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bad movie knight posted:As great as Raiders of the Lost Ark is, it would be 100x more awesome if it starred Klaus Kinski as the villain and was directed by Werner Herzog. My god, the mind boggles. You're totally right though! Maybe not so many Germans appear in Hollywood films because not that many are good enough AND have excellent English? Herzog/Kinski snipe 
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Isn't that why Japanese people in movies are often played by Chinese? There's not many Japanese actors that speak english, outside of Ken Wantanabe. Only other male Japanese actor I can think of that works in Hollywood is George Takai.
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bad movie knight posted:As great as Raiders of the Lost Ark is, it would be 100x more awesome if it starred Klaus Kinski as the villain and was directed by Werner Herzog. RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK EXT. DESERT - DAY CAMERA LINGERS ON SAND BLOWING IN THE WIND FOR FIVE MINUTES WHILE POPOL VUH PLAYS.
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As much as I would love to see a Herzog Indian Jones adventure ROTLA is basically a perfect movie and really can't be any better than it already is.
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foodfight posted:Herzog Indian Jones adventure
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twistedmentat posted:Isn't that why Japanese people in movies are often played by Chinese? There's not many Japanese actors that speak english, outside of Ken Wantanabe. Only other male Japanese actor I can think of that works in Hollywood is George Takai. Hiroyuki Sanada (Twilight Samurai, Sunshine) was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre for a few years. George Takai is not Japanese Japanese. He was born in the US. And you are forgetting about Gedde Watanabe. They are plenty of full Japanese native English speakers in Hawaii, and the West Coast. It's not like there is a dearth of Asian faces who speak native English. But there is a dearth of Asian roles. If you were a stud in Japan where you can play any role in movies, would you want to come to the US where the only roles open to you were specifically Asian characters? Especially either hypersexualized (or hypersubmissive) females, and neutered males? It's not as bad as it once was, but I cannot think of a single matter of fact romantic comedy role written for anyone other than white males. If you are Asian and female, it's still a minstrel show in America. Lucy Liu kind of made sure of that. There's always jobs at the post office, rather than playing yellowface characters, as Robert Townshend would say.
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EVERYTHING I SAY ABOUT JAPAN OR LIVING IN JAPAN IS COMPLETELY WRONG, BUT YOU BETTER BELIEVE I'LL 
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kapalama posted:Especially either hypersexualized (or hypersubmissive) females, and neutered males? 
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What the hell happened to John Carpenter? He's responsible for some of my all time favorite movies like The Thing, Mouth of Madness, Halloween 1&2, Escape from NY, etc. etc. His resume is classic after classic He hasn't made a movie since Ghosts of Mars in 2001. It wasn't a bad movie, but it was nowhere near his other works. Vampires wasn't all that great either. What's he been doing for the past 10 years? Is he retired or on sabbatical?
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KillRoy posted:What the hell happened to John Carpenter? He's responsible for some of my all time favorite movies like The Thing, Mouth of Madness, Halloween 1&2, Escape from NY, etc. etc. His resume is classic after classic He directed a couple episodes of Showtime's horror anthology show which were crap and is working on FEAR 3 (a game). So yeah I dunno either.
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Hey now, "Cigarette Burns" was probably the best episode of Masters of Horror.
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Not saying it is accurate but the Wikipedia page explains pretty clearly what happened to John Carpenter's career.
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I'm not sure if I imagined this or not, but I'm trying to pinpoint a trailer for some sort of sci-fi action movie. A bunch of dudes doing cool gun stuff in a big corporate complex. I clearly remember the trailer ending with two dudes shooting at a bad guy, then diving backward through a big window and falling down an impossibly deep metal shaft. Is this real? I've been browsing trailers for an hour and can't locate it. edit: Didn't imagine it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvODEWW_P6M Strontosaurus fucked around with this message at 05:07 on May 30, 2010 |
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I'm watching Night of the Hunter again and it's got me wondering - other than Charles Laughton, are there any other significant directors that only ever made one movie? I'm drawing a blank.
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kapalama posted:Not saying it is accurate but the Wikipedia page explains pretty clearly what happened to John Carpenter's career.
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It's not quite the same thing, since he ended up directing moving 16 years later but the director of 'Bliss' (1985 film) basically lost his license to direct for apparently the same reason that the director of "Night of the Hunter" did. I imagine that directors these days could retreat into video and commercial production rather than having to leave directing altogether. That's what the director of 'Bliss' did apparently. (I recommend the movie Bliss BTW, though I have not seen it in a few years. It's not available in the US though.)
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FishBulb posted:He directed a couple episodes of Showtime's horror anthology show which were crap and is working on FEAR 3 (a game). He has a new movie coming out in September that's a ghost story, and apparently he's only advising/narrating for FEAR 3 because he was a fan of the original.
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kapalama posted:It's not quite the same thing, since he ended up directing moving 16 years later but the director of 'Bliss' (1985 film) basically lost his license to direct for apparently the same reason that the director of "Night of the Hunter" did. What's all this about licenses to direct?
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penismightier posted:What's all this about 'licenses to direct'? I meant it euphemistically/metpahorically, in that makers of unsuccessful films are not signed up to direct again, not that they are actually forbidden to direct. as in "License to kill", or given free license to act.
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Howard Hughes co-directed 2 movies, that's sort of totals up to just 1. Tom Hanks directed That Thing You Do but it looks like he's directing an upcoming movie too, he also did a bunch of TV shows. And there's the infamous Harold P. Warren who directed Manos: The Hands of Fate edit: Marlon Brando directed One Eyed Jacks http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055257/ I bet there's a bunch of famous actors who took a shot at directing just once. Schweinhund fucked around with this message at 13:09 on May 30, 2010 |
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Dalton Trumbo only directed Johnny got his Gun. If we're looking outside of feature films Jean Genet only directed A song of Love. Peaceful Anarchy fucked around with this message at 14:05 on May 30, 2010 |
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kapalama posted:I meant it euphemistically/metpahorically, in that makers of unsuccessful films are not signed up to direct again, not that they are actually forbidden to direct. I think Laughton was just really discouraged - they probably would've let him direct again.
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W.C. Fields usually wrote the screenplays for films he appeared in, but he only directed once - The Man on the Flying Trapeze. The original director, Clyde Bruckman, was fired because of his alcoholism problems. Fields didn't get credit, but it's probably the most coherent and well directed of his films. The Beatles directed Magical Mystery Tour themselves. The song scenes were generally split up by each for their own works - Paul supervised The Fool on the Hill, John did I Am the Walrus, George on Blue Jay Way, with Ringo serving as cinematographer.
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KillRoy posted:What the hell happened to John Carpenter? He's responsible for some of my all time favorite movies like The Thing, Mouth of Madness, Halloween 1&2, Escape from NY, etc. etc. His resume is classic after classic He got old and crazy.
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KillRoy posted:What the hell happened to John Carpenter? He's responsible for some of my all time favorite movies like The Thing, Mouth of Madness, Halloween 1&2, Escape from NY, etc. etc. His resume is classic after classic Well, here's your problem. Ghosts of Mars was, in fact, a really loving bad movie. I'd say it was easily bad enough to ruin a classic director's career for good, even if it hadn't been preceded by a bunch of other misfires.
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wikipedia says he got two movies lined up; his Masters of Horror episodes were among the better so I'm still hopefull he can do itNeuroticErotica posted:He got old and crazy.
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Honest Thief posted:wikipedia says he got two movies lined up; his Masters of Horror episodes were among the better so I'm still hopefull he can do it But hes demonstrated that he can't do it with every movie hes made since what? Mouth of Madness? So he hasn't made a good movie in 16 years at this point. Thats not a minor setback or anything.
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Well there was Vampires before Ghosts of Mars, which wasn't terrible, if I recall it was pretty fun sure it's been more than 10 years since then, but I'm hopefull
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Honest Thief posted:Well there was Vampires before Ghosts of Mars, which wasn't terrible, if I recall it was pretty fun And Carpenter has only made Ghosts of Mars since then (not counting the TV stuff) so who knows if his next film is going to be good or not.
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Hedenius posted:I saw Vampires pretty recently and I will defend it until the day I die. Anyone who says a single bad word about James Woods performance is dead to me. apparently he's working on the third FEAR game before then. My question is simple: there are two versions of Red Cliff available to me. One is the massive, uncut 5 hour two film version, the other is the 2.5 hour theatrical cut, which i've seen. It was okay, but I could smell the bits that were missing. What I'm wondering is how much longer the battles are in the uncut Chinese version? I know there's a lot of narrative cuts (including several whole story arcs) but what about the choppy choppy?
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'Ghosts of Mars' was messed around with by the studio (Statham was supposed to be the lead) and 'Vampires' had the majority of its budget slashed right before shooting, causing a massive rewrite. I heard that little of the original scripted scenes ever made it into the finished film. Basically it's like this. Carpenter had some lovely experiences working with studio's and decided that he just didn't give a poo poo anymore. He mad a ton of money and just does that he wants now. See also; Steve Guttenberg.
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Which, according to his wife, is sitting around eating fried chicken, smoking, and playing video games. God bless him.
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I thought he was filming a thriller set in an asylum? I can't remember the name at all though
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the Bunt posted:I thought he was filming a thriller set in an asylum? I can't remember the name at all though The Ward. It's in post-production. This is the only footage anyone's seen of it so far, though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeGdIedsZi8
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PTizzle posted:Hopefully this belongs here, has anyone seen The Stoning of Soraya M.? It looks like an interesting look at the culture surrounding it but it could easily be terrible. Just looking for general thoughts from anyone who has seen it. I thought it was an extremely good film. Very moving and infuriating at the same time and I was thinking about it long after it was over. Be warned that the title scene is very graphic, but I would definitely recommend it.
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So, I have a little dilemma. I find that I am most drawn and entranced by Asian cinema. From Wong Kar-wai to Tsai-ming Lai to Takashi Miike to Park-Chan Wook. I will probably be hanged for this but I find Kurosawa to be good but nothing special (I haven't seen many of his films and hardly any of the "classic" ones), but I like it all, really. My problem is that most of the time, I can't for the life of me distinguish many of the actors from one another. For instance, I recently watched Wong Kar-wai's 2046 and until halfway through I didn't realize that the protagonist was having flings with several different women. This really confused me. Most of the time, I have to look at an actor's hair style or other defining features because their faces look so similar. I know I'm a filthy gaijin but I was wondering if it ever gets easier the more films I watch.
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the Bunt posted:My problem is that most of the time, I can't for the life of me distinguish many of the actors from one another. For instance, I recently watched Wong Kar-wai's 2046 and until halfway through I didn't realize that the protagonist was having flings with several different women. This really confused me. Most of the time, I have to look at an actor's hair style or other defining features because their faces look so similar. I know I'm a filthy gaijin but I was wondering if it ever gets easier the more films I watch. Um, I guess? I have this problem once in a while, but only rarely. It sounds like you've already watched a lot though, so I don't know how much better for you it can get. 2046 has some very popular actresses (Gong Li, Faye Wong, Maggie Cheung, Ziyi Zhang) so I'd think you would know their faces by now. the Bunt posted:Tsai-ming Lai Do you mean Tsai Ming-liang? I just reviewed his newest in the "Rate the Latest" thread (it's terrific!).
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the Bunt posted:My problem is that most of the time, I can't for the life of me distinguish many of the actors from one another. For instance, I recently watched Wong Kar-wai's 2046 and until halfway through I didn't realize that the protagonist was having flings with several different women. This really confused me. Most of the time, I have to look at an actor's hair style or other defining features because their faces look so similar. I know I'm a filthy gaijin but I was wondering if it ever gets easier the more films I watch. Might be more due to constantly glancing at the subtitles than their asian-ness. You could try watching movies dubbed (if you can stand it, some dubs are just atrocious) and see if that clears it up.
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FitFortDanga posted:Um, I guess? I have this problem once in a while, but only rarely. It sounds like you've already watched a lot though, so I don't know how much better for you it can get. 2046 has some very popular actresses (Gong Li, Faye Wong, Maggie Cheung, Ziyi Zhang) so I'd think you would know their faces by now. Yup yup. I was mixed up. The Hole: 2000 Seen By and Rebels of the Neon God are two of my most favorite films. Could be a subtitle issue, I suppose. I really dislike dubs for the most part, but if anyone knows of some serviceable ones that'd be great.
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the Bunt posted:Could be a subtitle issue, I suppose. I really dislike dubs for the most part, but if anyone knows of some serviceable ones that'd be great. Also, try watching some films with not much dialogue (if it is the subtitles) or a very limited cast of characters. Kim Ki-Duk films tend to fit both those criteria.
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the Bunt posted:Yup yup. I was mixed up. The Hole: 2000 Seen By and Rebels of the Neon God are two of my most favorite films. FYI, "2000 Seen By" isn't part of the title, it's just The Hole. "2000 Seen By" is a collection of 10 films, each by a different director from a different country, each containing the moment we switched from 1999 to 2000.
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