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This week痴 Staff Pick is: God of Gamblers (1989)  Directed and Written by: Wong Jing Starring: Chow Yun-fat and Andy Lau IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097244/ In a sentence: A master gambler loses his memory, and is befriended by a street hustler who discovers his supernatural gambling abilities. An 80s gambling star vehicle for Chow Yun-fat and Andy Lau to look cool and win gambles. The main reason I知 watching it is because Parallax in the PHIZ movie thread talked about the series recently and it sounds cool. The first film was so successful that it was parodied by Stephen Chow with a movie called All for the Winner (1990), and the parody was so successful that they made a sequel to it called God of Gamblers II (1990) which took the characters from the parody and put them back into the original film. And then made a God of Gamblers III about time travel and Stephen Chow has telekinetic powers and it doesn稚 even have gambling. They also rebooted the movie a few times, which is how I first came into contact with it (I saw From Vegas to Macau (the second reboot) when it came out in 2014 and its pretty cool but I had no idea it had this strange legacy it was drawing from). I only put God of Gamblers in the title but I知 probably gonna watch all 3 and All for the Winner in the next week or so. These films, like a crapton of HK movies from the 80s/90s, are on YouTube but the quality is usually dreadful so I値l just be watching it with  other means . --- From the Staff Picks Archives January 31st, 2017: Cure February 7th, 2017: Westfront 1918 February 14th, 2017: John Wick February 21st, 2017: Red Sorghum
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Andy Lau is pretty much the only Chinese actor I can name without first looking at a list of Chines actors, true fact. Sounds a bit like a less serious Intacto. That's a good film, if you can bear to watch something that's not in Chinese.
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Feb 28, 2017 18:30
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Hong Kong isn't china !
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Feb 28, 2017 19:49
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Andy Lau is pretty much the only Hong Kong actor I can name without first looking at a list of Hong Kong actors, true fact. Sounds a bit like a less serious Intacto. That's a good film, if you can bear to watch something that's not in Hong.
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Feb 28, 2017 19:58
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all these films are great, each in their own unique way. III has a great scene where chow's character gets instructed how to do fight moves over the phone, from someone in the future, while he's in the middle of a fight
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Mar 1, 2017 01:21
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In Training posted:I only put God of Gamblers in the title but I知 probably gonna watch all 3 and All for the Winner in the next week or so. These films, like a crapton of HK movies from the 80s/90s, are on YouTube but the quality is usually dreadful so I値l just be watching it with Was curious about this for the past picks. Were the majority of the previous picks available on youtube?
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Mar 3, 2017 19:10
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West front and Red Sorghum were. John Wick I rented on amazon and Cure is on filmstruck which I have a sub to
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Mar 3, 2017 19:19
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Got nothing going on tomorrow so I may drink heavily and watch 3 of these
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Mar 4, 2017 08:31
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These are legit good threads and I enjoy them a lot. It reminds me of friends telling me just enough to get me interested to check it out.
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Mar 4, 2017 13:52
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Watching this now and everything in the first 10 minutes it's extremely my poo poo. Im gonna watch this whole series
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Mar 5, 2017 02:46
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Please watch this movie if you can it's really friggin good even though the commonly available translation is rear end
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Mar 5, 2017 03:19
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OMFG the triple chocolate rejuvenation into the insane card tricks into the switch blade trick show was unbelievably epic. I'm going to make a lot of good gifs from this movie
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Mar 5, 2017 03:50
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i demand the gifs
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Mar 8, 2017 22:05
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I was drinking while watching the movie so I didn't actually take notes or write down any timestamps  but I'll scrub through it and try to remember some good momentsAlso I'll be posting the next week later tonight, I got distracted yesterday and today by Playing Nier for 9 hours
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Mar 9, 2017 00:57
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Here it is: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3812872
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Mar 9, 2017 02:17
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Lmfao in All for the Winner stephen chow (who has ESP) watches God of Gamblers on VHS to study how to look cool so he can pass as a real gambler while he cheats bc he can see all the cards and then does this: https://my.mixtape.moe/ruzyjg.webm
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Mar 10, 2017 02:35
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Also this parody movie has a body count in the triple digits I would guess
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Mar 10, 2017 02:45
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There's like an 8 minute bit where Chow talks to a woman's armpit and goes on a date with it and tries to feed it various meats and alcoholic drinks
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Mar 10, 2017 03:11
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loving incredible
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Mar 10, 2017 03:28
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Win. http://i.imgur.com/ovXFYHt.gifv
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Mar 10, 2017 03:30
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http://i.imgur.com/3jTe0aq.gifv
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Mar 10, 2017 03:35
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stephen chow is so win
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Mar 10, 2017 19:51
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Seems like I need to watch All for the Winner
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Mar 10, 2017 20:53
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The first scene of god of gamblers II is the god's protege playing blackjack with 4 decks and he draws 16 aces in a row and splits them all and then the house busts and he wins untold millions.
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Mar 14, 2017 16:56
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when they drop this gag in the first 10 minutes of a movie you know youre in for a loving classic. http://i.imgur.com/ZnwtYIR.gifv
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Mar 14, 2017 17:24
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Awesome
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Mar 14, 2017 17:47
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Mar 14, 2017 17:51
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https://my.mixtape.moe/epaysg.webm
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Mar 14, 2017 18:19
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At the end of this movie they introduce a completely new, totally incidental gambler at one of the dice tables who also happens to have ESP and the movie just turns into duels between chow and this guy throwing chi blasts at dice
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Mar 14, 2017 18:30
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Heres all the screenies i took http://imgur.com/a/VmPCr Epic movie. Maybe Ill watch III tonight.
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Mar 14, 2017 18:59
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Lol "After the events in God of Gamblers II, Tai-kun, who lost his ESP powers, has regained the abilities again and seeks revenge against Sing, the Saint of Gamblers. When Tai-kun, aided by his fellow disciples, exerts ESP powers under full force against Sing who is doing likewise to them, the spacetime becomes distorted and sends Tai-kun and Sing to Shanghai in 1937." sounds Amazeballs
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Mar 14, 2017 19:00
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Fine fine I'll watch it I'll watch it.
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Mar 14, 2017 23:18
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Watching God of Gamblers III. Chow just hosed a guys rear end in a top hat with a swordfish
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Mar 15, 2017 01:28
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Lol Gong Li is in this movie as the mainlander babe.
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Mar 15, 2017 01:33
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Close to 40 minutes in and nobody has gambled yet
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Mar 15, 2017 01:47
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it looks like i am going to watch the god of gamblers series
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Mar 16, 2017 00:23
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I only watched half of it because the video file was split into two parts and Plex couldn't figure out how to find subtitles for the second half which ticked me off. the story upnto that point though is that chow invented macdonalds in 1931 shanghai and irrevocably changed the course of history
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Mar 16, 2017 00:26
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In Training posted:I only watched half of it because the video file was split into two parts and Plex couldn't figure out how to find subtitles for the second half which ticked me off. the story upnto that point though is that chow invented macdonalds in 1931 shanghai and irrevocably changed the course of history lmfao
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Youtube subbed version of God of Gamblers II https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezKUf49qCRo
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