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Post by reaperg on Jul 1, 2012 8:13:14 GMT -5
"Big Man Japan" is kinda interesting. The faux-documentary style is good, and the movie has its humor, but it can move slowly and the monsters are, at best, unconventional. And oh man, that ending.
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Post by caucasoididiot on Jul 3, 2012 8:27:27 GMT -5
I'm definitely curious to see it. So, it's a fake documentary? I was guessing it was a kaijuu spoof, but from the sound of that not exactly.
As an aside, Matsumoto and his partner once did the closest thing I ever saw to a Japanese MST. They had a bit on one of their shows where they riffed bits from an '80s TV series.
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Post by caucasoididiot on Jul 6, 2012 9:55:40 GMT -5
Just stumbled on a Korean movie called Crossing, about refugees from North Korea. I've been meaning to check out some Korean films, and seeing that a subbed version is up in its entirety on YouTube, I'll probably watch it tonight.
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Post by Mighty Jack on Jul 7, 2012 5:39:49 GMT -5
I did a write up on Big Man Japan if your curious - a warning though, I do give away the ending. It was an interesting flick to say the least.
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Post by caucasoididiot on Jul 7, 2012 8:34:55 GMT -5
While I am curious, I think I'll try to avoid spoilers. I'd expect nothing less than "interesting" from Matchan! (^_^)
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Post by caucasoididiot on Jul 10, 2012 20:57:19 GMT -5
This morning I was looking at what imdb had to say about Crossing, and since none of the reviews I usually check had done it, ended up reading the the Variety review. Pretty well panned it, for reasons with which I disagree, but reasonable men may differ.
But what has stuck in my mind was that the review opened with something to the effect of "this film has set back detente with North Korea fifty years."
Eh?
Since '58, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea has attacked the USS Pueblo (admittedly a spy ship), kidnapped Japanese nationals, torpedoed South Korean corvettes, shelled South Korean islands with civilian populations, repeatedly fired missiles over Japan, used its intel service to run drugs into Japan (apparently just as a source of revenue), repeatedly given IAEA inspectors the runaround on it s nuclear program, developed the weapons anyway, sold nuclear tech to the A. Q. Khan network, similarly sold missile technology to some fairly sketchy characters . . .
And then, by '08, sick of seeing their "Sunshine Policy" of engagement bearing so little fruit, South Koreans makes a film that points out truthfully and (at least I thought) far less jingoistically than it might have that the North's population is so underfed and repressed that large numbers defect regularly.
What unmitigated gall on the part of the ROKs, eh?
OK, I'll cool my sarcasm sequencer. On the other hand, it's timely that just last week I heard Bill Clinton characterize the DPRK as an eight-year-old with nuclear weapons . . .
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Post by caucasoididiot on Jul 24, 2012 17:58:50 GMT -5
Perhaps it's just my execrable mood, but I wish this were streaming:
The Half in the Bag guys thought it went a bit overboard but also that it well-executed and wondered if something might have been lost in cultural context.
Looks like it might make an interesting double feature with Sono's Strange Circus.
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Post by caucasoididiot on Sept 8, 2012 0:37:43 GMT -5
Found a subtitled review of Kokuhaku:
Still doesn't try to translate the final pun, but that would be asking a lot.
But if I could pick one of Nakashima's films to find online . . .
何か? 気持ち悪いです。
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Post by caucasoididiot on Sept 12, 2012 19:34:47 GMT -5
Found some delted scenes from PlatoonCaution: remember that it was not a G-rated film. I'd say all of it was wisely left out, but some bits are interesting. There's a dream sequence which I immediately thought was a total non-starter, but I suspect that it may have been meant as setup to another cut bit, namely a somewhat preternatural encounter Taylor has shortly before the last battle. Tonally it probably would have been a mistake to put something so mystical in, but I found it interesting. There's also an alternate ending, a different fate for S/Sgt Barnes. It confirms something I've always suspected about that character and how to interpret the ending that was used.
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