Bangkok Dangerous (1999)
A thai crime drama about a deaf-mute hitman. It’s a dark and gritty movie with some bloody scenes. IMO a good movie with athmosperic photography of Bangkok. In 2008 they made a Remake with Nicolas Cage (with a terrible wig) which I’ve not seen so far. ;D
Watched Tetsuo II -The Iron Man. Good film but too similar with the original Tetsuo, looks and feels more like a remake than a sequel.
“things we lost in the fire”. when her husband is killed when he intervenes in a squabble his wife struggling to face up to the fact he is dead and looking after two children 6 & 10 turns to her husband’s best friend a recovering heroin addict. not my usual sort of film but it was ok, quite similar in some ways to 21 Grams. film has it’s moving moments but in my opinon is not as moving as it could be, and can’t really see why she turned to her husband’s best friend as she didn’t really know him that well. Benecio Del Toro gives a good performance. Halle Berry is nother usual glamourous self here, but then again she is not supposed to be. one amusing but also touching scene is when she asks del toro to get in bed with her and he reluctantly does only for her to ask him to rub her ear for her because her husband used to do it to her when she had trouble sleeping! the bemused expression on his face is funny!. uneven but watchable drama.
The fantastically titled Black Magic Rites and the Secret Orgies of the 14th. Century. (1973)
Unfortunately this film succumbed to the SW principle of the better the title the worse the film. I managed to sit thru’ it through despite the dodgy premise of loads of miniskirted young ladies who divest themselves of their clothes at every oportunity, to be ultimately offered as sacrifice in an attempt to bring back a falsly accused witch who was burnt in the aforementioned 14th. century.
It all sounds very jolly for us chaps, but it should have been better and should not have forsaken continuity or reason in favour of psychedelic indulgencies.
I saw in the ‘extras’ that director Renato Polselli made a spaghetti western in 1965 called Sheriff Won’t Shoot (that is in our database, but is not in my collection). Anybody seen this?
http://www.spaghetti-western.net/index.php/Sceriffo_che_non_spara%2C_Lo
Napoli Spara
Another great and action packed Polizio. I’ve always enjoyed comparing SW directors westerns to there Polizios and this film comparatively is a drastic (well shanghai joe was vpretty gory) change of pace.
Hard Times starring James Coburn & Charles Bronson as a bare knuckle boxer. A great movie set during the Depression era where Charles Bronson basically kicks everyones’s ass. Keep in mind this movie was viewed last night & I might just get radical & post here again tonight.
My favourite Walter Hill directed film, with Bronson and Coburn working well together in this simple but effective film.
With ASS KICKING!!
Yep !
What about The Warriors?
Not bad. Like the score tracks as I remember. Prefer The Wanderers. I think Silver likes The Warriors.
Chinatown - pretty good slow burner, with a nice kick for an ending
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Correct again. I do like The Wanderers but prefer Warriors. Still not liking those comic book panels in the Special Ed though!
THEY SUCK!
KINDA HEAVY ON THE ALL CAPS FONT LATELY, EH IDIOT?
District 9
Sort of independent SF from a newcomer named Neil Bloomkamp and produced by King Kong Jackson.
Funny and clever mix of social satire, bitter social comments and large scale action scenes in mock dogma style.
[quote=“korano, post:165, topic:1923”]Napoli Spara
Another great and action packed Polizio. I’ve always enjoyed comparing SW directors westerns to there Polizios and this film comparatively is a drastic (well shanghai joe was vpretty gory) change of pace.[/quote]
Having a Eurocrime weekend Korano ;)?
Watched 96 Hours last night. Besson really knows how to make an action flick. I never knew Liam Neeson was able to be such a hard boiled motherfucker.
BTW this klick follows a classic SW plotline. Neeson acts as an almost superhuman hero (like all the Djangos), pursues his aim, then there is a short intermezzo, where the hero has to suffer (Neeson gets captured), then there is the big showdown.
Change the setting and it would have benn a great role for Anthony Steffen!
[quote=“Stanton, post:176, topic:1923”]District 9
Sort of independent SF from a newcomer named Neil Bloomkamp and produced by King Kong Jackson.
Funny and clever mix of social satire, bitter social comments and large scale action scenes in mock dogma style.[/quote]
saw this recently and i really liked it… more than one group of people got up and left the theater before it was over. I was wondering if they didn’t like it, or maybe if they were getting motion sickness from the constant, heavy camera movement
Maybe both. It’s certainly not for people who want to spot everything or who want always to know excactly what is going on.
After seeing it I was surprised that it was said to be a surprise success in the USA. With its shaky cam and mock documentary style and its atypical and not very likeable hero its not a movie to please a mainstream audience.