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The HongKongiest piece of filmmaking you'll see this week

9547bis says...

@Sarzy, @lucky760:

To's output can be roughly divided into three categories:
- Straight Film Noir influenced by Jean-Pierre Melville, including his early Milkyway Image productions, his The Mission / Exiled / Vengeance sort-of-trilogy, etc, with a special mention for Election 1 & 2.
- Somewhat more 'commercial' ventures: Running Out Of Time, Full Time Killer, Drug wars, and Breaking News... Less edgy, but better production value.
- And his more 'out there' attempts, that are usually crime films with some surreal aspect: Running On Karma (Shaolin-monk-turned-stripper sees people's past incarnations, tries to reverse their karma), Throwdown (everyone is a secret Judo master), Mad Detective (schizo detective can see people's inner personality and dialogue with them)...

He sometimes misses the mark, but his films are usually worth their salt (this often extends to other Milkyway films he produces).

Breaking News, it turns out, is a minor To film. It's well directed (as you can see by yourselves), and it's definitely fun to watch, but ... it's just that his other films are better! My advice : start with PTU, Exiled, or Full Time Killer. Then if you like what you see, go for the rest.

And if you like Running On Karma, check out Wai Ka Fai, To's writer / Milkyway co-founder and sometimes-director. That guy is good.

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Mass Effect 3 And The Case For A Gay Shepard

Yogi says...

Mass Effect 3 sucks for an entirely different non gay reason. It nearly ruined the trilogy, it has not just a shit ending but a shit story altogether. Even the losers trying to save it by coming up with the indoctrination theory are grasping at stupid straws which the writers even pointed out.

It's like when people were trying to convince others that fucking Promethius wasn't confusing and didn't suck. It was confusing, hence peoples confusion, and it did suck because confusing movies fucking suck.

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budzos says...

I've always felt The Matrix was not actually a trilogy. Reloaded and Revolutions are really just one long movie chopped in half, like KILL BILL. For the record I love Tarantino but prefer the Matrix sequels to KILL BILL.

The trilogy doesn't have a real middle chapter... the meat of the sandwich. Over the years I've kind of come to think of Animatrix as the true middle sequel to The Matrix trilogy. Considering events in Final Flight Of The Osiris lead directly to the sequel movies, I suppose that's not much of an insight.

EMPIRE said:

I love this song. And the Animatrix was the best. I wish they would make a Matrix prequel based on the Renaissance shorts from the Animatrix.

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Jupiter Ascending -- new film from Andy and Lana Wachowski

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The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug - Official Main Trailer

FlowersInHisHair says...

The kind of sarcastic, awkward "The Office"-style humour they introduced into the first Hobbit movie was a real turn-off for me, as was the sloppy, rushed-looking CGI (there's a scene at Rivendell where they didn't even bother replacing the scale doubles' faces with the actors' faces) and the odd habit of having the characters fall hundreds of feet onto solid rock without breaking any bones (this happens at least three times in An Unexpected Journey).

The Hobbit is a children's book, and doesn't meet the tone of its sequel very well, even after Tolkien's revised edition. It is a lighter book than the Lord of the Rings, in every sense, and the first film showed that it really can't bear the weight of either the padding PJ has added to the story, nor the efforts to bring a more Rings-style feeling of epic seriousness to what is a small, selfish story about some dwarves looking for gold. The epic/serious tone constantly conflicts with the childish slapstick humour, meaning that neither really work.

It would have been much better as a single 2.5-hour film. I dread to think how much wandering about, awkward humour, diversions from the story, too-weighty extracts from the LOTR appendices and (oh goody) dull Elven love story padding is to come in the next 6 hours of this trilogy.

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ravioli says...

A lot of the great scenes from the first trilogy (ep.4-5-6) were shot outside on exterior locations. (Hoth, Tatooine, Endor..) Still better than CG and green screens if you ask me.

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probie says...

Ultimately, the story told in the first three movies was OK; it was just poorly executed. Some things were done right, but a LOT was done wrong.

I'd like to see this guys take on the Matrix trilogy, because I had a fantastic story written for the last two in my head before I saw what the Wachowski's churned out. Oh well...

ChaosEngine (Member Profile)

blankfist says...

Oh man, that is way cool!

Yeah, the Watchmen movie is a point of contention with fans. But I'm of the mind that a rendition of any property doesn't ruin it. If I loved the original trilogy of Star Wars, for instance, then the new trilogy doesn't change that, you know?

I really liked the Watchmen movie because I never thought it would live up to the integrity of the original comic miniseries. But then after watching the Ultimate Cut, it's a fairly accurate cut. It's pretty great, actually. In my opinion, at least.

ChaosEngine said:

I thought the Watchmen movie was competent rather than inspired. In fact, I thought the most original clever part of the movie was the opening credits.

It wasn't bad, but there was just no way it could handle the sheer depth of the comic. To be fair, I haven't seen the ultimate cut though, but well... I went with a few friends who hadn't read the comic, and they came out wondering why I had made such a big deal of going to see it. Then I loaned them the comic and they understood....

I really think the only way the movie could have been truly great would be to get someone with their own vision and go at it from a different angle. Terry Gilliam would have been interesting. It probably would have failed, but it'd have failed gloriously.

BTW, have to share this..my signed Rorschach portrait by John Higgins

License to Love Series:Trilogy by Amelia rose|Cowboy Romance

chingalera says...

here's a comment from the author on her YT page:
CowboyRomanceNovels 1 week ago

Thanks for your interest i have another video coming soon for my latest release called License to Love: Trilogy by Amelia Rose its available to buy at amazon now and has become a Best Seller within 2 weeks.

Someone's chumming for interest in some pulp fiction, let the user respond....maybe 24 hours, if we see hide-nor-hair, ice her.



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