Oooh, I just watched the trailer for Bride With White Hair (though IMDB). Still great. God, I love Brigitte Lin so much. Candy! Brigitte Lin Film Festival Stat!
Mal: Hell, this job I would pull for free. Zoe: Can I have your share? Mal: No. Zoe: If you die, can I have your share? Mal: Yes.
'The Train Job'
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DavidS - Feb 24, 2005 7:26:03 am PST #9303 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Nutty - Feb 24, 2005 7:31:18 am PST #9304 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
I confess, I'm not a fan of the HK/Chinese historical epic. Just, does practically nothing for me. I'm very much of the opinion that if you've seen one Once Upon a Time in China, you've seen them all.
(I also think that the genre constraints may have historically encouraged fart-smelling acting, which is so painful to watch and so rife in historicals. Jet Li, I am looking at you. )
candyb - Feb 24, 2005 7:32:31 am PST #9305 of 10001
2046 will make you love ItMfL even more.
Ugh, God of Gamblers II made my friend Claudine lose her Chow Yun Fat lust. Nobody wants to see him being a doof.
I blame Wong Jing, the director. His movies mostly suck, often very watchable because of the actors, but not that good. But turning CYF into a doofus? A crime.
Candy! Brigitte Lin Film Festival Stat!
I had a mini-one over the Holidays. Deadful Melody, Bride with White Hair, and Dragon Inn.
DavidS - Feb 24, 2005 7:42:40 am PST #9306 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I had a mini-one over the Holidays. Deadful Melody, Bride with White Hair, and Dragon Inn.
::checks through mail pile for invitation. Fails to find one. Looks questioningly at Candy, tears welling up in eyes...:
I confess, I'm not a fan of the HK/Chinese historical epic.
That's why I'm pimping the HK noir to you. How'd you feel about Black Cat?
DavidS - Feb 24, 2005 7:43:28 am PST #9307 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Also, Candy, can you explain the title of Deadful Melody to me? Because...you know, it looks like a typo. Is "Deadful" supposed to be like "fatal"?
Beverly - Feb 24, 2005 7:58:10 am PST #9308 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Raquel, could it have been The Legacy? That's what I thought of at your description. But they haven't inherited the mansion, they're guests of the owner.
candyb - Feb 24, 2005 8:03:53 am PST #9309 of 10001
Sorry, DavidS!
Yes, fatal. As far as I can tell.
I am mclargehuge with love for all those period kung-fu/wuxia movies from the 90's.
Love the noir triad movies too. I just love HK/Asian movies.
It's been tough lately with the HK movie industry having a bad time trying to recover from SARS and whatnot.
Nutty - Feb 24, 2005 8:07:13 am PST #9310 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
That's why I'm pimping the HK noir to you. How'd you feel about Black Cat?
Haven't seen it. I've plowed through a number of crime-family gun-battle melodramas from the late 80s, early 90s, but I have a powerful OTT-o-meter, and have been mostly unsatisfied.
Vonnie K - Feb 24, 2005 8:17:54 am PST #9311 of 10001
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
but I have a powerful OTT-o-meter
Mine's probably not as powerful as Nutty's, but I often find myself unwilling to be transported by the magic of melodrama and tragic star-crossed love or whatever that tend to plague most HK dramas. I had to try hard not to guffaw out loud at the end of "House of Flying Daggers" (while rolling my eyes at the lot of them for being such melodramatic queens, like, THREESOME. Look into it.) I think I actually cackled at the end of "The Killer"--or whichever flick that had Chow Yun Fat and the blind girl flailing at each other on snow at the end. But mine is a stodgy type of a soul, I'm afraid.
Nutty - Feb 24, 2005 8:20:32 am PST #9312 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
OMG! The Killer! I have that on an old videotape. Because it's the only HK melodrama I own, it has a special place as "no, really, it's all a huge joke!" pretend-irony.
I mean, there are OTT moments that are total jokes, and then there are ones that nobody who made the movie was in on at the time.