bugsonglass said:The Crow or Kill Bill type revenge flick? As in sweet sweet revenge...
Or more like the Korean trilogy if "Vengeance" films which are more sort of ... bittersweet revenge?
Bittersweet revenge. And it's Korean BTW.
I rented that once, never had the chance to watch it.
The Wachowskis are Possible Contenders to Direct Justice League Movie
Review: BERSERK: THE EGG OF THE KING Is Brilliant And Epic
"Berserk: The Egg of the King offers a great start to the film trilogy that is to be based on the popular manga and anime series Berserk. This faithful film adaptation should please both fans and newcomers alike with its massive battles, bloody fights and intriguing storylines surrounding the compelling characters. It is quite simply one of the best animated action films of recent years."
DVD Review: Kim Hyoung-jun's NO MERCY
"No Mercy manages to be a riveting, and effectively diverting thriller, largely due to the scenes in which the great actors Seol Kyeong-gu and Ryoo Seung-bum face off, which provide an electric intensity to help to lift it above the banalities that often plague many films of this genre."
Blu-ray Review: QUICK Is SPEED On Speed
"I'm not going to sugar coat this review. Quick, the Korean motorcycle action extravaganza, is dumb. It's dumb. Not smart. This isn't a thinking man's action film, it is the very definition of a silly, drop-your-brains-at-the-door explode-a-thon. But I'll be damned if it isn't loads of absolutely ridiculous fun. "
Oh Lord, they are making a S.H.I.E.L.D TV series
Oh Lord Beverly Hills Cop: The TV Series?
Second Trailer For 'Chinese Zodiac'
A second trailer has been released for 'Chinese Zodiac', the upcoming action adventure written and directed by, and starring Jackie Chan. The film, which has been touted as the third entry into Chan's 'Armour Of God' series, follows a hero who is charged with recovering 12 lost Chinese national treasures.
'Chinese Zodiac' co-stars Kwon Sang-Woo, Yao Xingtong, Zheng Wei, Linda Weissbecker, and Vincent Sze. The film is due for release on the 12th December, 2012.
Trailer For 'After School Midnighters'
The trailer has been released for 'After School Midnighters', an upcoming animated adventure directed by Hitoshi Takekiyo. Based on Takekiyo's short film 'After School Midnight', the film revolves around an anatomy model and a skeleton that come to life at night and roam around the school halls.
Synopsis
Kynst Lijk is a human body model that stands in a science room of an elementary school. Lijk also reigns over the school after midnight. One day, when a naughty kindergarten trio accidentally meets him, his ordinary life changes. The scariest and craziest after midnight adventure begins...
That Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Script That Just Got Shelved Was Apparently Not So Good
"Some of the highlights (or is that low-lights?) include Casey Jones and April O’Neill being turned into lovesick 18-year olds, Shredder becoming an evil military douche named Colonel Schrader and yes, there are alien shenanigans afoot, though perhaps not how you had expected. Kinda."
First Teaser For BERSERK: GOLDEN AGE ARC III - DESCENT
See two posts up for the review of the first movie which was called brilliant
All hell breaks loose in the first teaser of Berserk Golden Age Arc III: Descent (Berserk Ōgon Jidai-Hen III: Kōrin). This third installment of Studio 4°C's adaptation of Kentarou Miura's popular manga marks the climatic finale of the animated film trilogy.
Warner Bros Japan delay the theatrical release date til January of 2013. You'll find the minute-long teaser embedded below.
Park Chan-wook Picks Western as Next Project
Following the completion of his first major Hollywood feature, Park Chan-wook, the famed Korean cineaste behind the Vengeance trilogy (Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, 2002; Oldboy, 2003; Lady Vengeance, 2005) and Thirst (2009), has signed on to his second tinseltown production. It's another blacklist screenplay which toped the famed industry poll in 2006 but has had trouble securing backers due to its violent content.
The Brigands of Rattleborge, which will be financed by Red Granite Pictures and co-produced by Mythology Entertainment, follows a sheriff and a doctor out for revenge following the attack on a small town by a group of bandits. No word on a possible start date or any other talent attached at this stage but Variety speculates that due to the film's violent nature, a major star will be needed to come onboard. The idea of Park Chan-wook directing a violent western is certainly a tantalizing one.
Meanwhile Park's latest Stoker is gearing up for a March 1, 2013 bow. Penned by Wentworth Miller and starring Nicole Kidman, Mia Masikowska and Matthew Goode, the film is about a mysterious uncle who comes to stay with a girl and her unstable mother following her father's death.
The Bat Man of Shanghai Leaps Into Action in an Awesome Cartoon Network Short
Review: FLYING SWORDS OF DRAGON GATE 3D
To sum all this up, Flying Swords of Dragon Gate is a film with plenty going on, and thankfully it manages to pull off the vast majority of it in fine style. It has been great seeing Tsui Hark recapture his mojo and take Hong Kong Cinema back to a classic era, and inject it with such fun and vitality. He has brilliantly mastered the 3D technology and it would be no surprise to see him continue to experiment with it in the future. Flying Swords is not a perfect film, but it attacks its subject matter with confidence and energy, and remembers first and foremost to be entertaining - which it most certainly accomplishes, in all three dimensions.
Dredd Lays Down the Law in New Clip
A Hong Kong based project has long been rumored for Thai action star Tony Jaa. Now news has just come from Hong Kong that a sequel to the 2005 hit Sha Po Lang (SPL) is in the works and will see Sammo Hung and Wu Jing from the original movie collaborating with Tony Jaa for the very first time.
Sha Po Lang was a surprise hit at the Hong Kong box office upon its release in 2005 and quickly gained a cult following in the rest of the world. The movie was also the first in a string of successful collaborations between director Wilson Yip and star Donnie Yen, which included films like Flash Point, Ip Man 1 & 2.
Donnie Yen, the leading man in the original film, is reportedly considering taking part in the sequel.
Sha Po Lang 2 is due to start filming in 2013.
That would be an interesting mix of talents
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bugsonglass said:That would be an interesting mix of talents
Yeah I think it would have to be a "in spirit" sequel as Wu Jing and Donnie Yen died in the first movie as far as I remember and Tony Jaa doesn't speak Cantonese or Mandarin either. Basically it will be a modern day urban martial arts film like Sha Po Lang was.
Review: DREDD 3D Brings Mega-Violence to the Multiplex
The script is from Alex Garland who, along with director Pete Travis, is able to breathe a kind of pulpy, nightmarish life into the block. It's an action movie first, with simple science fiction flourishes to enhance the storytelling. All of these elements -- the gadgets, the dusty, rusty sheen -- combine with the cast to make Dredd a brutal gut punch whose release can't come soon enough.
*One of Dredd's gifts to fans is that like his comic counterpart, the helmet always stays on.
Can someone recommend some good Yakuza or Triad related movies. I've seen stuff like Kitano's Sonatine and Hana-bi, and two of the three Infernal Affairs. Any more good stuff in that vein?
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bugsonglass said:Can someone recommend some good Yakuza or Triad related movies. I've seen stuff like Kitano's Sonatine and Hana-bi, and two of the three Infernal Affairs. Any more good stuff in that vein?
Milkyway productions, a long running Hong Kong production company has pretty much specialised in crime movies over the years. Johnnie To is a reliable director most of the time. It's not always easy to get hold of the movies without importing them though, only the more populist stuff is availible in the west if you are thinking about renting.
Watch his movies from 1998 upwards I have bolded the good ones some I have not seen
Maang taam (filming)
2012
Du zhan (post-production)
2012
Romancing in Thin Air
2011
Life Without Principle
2011
Don't Go Breaking My Heart
2009
Vengeance (this is a turd)
2008
Sparrow (a lighthearted, stylish slice of life, not really a crime film)
2008
Linger
2007
Mad Detective (B)
2007
Triangle
2006
Exiled (Very good but a pseudo sequel to the Mission)
2006
Election 2 (boring compared to the first)
2005
Election
2004
Yesterday Once More
2004
Throw Down
2004
Breaking News
2003
Running on Karma
2003
Turn Left, Turn Right
2003
PTU
2003
Love for All Seasons
2002
My Left Eye Sees Ghosts
2002
Fat Choi Spirit
2001
Running Out of Time 2
2001
Fulltime Killer (some love it, I think it's crap)
2001
Love on a Diet (crap)
2001
Wu yen
2000
Help!!!
2000
Needing You...
1999
The Mission (worth watching just so you can watch Exiled afterwards, it's an okay film but some LOVE it)
1999
Running Out of Time
1999
Where a Good Man Goes
1998
A Hero never Dies
Note: stay away from his lunar new year comedies, every year for lunar new year everyone makes batshit crazy off the wall comedies which are barely comprehensible to western palettes.
Tai Chi 0 (2012, directed by Stephen Fung) Review
This movie is... well, there's... it just... I mean, fuck.
I don't want to simply rehash the tweet I sent out right after seeing it, but it's really the best description I've got. Tai Chi Zero is the crazy, crazy baby of Kung Fu Hustle and Scott Pilgrim. Ostensibly it's a Chinese historical epic about Yang Lu Chan, the man who popularized tai chi, and tells the standard tale of his quest to learn the secrets of the style and master them, but at the same time it's a batshit, steampunk-infused story of good versus evil, tradition versus progress, and xenophobia versus inclusiveness delivered along with a visual maelstrom of comic book elements. Yes, I said steampunk. Chinese steampunk. Deal with it.
Look, Tai Chi Zero has major pacing problems and the music could be better and the English dialogue is of course stilted, but you won't care. You simply won't care. It's too awesome.
It's just... ridiculous. Stupid, and ridiculous, and an assload of fun.
Thanks for that GG. I never even heard of any of those. Will see if I can find any of them
PS what happened to the thread of DVD reviews?
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No one seemed to be interested in doing it so I deleted it.
Review: FROM UP ON POPPY HILL is a Nice Enough Ghibli Film
From Up On Poppy Hill has its moments, but if you have seen every Ghibli film, it is hard to feel too impressed by this effort, which feels like it is treading familiar ground. It is enjoyable enough, but the bar set for Ghibli is too high to call this anything but a nice film.
Crazy Trailer for Jackie Chan’s Chinese Zodiac
300 Sequel Will Now Rise Instead of Battle
Warner Bros. has changed the title to their sequel to Zack Snyder’s “300″ — it will now be called “300: Rise of an Empire” instead of “300: Battle of Artemisia”. The film will also be an official sequel, not a prequel or sorta prequel or anything like that, to Snyder’s 2006 film about the last stand of the 300 Spartans, starring Gerard Butler and a host of hot-bodied dudes in loincloths.
The 300 sequel will star “Strike Back’s” Sullivan Stapleton as Greek General Themistocles, the Athenian who led the decisive navy battle against the ships of King Xerxes (Rodrigo Santoro, reprising the role) following the events of “300″ and its Battle of Thermopylae. If you saw the first movie, remember that last scene where all those Greeks were assembled on the beach to fight? Well, that comes after what Themistocles did to Xerxes’ fleet.
The latest from the director of Crazy Stone and Crazy Racer is an entertaining heist comedy that will please most mainstream audiences. However, anyone expecting another Crazy movie will come away disappointed.
"another heist comedy with a huge ensemble cast and a narrative packed with twists. In exchange for getting a bigger budget to play with, Chinese cinema's answer to Guy Ritchie tells a straightforward and controversy-free story about Chinese heroes during the Japanese occupation, delivering a film that is a much gentler animal than his previous work."
HOLY MOTHER OF GOD THIS IS WHAT OUR NEW ROBOCOP LOOKS LIKE.
No, it's Batman! 
gamingeek said:HOLY MOTHER OF GOD THIS IS WHAT OUR NEW ROBOCOP LOOKS LIKE.
WHAT THE FUCK!!!!!!! NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
The Crow or Kill Bill type revenge flick? As in sweet sweet revenge...
Or more like the Korean trilogy if "Vengeance" films which are more sort of ... bittersweet revenge?
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