MugwumpHasNoLiver wrote:Bullshit,
Jackie Brown is awesome. It's the only time in Tarantino's life that he's managed to be subtle, probably because the script is based off an Elmore Leonard novel. It's definitely one of his best films, despite or even because it's free of the more fanboyish set pieces of his other films. You should definitely see it.
well, yeah. Just like Reservoir Dogs it has been on my to watch list for years lol. I'll get to it eventually.
MugwumpHasNoLiver wrote:He'd rather live of a hermetic lifestyle of dead tree humping and poetry writing than spend all his time discussing a fifteen-year-old Japanime. He's just that exciting.
Same as ever I'd say but he rather not spending all his time "discussing a fifteen-year-old Japanime" is not in his character.
MugwumpHasNoLiver wrote:I know I am.I'll probably even watch the crappy third one, too.
Question is matter of obtaining it to me. I'm not willing to pay for it, a friend had it on DVD. But he doesn't have Bride...
MugwumpHasNoLiver wrote:Really? That's an odd thing to get upset about. I did in fact re-read Lovecraft's original short story before seeing the film again, and S.T. Joshi notes the headless zombie bit is basically when the story stops taking itself seriously. (Because West's whole shtick was that the body is a machine that could function independently without a soul, and then for no reason he does a 180 and decides that individual human parts can somehow function without being attached to a body.) I've always known it was absurd, but I've just kind of gone with it because it was bloody hysterical and such an integral part of a wacky story.
It must be so hard being a killjoy.
It's not that I couldn't go with it, I'm just saying that is the latest point after which film stops utterly working without turning off one's more critical faculties. Or as I said in previous post:, you stop thinking at that point if you don't want to be thrown out from the film.
So yes, it's utter nonsense writing but something I can let slide.
symbv wrote:Thanks Dr.Nick. The wikipedia article said Godfrey Ho was referred to as "Ed Wood of Hong Kong Cinema" but he does not even have a wikipedia article in Chinese
I never heard of him either. I guess he must be a lot more famous in the west...
Well reading my big quote would explain that:
Anime fans, who seem to be the bulk of the people who have stumbled across this lost work of art, may not have any idea who Joseph Lai is. They wouldn’t even think to suspect that having his name attached to a project is in any way significant. Ahh, but we fans of old kungfu B-movies — we know better, don’t we? And we can impart our knowledge to the purely anime fans who have not ventured into the dark realm of crappy slapdash ninja films. Lai forms a mysterious triumvirate along with Thomas Tang and Godfrey Ho — indeed there are those who swear the three men are actually the same man, or are some sort of super-being that can split a single consciousness into three separate entities with, I assume, cheesy 1970s pencil-thin mustaches and Amber-vision sunglasses. Lai (and when I refer to Joseph Lai, I am by default also referring to Thomas Tang and Godfrey Ho) Is best known for coming out of relatively nowhere to produce an unheard of number of movies in an extremely short period of time. Binding these films together was the presence of ninjas.
And there’s no doubt that they are ninjas, even if they’re white guys (most often, Italian b-movie staple Richard Harrison) because they often wear headbands that say “Ninja!!!!” on them, in that jagged “Oriental” font. The Tang/Ho/Lai uni-mind was able to produce, direct, and distribute so many films because their style of filmmaking was to buy up a couple cheap Hong Kong or Filipino films, splice them all together, then inject some new scenes of white guy ninjas and try, via dubbing, to tie the whole thing together into some sort of story that might flirt on occasion with coherency without ever actually committing to the concept.
The movies they used were almost always dirt cheap nonsense, though from time to time I have seen one of their ninja movies and recognized at least one of the films that served as the source. Aside from splicing films together, dashing off a new script, and inserting random scenes of white guys in shiny metallic purple or red and yellow ninja outfits into the proceedings (and all movies could benefit from such insertions), they’d also steal music cues from whatever movie happened to be popular — which, to be fair, was hardly unique to the poverty row Lai/Tang/Ho operation, as even big budget films from Hong Kong during the 80s were known to lift cues and entire musical scores from other films. But while some films, say John Woo’s The Killer or Hard Boiled, lifted scores people might not recognize (save for the ten people in the world who rushed out to buy the Red Heat soundtrack). The cheaper films usually just used Star Wars and Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Mix all these ingredients together, and you literally have a nearly endless reservoir of movies than can be made, quite literally, in a few days. And so the world is blessed with titles like Ninja Phantom Heroes, Ninja in the Claws of the CIA, Ninja Diamond Force, and countless others. You could probably write a thousand-page tome by doing nothing but reviewing these ninja films, for their numbers are so great.
so yeah, he "directed" these turds for western market apparently
also
The evil general with the bulk of fat at the end of his neck is actually North Korean communist dictator Kim Il Sung. The scenes are taken from “Solar Adventure”, a South Korean cartoon made in the 1980s, where commies from the north ally themselves with space invaders. I kid you not.
LOL!
as for sucker punch, it's simply a bad film but
