Bullets 'n' Babes

Tsui Hark's The Lovers : 5/5

:drunken:

Perhaps the most beautiful movie I've ever seen.
Tsui Hark and James Wong are gods.

Headspace - 4.5/5
An indie horror movie, and its a great one. I really enjoyed this movie about an intelligent guy, who can read books in minutes, but there something not right about him. The gorey scenes are excellent, and there are great cameos from Olivia Hussey, William Atherton, Sean Young, Udo Kier and Dee Wallace. The only thing with the movie is the ending, it does leave you heardscratching, but Andrew van den Houten's debut movie is a cracker

hey,

Invincible 2/5

Amibitious, global actioner by Blackie Ko but there's not much on offer despite. A good maximum overdrive finale though.

Shingster wrote:The Kiki dubtitles are an accurate translation of the original Japanese. So much so that no other DVD release has bothered to include an independant translation.

Unless of course the r2uk only has dubtitles of the Disney dub?

Well they did translate Kohee (Japanese for coffee) as "hot chocolate"...

It's funny, it's very rare that I see Eng subtitles reproduce the English words in a Japanese sentence - they always seem to translate them into something similar, and occasionally (as in the example above) something totally different!

They did that in Princess Mononoke - translating "gruel" as "soup".

Japanese: This gruel tastes like hot water.
English: Are you selling soup or donkey piss?

'Nine girls and a ghost' 3/5

the title suggests forgetable pap, yet i strangely enjoyed it, even though it was aimed for girls (i got a card inside saying a won a free laurier tampon) :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

Blaizeyboy who's the girl in your avitar?
Doesn't she get giddy from doing that?

its joey yung, she only gets giddy when she see's me

grim_tales wrote:They did that in Princess Mononoke - translating "gruel" as "soup".

Japanese: This gruel tastes like hot water.
English: Are you selling soup or donkey piss?

That should hopefully be rectified in the new Optimum DVD....

hey,

City Cop 3.5/5

Very familiar and by the numbers cop action from Herman Yau. But there is some worthwhile themes planted here and there that makes the film affecting and humane.

She Shoots Straight - 2/5

Meh. It was ok, but hardly up to the standards of the top Hong Kong films of the 1990s...

I rather liked SSS. Great cast and great action.

Ed Wood - 4/5
Horrifyingly true film. Couldn't help but jerk tears as I could identify with how he tries to raise money for his films. Damn true, lol! And nothing has changed over the years.

thelostdragon wrote:Ed Wood - 4/5
Couldn't help but jerk tears as I could identify with how he tries to raise money for his films.

And his angora sweater fetish... come on you can tell us...

<b>Windtalkers</b> 0.5/5

God was I bored by about the 50min mark... seemed like a bad made for TV movie but with a better effects budget (oh look another shell landing causing stunt men to bounce off trampolines; I wonder when we'll see an arm chopped off again with a katana, oh not long then; hmm must be about time for another pained and/or crazy look from Mr Cage... yes, yes there it is...)

Really really disappointed with Mr Woo

So disappointed I turned off and watched...

<b>The Punisher</b> 3/5

Second viewing still a good little stand by, it cant quite make up its mind whether to go the whole hog with the comic hero/villan thing with the "Russian" being a bit too comicy compared with the other bad guys

Still perked me up no end after Windtalkers

May get around to watching the rest, but I doubt it

Did you watch the Dolph Lundgren one or the 2004 version?

Azumi 2 - 3.95/4
Not a bad sequel, I was expecting worse, most people said that the sword fighting wasn't that good, when reading the reviews on the net. They are not bad, some of it is really really good. Especially the wire fight. The story was good, I enjoyed it.

Overall a good sequel, not that bad

Out of 4 or 5?

The Host - 3,5/5
Better than I expected. Not the most original monster movie ever made, but it did manage to avoid most clichés. The amount of (sometimes rather dark) humour was a positive surpise. Even the GCI was decent. A nice movie, but I don’t really see why people are getting so terribly excited about it.

Sheitan – 2,5/5
God damn, Vincent Cassel is crazy. And that’s an understatement. I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything that equals his performance in pure insanity. The movie itself is a very 80’s kind of horror movie with a bunch of irritating teens going countryside and spending a night in the wrong house. Thoroughly disgusting, but rather effective. The opening scene (with flashing lights) gave me a headache.

Time – 3,5/5
That’s a temporary rating only. I wasn’t expecting a melodramatic and dialogue driven movie filled with humour from the master of silence. Not one of Kim’s best film IMO, but everyone else seems to love it. It was a very interesting film, though. Even with my false expectations I greatly enjoyed it. I think I should give it another chance as soon as possible. I might like it even more on the second viewing.

Where/How did you watch The Host ?
I haven't been able to find it yet.

tom2681 wrote:Where/How did you watch The Host ?
I haven't been able to find it yet.

http://www.hiff.fi

grim_tales wrote:Out of 4 or 5?

I meant 5

I thought Sheitan was ok-ish until the ending.... maybe... not really sure tbh.

American Dad Series 1 - 4/5
Simpsons S13 - 3.5/5
Wheels on Meals - 4/5
How I Met Your Mother Season 1 - 4.5/5