-hongkong movies always try to entertain you and keep you interested. with hongkong movies i feel as if i'm really getting what i want.
So true. At least for us true fans! There's not a lot of "fat" in Hong Kong movies. In fact, I'd take a chance on some zero-budget, shot-on-video Hong Kong junk I picked up in a Chinatown bargain bin before I'd blow six bucks on the latest Hollywood hit from a video rental store. Sure, the low-budget, shot-on-video Hong Kong picture might blow chipmunks, but the fact remains I probably couldn't have
predicted it, something I've grown increasingly able to do with "popular" American movies...
-hongkong movies usually somehow have an innocent feeling - even "sex and zen" (i only know the first part)!
I know EXACTLY what you're talking about here. I once likened Hong Kong movies, in a column I wrote for a local newspaper years ago - to the movies that are unspooling in your mind when you're eight or nine years old, reenacting your favourite TV shows in the yard with your friends. Hong Kong filmmakers have managed with very little effort to transpose that innocent, scrappy self-importance to the big screen.
yeah, you often notice with many film makers outside of hollywood that they have been damaged by hollywood and accidently do stuff like that . probably even people like us would be a little more imaginative if we would live in hongkong.
I would say that, among Asian filmmakers in particular, the Koreans are often too likely to adopt American structures and styles without being able to successfully incorporate them into the finished works (though this is hardly always the case!). They still infuse their films with distinctly Korean quirks and social mores, but the predictability factor seems to come from somewhere else....
Japanese and Thai filmmakers seem much more unique in comparison, but for my money, you just can't top the stuff from Hong Kong.