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Chicken Lady: Homecoming - Kids in the Hall

poolcleaner says...

Kids in the Hall sketches are also more thought provoking than SNL. SNL is more of a contemporary pop culture reference machine like Mad magazine and Family Guy.

The pop cultural references in KitH are to things of higher value like early cinema classics (Citizen Kane), Nietzsche, Morrison Hotel, surrealism, film noir; and with heavy pro LGBT, pro environmental (the beaver!) and anti corporate themes; displaying the frivolity of office politics, and the HARDCORE Canadian law enforcement.

What does SNL give but a couple'a chuckles, eh?

Fairbs said:

I think Kids did recurring characters better than SNL. SNL beats them to death and the sketches are WAY too long.

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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CAPE FEAR-a modern example of film noir

rougy says...

I don't think that Americans really understand how vastly diverse film can be until we watch foreign films.

I think that film noir was born in Hollywood with detective flicks, but it borrows heavily from German films, many from the silent era.

America makes some great movies, no doubt, but if you want depth and surprise, you almost always have to look overseas.

And I have to say that the best, most thought-provoking films that I've seen in the last twenty years came from France.

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Zero Punctuation - Prince of Persia

dannym3141 says...

I beat him to it by about 2 months!

comment by dannym3141:
OK.. I'm the world's biggest prince of persia fan, and i have several questions.

1. Why the fuck does this persian prince sound like fucking john wayne? Why does he have an american accent? Why does she? What happened to the persian almost film noir atmosphere and accents?
2. Why are the acrobatics suddenly unrealistic? I'll be the first to admit that wall running and perhaps another couple of the abilities in the previous games were bending physics a little, but you might as well not bother with the concept of gravity now.

WTF are they doing?

Just read the wikipedia. Apparently it's a new prince. Wankers. Why not call it prince of hicksville, usa in a fancy dress costume and have done with it.

God i'm such a prince of persia fanboy.

Prince of Persia Next Gen GC 2008 Leipzig Trailer

dannym3141 says...

OK.. I'm the world's biggest prince of persia fan, and i have several questions.

1. Why the fuck does this persian prince sound like fucking john wayne? Why does he have an american accent? Why does she? What happened to the persian almost film noir atmosphere and accents?
2. Why are the acrobatics suddenly unrealistic? I'll be the first to admit that wall running and perhaps another couple of the abilities in the previous games were bending physics a little, but you might as well not bother with the concept of gravity now.

WTF are they doing?

Just read the wikipedia. Apparently it's a new prince. Wankers. Why not call it prince of hicksville, usa in a fancy dress costume and have done with it.

God i'm such a prince of persia fanboy.

Indiana Jones: Wrong Grail = Become a skeleton

dystopianfuturetoday says...

^*doubleblasphemy! First you haven't seen BSG and now you admit to liking Indy 3 and SW 3 best? What next? Are you going to tell me you liked Titanic or something? Wait..... don't answer that.

Just kidding. I actually do stick up for Return of the Jedi when Star Wars nerds bash it, tho I must admit to liking Empire the best.

FTR, Raiders is one of my all time favorites. I find the love story superior, the overall tone to be more adult and film noir-y, the characters to be better developed and executed, the action scenes to be a tad more believable and the writing to be absolutely flawless.

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