Asian Cinema thread

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sun Aug 29, 2004 9:44 pm

Sequels to good movies almost without exception suck.

Hey your s1g is back! YAY!

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Aug 30, 2004 12:13 am

The President can save his own punk ass, as far as I'm concerned.

I want to see Hero, even though I hear it was edited a bit. It looks like the prettiest movie EVER.

Oh, and everyone should see Audition.

Mr. Teatime · Post by **Mr. Teatime** » Mon Aug 30, 2004 12:18 am

I saw Audition in a student cinema, they didn't say anything about the movie so students had brought their parents and grandparents for a night out to see it, i remember a lot of them leaving... and a lot of screams when that sack moved for the first time....

Bridgeburner · Post by **Bridgeburner** » Mon Aug 30, 2004 12:51 pm

Audition is indeed one sick movie, it starts out as some sort of romantic comedy but towards the end it gets sadistic. But if you're a fan of Miike like me you can probably appreciate it.

Hero is probably the most visually stunning movie I ever saw. I don't understand that it only just landed in the USA, because I saw this a year ago. And usually the USA gets all movies first before we do here in Europe. If you get a chance go see this movie.

Wolfman Walt · Post by **Wolfman Walt** » Mon Aug 30, 2004 4:02 pm

I remember it (Hero) being real big in German theaters around the time when the 2nd Matrix came out so I just sort of figured it was already released here and didn't get much fanfare. Then I saw advertisements for it and thought that that was kinda bizzaro.

EFFEXOR · Post by **EFFEXOR** » Mon Aug 30, 2004 5:02 pm

iohkus wrote:only asian cinema i like is their pr0n

lol hello sexy

and TETSUO is good cinema.

YOJIMBO is also good cinema.

but a lot of things in asia, as with the rest of the world, are mistaken as "good" cinema.

most of those are movies and not works of cinema at all.

Wolfman Walt · Post by **Wolfman Walt** » Mon Aug 30, 2004 5:43 pm

Lollerskates.

Asian theater has just as much of a chance to be good as American theater. Part of the reason why some people might consider Asian movies good cinema is because there are alot of cultural differances or approaches to movies that we here in the west just haven't seen. Also, being solely "Mistaken" and being "Mistaken en mass" are two very differant things, and the later is generally much harder to do, so generally when a very large group of people say somethings a good movie, its a pretty good movie.......ofcourse this theory doesn't hold up when you think that Titanic was the #1 movie for so long. Fucking logic.

Sol Invictus · Post by **Sol Invictus** » Fri Sep 03, 2004 1:34 am

Megatron wrote:Why isn't western cinema as violent or gory as asian cinema? To say america is meant to be a violent culture full of dumb rednecks who hate black people or whatever moore said, the movies aren't violent at all?

Are you ignorant?

Go watch Italian cinema. Last I checked, Italian came under 'Western'.

Sol Invictus · Post by **Sol Invictus** » Fri Sep 03, 2004 1:39 am

Megatron wrote: I don't give a shit about anime. Besides the ridiculous fights that usually involve a few planets and pausing a lot before you hit anything, it seems pretty over-rated and boring? Theres one or two exceptions, like anything, but most of it just seems to combine teenage fantasys with high amounts of lsd. People probably would like it, it's bugs bunny if he had huge tits and killed everyone, basically just pandering too people with short attention spans and little imagination.

Hey, just because you see most of that shit on TV (read: Dragon Ball) doesn't mean that the whole lot of it is like that. Imagine if you will, a country where the only american films available were of the "American Pie" genre. They'd likely say something similarly ignorant about all American cinema solely based on what they've seen.

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Fri Sep 03, 2004 1:46 am

I dunno how often I wrote it here : Audition is a must-see.