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Outlaw Brothers' Lovely 80's Hong Kong action film where everyone fights in Pringle style golf sweaters, smashing each other over the head with their giant mobile phones. Yukari Oshima is the bad ass style police woman tracking smugglers with the help of a car thief. At the end she gets to beat up loads of villainous white guys in some excellent fight scenes.
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Tiger on the Beat' starts out as a very comedy-style police drama but gets really vicious after half way. It's got Chow Yun Fat in it being cool and ends with a great chainsaw martial art battle to the death, need I say any more...
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Chinese Untouchables' is a very depressing film. It's more or less a remake of 'The Untouchables' but try and imagine that where the Al Capone character wins and rides off scot free into the sunset while all the good characters lie on the floor dying in a pool of blood. 'You can never win' he laughs as he walks happily off. I sometimes think I would like to see a film where the baddies win, but in the end they are just very grim when you watch one.
'Outlaw Brothers' Lovely 80's Hong Kong action film where everyone fights in Pringle style golf sweaters, smashing each other over the head with their giant mobile phones. Yukari Oshima is the bad ass style police woman tracking smugglers with the help of a car thief. At the end she gets to beat up loads of villainous white guys in some excellent fight scenes.
'Tiger on the Beat' starts out as a very comedy-style police drama but gets really vicious after half way. It's got Chow Yun Fat in it being cool and ends with a great chainsaw martial art battle to the death, need I say any more...
'Chinese Untouchables' is a very depressing film. It's more or less a remake of 'The Untouchables' but try and imagine that where the Al Capone character wins and rides off scot free into the sunset while all the good characters lie on the floor dying in a pool of blood. 'You can never win' he laughs as he walks happily off. I sometimes think I would like to see a film where the baddies win, but in the end they are just very grim when you watch one.
My only experience of 80's Martial Arts movies is Jackie Chan, Chuck Norris and Cynthia Rockbrook, and those fight-scene compilations 4-Front Video used to release. I remember being disappointed watching Enter The Dragon for the first time (early nineties) - a film I'd only heard spoken of in hushed tones. It had such a mythology built up around it that I fully expected the viewing to be transcendental. It didn't do it for me.
ReplyDeleteCoincidentally, Friday is my film day, too - at the cinema. Saw Irish flick 'Eamon' and 'The Lovely Bones' - the former a slice-of-life bore, the latter annoyingly woeful. Peter Jackson needs to put the weight back on!
I am surprised you didn't like 'Enter the Dragon'. Maybe it needs seeing as a child on late night tv to love it. Its one of my favourite films.
ReplyDeleteNot heard of 'Eamon', I'll avoid it now, and didn't fancy 'The Lovely Bones'. It looks annoying from the trailers. I've not been to the cinema for a month or so, the last film I saw was 'Avatar' which was fancy looking but stupid.
Yeah, Avatar's stupid, all right, but pretty spectacular nonetheless. It's such a simple story (accommodatation of the visuals the key - much like so many comics, really) that I think kids would love it. I keep imagining my three year-old nephews emerging from the cinema, Avatar their first experience of the big screen. It'd be magical.
ReplyDeleteI think I probably did catch 'Enter The Dragon' at the wrong time. You see that recent one, 'Ninja Assassin'? Standard-issue stuff, really, but it has it's moments.
Not seen 'Ninja Assassin', ninja's are alright but not my favourite thing...
ReplyDeleteYeah, I bet Avatar would be brilliant for kids.