An above average 80s crime movie. Nothing too crazy to be honest, other than getting to watch Chow Yun-Fat be the literal coolest person alive.
It very obviously inspired Reservoir Dogs, so that’s cool I guess
Really great slow movie about people’s different responses to living in their pasts.
I think it perfectly encapsulates the feeling in adulthood where people you know sort of unceremoniously coming back in your life, briefly catching up, realizing you’re both different people after spending time together, then leaving the same way they came.
This movie also continues the trend of stories about people being homesick for their adolescence. I can’t offhandedly think of a Western movie like that, but I feel like I can list so many East Asian movies like it, which I think is interesting.
Mostly a standard romance, but Maggie Cheung carries it way further
impenetrable cybersecurity in 2009 is so funny to look back on. This film is formulaic at times, the plot is predictable but also hard enough to keep track of that it kind of makes up for it. Several of these characters are transgender furries without knowing it, they plug flip phones into ethernet cables to play cards with demons. I won’t forgive that guy for killing the koi. (spoilers)
7⁄10
uggggggghhhhhhhhh
Suffers from the same issue that I talked about in my log for The Night Comes for Us, where the movie is more interested in the spectacle of action rather than the action itself. This movie sort of gets a pass since its not as egregious but also since its more about the drama and history (which happens to not be very interesting). Ip Man doesn’t lose a single fight and isn’t worried about losing at all, so its hard to be invested
The animation of when they turned on the engine in the shack blew my mind. In combination with the sound design it felt like I was there
Easily one of the best martial arts movie I’ve seen. There’s so many fight scenes and every single one of them does something new so it never gets old. The story isn’t really special, but for 1978 its very passable.
Pretty much a B-movie from the at times incoherent plot to the over used sound effects. But I don’t care because Tony Jaa demonstrates literally every possible combination for kicking and breaking a persons limbs.
I feel like the movie’s only purpose is to conclude a characters story, which is fine, but I think it forgot to be a movie in the process
finished FIGHT CLUB thirty minutes ago and ate some fucking bacon. i’ve never seen a movie this good. my god. i felt like the guy. i see everything in my world a little different.
rot13, spoilers: v jnf shpxvat ubcvat gur ohvyqvatf’q penfu qbja. FB shpxvat tbbq.
The fepular inland sea that stabilizes the ape nosh at about 25 laiks is quite fantastic.
I’ve watched this many times. It’s much better when you find the extended edition.
very beautiful
the action is on par with the first movie (really great) but there’s like at least 20 minutes worth of plot that doesn’t matter and slows things down
I think this is like the 3rd or 4th movie I’ve seen made by Koreans, and I’m getting more concerned about them and if they’re ok