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[Parallax Scroll]

I think my favorite part of The Killer is when the one dude is like "I'm out of ammo, toss me a gun" and so the other dude tosses him two guns. Cause, of course, he needs two.

 

[Manos: The Hans of Fate]

So anyone here ever see Heroes Shed No Tears? It's a comprimised movie, Woo lost control and it was released, after sitting on the shelf, after the success of A Better Tomorrow................that doesn't mean it's not fucking NUTS!

Check out the trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biM2WSe9Bz4

 

[PhoncipleBone]

I think my favorite part of The Killer is when the one dude is like "I'm out of ammo, toss me a gun" and so the other dude tosses him two guns. Cause, of course, he needs two.

And then proceeds to empty two into one person. Such glorious, over the top violence.

 

[GDGF]

Gah! Don't fuck with The Killer. First John Woo and Chow Yun Fat movie I ever saw. Fucking Hollywood

 

[Bleepey]

[QUOTE-John woo]Give a guy a gun, he thinks he's Superman. Give him two and he thinks he's God.[/QUOTE]

Like a boss.

 

[Parallax Scroll]

I liked

Spoiler

Mission Impossible 2

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[Blackace]

That's what I was trying to imply. Hard Boiled is a movie you watch for the action.

That's not what I am implying. I am saying the story in Hard Boiled is decent and the scenes where they are not shooting things Chow Yun Fat and Tony Leung were really strong.... those two had some great chemistry..

 

[Parallax Scroll]

That's not what I am implying. I am saying the story in Hard Boiled is decent and the scenes where they are not shooting things Chow Yun Fat and Tony Leung were really strong.... those two had some great chemistry..

Yeah, and you're right. Hard Boiled has a good story.

 

[Manos: The Hans of Fate]

That's not what I am implying. I am saying the story in Hard Boiled is decent and the scenes where they are not shooting things Chow Yun Fat and Tony Leung were really strong.... those two had some great chemistry..

It also had that amazing action theme.

Lowell Lo's score for The Killer (featuring some music from Red Heat) is excellent too though.

 

[dream]

I'm just hoping this turns out to be like The Departed. I remember being appalled when I read about the US remake of Infernal Affairs but that turned out well.

Of course I don't see Scorcese attached to this.

 

[DiscoJer]

I suppose it's a good thing 3D wasn't popular when they remade Infernal Affairs into The Departed...

 

[dvdjamm]

I guess the only consolation I take from this is A Better Tomorrow 1 and 2 were never popular enough to get on the remake radar.

There's a Korean remake of A Better Tomorrow...It came out last year.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmnXmVcVxWs

 

[see5harp]

uh.. I take it you have never seen Once a Thief remake..

Remake BlackJack in 3D!!!

Seriously, I own both the OOP Criterion laserdiscs, but I'm not in any denial of how bad John Woo has gotten since his move to U.S. productions. Red Cliff was the best thing he's done in years and that was hard to watch. Years of movie making and we've got A Better Tomorrow, The Killer, Hard Boiled and some extremely terrible voice acting that Wu Tang sampled.

 

[GONz]

Can't say I'm pleased with that news, because it already makes me imagine annoying people asking me after its release if I already saw the so aweeeeesome movie named "The Killer" released 2 days ago while I saw the epitome of heroic blooshed uncountable years before.

 

[VALIS]

Well, at least the rest of the thread is appropriately pointing their finger at Hollywood specifically rather than the broad, off-target "Americanized" crap in the OP. America still turns out dozens of quality movies per year on a smaller scale. It's Hollywood that's the menace.

 

[PhoncipleBone]

If it were Woo and Chow Yun Fat getting back together to make a big budget action movie similar to The Killer, I would be all over it.

 

[Manos: The Hans of Fate]

There's a Korean remake of A Better Tomorrow...It came out last year.

I've heard from a couple of people it's fucking AWFUL. Fully of pretty boys with no real talent compared to the original people involved and just generic as crap.

Granted I'm partial to ABT, I had Tomorrow Will Be Better played at my wedding.

 

[Bleepey]

Since this is now a John Woo nostalgia thread. What are your fond memories of Woo? I remember watching the Killer at age of 12 by recording it of Channel 4 thinking it was a martial arts flick.... Although i was disappointed by the lack of fighting, i was giddy like a school girl in heat at the blissful orgy of violence. Man the high body counts, one liners, chases and sad ending. Man that shit was fucking hardcore at the time. This reminds me my brother and i are going to have to have a movie weekend. He's 11 and he still has not watched Enter the Dragon which i have on DVD.

 

[Meier]

I don't mind the idea but who the fuck is that director?

 

[erlim]

Jung Woo Sung was legit in Reign of Assassins, a surprisingly good movie.