Asian Cinema

[Tiger Chaos Theory]

I was going through the flickchart movie selection thing and realized I haven't seen as many asian movies as I had believed I had.

Recommend movies you've enjoyed.

Edit: Please avoid anything Dragon Dynasty related since according to their catalog I've seen almost every one of their titles.

 

[The Doctor]

Death Note 1 and 2.

 

[Tiger Chaos Theory]

Seen it Doc

 

[Tiger Chaos Theory]

Anyone ever heard of a movie called Oldboy? Seems to get quite a bit of praise.

 

[DigitalNight]

Oldboy is a pretty fine movie. It's on par violence wise with the Ichi The Killer movies.

I'd also like to suggest Gen X Cops & Gen Y Cops. Both are pretty solid Asian "Young Cop Team" movies.

 

[Tiger Chaos Theory]

I hope the story is better then Ichi.

I'll look those up right now. See if I can find some decent torrents for them.

 

[GenMe]

Suicide Club. That's a pretty good movie IMO.

 

[Барбоса]

Death Note 1+2
Battle Royale
Oldboy
Lust, Caution
House of Flying Daggers
Hero
The Curse of the Golden Flower
Seven Samurai
Mongol
Sukiyaki Western Django

 

[One Punch Doug Crashin]

Death Note 1+2
Battle Royale
Oldboy
Lust, Caution
House of Flying Daggers
Hero
The Curse of the Golden Flower
Seven Samurai
Mongol
Sukiyaki Western Django

Saw that. Much better than the Anime. Hero was pretty good too. I'm actually STILL trying to find the live action Romance of the Three Kingdoms. The anime is too over the top for me.

 

[GenMe]

They should make a Naruto movie.

 

[Tiger Chaos Theory]

Death Note 1+2:check
Battle Royale:check
Oldboy: Downloading now
Lust, Caution:looking it up now
House of Flying Daggers:check
Hero:check
The Curse of the Golden Flower:check
Seven Samurai:check x900000
Mongol:looking it up
Sukiyaki Western Django:looking it up
Suicide Club: Looking it up now.

Thanks, ummm, not sure how to type your name and Genme.

Edit: Seen Mongol.

 

[Барбоса]

Will likely add Three Kingdoms and Red Cliff to my list soon

 

[One Punch Doug Crashin]

Red Cliff was great.

 

[Tiger Chaos Theory]

They should make a Naruto movie.

....To think I liked you...

Also, Doug, seven samurai the anime was awesome. Not as great as the movie, but still pretty good.

 

[Tiger Chaos Theory]

Red Cliff was visually stunning but the story trotted at a snails pace with the climax being incredibly uninteresting. My second least liked John Woo film.

 

[One Punch Doug Crashin]

I don't know. Something about the anime just turned me off. The characters were too over the top for my tastes. In the movie the characters seemed more realistic.

 

[Барбоса]

Red Cliff was visually stunning but the story trotted at a snails pace with the climax being incredibly uninteresting.

A common problem with Asian cinema

 

[Tiger Chaos Theory]

I believe that was the point of the anime, to be over the top and unrealistic. If it had attempted to translate the seriousness of the original film it would have failed miserably.

 

[One Punch Doug Crashin]

I believe that was the point of the anime, to be over the top and unrealistic. If it had attempted to translate the seriousness of the original film it would have failed miserably.

good point.

 

[GenMe]

To tell you guys that truth I wasn't really into Anime, I used to think that anime was just dumb, but my wife kept putting anime movie and I notice that I was wrong. Anime is the shit (in a good way)

 

[Tiger Chaos Theory]

A common problem with Asian cinema

Well, the movie BATTLE OF THE WARRIORS was exactly what Red Cliff could have been had it. It compressed the themes and forgot about injecting an unappealing love story into itself, entertaining throughout and very well written. It may not be as visually appealing but it was twice the movie Red Cliff was.

 

[Барбоса]

injecting an unappealing love story

Another too common a problem. I need/want a love story in the middle of what is essentially a war movie, particularly when it has little or nothing to do with the main story

 

[Tiger Chaos Theory]

Another too common a problem. I need/want a love story in the middle of what is essentially a war movie, particularly when it has little or nothing to do with the main story

Asian cinema's biggest problem IMO.

I really want to know what your name is because you are pretty cool.

 

[Барбоса]

Asian cinema's biggest problem IMO.

I really want to know what your name is because you are pretty cool.

I suppose there has to be something in there for the ladies...

You mean you cannot decipher my transliterated Россиян?

 

[Tiger Chaos Theory]

No, I can not. I may be a little rusty

Current items in Queue:
Hard Boiled (Seen it before just thought I'd watch it again)
LA Confidential
Oldboy
Sukiyaki Western Django
Fulltime Killer
Versus
Internal Affairs 3
Bella loves Jenna D)