gamingeek said:
I just saw Confessions. And I'm still in shock.
Wow....... just....... wow that is a dark and powerful movie. I'll edit this post later to tell you why.
It's difficult to tell you guys why Confessions is a such a good movie without spoiling the plot for you. As you can see in the quotes above in the movie poster, it's a great movie.
I can see why there are Oldboy comparisons because the movie is about revenge but it shows none of the virtuoso directing panache of a Park Chan Wook film. I would more compare it to something like Battle Royale. I don't know what your feelings were when you first saw that movie, but I found it quite edgy and it pushed the boundaries a lot, it was however shlocky in a fun way. Confessions pushes those boundaries further but doesn't have to resort to crowd pleasing thrills to be a good movie. It's a movie which catches you at the start and leaves you completely engrossed for the rest of the movie. It's dark, sometimes shocking and has a strong subject matter at its heart. It's a film which twists your emotions about with revelations and ultimately plays out like a Shakesperian tradgedy.
It's a very good movie.
Watched Cars 2 with the family. Fun and forgettable. Bought BluRays of Fantasia, Tangled and Ponyo.
gamingeek said:It's difficult to tell you guys why Confessions is a such a good movie without spoiling the plot for you. As you can see in the quotes above in the movie poster, it's a great movie.
I can see why there are Oldboy comparisons because the movie is about revenge but it shows none of the virtuoso directing panache of a Park Chan Wook film. I would more compare it to something like Battle Royale. I don't know what your feelings were when you first saw that movie, but I found it quite edgy and it pushed the boundaries a lot, it was however shlocky in a fun way. Confessions pushes those boundaries further but doesn't have to resort to crowd pleasing thrills to be a good movie. It's a movie which catches you at the start and leaves you completely engrossed for the rest of the movie. It's dark, sometimes shocking and has a strong subject matter at its heart. It's a film which twists your emotions about with revelations and ultimately plays out like a Shakesperian tradgedy.
It's a very good movie.
I'm expecting it to be a light hearted Japanese romantic comedy in terms of darkness going by your thoughts on SFMV, but it does sound good.
I saw this earlier film from the director of the very good movie Confessions
It's called Kamikazee Girls and its about a biker chick and a girl obssessed with the Frencg Rococo fashion style who form an unlikely friendship. It's a comedy and started out fairly whiz bang and I thought that I couldn't watch if it if the movie continued like that for the rest of the 1 hour 40 min run time. It's one of those films that throws caution to the wind and does whatever it wants. I actually enjoyed it alot. It has some smoking hot babes in it too. 
Also saw Memento
I may get some hate for this, but I didn't like it. I saw the twist coming a mile away. I kinda got what was going to happen within like the first 20 minutes and the rest was just mumbling from then on, headed to a destination I already knew.
Saw the first 3 episodes of Alias
It's okay, don't like the implausibility of this woman going to grad school and the classic JJ Abrams bullshit contrasting scenes like in Star Trek having Kirk born at the same time his dad was just about to be killed with an emo conversation over the radio to his escaping wife.
Otherwise, series seems too similat to Nikita and the lead actress...... I don't buy it. I can't take her seriously in the role she doesn't seem menancing or deadly or anything. They dress her up in all these stupid outfits. Meh.
Think I will try Supernatural now and then maybe come back to this.
^ That scene in Star Trek was AWESOME. What is wrong with you.
GG you can be proud, I watched a chinese movie. I saw Ip Man tonight. Very good action flick. It seems like it wants to be a bit more dramatic than it really is but the fights were awesome.
So GG what movie should I see next? I know you push a ton of these asian films. BTW where do you see all this, do your theaters get these movies? Or do you just pay attention online to what is big in asia and rent the movies.
Dvader said:GG you can be proud, I watched a chinese movie. I saw Ip Man tonight. Very good action flick. It seems like it wants to be a bit more dramatic than it really is but the fights were awesome.
So GG what movie should I see next? I know you push a ton of these asian films. BTW where do you see all this, do your theaters get these movies? Or do you just pay attention online to what is big in asia and rent the movies.
Nice try, but that's a Hong Kong film.
Foolz said:Nice try, but that's a Hong Kong film.
Oh for the love of... who cares! It has asian people, same crap.
You could have at least called in to question the sovereignty of Hong Kong!
Its so crazy that Japan invaded China and occupied it for some time. That small island took on this beast of a country and won, god they had huge balls. What the hell was their problem anyway, they were assholes.
And Vader learn history from movies! Go rent a documentary about wha Japan did in China, would be a real eye opener!
And Vader to anwer your question, go see Supercop or sometimes it is called Police Story. Whatever, it has Jackie Chan and it is one of his best movies.
Dvader said:Its so crazy that Japan invaded China and occupied it for some time. That small island took on this beast of a country and won, god they had huge balls. What the hell was their problem anyway, they were assholes.
I see a lot of suspect Chines movies where they depict the Japanese in a really bad light. What people need to remember is that Japan invaded China more than once. They were pretty much the South Asian Nazi's back then so there are a lot of Chinese people with long memories.
Dvader said:GG you can be proud, I watched a chinese movie. I saw Ip Man tonight. Very good action flick. It seems like it wants to be a bit more dramatic than it really is but the fights were awesome.
So GG what movie should I see next? I know you push a ton of these asian films. BTW where do you see all this, do your theaters get these movies? Or do you just pay attention online to what is big in asia and rent the movies.
IP Man was decent, but not a patch on Fearless IMO which you've already seen. You might want to import the Fearless Directors cut with something like 25 minutes extra but I doubt you'd do that. I read more than several online sites a day for news and reviews of these movies and I have my favourite directors who I keep an eye on.
Here in London select movies release in the theatres but they always release late and by the time they come out you can import them on dvd earler from playasia or yesasia.com
Recentely though and I mean this year - they've been pretty good about releasing the UK dvd versions only a couple of weeks or months later than the region 3 versions.
For you the next movie I would wholeheartedly reccomend would be Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame. It's director Tsui Hark won best director for the film at a few award shows this year. It's a popular, entertaining, unstuffy movie with plenty of invention and action too. It's almost like a buddy cop film set in ancient China only with supernatural elements.
travo said:GG, I finally watched Ponyo the other day. The story was ok, but I was most impressed with the fluid animation. My son was also into the movie, "popo" as he calls it.
So I'm guessing you watched it in english then?
Saw the final part of the Milennium trilogy, the Girl who Kicked the Hornets Nest
Really good movie, all 3 of the films are. They are remaking these movies with David Fincher directing and Daniel Craig as the journalist.
I urge you to see the original trilogy of movies starting with the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
Harry Potter finale gets a big thumbs up from me. I am satisfied, I thought it was an exciting has hell movie. All the plot twists were handled very well with some great acting performances from the elder actors. Fines in particular is fantastic in the movie, Voldemort enters movie villain hall of fame with this movie. It still has its issues specfically with important moments happening off screen, sacrifice for time I guess.
My thoughts on the overall series is that for people who never read the books it doesn't excactly flow well. Throughout the movies I constantly felt lost, like I was missing pieces of the story. Also I felt like the movies could never focus on one thing. What I gather from the movies is that the books are very busy, it must have a ton of characters and sub plots. That works great for a book but for movies it doesn't and these films tried to cover a lot in a short amount of time and the result are movies that feel disjointed. The series is also lacking in emotional impact, maybe because its a kids movie it doesn't poor on the emotion. With LOTR I was fully invested in the characters, by the end of their journey I felt what they felt. I don't really feel much for these characters, the movies don't catch that struggle or emotional arch like the best fantasy movies do. For instance in this last movie major side characters die off screen, all of a sudden you see them dead, how are you supposed to be emotionally invested when you are not getting to watch the pay off, the moment. One important aspect to any franchise is its music and I don't know if John Williams was bored but I have not found one piece of music memorable from the whole series. Meanwhile I can hum practically every song of LOTR and each of them bring a whole range of emotion with them, same with Star Wars.
I will say that what WB did, what these producers and this cast has been able to accomplish with this series is remarkable. 10 years, 8 movies, all with the same cast (death aside). We literally saw these actors grow up like they do in the story and that is amazing. I doubt we will ever see a series like it ever again.
^ Did you buy the books too? 
Two men enter! One man leave! Yeah, crap!