Member fiol Posted August 24, 2010 Member Share Posted August 24, 2010 The Last Boy Scout (1991): always a great movie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member kngfu Posted August 24, 2010 Member Share Posted August 24, 2010 SCOTT PILGRIM VS THE WORLD Funny and exciting, so rare this summer. Good martial arts too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member kngfu Posted August 27, 2010 Member Share Posted August 27, 2010 BRUCE'S DEADLY FINGERS FINISHING THE GAME Bruce Le, Wong SHun Leung, Chan Wai Man, Chiu Chi Ling, and Bolo Yeung =awesome Breeze Loo=not so much BRUCE AND SHAOLIN KUNG FU Bruce Le learns the secret art of Tae Kwon Do Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member IgaNinja Posted August 31, 2010 Member Share Posted August 31, 2010 Sister StreetFighter: Hanging By A Thread wow,i havent seen this one for so long,popped in my SSFHBAT disc from the SSFcollection,bowl of hot chips and gravy ,lemonade, and shihomi goodness. Still as amazing and exciting as when i first saw it,i still get goosebumps near the end when Shihomi is standing above the crimeboss in the wind all Epic like. Unbeatable! Blood Brothers Great classic shaw film as always,ending still makes me abit mixed of a down-note/amusing since it freeze frames on everyone laughing after the execution lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member dragon Posted August 31, 2010 Member Share Posted August 31, 2010 recently been watching ip man and drunken master Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member bearpower Posted September 3, 2010 Member Share Posted September 3, 2010 Terminator Salvation- Decent movie but could of been so much better. Suffers from watered down rating, boring script, unrealistic cgi in some areas. It has some fun action sequences, and the story is semi-decent but this is like the Terminator movie made for HBO. I hope they can somehow get this one back on track, or end it for good. 3/5. I agree with you on this the script could have been a lot better it look like the movie was rush or they ran out of ideals half way into the movie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Rhythm-X Posted September 3, 2010 Member Share Posted September 3, 2010 Viva MACHETE. Everything THE EXPENDABLES fucked up, this gets right. Even the digital gore (which I tend to hate) looks a lot better. I won't say I have no complaints - more Don Johnson would have been nice, there's always room for more gratuitous nudity, and Seagal spends most of his time issuing orders via webcam - but it's nit-picking. Everyone involved with making it seems to have been having a great time and everyone I saw in the theater watching it definitely had a great time. Certainly the better of the two recent Troublemaker Studios films. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member bearpower Posted September 3, 2010 Member Share Posted September 3, 2010 Just watch The Book of Eli great movie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Space Posted September 3, 2010 Member Share Posted September 3, 2010 Rewatching classics like Ghost in the Shell and Akira. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Fightingfist Posted September 5, 2010 Member Share Posted September 5, 2010 Gonna watch The Expendables soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member bearpower Posted September 5, 2010 Member Share Posted September 5, 2010 Watch Bronson Lee, Champion staring Tadashi Yamashita and Masafumi Suzuki. I would have love to see a movie made with Sonny Chiba vs Tadashi Yamashita Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Drunken Monk Posted September 7, 2010 Member Share Posted September 7, 2010 Tried watching "MacGruber," got just over halfway through and then just didn't care about watching the rest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member masterofoneinchpunch Posted September 8, 2010 Member Share Posted September 8, 2010 Games Gamblers Play (1974: Hong Kong: Michael Hui) **½/****: Michael Hui’s directed/acted/scripted The Private Eyes (1976) is one of my favorite Hong Kong comedies. From the reviews I have read on this film I knew that this would be below that film in quality and laughs. Well the reviews were correct. I did like the film a bit more than some of the caustic comments on HKMDB, but watching The Private Eyes first and then this is probably the wrong way to approach the former TVB star’s work. This is Hui’s first directed film and shows signs of life but then gets bogged down a bit with an overplayed message of gambling is bad and Sam’s continuing bad luck which gets frustrating thorough the film. Here is a film that is more important because of its influence than the actual content of the movie. This was a blockbuster smash that broke the HK box office record (read this in a few sources though I cannot find the exact money it made) and helped push the local Cantonese language back into the cinema with the success of this and Chor Yuen’s The House of 72 Tenants (1973). Michael Hui plays Man a consummate gambler who is currently serving a stint in jail who meets and befriends Kit (Samuel Hui who also sings the theme song which was wildly popular as well) a not-so-good gambler. Why this friendship works when they get out-of-prison I’m not sure (other than Kit’s relationship with Man’s relative), but throughout the episodic film one bad gamble after another seems to happen to these two with Kit mostly at fault. Later they go for the big score (with a cheating approach) against a local bookie who will kill them if he finds out (I wonder if Hui had seen The Sting (1973). Gambling has always been big in Hong Kong cinema with its apex in the late 80s and early 90s of entire films based on card games (the God of Gamblers series, Casino Raiders series). If you like those types of films mixed in with a bit of comedy then this is not a bad film. Just do not expect it to be a great comedy. On a side note I’ve never understood the appeal of Betty Ting Pei who plays Man’s mistress in this movie. She is most known now for her alleged fling with Bruce Lee and the fact Lee died in her apartment, but she was a popular actress at that time. Make sure you get the remastered Fortune Star R0 release of this film. Not much of extras except for "Sam's 9 Minutes" which clocks in a few minutes less than 9 minutes, but is a Golden Harvest special of basically a music video of Sam Hui singing two songs. But the best extra is the deleted scene pitting Sam Hui versus Sammo Hung in a fighting (part fantasy) scene which is quite funny and I do not think you get to see Sammo (who was the action director) in any other parts in the film (you can glance a little bit of him in the trailer which shows parts of this deleted scene). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Shaolin Chamber 36 Posted September 9, 2010 Member Share Posted September 9, 2010 I recently saw The Last Exorcism, Machete, this Friday Resident Evil in IMAX 3D! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member kngfu Posted September 10, 2010 Member Share Posted September 10, 2010 DRAGON IN FURY Cheapo shot-on-video remake of FIST OF FURY starring Dragon Shek and Gordon Liu. Weird thing is I actually like Dragon Shek movies. MING PATRIOTS Sloppy Bruce Li period actioner, but I liked it too. SAMURAI SPIRIT SHOOTBOXING Slick MMA Japan style Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member ShaOW!linDude Posted September 11, 2010 Member Share Posted September 11, 2010 Last weekend I was on a bit of a Sammo kick. I watched 'Owl vs. Bumbo' and 'Dirty Tiger Crazy Frog'. I also watched Jackie Chan's 'Legend of the Drunken Master' (or 'Drunken Master 2' depending on your title preference). Came across the DVD I'd bought years ago and never opened. It has a little more wire-work in it than I prefer but the man is still amazing in it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member bearpower Posted September 12, 2010 Member Share Posted September 12, 2010 Blood & Bones great movie Lady Whirlwind aka Deep Thrust old school kung fu Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member The Dragon Posted September 14, 2010 Member Share Posted September 14, 2010 DRAGON IN FURY Cheapo shot-on-video remake of FIST OF FURY starring Dragon Shek and Gordon Liu. Weird thing is I actually like Dragon Shek movies. MING PATRIOTS Sloppy Bruce Li period actioner,... ?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member AlbertV Posted September 14, 2010 Member Share Posted September 14, 2010 DRAGON IN FURY Cheapo shot-on-video remake of FIST OF FURY starring Dragon Shek and Gordon Liu. Weird thing is I actually like Dragon Shek movies. He's got a new movie coming out called Adventure Island with Lam Suet, but I believe Dragon is only getting a supporting role this time around. I saw these over the weekend and today: THE MASKED PROSECUTOR - Herman Yau's HK thriller revolving around an ex-cop turned vigilante with Hinduism beliefs. He has the ability to change masks with a flick of his head and captures criminals released on technicalities and instead of killing them, he canes them. A detective is out to stop him. Stars Louis Koo, Jordan Chan, and Blacky Ko. ICEMAN COMETH - Yuen Biao and Yuen Wah as Ming Dynasty rivals who are frozen and thawed out in modern day HK. Wah becomes a gangster while Biao acts as a bodyguard to prostitute Maggie Cheung. The Biao-Wah finale has some excellent stuntwork IMO. DOC WEST - The return of "Trinity" himself, Terence Hill. Here, he plays a Old West regular Joe who has a little knowledge about medicine and finds himself in the middle of a war between two conniving landowners. Paul Sorvino plays the sheriff who befriends Hill's Doc West and it's a basic made-for-TV Western, but Hill now 70 still looks like he's practically 40 and slinging the good ol guns. THE LEGEND IS BORN: IP MAN - excellent martial arts film with some of Tony Leung Siu-Hung's best fight choreography. Dennis To was great as Ip Man, but Sammo Hung and Ip Chun provided great cameos as well as Yuen Biao playing Ng Chung So. Louis Fan was great too as Ip Tin Chi, Man's adopted brother. One question: does anyone notice that Canadian-born Bernice Liu has been playing mainly villains? See BAD BLOOD and KING OF FIGHTERS. Here, she plays another villain, the daughter of Kenya Sawada's Japanese chairman/smuggler. BACK TO THE BEACH - I have to admit, this is a guilty pleasure for me. No matter how cheesy it is, I was a huge fan of the 60's beach movies when I was a kid so seeing Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello return to the beach plus seeing cameos from Bob "Gilligan" Denver, Edd Byrnes, Alan "The Skipper" Hale Jr., and the Cleaver family minus Ward will make this a true gem for fans of retro-TV and by retro I mean 50's and 60's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member bearpower Posted September 15, 2010 Member Share Posted September 15, 2010 Just watch Black Belt (Kuro-obi) Great fighters and actors, a meaningful story, a nice movie with a respectful message and representation of karate This movie makes a lot of things more clear about karate, and gives meaning to it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member IgaNinja Posted September 15, 2010 Member Share Posted September 15, 2010 Centurion - pretty decent roman flick,good battle gore too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member masterofoneinchpunch Posted September 16, 2010 Member Share Posted September 16, 2010 Magnum Force (1973: Ted Post) ***/****: (possibly some spoilers) Sometimes friends have an inordinate of influence in determining some of the films you eventually watch. I have been bugged awhile to watch this second Dirty Harry film and I personally felt that it is a missing presence in my movie crime acumen. I have watched bits and pieces before and technically I knew the plot from a Sledge Hammer episode “Magnum Farce” which parodied it so I knew the twists that were going to happen in the film. It starts off with a brilliant side profile shot of Harry’s hand holding his gun during the beginning credits until ultimately the revolver is turned on the audience and fired. It is homage to Hitchcock’s Spellbound, but I found it quite effective as an opener. Harry was reassigned to stakeout duty from homicide so he cannot do as much harm. However, with many of the cities criminals being killed by a vigilante traffic cop (this information is not known to him at this time) he is quickly back on duty with his new partner who probably has as much chance at surviving than a drummer for Spinal Tap. Meanwhile there are these rookie traffic cops that are great shots, close knit bunch that have taken a shine to Clint. They could not possibly have anything to do with this could they? A standard plot that is used in many a film and especially television is that in order for the audience not to identify with the killer (this includes Harry as well) something bad has to be done by the perpetrator to push any possible allegiance you have for them and, of course, back to Harry. Unfortunately for me this plot point felt forced and hurt the characterization and mood of the film and it makes it too easy to align Callahan against the antagonist. While the ending felt a bit apathetic (how many films end in an abandoned factory), the set-up of the first half of the film and the iconic characterization of Clint makes this quite a fun film to watch. I certainly recommend it to fans of action/crime drama. It is also great to see so much of the San Francisco city. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member ShaOW!linDude Posted September 16, 2010 Member Share Posted September 16, 2010 Centurion ------ Me and the Mrs. watched that not long ago. Yeah, we thought it was pretty good, too. GI JOE: Rise of Cobra ------- I re-watched this just last night. i don't know what the consensus is among everybody but I like this movie. When are they making another one? Cowboy Bebop: the Movie ----- eh. It had it's moments. The animated fighting wasn't too bad. Should've had more of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member nectarsis Posted September 16, 2010 Member Share Posted September 16, 2010 Just finished Dr Strangelove last night. Today it will be I'm Gonna Get You Sucka. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member kngfu Posted September 17, 2010 Member Share Posted September 17, 2010 WAY OF THE BLACK DRAGON Terrible movie, but Ron Van Clief and Carter Wong make it worth the watch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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