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Siu Lam juk kau (2001)
Best Movie of 2001
At least until I saw Harry Potter. Stephen Chow is a comic genius(sp). He knows the best comedy is when the actors play it straight. That characters don't have to be over the top half wits to be funny. With his tongue planted firmly in his cheek, Stephen Chow takes a rather run of the mill sports plot and creates a laugh out loud gem. Lavish special effects only add to the humor and constant poking fun at film genres and conventions. Only the occasional grossness of Number 6 Younger Brother doesn't translate well to American. Also the pathetic subtitles add and extra level comedy for us English speakers.
I'm hoping that rumors I've heard of a US release of the film this year are true.
Freedom Strike (1998)
I haven't seen this film
But I did work on it.
First off, Michael Dudikoff, heck of a nice guy. Not $40k/day nice but great to the crew. I was amazed at how cheeseball this production was. The USS Lane Victory (a WWII frieghter) was substituted for an aircraft carrier. And the carrier island scenes were shot in a parking lot next to a wall that was painted grey. For the flight scenes, they got the front end of a real Tomcat to stick the actors in. It wasn't gutted or anything so it weighed a few tons and we wound up placing it on a trash bins (that it crushed) so we didn't get the warehouse we were shooting in, in the shot. The F-14 wasn't secured at all and each actor was risking death being in the thing. Kudos to them. Then there was the nuke plant. A power generator in Sun Valley, just down the street from Babylon 5 actually.
I did try to watch it once but failed. But, I thought you all might be interested in what doesn't go into these straight to video wonders.