New Members jj.sunsetbeach Posted June 21, 2011 at 09:27 AM New Members Report Share Posted June 21, 2011 at 09:27 AM World without Thieves (don't know the Chinese name) but it was SO GOOD --- do watch it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbradfor Posted June 21, 2011 at 03:24 PM Report Share Posted June 21, 2011 at 03:24 PM do I really have to go back to 2001 to see a Chinese movie without characters dying off? Hong Kong recently has no lack of light fluffy romances in which no one dies. Speaking of romances, no one dies in 非誠勿擾 either. Remember, in opera at least, all tragedies end with a death, all comedies end with a marriage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
character Posted June 21, 2011 at 03:55 PM Report Share Posted June 21, 2011 at 03:55 PM 初恋红豆冰 Ice Kacang Puppy Love [link goes to review] (2010, Malaysia) - Silly and artificial coming of age romance, but I found it charming enough. Loved the rural Malaysian settings. 紫蝴蝶 Purple Butterfly (2003, China) - Decent Sino-Japanese espionage story ruined by bad arthouse direction. I like arthouse, but IMO it didn't work here. The Message (2009) and Lust, Caution are much better films set in that milieu. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yonglin Posted June 21, 2011 at 04:53 PM Report Share Posted June 21, 2011 at 04:53 PM I liked Ice Kacang Puppy Love too. I have the soundtrack 纯文艺恋爱 on repeat on my mp3 player... I was particularly impressed by the make-up squad: most of those actors are 30+... I also found it fascinating because I know so little about the Chinese community in Malaysia. I'm been watching an endless stream of Chinese movies recently. A couple that I thought stood out were 《江城夏日》 (love the accent!), 《立春》 and 《观音山》. I watched 《非诚勿扰》 yesterday (after I learnt that it's directed by 冯小刚 who also made 《手机》 which I found "not too bad"). I thought it was so-so, but will readily admit that a lot of the presumably intelligent and witty dialogue was above my head, so perhaps I missed a lot of what made it so great. The acting was excellent (obviously), but I found the story to be a little thin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
桑德拉 Posted June 21, 2011 at 05:35 PM Report Share Posted June 21, 2011 at 05:35 PM I watch 家有儿女 but it's a series, very funny. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gougou Posted June 22, 2011 at 03:58 AM Report Share Posted June 22, 2011 at 03:58 AM World without Thieves (don't know the Chinese name) but it was SO GOOD Completely agree. It's one of my favorite movies, and the dialogue is just classic! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imron Posted June 22, 2011 at 04:03 AM Report Share Posted June 22, 2011 at 04:03 AM 《天下无贼》is the Chinese name of A World Without Thieves, and I agree it's a good film, but... it doesn't meet the requirement that no-one dies in the end Definitely worth watching though! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
renzhe Posted June 22, 2011 at 01:14 PM Report Share Posted June 22, 2011 at 01:14 PM Strange that we haven't had any discussion about 剑雨: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reign_of_Assassins Even stranger that I had missed seeing the movie completely until now, being a diehard Michelle Yeoh fan ever since "Supercop". The "romantic" parts were beyond cringeworthy, but overall, I was quite happy with the movie, it was a nice fantasy-wuxia movie. Not without flaws, but 2 hours of entertainment and not too much to really complain about. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skylee Posted June 22, 2011 at 01:22 PM Report Share Posted June 22, 2011 at 01:22 PM Strange that we haven't had any discussion about 剑雨 Lu said she had watched it at #120. I watched the film but it was just an ordinary film with little to discuss (I watched it because I liked 鄭雨盛). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imron Posted June 22, 2011 at 01:31 PM Report Share Posted June 22, 2011 at 01:31 PM Strange that we haven't had any discussion about 剑雨 Except of course for this post you mean Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
renzhe Posted June 22, 2011 at 01:42 PM Report Share Posted June 22, 2011 at 01:42 PM I knew that I had to be missing something. :/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian US Posted June 23, 2011 at 12:58 AM Report Share Posted June 23, 2011 at 12:58 AM Well played imron on Beijing Bicycle. You almost had me until Roddy decided to post, which just bleeds with sarcasm. I flipped to the end of the movie just in time to see a boy get his skull crushed in. I'm going to go watch Kung Fu Panda 2... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imron Posted June 23, 2011 at 02:14 AM Report Share Posted June 23, 2011 at 02:14 AM I only said no-one dies, not that it was a happy ending Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian US Posted June 23, 2011 at 05:37 AM Report Share Posted June 23, 2011 at 05:37 AM Assuming everyone was alright, I hope I'll survive being left in a Beijing alley after taking a brick to the back of the head. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
character Posted June 24, 2011 at 11:25 PM Report Share Posted June 24, 2011 at 11:25 PM 让子弹飞 (Let the Bullets Fly) - Really enjoyed it, but wish there was an English list/commentary covering all the visual jokes/political references, as all but one or two of them were lost on me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gougou Posted June 27, 2011 at 01:46 AM Report Share Posted June 27, 2011 at 01:46 AM Yeah, I wouldn't mind a list like that either! Saw 碧罗雪山 yesterday, which wasn't outstanding story-wise, but gave some nice insight into life in a Yunnan mountain village. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
renzhe Posted June 27, 2011 at 10:43 PM Report Share Posted June 27, 2011 at 10:43 PM I've just rewatched "Supercop". I'm on a mission to finish watching all of Michelle Yeoh's movies -- I'm not missing many, being a die-hard fan. After that, I might do Jackie Chan. I'm watching the Mandarin dubs, but it's not a problem since most of the pre-1990s movies used studio dubs (mostly by different actors) for Cantonese too. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
renzhe Posted July 17, 2011 at 12:12 PM Report Share Posted July 17, 2011 at 12:12 PM 苏乞儿 just might be the dumbest, least coherent thing I have ever seen in my life. What a waste. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
character Posted July 17, 2011 at 01:00 PM Report Share Posted July 17, 2011 at 01:00 PM 苏乞儿 just might be the dumbest, least coherent thing I have ever seen in my life. What a waste.I thought the first half was very good; the less said about the second half the better.Saw the movie 關雲長 / 关云长 / The Lost Bladesman last night -- certainly my favorite Donnie Yen MA movie in years; he seems to have finally learned to act in a way I can appreciate. The fights are good, the story is a little confusing, the politics are the usual "uniting China is doubleplusgood". Still, better this than Ip Man 1 & 2, Chen Zhen, 14 Blades, and Bodyguards and Assassins. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skylee Posted July 17, 2011 at 01:09 PM Report Share Posted July 17, 2011 at 01:09 PM I simply thought the casting was wrong. One look at Donnie Yen as 關雲長 in the poster and I decided not to watch the film. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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