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I really enjoyed A Company Man and The Man From Nowhere, are there other Korean movies you guys would recommend that are similar? Watched War of Arrows yesterday and enjoyed that. About to watch Masquerade. The hard part is finding these movies, when I lived in Sydney (Australia) there is a huge Korean community so easy enough to find DVDs. Not so much where I live now.
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EvilElmo posted:I really enjoyed A Company Man and The Man From Nowhere, are there other Korean movies you guys would recommend that are similar? Some Guy TT posted:It was...in South Korea. On a technical level, it is the Weinsteins just being unreasonably picky about the cut. Personally I think the problem is more to do with film philosophy in general- American distributors are just really reticent about trying to market any movie that isn't either a sequel, franchise, or features an A-Lister in the lead role, whereas South Korean distributors just throw whatever crazy ideas they have against the wall in the hopes it will stick. I was actually supposed to write a year-end piece for Current Releases about it but...eh...that fell through. Not terribly surprising, given what a specialized topic Korean film is. The score is wonderful too. I don't usually have an ear for music, but this one stood out.
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Jan 18, 2014 05:10
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EvilElmo posted:I really enjoyed A Company Man and The Man From Nowhere, are there other Korean movies you guys would recommend that are similar? If you're looking for revenge/action then in addition to The Chaser (top 3 favourites for me): Oldboy, A Bittersweet Life, No Mercy For the Rude (lots of comedy too, it's also about a hitman), The City of Violence, I Saw the Devil. You could branch out to gangster flicks and get some more good movies to watch. I tried watching War of Arrows once, but oh god the shaky cam was unbearable. Please post about Masquerade when you've watched it, I've been interested in watching it for a while.
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Well, here's my Top 10 List for Best Korean films of 2013. And since I spend way too much time promoting my own writing here already, have this one from Darcy Paquet and another one from Pierce Conran. Note that we use slightly different definitions as to what constitutes the year "2013". Me and Paquet define it as the release year whereas Conran defines it as the production year. The difference is mainly in availability- movies have to become publicly available in Korea before you're likely to watch them anywhere else. But given that my 2nd, 3rd, and 5th picks all came out in summer and there's no access to them yet who knows.
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RightClickSaveAs posted:I haven't seen A Company Man, but I'd recommend The Chaser, it matches the intensity of Man from Nowhere pretty well and has some similar themes. If you have Netflix, the Korean selection is pretty decent now. Thanks. Netflix isn't available here yet. But this comment made me go through the effort to get it working. Gringo Heisenberg posted:If you're looking for revenge/action then in addition to The Chaser (top 3 favourites for me): Oldboy, A Bittersweet Life, No Mercy For the Rude (lots of comedy too, it's also about a hitman), The City of Violence, I Saw the Devil. So I've got The Chaser (or just Chaser as it's known on Netflix), Oldboy and I Saw the Devil lined up on Netflix. The others I couldn't find on there. Gangster sounds acceptable  I enjoyed Masquerade, I'm not that good at 'reviewing' movies, but I enjoyed it and I didn't start flicking through my phone while watching it. Generally that's a good sign that it interested me enough. The story itself is fairly interesting and the comedy breaks in it work well. Worth a watch in my opinion. edit: The Fake sounds really interesting but not on netflix and local asian supermarket doesn't have it 
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Ok, if you want gangsters too there are a ton of great options. Gunna plug Breathless for the nth time. Without getting too much into the plot, it's a movie about a vicious debt collector who befriends a high school girl. It focuses a lot on domestic violence and the cycle of abuse, and is the only movie I can remember that actually made me really uncomfortable during some of the violent scenes. Bleak and depressing. You know when you have a trailer like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUE77_OMF0g You're in for an experience. Probably hard to find though. In no particular order: 1. A Bittersweet Life: probably the most popular gangster movie in this thread. Basically a gangster getting his revenge (also, the main actor has been breaking into Hollywood. He was in G I Joe and Red/Red 2) 2. A Dirty Carnival: Another really popular one: "Byung-Doo (Zo In-Sung) is a low-level gangster, barely able to take care of his family and the gang members working under him. His boss frequently short changes Byung-Doo and gives the more lucrative jobs to other people in his organization. Byung-Doo soon attempts to change his fate by risking his own life." 3. Rough Cut: An action star infamous for being too rough with his co-stars/stuntmen asks an actual gangster to co-star in his movie because he can't find anyone willing to. The gangster agrees, on the condition that they do the fight scenes for realsies. 4. My Wife is a Gangster: found it mediocre, can't actually remember much. 5. Friend: One of my favourites: "At a time when students had to fasten their collars and crease their slacks till they're razor sharp, these four friends strutted around in their own custom-fashioned uniforms. They walked the streets with their heads held high, shoulders straight, and chests out, fearing nothing when they were together. Joon-suk, a son of a vigilant gang boss; Dong-su, the only son of an undertaker; Sang-taek, a diligent student; Joong-ho, who never keeps his mouth shut. Those are the gang of friends who share their fantasies about naked woman on the porn magazine and their awe at Bruce Lee's Kungfu. Each of their lives takes different turns as they grow up and their paths cross in conflict with each other's. Joon-suk becomes the leading henchman of his father's crime ring and Dong-su is serving for Joon-suk's rival gangs. Sang-taek and Joong-ho find themselves helplessly watching their two best friends wield knives at each other... " 6. Sunflower: Dude gets out of jail and doesn't want to be involved in crime at all anymore. Everyone (especially local gangsters) is scared shitless of him and thinks he's planning something. Not much action through most of the movie (but it doesn't really suffer for it IMO), and a really good pay off at the end. Really liked it. 7. The Show Must Go On: "Kang In-Goo (Song Kang-Ho) is a mid-level member of a Korean criminal organization. With middle age creeping up on him, Kang In-Goo worries about his family. His wife (Park Ji-Young) is more restless about his job and his daughter (Kim So-Eun) grows more distant everyday. Kang In-Goo plans to quit the mob and buy a large suburban home for his wife. Kang In-Goo needs to do one last big score to retire. Meanwhile, Kang In-Goo's boss (Choi Il-Hwa) favors him over his own son (Yoon Je-Moon), which causes the son to lash out against Kang In-Goo. " 8. City of Violence: if you want an action packed gangster movie, this is one of em. Basically, two guys return to the town they grew up in to raise hell trying to find out who killed their friend. Oh, and as an aside, I haven't seen Masquerade yet but another good movie set in the past that you might want to check out is The King and the Clown. It's about a group of court jesters who have to keep putting on shows for a crazy king, it's a mix of some comedy and drama. Gringo Heisenberg fucked around with this message at 04:14 on Jan 21, 2014 |
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Gringo Heisenberg posted:Ok, if you want gangsters too there are a ton of great options. Thanks. None of them are available on netflix except rough cut. I'll check the local market and see if I can get it there. I'll make myself a long list for when I next visit Sydney (large Korean population, so lots of shops).
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EvilElmo posted:Thanks. None of them are available on netflix except rough cut. I'll check the local market and see if I can get it there. I'll make myself a long list for when I next visit Sydney (large Korean population, so lots of shops). "A Love" is one of the better "gangster" Korean films that I've seen. I very much enjoyed it.
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Been away from Korean films for a while, but I sat down for a bunch this week. The Terror Live didn't do much for me. It starts off great, but when you start with tension barely a few minutes in it is hard to keep momentum. They kept escalating the situation, but it just didn't stay as exciting. Some things worked great, others fell flat. The building toppling over really brought me back in for a bit, but too little, too late. I understand the praise here about the themes, but for me those were overshadowed by too many twists desperately trying to one-up what happened before and not really succeeding. My lack of interest by then is probably the reason I didn't get something at the end, maybe someone can help me with it. Why did the police shoot at Yoon after Park was shot and killed? He wasn't guilty of anything but a bribery scandal, hardly worth killing him over it seems. The lady on the walkie said "shoot on sight", but no reason. My buddy kept saying it was to cover up how the government wouldn't even give in to such small demands as an apology, but that was shown on national TV so it doesn't really work, right? I also saw New World and that was amazing. I have a hard time deciding if I like The Chaser or I Saw the Devil best out of the Korean films I've seen, but now I have three to choose from. It started off beautifully slow, just weaving the story until things went out of control. The scene in the elevator was horrifying and even when you kind of see the ending coming before it happens, it still feels like the incredibly final decision that it was. When I explained a friend the story about a syndicate run by an old man, who suddenly dies and how the individual gangs start scheming for control he immediately compared it to Game of Thrones, so at least I might get some people interested in a Korean movie using that. Also watched A Company Man, which I enjoyed as well. Much like Man from Nowhere this movie tells a story you've seen dozens of times before, but is filmed beautifully, isn't afraid to take it slow, has good acting, nice fights and just plays out so fluently that it feels refreshing. The walk into the office and the conversation that followed before the final shootout were incredibly uncomfortable to watch. The tension in that scene was amazing.
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BioTech posted:Also watched A Company Man, which I enjoyed as well. Much like Man from Nowhere this movie tells a story you've seen dozens of times before, but is filmed beautifully, isn't afraid to take it slow, has good acting, nice fights and just plays out so fluently that it feels refreshing. The walk into the office and the conversation that followed before the final shootout were incredibly uncomfortable to watch. The tension in that scene was amazing. The office shootout showed some daring action camerawork and a lot of John Woo flair, as did the action in general, but besides that, everything else is kind of dull. It doesn't help that the protagonist is a total bore and his love interest seems rather... slow.
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JebanyPedal posted:The office shootout showed some daring action camerawork and a lot of John Woo flair, as did the action in general, but besides that, everything else is kind of dull. It doesn't help that the protagonist is a total bore and his love interest seems rather... slow. Yep. The movie slows to a complete crawl when it isn't dealing with office politics and - although it doesn't go quite far enough - subverting the typical hitman film.
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Gringo Heisenberg posted:Oldboy Thank you so much for this recommendation. Just finished watching it and holy poo poo did I enjoy it. 9/10 would bang my sister.
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EvilElmo posted:Thank you so much for this recommendation. Just finished watching it and holy poo poo did I enjoy it. Oldboy is the second film in Park Chan-wook's vengeance trilogy. They are not interconnected at all but its a trilogy based on the theme of, well vengrnce. If you enjoyed Oldboy you should probably check out Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance and Lady Vengeance. I actually think that Old boy was the weakest movie of the three. And that's saying a lot because Oldboy was a really good movie.
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BioTech posted:My lack of interest by then is probably the reason I didn't get something at the end, maybe someone can help me with it. Why did the police shoot at Yoon after Park was shot and killed? He wasn't guilty of anything but a bribery scandal, hardly worth killing him over it seems. The lady on the walkie said "shoot on sight", but no reason. My buddy kept saying it was to cover up how the government wouldn't even give in to such small demands as an apology, but that was shown on national TV so it doesn't really work, right? The way I saw it the government had come up with an official cover story that defined everybody as being The Heroic Good Guy except for Yoon, who was collaborating with the terrorist the whole time to drum up a comeback. Everybody else could be counted on to shut up about what really happened. Yoon being able to tell his version of events to anyone was a huge threat regardless of how much he was discredited. Weird film comparison time. I thought The Terror Live had a lot in common with Cabin in the Woods. In both movies, you've got characters at the end going, to hell with the system let's just kill everybody. Personally, I thought the ending to Cabin in the Woods was problematic, because for most of the movie we sympathize with the guys in the control room and the victims have no real characterization outside of being thin archetypes. So when the movie ends up becoming about how the system needs to be burned down...well, there's just no emotional resonance there. I thought The Terror Live did a much better job with the trope, because looking back at the events of the movie every single escalation is an argument for loving over the system. Even Yoon himself is a part of the system, which is why his dying too comes off as kind of poetic. Note how throughout the entire movie, the only character who makes any progress negotiating with Park is Yoon's ex-wife, who's also the only person in the movie that's acting without any regard to image.  The Contact is an early Korean Wave film about the Internet. A very crude Internet without fancy newfangled stuff like image attachments. The main character a radio DJ who thinks he can find his lost love through the magic of digital technology, after making a really dumb overly romantic assumption about a song request. Weirdly, the woman he ends up connecting with instead is someone he actually knows in real life, but both of these people are so emotionally distant and disconnected from the surrounding world that this fact completely eludes them. Neither of these people are goons- the guy in particular has no trouble finding sexual partners. It's the emotional stuff that has them unsatisfied. Overall, an introspective moody film with an excellent soundtrack.
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 Blood Rain is a Joseon-era murder mystery with supernatural elements and an emphasis on medieval torture. Ironically, it's actually a late Joseon story, so there's lots of new technology and science involved in the storyline. Which strangely enough is almost no help in preventing things from getting rather grisly and unpleasant at times. As a mystery I consider this to be an average film, but the brutality common throughout this film is rather intriguing, and I think begs some interesting questions about the growing pains involved in transitioning to a new era. Some Guy TT fucked around with this message at 01:17 on Feb 4, 2014 |
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Feb 3, 2014 05:53
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I watched Han Gong-ju this weekend at the IFFR. It's previously received awards at Marrakech and Busan, and that wasn't surprising: It's a very well directed movie about a girl who is suddenly relocated to Incheon, to live with the mother of her former teacher. Why she had to move there is a mystery for most of the film, but since it's a Korean movie you can be pretty sure it's depressing as hell. It's Lee Sujin's second movie. The actress who plays the girl at the end of The Man From Nowhere (Ajeosshi) has a big role in this one. It's not in cinemas or on DVD yet, but it's a movie to put on your list.
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 Season of Good Rain is about two friends who went to school in the United States, one Korean and one Chinese. They meet by chance when the former goes on a business trip to Chengdu- both of them having grown up in the interim. But there's not really a hard and fast backstory. All we have to go on is what they remember of their time back in college, and those memories are kind of hazy. And the narrative itself lingers a lot. The film kind of seems like a romance but at the same time sort of doesn't because we know he's going back soon and these aren't the kind of people who are eager to bone out of nostalgia. Actually, I'm not sure many people are actually like this, regardless of the way the movies make it seem. Oh yeah, and almost all the dialogue's in English- it's the only language the main characters have in common. And it's actual International English, not Engrish, not obviously native accent English. They talk pretty much the way people who speak English as a second language generally speak, which is interesting on its own even outside the broader context of the movie's narrative strengths and cinematography. Seriously, Chengdu looks pretty great.
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Heard that Snowpiercer may finally be getting a US release. No actual date so I suppose it's just wait and see. The main change relative to previous news is that we're looking at a limited release instead of a mainstream one. Sad Movie is about four loosely connected couples all dealing with different kinds of love. There's a kind of dark undercurrent regarding the problems in their relationships. It pretty much feels like things could fall apart at any time. For the most part it's a comedy. Yes I know the title kind of implies the opposite but the movie's about the really awkward stuff people do for that fuzzy feeling of love and the weird places it can end up going. There's still a lot of heart here, so the emotional punch when we get to the ending is a legitimate one. It's helped along by the name, naturally. You can't really get angry at a movie for turning weepy when it says right in the title that things are going to be sad. Some Guy TT fucked around with this message at 03:53 on Feb 17, 2014 |
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Feb 17, 2014 03:48
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Haha, 새드 무비 should be the title of every Korean film.
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Is it just me who gets a little irritated by the title 'Sympathy for Lady Vengeance' (or 'Lady Vengeance' depending where you are) ? It always felt like they needed to tie it in to the original Sympathy film rather than use a direct translation of the title ('Kind Hearted Geum-Ja', which I always thought was a nice title). Certainly nothing that'd turn me against the film itself, but it always rubbed me up the wrong way a bit.
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Some Guy TT posted:Heard that Snowpiercer may finally be getting a US release. No actual date so I suppose it's just wait and see. The main change relative to previous news is that we're looking at a limited release instead of a mainstream one. gently caress Weinstein. At least I'll get to see the movie though, as I expect them to be releasing it somewhere in Los Angeles at least.
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Well, at least that might mean the director's cut might get a wider release on Blu-Ray. I'm not going to waste time on Weinstein's version.
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EL BROMANCE posted:Is it just me who gets a little irritated by the title 'Sympathy for Lady Vengeance' (or 'Lady Vengeance' depending where you are) ? It always felt like they needed to tie it in to the original Sympathy film rather than use a direct translation of the title ('Kind Hearted Geum-Ja', which I always thought was a nice title). Certainly nothing that'd turn me against the film itself, but it always rubbed me up the wrong way a bit. I never noticed that before but yeah that is weird now that you mention it. Especially since Mr. Vengeance/Oldboy/Lady Vengeance are always called the Vengeance Trilogy, and one of these is not like the others.  Touch is a movie about...let's see, metaphorically speaking, about the way we touch other people's lives. And how this often turns into a bad thing even when we mean well. Also how the entire world can turn outrageously hostile at a moment's notice if you do something the wrong way. It's a bit of a depressing movie, is what I'm getting at, but it doesn't overindulge in the sadness or force disgust with outrageous situations. It's a movie about relapsing into bad habits and trying to force yourself into climb out of that pit and be a good person, because that's what we should aspire to do, is be a good person. I really enjoyed this movie, but honestly it's kind of hard to describe it in a way that sounds fun.
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 Our Sunhi is the latest Hong Sang-soo film. The way it differs from all the others is that it's a prequel. Not literally, but if you've ever wondered how characters in Hong Sang-soo get stuck in dead-end pointless relationships that just make them look sad and pathetic, this is the movie that explains it. Sunhi seduces three completely different men basically by having conversations with them. No, it really doesn't even matter what they talk about. Just the act of conversation is enough to seal the deal and Sunhi doesn't even want a boyfriend (although she is lonely enough for one). This is what a romantic comedy looks like when the director's not cooperating with the premise. Still funny though. Some Guy TT fucked around with this message at 05:33 on Mar 3, 2014 |
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...And Snowpiercer is now set for a US release date of June 27th. For those of you who haven't looked at your movie release calendars lately, that's the same week Transformers 4 opens. I would like to note, once again, that if the Weinsteins had just released it right away the only competition would have been Smurfs 2. I don't think I'll ever understand what exactly they were trying to accomplish with any of this. Tell Me Something is a Korean New Wave film about a detective embroiled in a grisly murder mystery. The movie's less about the substance of the mystery as it is the general style of the proceedings. There's a lot of gore and loose human body parts, but just enough is left unspoken that when the next brutal sight comes uncovered it's pretty cringe-inducing. It uses the genre trappings of a mystery thriller but the imagery of a horror film, with intriguing visual results. The kind of movie with lots of potential readable subtexts that are more ambitious than the actual story, though the story isn't bad by any means.
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Some Guy TT posted:...And Snowpiercer is now set for a US release date of June 27th. For those of you who haven't looked at your movie release calendars lately, that's the same week Transformers 4 opens. I would like to note, once again, that if the Weinsteins had just released it right away the only competition would have been Smurfs 2. I don't think I'll ever understand what exactly they were trying to accomplish with any of this. 1.When it flops they can blame the director. 2.??????????????????????????? 3. Profit?
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It's weird because in France, it was released at the same time as in Korea. Heard it sold pretty well there, at least there was plenty of advertising.
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Jeoh posted:It's weird because in France, it was released at the same time as in Korea. Heard it sold pretty well there, at least there was plenty of advertising. Now that I've seen the movie, there's some pretty real poo poo that Chris Evans lays down in a monologue in the last 20 minutes, and judging by how adamant the director was against it getting any cuts, I think this was one of the parts that Weinstein wanted out (and it's powerful, and i could understand not allowing the film to exist without it)... that and the whole "movie is an allegory for the injustices of capitalism starring Captain America" thing. Stare-Out posted:Well, at least that might mean the director's cut might get a wider release on Blu-Ray. I'm not going to waste time on Weinstein's version. There isn't a "director's cut," the version that's getting released is the full thing.
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I did an inventory the other day realised just how many Korean movies I've really enjoyed. I do have a couple of questions for recommendations. About ten years ago I saw the film "Musa." It was loving awesome. Anything else in that medieval action/adventure genre? Ideally something grounded. Musa was fantastically brutal. I also loved the martial arts films I've seen from Korea (Fighter in the Wind, City of Violence and The Man from Nowhere) anything else similar to the first two? Lastly, and this request is horribly vague, I remember seeing the trailer for an action movie that I'm pretty sure was Korean some time ago. It featured a massive, very dramatic John Woo esque gunfight in what looked like a dock or warehouse. There were cops in shirts and vests alongside a SWAT team. It looked fantastically over the top. I apologise for not having anything more specific.
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Snowpiercer is basically a heavy handed metaphor for Hegelian dialectics and it owns for it. The train has the thesis (the front), antithesis (back) and a synthesis (the derailing). So the dominant ideology of the train is incorrect and progress is made as they question the dominant ideology of the class struggle and finally derail it.
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Snowman_McK posted:It featured a massive, very dramatic John Woo esque gunfight in what looked like a dock or warehouse. There were cops in shirts and vests alongside a SWAT team. It looked fantastically over the top. I apologise for not having anything more specific. Was it A Better Tomorrow?  By the way, Cyrano Agency is pretty much the exact opposite of A Better Tomorrow. It's a romantic comedy about an agency that helps shy people get significant others by setting up extremely elaborate romantic comedy setpieces so they can meet cute. If the concept alone isn't enough to make you want to watch that movie, well, there's really not much else to say. They also made a TV drama based on the same idea last year.
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It was not a better tomorrow. The main characters looked to be police if that's any help. So it's a cop movie with a massive gunfight. I can't imagine that actually narrows it down that much.
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Snowman_McK posted:It was not a better tomorrow. The main characters looked to be police if that's any help. So it's a cop movie with a massive gunfight. I can't imagine that actually narrows it down that much. The Yellow Sea or New World?
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Reivax posted:The Yellow Sea or New World? It's neither of those, but they both look terrific. It was way trashier looking than those, think John Woo. Lots of slow motion and sparks. I'm actually starting to doubt whether it was Korean.
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Snowman_McK posted:It was not a better tomorrow. The main characters looked to be police if that's any help. So it's a cop movie with a massive gunfight. I can't imagine that actually narrows it down that much. Hard Boiled, a Chinese (Hong Kong) movie, fits this description with the main characters being cops, and shootouts at both a dock and a warehouse (big one at the warehouse) and then a really huge one around a hospital at the end.
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Snowman_McK posted:It was not a better tomorrow. The main characters looked to be police if that's any help. So it's a cop movie with a massive gunfight. I can't imagine that actually narrows it down that much. The Raid: Redemption? It's Indonesian but it has a SWAT team and a confrontation in a tenement building. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KJ0N7ik3yI http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1899353/
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Zwabu posted:Hard Boiled, a Chinese (Hong Kong) movie, fits this description with the main characters being cops, and shootouts at both a dock and a warehouse (big one at the warehouse) and then a really huge one around a hospital at the end. I know Hard Boiled very well. I spent one of my first paychecks as a teenager on a ridiculously expensive import of it ($56 dollars Australian for a DVD. Every time I can't pay my bills now, it haunts me) It wasn't that. It also wasn't the Raid. Thanks for your help though, guys. Is there much in the way of a martial arts movie industry in Korea? There's clearly the talent. Doo-hong Jong has some beautiful kicks and they found no shortage of guys for him to beat up in movies. Crying Fist had those two boxing rounds that happened in single, continuous takes, which was pretty goddamn impressive. Most of what I hear about is high concept murder mysteries. Is there a market for trashy action movies in Korea?
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Snowman_McK posted:I know Hard Boiled very well. I spent one of my first paychecks as a teenager on a ridiculously expensive import of it ($56 dollars Australian for a DVD. Every time I can't pay my bills now, it haunts me) It wasn't that. It also wasn't the Raid. Thanks for your help though, guys. Is there much in the way of a martial arts movie industry in Korea? There's clearly the talent. Doo-hong Jong has some beautiful kicks and they found no shortage of guys for him to beat up in movies. Crying Fist had those two boxing rounds that happened in single, continuous takes, which was pretty goddamn impressive. Most of what I hear about is high concept murder mysteries. Is there a market for trashy action movies in Korea? The trashy action flicks in Korea tend towards jopok poo poo, last I checked (which was admittedly some years ago).
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Some Guy TT posted:By the way, Cyrano Agency is pretty much the exact opposite of A Better Tomorrow. It's a romantic comedy about an agency that helps shy people get significant others by setting up extremely elaborate romantic comedy setpieces so they can meet cute. If the concept alone isn't enough to make you want to watch that movie, well, there's really not much else to say. They also made a TV drama based on the same idea last year. Just watched this, it was funny and cute 
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Snowman_McK posted:Lastly, and this request is horribly vague, I remember seeing the trailer for an action movie that I'm pretty sure was Korean some time ago. It featured a massive, very dramatic John Woo esque gunfight in what looked like a dock or warehouse. There were cops in shirts and vests alongside a SWAT team. It looked fantastically over the top. I apologise for not having anything more specific. Not Korean, but are you thinking of Drug War by Johnnie To?
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May 15, 2014 16:21
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