What Have You Bought Recently? - Page 84

bizarre_eye@Cult Labs · #**831** 15th January 2010, 08:23 AM

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Originally Posted by Gojirosan

...expecting the US box-set of the Blind Dead films any day now too!

A great set it is too Gojirosan.

Daemonia · #**832** 15th January 2010, 01:57 PM

That's music to my ears, reaps! All I need now is for the postie to deliver the damn thing!!

Had Leon through this morning. I'll be giving that one a watch over the weekend.

pedromonkey · #**833** 15th January 2010, 02:26 PM

just ordered these on amazon.

Scanners
Darkman trilogy
Operation condor 2
Krull
Truck Turner
Triple Cross (Sonny Chiba)
YAKUZA boxset.
(contains Graveyard of Honor, Cops Vs Thugs and Japan Organised Crime Boss)

25 quid the lot.

42ndStreetFreak · #**834** 15th January 2010, 02:38 PM

"Watchmen" - 'Ultimate Cut'. 5 disc box.

nekromantik · #**835** 15th January 2010, 03:45 PM

Just placed me order for The New York Ripper blu

Should have it in a week.

Philleh · #**836** 15th January 2010, 04:28 PM

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Originally Posted by DeadAlive

A Better Tommorrow and A Better Tomorrow 2 are also well worth checking out as examples of Heroic Bloodshed but I'd have to say that my favourite John Woo film is A Bullet In The Head.

Couldn't agree more DoA! Bullet in the Head is truly epic, with some incredible sequences. I know it's not Woo but Tsui Hark's A Better Tomorrow 3 is an enjoyable movie also.

42ndStreetFreak · #**837** 15th January 2010, 04:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Philleh

Couldn't agree more DoA! Bullet in the Head is truly epic, with some incredible sequences. I know it's not Woo but Tsui Hark's A Better Tomorrow 3 is an enjoyable movie also.

"ABT 3" is a better movie than "ABT 2" for me.
"ABT 2" is so stupendously silly and unintentionally funny. Woo almost went too far. It's more like a 'party clips' movie.

The end is a superbly crafted slice of Heroic Bloodshed, but Woo messes up on any serious aspect (unlike the first film) in the cartoon way the main characters take massive injury and keep on going. It's the HK version of Monty Python's "Grail" 'Black Knight'.
The silly twin brother plot (a desperate attempt to get Chow back, but it shows how good Chow is as despite looks the characters are actually quite different) and the 'stop dying for a second you haven't finished deciding' phone call scene sum up the dodgy plot and unintentional silliness.

As a clip film for parties (or as an example of HK gunplay) it's fine...but as an actual movie it's not that good and for me...(and Woo agrees)...It's his worst non-Hollywood film.

Whereas I agree on "Bullet". The rather OTT finale aside (a controversial aspect of the film's production history) it's a well crafted, serious, piece of movie making.

But I think "The Killer" is just perhaps Woo's best film (massive overload of typical Chines melodrama included).

"Hard Boiled" fails plot and character wise (not one likeable character to be seen...even Tequila is not that likeable) but as an action film it's stunning. But it kind of plays like Woo's resume for Hollywood (who ironically then stopped him from doing anything as good, well crafted, violent, or boundary pushing action wise. Which is surely why they gave him a job in the first place!).