Seriously The Killer is better? CYF's character is cooler??? Really?
Yes. You will never hear me say anything bad about Melville, this movie, or Alain. I LOVE THIS MOVIE. In fact, I actually won't even say that The Killer is a better movie, only that I like The Killer better.
As cool as this movie and Alain are... I think Chow Yun Fat is cooler. Plus, you know, I really enjoy the... over the top "absurdity" of The Killer. Putting at least 6 bullets in every bad guy and all.
How did Hot Fuzz compare to Shaun of the Dead? I know its entirely a different premise, but since it shared the same writers and I think even the same director.. I would assume its similar.
I actually haven't decided which one I liked better. They are definitely similar in tone, but I think... how do I put this? Hot Fuzz is very riff-heavy. It relies more on the audience being familiar with action film cliches than Shaun relies on horror movie cliches. Not that either of them really "relies" on that. I guess what I'm trying to say is that Hot Fuzz has more in-jokes than Shaun? ****, nevermind. They're both amazing and brilliant.
only because edgar wright pointed out the oh so tender underlying love story between keanu "I, AM-AN-EFF-BEE-EYE-AGENT!" reeves and patrick swayze.
Well, that and it's just so ****ing cliched and hilarious.
oh and trant, i'm probably going to get in trouble for this from adgy, but i thought tony leung was pretty bad ass in Hard Boiled. it's a tough one to call who's better.
Sigh. Look, Tony Leung is a bad ass. And I'll grant you, Trant, and everyone else that in THIS PARTICULAR MOVIE they're pretty evenly matched. That's about it, though.
Finally watched Lady Vengeance. Sorry Adgy, I just thought it was ok, I liked Oldboy better. It took too long for the story to get going and even when it did I was pretty confused. Telling all of the stories about the other prisoners didn't really seem relevant to me, it just draged things out and confused me with all of the jumping around in time. I thought the visuals were nice. Park definitely has a talented eye for visuals, but the story was just flat for me. The ending was cool with all of the families getting their revenge, but it didn't really payoff for the main character. Maybe it would be better with another viewing but I've had it for almost a month, time to send it back and get the next movie in my queue.
No need to apologize, sir. Your review is pretty similar to a lot of others I've heard.
Anyway, the last movie I watched was Grindhouse. Liked it quite a bit, but it was far from perfect.
