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CoasterMatt 03-04-2008 09:05 PM

Pollock in HD was an awesome experience.

Bornieo: Fully Loaded 03-04-2008 09:14 PM

I just purchased HARD BOILED on DVD. John Woo, Chow Yun Fat and a bodycount of 308 according to IMDB.com. An amazing Hong Kong action picture that is unequalled in the action, style and its wild to see how many films after it totally stole sequences.

The first action sequence is just so cool. Its a Chinese teahouse. Everone's got a gun and just what seems to be 20 min. of stuff- food- bodies flying all around. Just breathtaking.

Not Afraid 03-04-2008 09:16 PM

I LOVELOVELOVE that movie! It's not a genre I generally like (or can even stomach) but Hard Boiled (and The Killers) are so over the top, it's all ok with me.

CoasterMatt 03-04-2008 09:27 PM

If you like Hard Boiled - you gotta see Bullet In The Head, one of my favorites.

mousepod 03-04-2008 11:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by CoasterMatt (Post 196332)
If you like Hard Boiled - you gotta see Bullet In The Head, one of my favorites.

I gotta agree with Matt - Bullet In The Head could be Woo's masterpiece. A lot darker than Hard Boiled and The Killer, and also unfortunately not in print in the US. Of the myriad versions of the movie on import DVD, I'd go for the Hong Kong one by a company called Joy Sales.

flippyshark 03-05-2008 05:08 AM

I had A Bullet In The Head a couple of years ago, and sold it on eBay during desperate times. Wish I hadn't done that.

Ghoulish Delight 03-05-2008 09:56 AM

We watched More (1969) last night. The biggest selling point for this movie is the Pink Floyd soundtrack.

What can I say about it. First off, it's a pretty sucky movie. The writing sucks, the acting sucks.

That said, I really enjoyed it. I think what did it the most for me was the international flair to it. A German guy meets a New York girl in Paris, then follows her to Ibiza, meeting people of all different nationalities in the process. The movie I think captured something of that 60s European youth culture, where it was easy to just hop on a steam ship and bounce around the continent.

It also does a pretty admirable, if oddly sanitized, job of portraying drug use. There were a few good lines. "People who use heroine are people who want an escape from life. People who use pot or acid want to intensify their lives." (or something very close to that, can't find the exact quote).

And the music of course was awesome...when it was there. That was one of the bigger disappointments. It's a 2 hour movie and the majority of it has no score whatsoever. Huge stretches of watching bad dialog being poorly acted without even mind-bending music to listen to.

Overall I'd give it somewhere between a 6 and a 7.

innerSpaceman 03-05-2008 11:23 AM

Sounds like a good cemetary movie (with pot and acid, of course)

Cadaverous Pallor 03-05-2008 08:15 PM

I'm just so very glad I never went for the seriously addictive stuff.

CoasterMatt 03-05-2008 08:42 PM

Yeah, I'm glad I stayed away from hardcore drugs and went straight to cheddar cheese popcorn.


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