The Good, The Bad, and ... The Weird? - by Scots Taffer
Master Villain on 23/3/2010 at 06:14
Apparently it was released in theatres over here... Last year?! What the fuck? How do you hide a film like this? :weird:
No, wait, I meant: :mad:
henke on 23/3/2010 at 07:45
Looks good. I saw another "Eastern take on the Western genre" film recently called Sukiyaki Western Django ((
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-TGaGa3QAc) trailer), directed by Takashi Miike. It was alright, but not as great as you'd expect and it had Quentin Tarantino in old-man make-up breaking all kinds of fourth walls.
Messenger: It's about your son Akira.
Old guy played by QT: Ah... Akira, how that name will always brings a tear to my eye. What can I say? I guess I'll always be an anime-otaku at heart.
Messenger: Huh?
Kolya on 23/3/2010 at 08:21
Apparently Tarantino likes to call Miike "greatest director alive" for mimicking his own style.
The first movie looks way more fun and I'm not really interested in Quentin's otaku-ness anyway.
Angel Dust on 23/3/2010 at 11:29
Quote Posted by henke
Looks good. I saw another "Eastern take on the Western genre" film recently called Sukiyaki Western Django (trailer), directed by Takashi Miike. It was alright, but not as great as you'd expect and it had Quentin Tarantino in old-man make-up breaking all kinds of fourth walls.
Pretty much the whole way through that film I was thinking how much I'd rather be watching
Yojimbo than this hyped up modern version of it.
Quote Posted by Kolya
Apparently Tarantino likes to call Miike "greatest director alive" for mimicking his own style.
The first movie looks way more fun and I'm not really interested in Quentin's otaku-ness anyway.
I'm not a particularly big fan of Miike(see above) but I think your dislike of QT is causing you to sell Miike more than a little short. He is a staggeringly prolific film-maker and has brought his brand of weirdness to a quite a few genres and with the exception
Sukiyaki Western Django none of Miike films I've seen are very Tarantino-like. It's a bit of stretch to even call
Sukiyaki Western Django Tarantino-like since
Kill Bill (the QT film it's stylistically similar too) is obviously more than a little influenced by the quirky, hyperkinetic style of the contemporary Asian cinema. The reason QT is such a knob-slobbering fan of Miike's (and Chan Wook Park and Ji-Woon Kim (the director of this film) and Bong Joon-ho etc) is because he simply has a massive boner for modern Asian cinema.
Re
The Good, The Bad and The Weird: it does look quite good and by going with lighter tone rather than the 'oh so hip and cool' feel of it's peers means that I might not get tired of the quirky style 10 minutes in.
snowcap21 on 23/3/2010 at 12:53
Quote Posted by Master Villain
Apparently it was released in theatres over here... Last year?! What the fuck? How do you hide a film like this? :weird:
Same here. It played for about two weeks in the smallest cinema at the other end of the city... so I didn't see it, although I wanted. But it's on my to see list (not that that means anything).
Sulphur on 23/3/2010 at 21:34
This reminds me, I've got to find a DVD/Blu-Ray of Shaolin Soccer and beat the everliving raspberry pulp out of my friend until he gives me my copy of Kung Fu Hustle back.
Arondil on 23/3/2010 at 22:53
Wasn't aware of this being released, but I've liked what I've seen of Kim's other work and the trailer this does look interesting.
Just checked on Amazon and it's currently £3.97, there are a couple of other films I'm after too.
henke on 18/7/2010 at 20:41
I just watched it. It is
beauuutifully shot. Just look at (
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wljNbhWIVmU&feature=related) this opening sequence. It's pretty well edited, scenes ended just about when they started to get boring. Some shots, especially in the big shootout with the army at the end, could've well been sacrificed to make the whole thing a bit tighter. And just like the movie it's based on, it's the "comedy relief" character who's the real heart of the movie, and the most interesting character.
I'd give it a 7.5/10.
Queue on 19/7/2010 at 04:37
A Tale of Two Sisters was one of the creepiest (and best horror films) I've seen in recent years, so I'm anxious to check this one out.
Sulphur--you'd have to pry my copy of Kung Fu Hustle from my cold, dead hands. I still gasp with glee at the snakes, and the lighting of a cigarette after all has gone horribly wrong, scenes.
