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Could be but I believe the percentage would be more like 25%

That previous movie poster though..

It looks like he has a beautiful girl on his arm, yet he's in love with his buddy's girl.

What terrible problems to have!
I thought they were with their dads!

Anyway watching the last Hunger games instalment. The fact that I'm on here should tell you I'm not exactly engaged.
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Just saw this trailer: Hardcore Henry, due out in April. It caught my interest, but I'm not yet sold on the first person aspect.


I thought they were with their dads!

Anyway watching the last Hunger games instalment. The fact that I'm on here should tell you I'm not exactly engaged.
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Mocking Jay 2 was about as good as the book was, and the book was horrible.

Now that they are both out, we'll stream them.
 
Well I've been listening to Vengeance! (1970) the last 3 hours (the equivalent of watching it twice), as I wanted different background noise while rewriting papers. It's fun, I've seen this film enough now to know certain moments from musical cues and other sounds in spite of not knowing Mandarin. It's a great movie and almost as fun to listen to as it is to fully watch. Occasionally I'll peek and geek out at David Chiang going knife fu crazy.
 

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A Touch of Zen. Brilliant piece! @kazmac :you should try to see it somehow, it's just wonderful. Quite different to the SB stuff you love so much but I would say a great addition to that theme. And that Buddah monk is probably the coolest monk I ever saw on screen! I will go back and read what that friend of yours wrote about it. I think the first third is one of the most intriguing things I've seen for a long time - you have no clue what happens, as the lead does. Cinematography is a real treat and the fighting scenes are well worth it, again: super different to SB but alas, I love it!

Just saw that the BR got down from 40 to 20 pounds so couldn't let that slip though my hands (DVD pic quality is severely lacking..)..got me "Dragon Inn" from King Hu as well. Besides that I'm about to watch The Magnificent Butcher ( :D), Iron Monkey, The Prodigal Son and The King of Fists and Dollars! Hope there is something good among those.

Also finished Blood and Black Lace by Bava. Which won't be my favorite Giallo ever but is good nonetheless. Also finally watched Terror at the Opera by Argento which again won't be anywhere near the top spots for me but is at least one of the good Argento's imo, so that was still well worth a watch.

And a wee bit OT but when you like The Punisher as I think I remember, try to peek at the 2nd season of DD! Best Punisher depiction by far (not that hard, I know :D) and as badass as can be. You gotta have Netflix though (or a free monthly trial). First season is fine as well so DD is worth it alone for me. Fighting choreography is awesome as well (lots of Ninjas too :D)..
 
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A Touch of Zen. Brilliant piece! @kazmac :you should try to see it somehow, it's just wonderful. Quite different to the SB stuff you love so much but I would say a great addition to that theme. And that Buddah monk is probably the coolest monk I ever saw on screen! I will go back and read what that friend of yours wrote about it. I think the first third is one of the most intriguing things I've seen for a long time - you have no clue what happens, as the lead does. Cinematography is a real treat and the fighting scenes are well worth it, again: super different to SB but alas, I love it!

Just saw that the BR got down from 40 to 20 pounds so couldn't let that slip though my hands (DVD pic quality is severely lacking..)..got me "Dragon Inn" from King Hu as well. Besides that I'm about to watch The Magnificent Butcher ( :D), Iron Monkey, The Prodigal Son and The King of Fists and Dollars! Hope there is something good among those.

Also finished Blood and Black Lace by Bava. Which won't be my favorite Giallo ever but is good nonetheless. Also finally watched Terror at the Opera by Argento which again won't be anywhere near the top spots for me but is at least one of the good Argento's imo, so that was still well worth a watch.

And a wee bit OT but when you like The Punisher as I think I remember, try to peek at the 2nd season of DD! Best Punisher depiction by far (not that hard, I know :D) and as badass as can be. You gotta have Netflix though (or a free monthly trial). First season is fine as well so DD is worth it alone for me. Fighting choreography is awesome as well (lots of Ninjas too :D)..

Lordy you've been busy movie watching.

Glad to hear you enjoyed A Touch of Zen so much. I'll eventually pick it up (I wonder if it is included in the foreign film course I may take at uni.)

For calligraphy fights, The Magnificent Butcher and The Prodigal Son are fantastic (Lam Ching-Ying who plays the Chinese Opera star in the latter and is an assassin with a fan and knives in the former, is wonderful in both but he steals Prodigal Son away from the lead.) Actually, the fights are great in both movies (but for me, Prodigal Son is the vastly better film.) Iron Monkey (presuming 1977) is solid Chen Kuan Tai and I happen to dig the King of Fists and Dollars as it has two of my favorite fu people (Chan Wai Man and David Chiang) being upstaged by a lovely lady. It's not a great movie, but CWM being so smug and kicking so much butt is awesome.) I've heard nice things about Dragon Inn too.

Terror at the Opera was the last good Dario Argento film. And I much prefer Bava's Hatchet for the Honeymoon and his genre films Danger Diabolik! and Black Sunday over Blood and Black Lace. Still, you see where the cinematic giallo started with Blood and Black Lace and the color palette / cinematography is wonderful.
 
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Lordy you've been busy movie watching.

Ha, not really. More like three movies within the last three weeks or so.

For the others I basically scrolled down your posts over the last couple of months and looked which of those were cheaply available (and didn't feat. Jacky Chan for example :D).
Those genre flics really ask for a region 1 player tbh - almost impossible to get half of those, with the other half being spread along all kind of versions - mostly being foreign having a Mandarin dub with Polish subs or so :D

Agreed on colour usage in Blood and Black Lace being great. Vastly different to Honeymoon with a hatched (rather tame) which was quite a surprise, lol. Blood Demon still on my list, really liked Black Sunday too.
 
Ha, not really. More like three movies within the last three weeks or so.

For the others I basically scrolled down your posts over the last couple of months and looked which of those were cheaply available (and didn't feat. Jacky Chan for example :D).
Those genre flics really ask for a region 1 player tbh - almost impossible to get half of those, with the other half being spread along all kind of versions - mostly being foreign having a Mandarin dub with Polish subs or so :D

Agreed on colour usage in Blood and Black Lace being great. Vastly different to Honeymoon with a hatched (rather tame) which was quite a surprise, lol. Blood Demon still on my list, really liked Black Sunday too.

Ah, haha.

While I was glad to replace my all region player last year, I can understand the prices being crazy on a lot films. I have to back off even though I want to replace one giallo I mistakenly sold before I got the all region player while I still can replace that film.

Jackie Chan, I like Project A and that's it because of Dick Wei's pirate San Pao. Dick Wei is the reason why I've bought so many 80s Jackie and Sammo movies. He's such a good villain whom they seriously under use and hold back until the final fights. My issue with Jackie and Cynthia Rothrock is, you don't see the characters they play, you see them performing stunts or fights.

I'm not crazy for Sammo Hung either, but when he plays older masters (as he does in Prodigal Son) he's hilarious. (I'd also recommend his film The Odd Couple which is LOL funny, corny and full of amazing weapons work.) Jackie and Sammo made several 80s films together with ridiculously agile Yuen Biao (Biao is the lead in Prodigal Son and a student of the same school Sammo is a part of in The Magnificent Butcher. Biao's commentary during his fight with Lam Ching-Ying in TMB strikes me as very funny. I like him a lot. If you should happen to see his film The Champions and enjoy the game of soccer this movie will skewer your enjoyment of the game quite a bit.)

I'm digressing a lot, but I hope you enjoy what you have. :)
 
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Nah, always interesting to read (although I do have difficulties keeping up with most of these names to be honest).

It's not even the price but overall availablity. Most of the SB stuff is region one only, period. Not much I can do about it. They should get rid of that altogether - not much 21. century like.

And I fear that you can't convince me to watch a Jackie Chan movie on purpose - unfortunately I have strong prejudices like that. ;)
 
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