmaker as well...Him and Lars Von Trier are the biggest cinema scam artists in history. Here's a review of Lars Von Trier's ANTI-CHRIST from New York Press, which exactly sums up Von Trier as well as Wong Kar Wai:
HISTORY SHOULD RECORD Danish filmmaker Lars Von Trier as cinema’s biggest hoaxster.Von Trier’s never made a good film—Zentropa, Breaking the Waves, Dancer in the Dark, Dogville (most of them part of his “Dogme” movement) were shams perpetrated on the culturally absent-minded—yet von Trier has bamboozled critics and festival organizers into repeatedly showcasing his hoodwinks. Von Trier’s new film Antichrist, starring Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg, is his latest manipulative salvo. The quasi-religious title is misleading provocation; Antichrist is really anti-cinema.
Here's the link to the rest of the review that I agree with: http://www.nypress.com/article-20508-antichrist.html
Iranian and Indian movies are another story and in another thread!
HISTORY SHOULD RECORD Danish filmmaker Lars Von Trier as cinema’s biggest hoaxster.Von Trier’s never made a good film—Zentropa, Breaking the Waves, Dancer in the Dark, Dogville (most of them part of his “Dogme” movement) were shams perpetrated on the culturally absent-minded—yet von Trier has bamboozled critics and festival organizers into repeatedly showcasing his hoodwinks. Von Trier’s new film Antichrist, starring Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg, is his latest manipulative salvo. The quasi-religious title is misleading provocation; Antichrist is really anti-cinema.
Here's the link to the rest of the review that I agree with: http://www.nypress.com/article-20508-antichrist.html
Iranian and Indian movies are another story and in another thread!
House of Flying Daggers for me is good, just because of its visual. They are basically dancing, not fighting. It's good to know you actually like some Asian movies that i also like (Battle Royale). I thought you really hated asian movies that you don't have any favorite at all.
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all personal taste guys, I love some of the movies toddly classed as 'ok' and you could throw back some of his own arguments against the movies he's said he has liked. But in the end, its personal taste.
Except when it comes to akshay kumar, then its just a matter of taste
Except when it comes to akshay kumar, then its just a matter of taste
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Iran and India are part of Asia. How about movies by Kim ki-duk? Like 3-iron, Breath, Address Unknown?
House of Flying Daggers for me is good, just because of its visual. They are basically dancing, not fighting. It's good to know you actually like some Asian movies that i also like (Battle Royale). I thought you really hated asian movies that you don't have any favorite at all.
House of Flying Daggers for me is good, just because of its visual. They are basically dancing, not fighting. It's good to know you actually like some Asian movies that i also like (Battle Royale). I thought you really hated asian movies that you don't have any favorite at all.
I watch most Indian movies as well (as long as they don't star Ashkay Kumar or Salman Khan). I've seen most of the good ones post-2000. What do you think of my percentile of good Indian films per year - 1 percent are good and 99 percent are crap. Do you agree with that? How about you guys, Flixtime and Nitin? You can even change the percentile to 8 percent good and 92 percent are crap if that makes a difference...
I think I've seen all the wrong Ki-duk Kim films - I've only seen the awful Samaritan Girl, Bad Guy, and The Isle...I still need to see his more respectable ones....
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What do you think of my percentile of good Indian films per year - 1 percent are good and 99 percent are crap. Do you agree with that? How about you guys, Flixtime and Nitin? You can even change the percentile to 8 percent good and 92 percent are crap if that makes a difference...
As someone who watches a lot of movies though, I'm generally content with the variety, change of pace, and uniqueness provided by Indian cinema...and they are useful for when I am looking for very light entertainment (and "yes", as I write this, I'm succeeding at putting a mental block on all the times they fail at even light entertainment).
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For the curious, it's available via an English-friendly, R2 Japan DVD (maybe $30 from YesAsia). There's a cheapie Hong Kong DVD too but - from hazy recollection - I think they might have changed the character names from Japanese to Chinese and stuff like that in the subtitles. I haven't followed if it received any other DVD release (picked up the Japanese DVD a long while back).
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This is of course ridiculous. Just because you value film as entertainment over film as art (not implying that the two are incompatible) doesn't make the later crap or the directors "scam artists". Sometimes, your "criticism" of film is downright mindboggling...
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Wong Kar Wai is an artist but it's at the same level as this:
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Those who love Wong Kar Wai and Lars Von Trier might be classified as "dogmatic" (sic) in their devotion. I've lost favor with Lars Von Trier's pomposity , and Wong Kar Wai tends to be over indulgent at times as well in the way he approaches to telling cinematic stories. Art is so subjective though, so I think we may be beating a dead horse, as they say. Aren't we all getting away from the topic of this forum?
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The Hong Kong hitmen thriller ACCIDENT from director Soi Cheang (LOVE BATTLEFIELD, DOG BITE DOG, SHAMO) is coming to Hong Kong DVD/Blu-ray on November 11th. The movie seems to have been quite well-received by critics.
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How dare you derail from the toddly bashing? shame on you! Toddly, you don't have to justify yourself to anyone. you like what you like and everyone likes what they like. no big deal.
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from what I've read my next order will be
MOTHER
ACCIDENT
and maybe YATTAMAN - what have the reviews been like for it??
MOTHER
ACCIDENT
and maybe YATTAMAN - what have the reviews been like for it??
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Asking for straight-up recommendations here is generally (though obviously not entirely) a pointless task, as has been proven before, unless you enjoy reading more about movies and performers that people hate, rather than those people actually like, and why.
Perhaps if there was a general Asian cinema thread here, at least some of this narrowmindedness would have the context of pro-con debate, but in a thread where someone simply wants to know what's "hot" or popular, the fun sure dries up quickly. And at the hands of the same person nearly every time!
Because this is what really matters.
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I'm certainly interested in checking out HAEUNDAE, but after seeing the jaw-dropping trailer for 2012, HAEUNDAE might suffer in comparison...a case of bad timing for HAEUNDAE.
No.
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not everything can nor deserves to be turned into a dissertation. some movies are good to pass the time and others require much more.
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Not expecting dissertations in a thread like this in a broad-range forum, but it would be really nice to see fewer rants and insults about who and what people hate when such things weren't even solicited in the original post.
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all grammatical errors, mispelling and diction errors purely on purpose because in the internet and no one should care so much.
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Wow Brian T, quite the haughty tone for someone who has offered a grand total of zero recommendations to the original poster Dane. If you think so little of us - as per the incredibly condescending tone of your recent posts - feel free to excuse yourself from the forum. Candidly, it appears you have a tough time relating to people who don't hold opinions in line with your own.
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funny you mention that because most of the insults here have been by you to toddly and the rest of us. maybe not directly by calling him or us names but indirectly. if you have a stick up your ass because of your great knowledge of asian films that are not oldboy or Jackie Chan like the rest of us (in your mind) doesn't mean that you are even addressing the question which was What´s HOT in Asian cinema right now.
Looks like you know Brian T personnaly, I don't, but I understand his feelings because I don't like negative statement without any little explaination and what I read in your post make you look narrow minded and intolerant.