Aja on 10/12/2007 at 20:58
Quote Posted by Scots Taffer
Kill Bill was totally comic book styled violence in my opinion, House of Falling Leaves for example is just utterly over the top. So I think you're off your fucking rocker, but it's not like that's a first.
Okay, 'comic-book violence' is the wrong term, but I fail to understand how seeing someone being forced to eat plasticky-looking fingers makes Kill Bill look like a sermon. It's like Tarantino is beating these guys at their own game, if the purpose is to do more than simply depict violence.
The scene where Uma had to wiggle her toe was more agonizing than anything in the Revenge trailer.
the_grip on 10/12/2007 at 21:16
To add a sidebar...
Any fan of gore kung-fu flicks who hasn't seen (
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102293/)
The Story of Ricky really owes it to themselves to check it out. It's not intense gore by any stretch of the imagination, but you will laugh your ass off at the amount of blood splattered for no other reason than just to make it splatter and to cheese it up. The acting and one-liners are equally bad/good... it's one of my all time favorites.
The gore in
Ricky is much more like
Braindead than
Kill Bill, if that helps.
Trivia from IMDB:
"So much and so thick was the fake blood used in the "Meat Grinder" finale that Siu-Wong Fan, the actor who played Ricky, could not wash the red off his skin for three days"
[EDIT:]
Check this "mild" fight scene (and linked videos): (
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vMKN1tYknE&feature=related)
Ko0K on 11/12/2007 at 04:29
Quote Posted by Subjective Effect
What's wrong with Master of the Flying Guillotine? And is he the same guy as The Flying Guillotine from Return of the One Armed Boxer?
I haven't watched the One Armed Boxer, but he is indeed the same person based on information available for both movies on IMDB.
Anyway, as for the Master of the Flying Guillotine, nothing is wrong with it really, except I personally thought the fights were choreographed rather poorly. Factoring in the budget and the technical resources available at the time of the movie's production, it's not too hard to forgive cheesy script, sound, and special effects. However, the fights in that movie are simply terrible. Mock fights that contemporary dojo students performed before audiences for public demonstration events were more sophisticated than the battles in that movie. It's hard to believe the director had any martial arts background at all just judging by what he presented in that movie. Anyway, all that amounts to nothing but my own critique of it, on which (
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/master_of_the_flying_guillotine/) Rotten Tomatoes apparently overwhelmingly disagrees. :/
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It's called The Machine Girl
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