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I'm a big Wong Kar Wai fan, love tha atmosphere he gets in his movies, and I really like the actors he works with (Tony Leung, Maggie Cheung and co.) In the Mood for Love is most certainly his best film...
I'd recommend seeing Chungking Express if you liked it, and if you also liked that one, you'll probably enjoy his others. I was a bit dissapointed by his newest film, 2046, it kinda felt like he was just trying to do more of ITMFL. It has some very good scenes tho, and great acting. thanks, I'll try those out first. The atmosphere was what impressed me too, the combination of visuals and music was almost perfect.
I was reading up on some of his stuff and it seemed that all his films before ITMFL were of a different style? Is that true? Also, have you seen Fallen Angels, what's that like? I just put the following on order : 2046 chungking express house of flying daggers oldboy Hmm, all of his films are actually quite similar where film making is concerned, the visual style itself changes though.
Fallen Angels is pretty good, guess its like some artsy HK action film... By the way, if you want more visualy stunning asian cinema, I'd recommend you check out stuff from the vietnamese director Anh Hung Tran (movies like Cyclo, or his most popular, The Scent of Green Papaya) or chinese mainland director Hsiao-hsien Hou (I watched Goodbye South, Goodbye recently and quite liked it.) But be warned that I enjoy films even if the plot is rather uninteresting, as long as the visuals are good. =) Oh and Oldboy is awesome, be prepared to be slightly disgusted tho. =) ...I enjoy films even if the plot is rather uninteresting, as long as the visuals are good. =)
Porn? But I thought I'd post them anyway.
http://www.apple.com/trailers/independent/ong_bak.html/ http://www.apple.com/trailers/independent/ong_bak-tlr.html/ One character is a technician called "Pinky" who has a cybernetic wheelchair thanks to a bad teleporting accident. Pinky later mutates into something remotely resembling a creature from Doom 3.
Well at least they know how to make a good comedy. Just watched it, thanks to a recommendation seen in this thread :) WOW, it was *DAMN GOOD*. A first movie in quite a while that has managed to bring a tear to my eye. I am a fan of the genre, but this once really excels in many areas. The fights/jumps/etc aren't as over the top as in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Nice enviroments and camerawork and boy does Hollywood have a thing or two to learn from the Chinese about shooting passionate kisses.
I have the ROTK:EE in my hands now but wont be able to watch before saturday night. I cant wait to see this given the quality of the previous two EE's.
1.) Gremlins 2
2.) The Goonies 3.) Gremlins 4.) Big Trouble in Little China 5.) Hmmm probably had something else to put here, but forgot what it was. saw this at a friends last night and didnt even make it the whole way through. Way too many effects and someone was on acid while shooting the action scenes. The strobe lighting and relentless chopping made it hard to tell what the fuck was going on.
Production design stuff was pretyy good though, even though it was ripped straight from Dune or Coriolis Storm. 1 - Raiders of the Lost Ark
2 - Empire Strikes Back 3 - Raging Bull 4 - Die Hard 5 - Aliens 6 - Blade Runner 7 - Back to The Future 8 - Das Boot 9 - Scarface 10 - Ran I would substitute Fast Times for Back to the Future, Terminator for Aliens, and Empire of the Sun for Raiders of the Lost Ark.
And no Porkies, Police Academy, Revenge of the Nerds or movies with Ron Jeremy in them? How representative of the 80's could it really be? Raiders of the Lost ark cant be substituted in my books :)
There were others that could have snuck on to that list too : Platoon, IJ & the Last Crusade, The King of Comedy, This is Spinal Tap, and Blue Velvet.
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