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I really like Russian cinema

High brow movies:




Action Movies:

mattyrm wrote: I used to fething love Jackie Chan when I was a teenager, I used to get leathered every Saturday and watch Jackie Chan movies with my mate cos we had to stay in and look after his sister, this went on for about a year.

So, I would have to say some of his... obviously they are almost all good. But If I had to pick three I would say Police Story, The Armour of God and Project A.

Legend of the Drunken Master is pretty good.

I think that there are some who would consider these to be mainstream nowadays, but:

Snatch and "Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels" are both excellent films.

Amaya wrote:

Brotherhood of the Wolf, Dog Soldiers, Yojimbo, Seven Samurai, Hidden Fortress, Akira, Ghost in the Shell, Ip Man, and Ip Man 2 were all at a minimum decent films to watch are there any more excellent action/drama/thriller/science fiction films out there?

The bolded films are win.

Also:

Anything by Hayao Miyazaki
Rec, which is a billion times better than Quarintine (don't know how)
Red Cliff
The movie about the Swedish Templar which doesn't exist in the full length version in the US

Eat Drink Man Woman
Like Water for Chocolate
Anything done by Akiro Kurasawa
Solaris
Emperor and the Assassin
The Professional
Stalingrad
Das Boot
Every Godzilla movie ever made

Valhall rising
Hamilton
Thale

Trondheim wrote:Valhall rising
Hamilton
Thale

You liked Valhalla rising?

Frazzled wrote:

Trondheim wrote:Valhall rising
Hamilton
Thale

You liked Valhalla rising?

I did, and your point is? Accept the fact that not everybody likes the same stuff as you.

Trying to figure out why you liked it.

Because I liked how it looked, and I liked the actors. And I liked because Mads Mikkelsen is a good actor. And next time try to ask more polite, people migth be inclided to respond in a similar manner.

Trondheim wrote:Because I liked how it looked, and I liked the actors. And I liked because Mads Mikkelsen is a good actor. And next time try to ask more polite, people migth be inclided to respond in a similar manner.

You must be new here
I'll give you Mikkelsen. he has an intriguing pattern of acting. The rest was a little slow and confusing...

I'm just going to drop this here...





(I seriously can't believe noone's mentioned it before... )

alarmingrick wrote:I'm just going to drop this here...

Nikita

(I seriously can't believe noone's mentioned it before... )

And Subway


Same style and timing, great French classic.

I both like this film, and don't like it. It is one of my most favorite pieces of literature, mostly because it is glorifying, and has a lot of action. The reason I don't like it is sort of hard to understand. I love my certain other, and the thought of someone I know betraying me, and taking her reluctantly away from me both horrifies and disgusts me.

Surreal
City of Lost Children (French film)
Delicatessen (French film)
Amelie (French film)
Cemetery Man (Italian?)

Some of the original Blood Operas
Hard Boiled
The Killer

Comedy (Stephen Chow is a fething comedic genius)
Kung Fu Hustle
Shaolin Soccer

Action
Leon: The Professional
La Femme Nikita
Time and Tide (pretty much anything by Hark Tsui)
Sukiyaki Western Django (Samurai Cowboys! Also, the decision to have the actors speak in pretty atrocious engrish was brilliant)


Drama
Untold Scandal (a korean re-telling of Dangerous Liasons)

I'm assuming you've seen some of the more mainstream wire-fu movies like Crouching Tiger/Hidden Dragon, Hero, House of Flying Daggers, etc? If not, these are worth a watch as well.

Not a fan of wire-fu. I've seen Sukiyaki Western Django, it was inspired by Yojimbo as was one of the movies in the "Man with no name" trilogy.

Amaya wrote:Not a fan of wire-fu. I've seen Sukiyaki Western Django, it was inspired by Yojimbo as was one of the movies in the "Man with no name" trilogy.

Yep, it pulls from a number of sources.

Let's see, I've heard that Bunraku and Warrior's Way are decent, but haven't seen either of them.

Is there a particular style you would prefer, or are you up for pretty much anything?

My wife and I caught Angel-A, which was a terrific Luc Besson film.

Amaya wrote:Not a fan of wire-fu. I've seen Sukiyaki Western Django, it was inspired by Yojimbo as was one of the movies in the "Man with no name" trilogy.

Have you seen Hero?

I don't care fore wire-fu much either, but Hero is something you can appreciate far beyond the martial arts.

I've seen parts of it, can't recall if I've seen the whole thing. Probably gonna grab a couple brews and watch a couple of these films tonight.


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13 Assassins has some fethed up gak in it. Damn nasty.

RossDas wrote:Brotherhood Of The Wolf. It's a French pseudo monster movie set some time before the revolution.

Ding.

LordofHats wrote:Rec, which is a billion times better than Quarintine (don't know how)

Ding.

The movie about the Swedish Templar which doesn't exist in the full length version in the US

Are you reffering to Arn?

LumenPraebeo wrote:*Count of Monte Cristo*

And Ding. Good to see Dakka has taste.

Legionnaire is the only movie with Jean-Claude Van Damme that I actually like.
The Wind that Shakes the Barley
The Mission (possibly Jeremy Irons finest moment)

Are you reffering to Arn?

Yeah that one! Couldn't remember the title. The US version sucks. The Swedish one is really long but worth it.

13 Assassins has some fethed up gak in it. Damn nasty.

Its a good movie though. I laughed so hard when the flaming boars appeared. Talk about a WTF moment.

LordofHats wrote:

Are you reffering to Arn?

Yeah that one! Couldn't remember the title. The US version sucks. The Swedish one is really long but worth it.

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Oh, and The Bomber. Russian film, long but excellent.

LordofHats wrote:

Are you reffering to Arn?

Yeah that one! Couldn't remember the title. The US version sucks. The Swedish one is really long but worth it.

13 Assassins has some fethed up gak in it. Damn nasty.

Its a good movie though. I laughed so hard when the flaming boars appeared. Talk about a WTF moment.

Yeah, it picked up quite a bit 30 minutes in. Just got to the boars. I'm sorry, but bad CGI is bad. lmao

Overall it was pretty good. 3 maybe 3.5/4. That hunter with the sling is a straight up boss.

If your up for some old films, pre-sound old then check out:
German:
Nosferatu
The Cabinet of Dr Caligari

Russian (All Eisenstein):
Battleship Potempkin
Strike
October

Let The Right One In
Why
Hasn't
This
Been
Mentioned
Yet?
Best vampire romance out, makes even Anne Rice look bad imo, it's just that good.

Do John Claude Van Damme movies count?

If not, then carry on...

CT GAMER wrote:Do John Claude Van Damme movies count?

If not, then carry on...

only this one

Watching Let the Right One In right now.

La Femme Nikita's a classic.
The Vanishing is as well.
Tell No One is a more recent great French one.
Renegade was a neat French surprise. Based on Jean Giraud (Mobius)'s classic Blueberry series of Western comics.
Anything Kurosawa, of course. His version of King Lear (Ran) is awesome. I recommend watching it on a big screen especially because of the battle scenes. One review of it noted that apparently Kurosawa could control the weather.
Hard Boiled is "the gun movie". You remember when heroes in action movies started shooting with two pistols at once? This movie basically made that popular.
Old Boy.

I have to say, the hallway fight scene in Oldboy is one of my favourite scenes, just because of the way it's shot.
Park Chan Wook does a fantastic job of putting together a shot.

If you like war movies, the German films Das Boot and Stalingrad are both very, very good. Someone also mentioned Downfall, and I would also recommend checking it out if you like WWII movies.

Joyeux Noël is a very interesting movie about the Christmas truce in WWI.

Paris, Texas is also a great movie. I think the best way to describe it is very melancholy. Definitely not an exciting film, but very well done.

Im Juli is quite good.

I haven't seen the whole thing, but what I have seen of Good Bye Lenin! was pretty funny.

I haven't seen The Lives of Others but it's been recommended to me. It's about the Stasi spying on people in East Germany.

Léon is worth watching.

As far as older stuff goes, The Third Man is good, and still quite entertaining.


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Oh, I forgot to mention Nowhere in Africa. It won an Oscar for best foreign language film.