Member Takuma Posted September 1, 2013 Member Share Posted September 1, 2013 Trailer: Looks boring. Bad sign when there's CGI blood already in the trailer. I hope the film is better. Reviews from Venice: "Comes pretty damn close to Love Exposure in its renegade spirit and leaps of imagination." - Film Business Asia Tedious, over-the-top gorefest - Variety A madcap salute to cinema and yakuzas - Hollywood Reporter A classic cult title that will keep midnight movie fans entertained and amused - Screen Daily A gore-filled joy - The Telegraph Aspiring midnight movie is suitably manic but lacks real feeling - Hitfix ...in a truly spectacular extended melée that sees CGI blood and limbs flying - The Playlist anyone receptive to the works of John Woo, Johnnie To or Takeshi Kitano will undoubtedly find much to enjoy - Cine Vue I'll see for myself at the end of the month. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member OpiumKungFuCracker Posted September 1, 2013 Member Share Posted September 1, 2013 The guys at Twitch call this one a masterpiece. I might have to catch this one in Austin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member sifu iron perm Posted September 30, 2013 Member Share Posted September 30, 2013 im going to watch this it at the london film festival in mid october. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Takuma Posted September 30, 2013 Author Member Share Posted September 30, 2013 Watched in cinema on Saturday. Disappointing. Has promise and many good scenes, but the ending is a CGI blood mess beyond belief. I can't believe Sono is now doing that kind of CGI crap that is such a disgrace to real action cinema. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Gwai LO Posted October 1, 2013 Member Share Posted October 1, 2013 how are the action scenes? good fights or just over the top blood fest with no real fighting? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Takuma Posted October 1, 2013 Author Member Share Posted October 1, 2013 how are the action scenes? good fights or just over the top blood fest with no real fighting? There is basically just one (plus some smaller bits), and it's mostly comedic mayhem and splatter (comedic enough to earn the film pg-12 in Japan, although no other country would ever rate it that low). So don't watch it for action. Tak Sakaguchi is kinda awesome as a Japanese Bruce Lee wannabe, though. There's a lot of fun references. The film Tak and guys are filming within the film is Blood of the Wolves - a movie Sono and Sakaguchi were to co-direct and probably even started filming but never finished. Also, in the movie theater scene they play The Room, which is a Sono film from the early 90's. Mickey Curtis plays the projectionist. The best thing about the film is Fumi Nikaido. Japanese pretty girls tough playing tough usually end up being just cute with zero credibility, but Nikaido is simply amazing. Guys are gonna be in love. It's just a shame that the film is so uneven. It doesn't find any proper balance - too many characters, some embarrassing comedy acts, recycled music from older Sono films, and the when the ending comes you get about 3000 liters of blood and it's all CGI. It's a better film than the last few Sono's, but a far cry from the amazing Sono films like Hazard, Noriko's Dinner Table, Suicide Club, and Love Exposure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member OpiumKungFuCracker Posted October 1, 2013 Member Share Posted October 1, 2013 Film Festivals are raving over this film, guess it's a mixed bag. I'm still going to see it, the question is how? Takuma, any ideas this film gets distribution in the states? A bad Sion Sono film is better than 90% of the films released in Hollywood. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Takuma Posted October 1, 2013 Author Member Share Posted October 1, 2013 Film Festivals are raving over this film, guess it's a mixed bag. I'm still going to see it, the question is how? Takuma, any ideas this film gets distribution in the states? A bad Sion Sono film is better than 90% of the films released in Hollywood. Yeah, it will. - http://www.austinchronicle.com/blogs/screens/2013-09-02/drafthouse-asks-us-why-dont-you-play-in-hell/ I'm amazed by how 95% of web critics seem to love CGI blood. I've read about 15 reviews of Why Don't You Play in Hell, and only one mentioned that almost all blood in the film is CGI, and even that review wasn't all that critical about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Takuma Posted October 5, 2013 Author Member Share Posted October 5, 2013 Funny thing, I ended up seeing this in cinema for the second time (had 3 hours to kill while waiting for the gf, the film played at that exact time, in the same building I were in, and I had review responsibility for Monday anyway). In some ways more enjoyable on the second time when I knew not to expect too much. Basically: the first 30 min kicks major ass. Sono samples his music selection like Tarantino in his best days. Halfway slows down a bit. The ending is lame with tons of CGI and could also benefit from better editing. In a nutshell, it is a disappointing film, nowhere near Sono's best movies, but it has lots of good things to it too, especially parts of the soundtrack and some actors. Here's the fantastic toothpaste commercial from the film: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Takuma Posted October 9, 2013 Author Member Share Posted October 9, 2013 Did a shortened English translation of my Finnish review: http://sketchesofcinema.wordpress.com/2013/10/09/why-dont-you-play-in-hell/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member sifu iron perm Posted October 12, 2013 Member Share Posted October 12, 2013 if any brothers are heading to the 18th showing in London give me a holler! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member sifu iron perm Posted October 18, 2013 Member Share Posted October 18, 2013 Just got back, rather splendid film, the last few chapters of it were pure entertainment. Japan's bruce lee!!! Although, he did remind me of bruce le ala true game of death. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Takuma Posted October 20, 2013 Author Member Share Posted October 20, 2013 Just got back, rather splendid film, the last few chapters of it were pure entertainment. You weren't bothered by the CGI blood? I felt the film started really strong but after halfway it got worse scene by scene. Btw, do you know which version you saw? The Japanese theatrical version runs 130 min (+- 1 min), the original Venice print was 119 min and lacked ending credits (roughly 4 min). Some sources like IMDb list 126 min but that's probably a mistake... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member sifu iron perm Posted October 20, 2013 Member Share Posted October 20, 2013 You weren't bothered by the CGI blood? I felt the film started really strong but after halfway it got worse scene by scene. Btw, do you know which version you saw? The Japanese theatrical version runs 130 min (+- 1 min), the original Venice print was 119 min and lacked ending credits (roughly 4 min). Some sources like IMDb list 126 min but that's probably a mistake... I saw the version with credits.. the cgi blood was not my liking but I go used to it, the tongue kiss bit was cool.. the film is mish mash but I enjoyed the last part with the build up to the war! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Gwai LO Posted February 12, 2014 Member Share Posted February 12, 2014 dvd up for pre order now. release date 3.12.14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Doctor Schnabel von Rom Posted July 16, 2014 Member Share Posted July 16, 2014 dvd up for pre order now. release date 3.12.14 where? in which country? with englisch subs? looking forward to the movie. the japanese disc will not have englisch subs, a pity:-( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator One Armed Boxer Posted October 1, 2014 Moderator Share Posted October 1, 2014 Twitch have reported that his will be hitting US cinemas from November 7th, which makes me rather jealous. - http://twitchfilm.com/2014/09/us-poster-for-sions-why-dont-you-play-in-hell.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Vegeta84 Posted October 14, 2014 Member Share Posted October 14, 2014 SPOILERS Anyone care to explain the ending to me? They almost all died, but were at the premiere? Then he yells cut at the very end? I'm a bit on the lost side on the ending to this one. Reminded me the Tim and Erick movie with the ending. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Takuma Posted October 18, 2014 Author Member Share Posted October 18, 2014 US BD January 27th http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=15257 SPOILERS Anyone care to explain the ending to me? They almost all died, but were at the premiere? Then he yells cut at the very end? I'm a bit on the lost side on the ending to this one. Reminded me the Tim and Erick movie with the ending. Sorry, all I can remember about the last 20 min is that it sucked Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member kingofkungfu2002 Posted October 18, 2014 Member Share Posted October 18, 2014 The HK dvd is out on Oct 23rd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member QueMuchita Posted November 30, 2014 Member Share Posted November 30, 2014 Grr.. I have to wait until February 18th before this is released in Australia. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member mpm74 Posted December 10, 2014 Member Share Posted December 10, 2014 Here's another positive review at COF, in case any of you are interested. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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