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Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2005 6:29 am Post subject:
i've never seen 'no regrets' myself, but i didn't enjoy 'yume' either. i just didn't understand what the heck was going on in that movie. it didn't really seem to have a plot at all.
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Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 12:44 am Post subject:
Just saw Freeze Me. And it was excellent. One of the best horror films of the 2000's. Though it wasn't really a horror film. More like an extremely dark drama/thriller. Cinematography, use of music and other technical aspects were prefect. Story was interesting, but the best thing was the mood of the film. Acting was the only thing that could have been a little better. 9/10
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Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 5:52 am Post subject:
Shurayuki-hime wrote:
Just saw Freeze Me. And it was excellent. One of the best horror films of the 2000's. Though it wasn't really a horror film. More like an extremely dark drama/thriller. Cinematography, use of music and other technical aspects were prefect. Story was interesting, but the best thing was the mood of the film. Acting was the only thing that could have been a little better. 9/10
i thought her boyfriend was a pr*** though! not surprised she did what she did.
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Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2005 3:34 am Post subject:
i just finished watching azumi and azumi2. i thought the first one was an excellent film. the second one was good, but kind of lacked a bit of emotion. storyline was decent, but it was just lacking some chemistry or something.
Just finished watching Choice of Hercules (Totsunyuseyo! Asama Sanso Jiken), a 2002 film written and directed by Masato Harada. I can't recommend this outstanding movie enough. It's based on the true story of how some Red Army revolutionaries take a woman hostage and hole up in a lodge in rural Nagano in the dead of winter in 1972. The movie is told entirely from the point of view of the police in their efforts to rescue this hostage. The first three-quarters of the movie focuses on all the problems the police superintendent (excellently played by Koji Yakusho, so what else is new?) put in charge of this hostage situation has to deal with even before a rescue can actually take place, from the weather to the press to being hamstrung by his superiors to the incessant quarreling between competing law enforcement agencies and within each of these agencies as well. It becomes apparent that it's not the terrorists who are the immediate problem for Yakusho's character, but the bureaucratic morass he has to navigate through that is his biggest obstacle. The problems he has to overcome are by turns incredulous, inane, humorous, and frustrating. Especially nagging is the constant battle between the local Nagano police and Tokyo's National Police Agency for whom Yakusho's character works. One illustrative example: two commanders (one local, one national) get in a vehement argument over which police uniform a civilian crane operator (brought in to operate a crane as part of the rescue) should wear. The last part of the movie focuses on the rescue effort itself and is filmed in a realistic, documentary-like style which shows how chaotic, confusing, and dangerous such an operation can be. The themes presented in this film are very relevant, and, while it deals with serious subject matter, there are a number of funny scenes interpersed thoughout which highlight the ludicrousness of some of the situations. Masato Harada, btw, played the villainous Japanese envoy Omura in the Tom Cruise film The Last Samurai. He is also the director of Gunhed, Kamikaze Taxi, and Bounce KoGals. Overall, a smart, entertaining, impressive movie.
I just watched "Doppleganger". It was pretty decent. It even had a take on a hollywood chase scene in it.
Some comments on previous posts:
Miike's visitor Q: I've only almost thrown up once while watching a movie. this movie. admittedly, I was eating at the time (NOT A GOOD IDEA W/ THIS MOVIE), but it's themes of incest, necrophilia, lactation, etc, aren't for everyone. Maybe there is a deep meaning behind everything and Miike is brilliant, but unfortunately for most people I think it would get lost.
Akira Kurosawa having a movie that didn't stand up: I saw his first credited movie, "Sugata Sanshiro". It is his first film, but still, not that great.
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Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2005 4:07 am Post subject: Miki Nakatani week
It's Miki Nakatani week at my house, so I'm a very happy boy.
I just got a newly mastered DVD of "Ring 2" and boy does it make a difference. Of course, the copy I had was an awful VHS bootleg that was so bleached out I could barely see it. But the new copy does more than just give me a better look at Miki's pretty face. It let's me see some special effects that I'd never known were in the movie. It makes it a much better movie.
Today I recieved my copy of "30 lies Or So", and I can't wait to sit down and watch it. I'm hoping the Japanese touch breaks the Westlake curse.
The movie is based on a Don Westlake story. And where Westlake is one of my all time favorite writers, the movies made based on his wonderful books are some of the worst of all time. I don't know why it happens. There's always big time money behind the movies. They always get these big stars. But the movies come out like crap each and every time.
Oh well. This time, as a Westlake fan, I can't lose. Miki's in it.
And finally, my copy of "Rikidozan" should arrive either tomorrow or Saturday.
It's a good week for movies at my house. _________________
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Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2005 6:44 am Post subject: Re: Miki Nakatani week
Geezer wrote:
It's Miki Nakatani week at my house, so I'm a very happy boy.
I just got a newly mastered DVD of "Ring 2" and boy does it make a difference. Of course, the copy I had was an awful VHS bootleg that was so bleached out I could barely see it. But the new copy does more than just give me a better look at Miki's pretty face. It let's me see some special effects that I'd never known were in the movie. It makes it a much better movie.
Today I recieved my copy of "30 lies Or So", and I can't wait to sit down and watch it. I'm hoping the Japanese touch breaks the Westlake curse.
The movie is based on a Don Westlake story. And where Westlake is one of my all time favorite writers, the movies made based on his wonderful books are some of the worst of all time. I don't know why it happens. There's always big time money behind the movies. They always get these big stars. But the movies come out like crap each and every time.
Oh well. This time, as a Westlake fan, I can't lose. Miki's in it.
And finally, my copy of "Rikidozan" should arrive either tomorrow or Saturday.
It's a good week for movies at my house.
i saw 30 lies on the plane coming back from japan earlier in the year. i liked it. i thought 'ms oppai' was a funny character.
on another trip 'ping pong' was shown. i didn't think i'd like it but it was great, then the screens stopped working! never saw the end of that film.
Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2005 9:41 am Post subject: Re: Miki Nakatani week
Geezer wrote:
It's Miki Nakatani week at my house, so I'm a very happy boy.
The movie is based on a Don Westlake story. And where Westlake is one of my all time favorite writers, the movies made based on his wonderful books are some of the worst of all time. I don't know why it happens. There's always big time money behind the movies. They always get these big stars. But the movies come out like crap each and every time.
Oh well. This time, as a Westlake fan, I can't lose. Miki's in it.
And finally, my copy of "Rikidozan" should arrive either tomorrow or Saturday.
It's a good week for movies at my house.
Donald Westlake is one of my three favorite mystery genre writers (the others being Ed McBain, who passed away a couple of weeks ago, and the late Ross Thomas). My favorite Westlake novel is Trust Me on This, a great and hysterically funny satire about newstand tabloids. I don't think I've watched a film based on a Westlake book, but I did see The Grifters, for which Westlake wrote the screenplay (I think he even got an Academy award nomination for that), and that was a pretty decent movie. What Westlake story is 30 Lies or So based on?
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sorry bout dat!!!
never saw the end of that film. 
