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AV (2005)
A Dark Comedy with Morals to be learned
This movie exceeds any Teen movie from America i have ever seen, it shouldn't even be compared. This movie does have a lot of Nudity yes, very true, but boobs only and nothing else not only that. The movie was able to make a Porn stars life very sentimental and interesting and it wasn't even unbalanced like "The Girl Next Door" This movie had a very steady pace and had it's comedic moments when the Teenagers wanted to have sex with a pornstar therefore used all there brainpower and ingenuity and the characters Themselves realised it. Therefore they realised that if they input there brainpower and ingenuity to other forms of work they can make it! They can do something with there lifes.
Not only that This movie is a lot more like a Drama then a Comedy, The moments where one of the friends fell in love with the porn star had a lot of Puppy Love and Sentimental moments where there acting shines and you got to know the characters much more. This movie also shows better emotions of how the friends Friendship and cares for each other in comedic ways.
This movie is very well done, it's not the most stylistic but the story is there, do not be fooled with the title of the movie, if you don't mind Boobs then you wouldn't mind this movies Nudity. The Jokes aren't even over the top like American Pie or Teen movies made in America. There more realistic like how one would that to there friend about sex.
Very well done 9/10 for me!
Jeuk sing (2005)
YAAAY Finally Another typical Fun Gambling Wong Jing Flick!
well of course, everybody knows the typical Asian gambling movie formula.
hero wins at the beginning, gets a love interest, somehow loses it on the way, Loses some kind of sense or skill, pretends he loses it and wins.
it never changes, it's a great typical wong jing flick! But of course in this movie there are a few misses of course poor direction and poor storytelling. but who doesn't like Forced over-dramatic love? where the love makes sense but goes so fast and drives the hero mad? anyways i love these type of movies, so if you liked God of Gamblers, You'll see how much this movie bites off of that but turns it into a comedy. Anyways if you like these kinds of movies, Yes definitely get them if you don't beware of poor directing and a lot of crazy jokes.
Lian'ai qiyi (2001)
an amazing indie masterpiece
the movie in a lot of ways reminded of 2046 because of the ending but the three stories were done quite well.
Kidnap They did a kidnap love story with a pretty good plot and interesting characters. The angles in how they portrayed the story were what you would expect from a kidnapping. There were some pretty good uses of Black and White in this movie.
My Beloved I thought they really did a good job in making the person look cool not only that but also make this character look seriously cool when he is in his own make believe world like going to a grave and pretending something died. The music was qued perfectly. There was a lot of comedy in this one making this part of the movie an action/comedy/thriller. What you would expect from most Asian action movies since they usually have this awkward cheesiness for it.
oh g! this movie really touched me for many reasons, it was really realistic, and i think portrayed a lot of reality in what College Teens might go through in love. It's well done though it drags a bit in some scenes it was still quite realistic and romantic. It's sweet and clichéd but it's real. Also one of the Twins is in this portion of the movie, she plays the main character. It was really interesting to see one of the camera techniques they used in the film.
the secret 4th film This one explains all the metaphors of the movie and why the person who wrote the story wrote it. Whats the point? you'll all Find out at this beautiful ending and what the writer felt.
the movie is all worth it just for the end.
10/10
2046 (2004)
Masterpiece a second time around
when i 1st watched it i was really confused so a few months later i decided to watch it again. I finally got most of where the story 2046 comes from how his unconventional way of storytelling all makes sense and how it manipulates you into the confusion the main character is going through. the girls the main character meats has a huge affect on what the main character writes in his stories and how the story has a whole bunch of secrets and poetic metaphores in his life.
The movies stories can be often time confusing for a person who watches it once and the movie can overall be boring for most people who do not like slow going movies or is just not use to it. When you watch a Wong Kar Wai movie expect it to go slow but with a very good reward at the end. It's an amazing movie for a person who loves Romance and Drama movies. If you have feelings in general you should watch this movie. Anybody who is into Camera Angles and knows about it should watch it to understand the movies different techniques and how it moves the story along. Even the beauty can entrance you in the beautiful story!
10/10
a true romance/drama masterpiece.
Qi jian (2005)
Interesting Swords, pretty good drama, but utterly clichéd and typical and gritty
so i went to HK for a visit, caught the night screening and i didn't know what to expect of Tsui Hark since his creativeness and the lack of good movies he made recently and losing his touch with films, i am glad to say that Tsui Hark is one step further up the ladder then Usual.
The movie starts off very quickly with action scenes, you'll notice that the movie is very dark and gritty and the camera is always shaky. Yes the moves are all stylistic, but the camera work from Tsui Hark still stays the same from the old days with a bit of the new shaky realistic feel to it. But you know what? this is a fantasy movie, the movie had HIGH STYLIZED action with amazing cinematography and was ALL ruined by the crappy shackey camera work and therefore making the scenes utterly confusing most of the time and you not knowing what is happening over half the time in a battle scene.
When you make a very well choreographed fight, please do not put a shackey gritty feel to it and make the place all dark sorta all the war movies that were coming out recently.
The Story gets disjointed a bit without much reason for a character to do so, like the Rebel who you never find out the motive of why he is the betrayer.
the Love is very Cheesy and the mood of the ending was Cheesy, more so like the old Once Upon a Time in China cheesy but not so bad.
Though the swords in the movie is what kept me very interested, especially this sword that could of been utilized in a much better way called the water sword, that sword when not holding the holes in the middle makes the blade slide from left to right, but while holding on to the middle the sword stays put. There are so many variety of moves one person could of done in that movie and when that one person finally's utilizes it well it was a very short coming of coolness.
the drama in the movie is a bit too overly dramatic and also a bit too fast. One girl falls in love with a swordsman when they both see each other, so she breaks up with her other boyfriend, she notices the love between the girl and the swordsman, the guy gets mad but does nothing, the relationship between the guy and the girl suddenly becomes more heartfelt in the one without any real explanation.
Actually the movie in general was pretty much a clichéd gritty old school fashioned Wu Xia martial Art film. That almost has the same story as seven samurai, the bad guys in the movie are very clichéd like the other tsui hark movies where you have this one obvious cruel general that dresses up in black and goes into a tyrant cutting peoples head off and what not.
yeah it's been done before in other tsui hark movies in almost the same fashion. the movie had pretty good music, good fighting scenes, interesting weapons and some interesting characters that could of been used more... well 7/10 for me.
at least this is no Legend of Zu and Black Mask2 though the movie suffered a heavy loss due to a lot of the cheesy moments in the movie and the shoddy camera work.
i recently watched it again and i have found some more faults of the movie.
A lot of the charaachter development of the characters are very poor like Han, the Horse caretaker. You don't know that he is the horse caretaker until the middle of the movie were he releases the horses.
The background for most of the people holding the 7 swords have very poor background and Tsui Should of put a bit more time in where those people came from and why they got chosen to use those swords instead he focused more on the love in 1st sight drama and the action. yes, people in the theatre were laughing and this was HK.
Gin gwai 10 (2005)
well, at least it was better then the eye 2. This is purely a popcorn fun horror movie
it's cheesy, it's funny, some parts are badly acted.
the eye talks about these teenagers trying to see ghosts by following this thai rule book one of the main characters found. The book mentions that there are 10 ways too see ghosts so the 5 people venture off to see these ghosts then one day after they played about 3-4 of them there friend disappears when playing one of the games. So they go to HK trying to escape these ghosts but yet there still hunted, so they have to finish the last one in order to not see ghosts.
The story is disjointed near the end, and in a lot of ways did not make sense for a fact that they never really mentioned how they can stop seeing ghosts. It would of made much more sense if they had rules in the book saying that you must all complete these 10 tasks in order not too see ghosts or something or hinted in some way how not to see ghosts.
They also never really resolve the problem since one of the main characters for some reason has the power to stop seeing ghosts bought the book then his grandmother figured out that somebody is putting a spell on them.
What was the spell casters motive? why them? is he there just to mess around with kids? you see it's very disjointed but yet i still enjoyed the movies and some of it's ideas it had. it's a cheesy horror movie with some decent ideas into it that should of been thought about a lot harder if it wanted to be taken seriously.
but since you see breakdancers in the movie break dancing with a guy who is possessed i don't think this movie was really made to be that much of a serious horror flick.
I personally liked the setup a lot more then the execution of the rest of the movie.the beginning started out pretty well with some interesting team ghost seeing but ultimately failed due to disjointed story telling, and decent CG effects. Nothing really scared me much in the movie but i'm still giving it a 7/10 why? because i enjoyed this average horror movie for it's cheesiness and interesting ideas and cool dancing lol.
Seung hung (2003)
an okay movie.... when you suspend disbelief to the fullest
the movies starts off with quit an interesting way. Then slowly and slowly they hit you with plot holes! The premise is interesting it's like a duel between hypnotists to see who can hypnotise people better. Thats what i liked about it, but the story was so executed weird and unrealistic there isn't really any credibility left for the movie except with exceptional actors, potential, and a interesting premise. Near the beginning you had some real interesting ideas, like where the hypnotist left clues for the police. I never suspected that and that was a great twist but right in the middle your bumped with this major plothole of why and how they can preform working together without any communication whatsoever.
If only the story was better.
anyways another great thing i found about the movie is that though the drama is cookiecuttered it's romantic and it's interesting and it had chemistry, especially the love story about the hypnotist and his wife.
overall 5/10 rent it if you must watch it. i do not recommend this to anybody but people who are just bored and have nothing else to do but to watch a decent movie
2LDK (2003)
What a movie.
this movie is pretty amazingly weird but also very well done. Some parts confused me about the story. the movie is also quite Bloody and Dramatic. The fighting is more like 2 girls in a really bad Cat Fight gone wrong which is cool to see.
For a low budget movie it also did amazingly well
Also if you like Drama/weird/action then this is the movie for you
but if you like super cool action then watch aragami