28 Film Discussion Threads Later

[Bosco B Thug]

I'm not sure why I watched all of Stuck. I kept thinking, since I liked Edmond, that it would go in a direction I liked, but it managed to just keep getting worse and worse, until it all went up in flames.


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I'm struggling to remember if Stuck was actually "good" in regards to directorial craft right now... Well, the big Argento-esque crash, the sex scene, and the finale are all rather distinguished... but I'm also reminded of his blockheaded approach to the subplot with the Mexican family.

Anyway, I loved Stuck. The film's exaggerated contemporary parable fit Stuart Gordon's underachieving ways like a glove. You didn't even just enjoy it, on an "Oh now that's just f'in outrageous..." level? i.e. as a crazy black comedy?

Does anyone else get joy from typing Kieslowski's name. Try it. Two letters with each hand alternating back and forth. Kinda like making two circles.

Haha, nice thought. I do!

[Dead & Messed Up]

I'm struggling to remember if Stuck was actually "good" in regards to directorial craft right now... Well, the big Argento-esque crash, the sex scene, and the finale are all rather distinguished... but I'm also reminded of his blockheaded approach to the subplot with the Mexican family.

I thought it was "good." The craft wasn't distinguished, but Gordon's interest seemed more in the perverse story. Which is fair, because it's fucking ridiculous.

I liked Stuck significantly more than Edmond, which was a serviceable character piece but little more.

Haha, nice thought. I do!

I just tried this. Kieslowski. Huh.

[Sven]

My Sassy Girl was one of the most unbearable films I've ever made it all the way through. Preposterous at every step. I can't even really care to recall it.

[Ezee E]

I can't really think of anything worth noting on Stuck. Seemed like an extended episode of Masters of Horror. Ridiculous, but that was the only option. Stuart Gordon is capable of better.

[Ezee E]

It may have been you soitgoes, but I saw Kieslowski's (I prefer typing Tarkovsky) A Short Film About Killing and forgot to update my Film Swapping thread. I'll get to that.

[Derek]

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I'm pretty sure that's how Gordon intended it...

[Pop Trash]

I can't really think of anything worth noting on Stuck. Seemed like an extended episode of Masters of Horror. Ridiculous, but that was the only option. Stuart Gordon is capable of better.

Wow, you are the wrongest of the wrongs. Still one of the best films of last year.

[Sven]

Wow, you are the wrongest of the wrongs.

Well, I guess the phrase isn't copyrighted, so...

[Derek]

Well, I guess the phrase isn't copyrighted, so...

I don't know if it'll help, but I would vote for that phrase being reserved for you only.

[Spinal]

Repo! The Genetic Opera or Cheeky!

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All you could want from a double feature.

[Sycophant]

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All you could want from a double feature.

My Netflix queue tells me you are a very persuasive poster.

[number8]

Stuck was amazing. That's really the best example of how to do a chamber horror.

[number8]

Repo! The Genetic Opera was amazing. That's really the best example of how to do a science-fiction horror-comedy opera.

[dreamdead]

My Sassy Girl was one of the most unbearable films I've ever made it all the way through. Preposterous at every step. I can't even really care to recall it.

And yet, here I am asking you to recall it. What in the execution was inbearable, if I may? Kyun-woo's continuous seeking of the girl out despite the pain, emotional and otherwise, that she causes him? Some of the escaped military guy stuff? Details, my man...

[Sven]

I don't know if it'll help, but I would vote for that phrase being reserved for you only.

Thanks!

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Heeeey, wait a minute.

[Sven]

Details, my man...

Honestly, all I can recall before my mind blacks out in a self-induced haze of selective memory is the enormous stretches in recognizable human motivation compounded by a seriously retarded final voice-over that changes (for the worse from the already bad) the nature of those interactions to be even more alien. The military antics did not help.

[number8]

Honestly, all I can recall before my mind blacks out in a self-induced haze of selective memory is the enormous stretches in recognizable human motivation compounded by a seriously retarded final voice-over that changes (for the worse from the already bad) the nature of those interactions to be even more alien. The military antics did not help.

High five. That movie is wretched.

Try being in Asia when it came out. It was akin to Twilight.

[Ezee E]

I'm pretty sure that's how Gordon intended it...

Strong work then Gordon. You successfully made your film suck.

[MacGuffin]

Hey, someone recommend me Tokyo crime Yakuza movies. I've seen some of Johnnie To's stuff (Breaking News and Election) and wasn't really overly impressed, but I'd try more.

[MadMan]

Repo! The Genetic Opera is a musical that I flat out loved. Considering my dislike for the genre at the moment, I'd say that's remarkable and noteworthy.

Aside from Up, I haven't really seen anything worthy of reviewing at the moment. Meh.

[Qrazy]

Hey, someone recommend me Tokyo crime Yakuza movies. I've seen some of Johnnie To's stuff (Breaking News and Election) and wasn't really overly impressed, but I'd try more.

Well technically Election is about triads (Chinese), not Yakuza (Japanese). Suzuki is your man for Yakuza... I like to varying degrees Branded to Kill, Youth of the Beast, Tokyo Drifter, Gate of Flesh. Kitano did Yakuza stuff also but I can't say I was that impressed with what I saw (Sonatine, Violent Cop). Kids Return, Boiling Point and Brother are well regarded. There's also old school Yakuza stuff... Kurosawa's Yojimbo, Sanjuro and Drunken Angel... High and Low isn't really yakuza but it's Japanese crime and I'd recommend it. Tampopo has very minor Yakuza elements and I hear Itami's Minbo is Yakuza but I've only seen the former. It's awesome and hilarious.

Oh, Shinoda's Pale Flower is also great.

Then there's Miike (Gozu, Ichi the Killer). I have not seen either but I don't like his stuff in general.

I've only seen the first one of Fukasaku's The Yakuza Papers and I was not impressed. I've heard better things about Sympathy for the Underdog.

Kobayashi's Inn of Evil and Black Rain are both fairly decent gang/crime films, but not excellent.

Nakajima made a number of Yakuza films but I have not seen any.

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Alternatively if you want to watch more Triad films Johnny To and John Woo are the staples. The Killer and Hard Boiled are the two best I've seen from Woo.

Aside from what you've seen quality films to see from To (semi triad oriented for the most part) are Election 2, Exiled, The Mission, Sparrow (about pickpocketing), Throw Down and PTU.

Infernal Affairs is also decent but I did not love it.

I found Ringo Lam's City on Fire to be fairly lame. Reservoir Dogs ripped it off though so it has that going for it.

I've also heard good things about Ishii's Gonin (Yakuza) and Hark's Time and Tide (Triad).

[MacGuffin]

Geez, thanks Qrazy. That post was more than I asked or was hoping for.

[MacGuffin]

Of those mentioned, I have seen Youth of the Beast and Gate of Flesh and I thought they were both great and would give them 3.5/5.

[Qrazy]

Of those mentioned, I have seen Youth of the Beast and Gate of Flesh and I thought they were both great and would give them 3.5/5.

Yeah, Suzuki is the man. I need to dive back in and see some more.

[MacGuffin]

Yeah, Suzuki is the man. I need to dive back in and see some more.

Yeah, I've heard his black and white stuff is even more stylish, surprisingly enough. He uses color magnificently, so it will be interesting to see how he uses black and white.