Mysterious Story 1 - Please Come Back [HKMDB] - Decided to round it all off with some movies with the king
A Friend's Wife - decided to get a few more of Simon's movies as well, since he's in the spotlight here these days
Brian Thibodeau wrote:At the warehouse store where I've been buying the cheap VCDs lately, they have a big stack of MYSTERIOUS STORY 2 discs, but nothing for part 1. Hmmm, perhaps you'll need to swap me for LEGEND ABOUT HUNTING GHOST 2, but then again, that's such a gem, I'm not sure I could part with it.
Brian Thibodeau wrote:Y'know, I suspect if we were to upload every movie that Simon's ever been in, we'd blow out Bob's server for sure.
Vampire Settle on Police Camp [HKMDB] - Early 90's vampire movie with Sandra Ng, hopefully better than the HKFlix rating gives impression of
I picked up a mainland version sometime last year. It was full frame and a snoozer. It was heavily cut too, some 13 minutes shorter than reported elsewher
dleedlee wrote:I picked up a mainland version sometime last year. It was full frame and a snoozer. It was heavily cut too, some 13 minutes shorter than reported elsewhere.
Damn you guys for getting so much (Bearserk, Brian, everyone else ). Actually I'm more jealous on where you can find the time to watch so much. I'm usually happy getting one or more Asian film per week (especially since I've been catching up on Criterion; about 130 of those ).
...it's almost getting to the "What's a Hong Kong movie?" stage!
I can't quite bring myself to buy a bunch of VCDs I know for sure will never get seen (unless I send them to you :-p).
Maybe if they drop the price a bit further though...
Brian Thibodeau wrote:I'm sure Mike and others would argue that that's because it's a dying form with dying interest (including his own, it seems)...
I dare say that I saw MORE Hong Kong movies produced in the 2006 calendar year than anyone else here (including those working amongst my ex-editor team), and the same will go for the 2007 calendar year too.
But I am at an age and interest level where I need other things and different cultural slants to help prop up my interest in HK cinema in between films; my interest isn't fading...it's just being spread out amongst a wider scope of films from a wider range of Asian regions, that's all.
This has been asked before but has anyone seen the Tai Seng Seven Swordsmen series? I was a little disappointed with Seven Swords. For a film its length it feels hurried in storytelling. I cannot believe some compared this to Seven Samurai.
But Drunken Dragon was an interesting watch (yet another film with Phillip Ko). It is obviously a Jackie Chan influenced indie HK but it is rather strange. Where else do you get a candle-headed villain, a strip teasing grandmother played by a man, an eccentric uncle who talks to paintings and has a house a bit like Fearless Hyena 2 (and a gun with a Mercedes Benz symbol on it), legs being cut off, peeing jokes (ok there are lots of films with this) and a large kick-ass wife who makes cannibal like dishes. Quite bizarre until the third act which is the normal sifu/secret MA technique/revenge/cut-off-ending ending.
Brian Thibodeau wrote: some of the items ordered were out of stock (including LEGEND ABOUT HUNTING GHOST 1, which I'm sure Bearserk probably scooped up the last one!),
Brian Thibodeau wrote:YES MADAM 5 Cynthia Khan (surprisingly enought, Ed Waffle's largely-negative review in the DB convinced me to finally spring for this cheapie. How screwy is that?)
Brian Thibodeau wrote:YOU SHOOT, I SHOOT (Special Edition) Cheung Tat-ming, Eric Kot. This all-time favourite is a replacement for a loaned out DVD that never came back!
Brian Thibodeau wrote:And, just to make sure I don't let Bearserk have all the fun, a few Cat. III DVD pieces:
Brian Thibodeau wrote:GIGOLO CLUB Grace Wong, Ruby Wong
TEMPTATION SUMMARY II Tsui Man-wah, Li Chung-ling
FORBIDDEN WET TALES Emily Kwan, Serizawa Haruka (so bizarre to see a solid actress like Emily Kwan in so many B-movies like this, with a Japanese hardcore starlet, no less. Who'd she piss off earlier in her career? Then again, she DOES play a cigar-chomping lesbian nazi in the NIGHT PORTER homage in this, so...)
Brian Thibodeau wrote:BEWARE OF PICKPOCKETS Dean Shek, Karl Maka (Deltamac Reissue)
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