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I love how you basically can't talk about these movies without Wu-Tang coming up at some point.
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Apr 27, 2014 17:54
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Pretty much anything with Tsui Hark involved is gonna be good times, honestly.
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May 7, 2014 17:13
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Yeah, the key phrase there is "pretty much." He's made some kinda terrible movies, but most of the time he's on his game, and when he's on his game he kicks rear end. e: He's also pretty much responsible for the entire heroic bloodshed genre by way of producing A Better Tomorrow and The Killer, so I give him a lot of credit that I possibly shouldn't because I'm a huge huge whore for that genre. 
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May 7, 2014 17:54
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The best/worst thing about Master of the Flying Guillotine is... I can't do it justice with words.  It's so drat goofy and clueless that I'm honestly not sure if it's racist anymore.
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May 11, 2014 14:24
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I don't think you realized what I was pointing out there. Don't get me wrong, the movie's dope as hell and probably my favorite classic martial-arts movie I've seen so far, but god drat they just did not give a single gently caress at all about any kind of cultural sensitivity, did they? (For bonus points, the Japanese fighter also cheats in the actual tournament.) SALT CURES HAM fucked around with this message at 21:17 on May 11, 2014 |
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May 11, 2014 21:14
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I would say "hilarious" more than "revolting," honestly. It's so obviously not coming from a place of hate with the Indian guy, to the point where it's honestly just really goofy. And frankly I'm pretty okay with them making GBS threads on the Japanese given the history between Japan and China. If anyone's allowed to do it, it's them.
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May 14, 2014 09:15
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Is it bad that I kinda like Shogun Assassin better than the actual Lone Wolf and Cub movies? Between the awesome synth score, the faster pace, and the campy English dubbing, it just appeals to me more. Like, I know that the LWaC movies are better but for some reason I just have a lot more fun watching Shogun Assassin.
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May 17, 2014 22:31
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There's a shitload of flying guillotine movies. All but maybe one are ripoffs of the one we're talking about, since if there's one thing HK cinema loves, it's bandwagons. e: Here's a scene from the one we're talking about : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGkn8TFaySg
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May 18, 2014 07:14
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Firstborn posted:Can anyone recommend some martial arts movies that are about Japanese martial arts without including samurai? I kind of like the "hard" Okinawa style on film better than flowing/soft/internal Chinese styles. That's not to say these movies don't kick rear end! The Street Fighter is the most well-known by far. However, there's also the Masutatsu Oyama trilogy (Karate Bullfighter, Karate Bearfighter, Karate for Life), and the Sanshiro Sugata movies by Kurosawa, off the top of my head.
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May 18, 2014 21:46
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I get the impression that every movie in this genre is either absolutely perfect in every way or completely loving insane. 
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Jun 14, 2014 18:26
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