What DVD / Video did you watch last night? (pt3)

[scalyboy]

No idea mate, tbh it featured a fair whack of line-work and similar trickery. If only you asked about Tai Chi Zero - each main character was introduced with character name, actor name AND why they were in the movie in the first place, stuff like, was a 70s martial arts film star, is a Wing Chun champion, is a famous female actor and so on

OK, cheers, will have a watch on YouTube and check, someone's uploaded the complete film...although with no subtitles, hmm.

 

[Virtual Blue]

Do you know if the martial art was Taekwondo? Lots of kicking? Me and the mrs are on the lookout for martial arts films featuring Taekwondo (whether made in Korea or no), seem a bit hard to find.

Chocolate (Thai film).

 

[TruXta]

OK, cheers, will have a watch on YouTube and check, someone's uploaded the complete film...although with no subtitles, hmm.

There are good torrents out there if you do that sorta thing. English subs too.

 

[belboid]

Do you know if the martial art was Taekwondo? Lots of kicking? Me and the mrs are on the lookout for martial arts films featuring Taekwondo (whether made in Korea or no), seem a bit hard to find.

the literal translation of TruXta film is, apparently, Gone With The Wind. I wonder why they didnt go with that?

I presume you've seen the wiki taekwondo film page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Tae_kwon_do_films There's a Roger Corman movie!

 

[TruXta]

the literal translation of TruXta film is, apparently, Gone With The Wind. I wonder why they didnt go with that?

I presume you've seen the wiki taekwondo film page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Tae_kwon_do_films There's a Roger Corman movie!

Actually that would've been a better title in some respects.

E2A oh fuck yeah Best of the Best - classic!

 

[DexterTCN]

Do you know if the martial art was Taekwondo? Lots of kicking? Me and the mrs are on the lookout for martial arts films featuring Taekwondo (whether made in Korea or no), seem a bit hard to find.

Chuck Norris.

And Chocolate is Muay Thai, not TKD. (still excellent though)

 

[jeff_leigh]

Chuck Norris.

And Chocolate is Muay Thai, not TKD. (still excellent though)

I'll have to watch Chocolate again, Those fight scenes didn't look like muay thai to me

 

[Mephitic]

Citadel ~ Surprisingly decent horror.

 

[Reno]

The Last Wave, Peter Weir's 1977 follow up to Picnic at Hanging Rock and another (possibly) supernatural mystery. Australia experiences increasingly violent and unusual weather patterns, possibly tied to an Aboriginal prohecy while layer Richard Chamberlain takes on the case of five Aboriginal men in a murder trial. I had not seen this since my teens when I was very impressed by the film. It still is very atmospheric and creepy and it's an interesting film, but maybe it's a little too slowly paced. It's a horror film where water takes on an increasingly threatening quality and that was done rather well.

 

[butchersapron]

Great film that, atmosphere similar to The Shout from the next year and that touches on common themes.

Head - Hands - Heart - disappointing second film from David Jarab, his first - Fatherland - a hunting logbook - was a great mix of style and black humour, this one was just a bit of a mess and tried to shoehorn in geo-political points that the film couldn't carry - same sort of soft-surrealist style though, he has total control of that.

 

[Virtual Blue]

I'll have to watch Chocolate again, Those fight scenes didn't look like muay thai to me

it's not exactly muay thai but Jeeja (the lead) is a 3rd dan TKD black belt.

if you watch the fight scenes, it's TKD with elbows and knees...
great film though and you can watch it from beginning to end on youtube.

the meat market scene is still one of the best scenes ever...

 

[rubbershoes]

Happiness.

Jesus

a great film but it leaves you feeling soiled

 

[8115]

a great film but it leaves you feeling soiled

I watched it after watching Dark Horse, which I loved. Happiness was a bit too dark for me though.

 

[rubbershoes]

I watched it after watching Dark Horse, which I loved. Happiness was a bit too dark for me though.

Try Happiness as a triple bill with Breaking the waves and Naked

 

[Reno]

Great film that, atmosphere similar to The Shout from the next year and that touches on common themes.

I last saw that around the first time I also saw The Last Wave, probably in the early 80s. Should give it another look. True they have a similar feel to them.

 

[TruXta]

Happiness is ace. Dark as hell, yes.

 

[Idris2002]

Happiness is ace. Dark as hell, yes.

It's a piece of shit.

 

[TruXta]

It's a piece of shit.

Why do you say that?

 

[Idris2002]

Why do you say that?

Because it's shit.

I'm here all week - try the veal.

Seriously, the nihilism and misanthropy and self-loathing are utterly unrelieved by anything. Bleakness can be attractive in films - look at Bergman - but Happiness is not a film, it is a libel on the human race.

 

[Virtual Blue]

Happiness? I saw this at the Curzon when it first came out. It blew me away. Funny and at times cynical.
Not seen it for years now, so unsure how it's aged.

 

[TruXta]

Because it's shit.

I'm here all week - try the veal.

Seriously, the nihilism and misanthropy and self-loathing are utterly unrelieved by anything. Bleakness can be attractive in films - look at Bergman - but Happiness is not a film, it is a libel on the human race.

I can see where you're coming from, but I thought it was worthwhile despite being unrelenting. Horses for courses etc.

 

[Reno]

I didn't like Happiness. It's just misantropy for effect. It didn't tell me anything I didn't know already and I thought it was rather shallow. There has been a lot of it about in middlebrow art house cinema over the last decade or so and I'm rather tired of this particular brand of cinematic cynicism. People are bad, yadda yadda...

 

[butchersapron]

To me it just said, i can technically write this. I have the ability. In that sense, it was just CGI.

 

[TruXta]

I didn't like Happiness either. It's just misantropy for effect. It didn't tell me anything I didn't know already and I thought it was rather shallow. There has been a lot of it about in middlebrow art house cinema over the last decade or so and I'm rather tired of this particular brand of cynicism. People are bad, yadda yadda, get over it...

To me it just said, i can technically write this. I have the ability. In that sense, it was just CGI.

Again, I can see that point, and in a sense it's like gore-films where the violence is the only message. On the other hand, why not have a film that has nothing but nihilism and despair? Why isn't that a valid statement?

 

[butchersapron]

Again, I can see that point, and in a sense it's like gore-films where the violence is the only message. On the other hand, why not have a film that has nothing but nihilism and despair? Why isn't that a valid statement?

It is. Valid i mean. Transformers is too.

 

[TruXta]

It is. Valid i mean.

So you reaction was more meh? As in, OK, but it's not for me?

 

[butchersapron]

So you reaction was more meh? As in, OK, but it's not for me?

Bit more like, ok, well done, slow handclap.

 

[TruXta]

Bit more like, ok, well done, slow handclap.

Gotcha.

 

[Idris2002]

I didn't like Happiness. It's just misantropy for effect. It didn't tell me anything I didn't know already and I thought it was rather shallow. There has been a lot of it about in middlebrow art house cinema over the last decade or so and I'm rather tired of this particular brand of cinematic cynicism. People are bad, yadda yadda...

Yeah, exactly. The great films were made by people who had some kind of hinterland outside films, some kind of interest in other people and some kind of interest in the world around them. Dreck like Happiness is what you get when you have people who have technical skills, but no interest in anything outside their own self-pity.

 

[Virtual Blue]

Was Happiness that dull?
Gosh, I remember when I watched it in the cinema, there were loads of laughter.
That was it more comedy than nihilism/ bleakness...