spiffytee

hey, hey, don't get me wrong, there are some pretty cool action sequences. the slo mo and camera angles are pretty trademark woo.

Calling all John Woo's fans out there...... This movie is entertaining....sort of. Why do i say this? I feel his presence in the movie, but i don't at the same time. I don't know how the war movie crowd is going to take it either. He was trying to blend in his action sequences with war sequences reminicent of (heros shed no tears.) This is a fan's opinion; i was disappointed. It is not like killer, hard boiled, hard target or once a theif. You may say that's a good thing... well, there are some things i liked though. again, there is brotherhood, friendship and culture in this movie. This may be a semi-spoiler (not plot spoiler) where are the double berettas? i was almost sure there was going to be a scene here.... like, i ran outta ammo, here's an extra beretta, let's go wild crazy. SPOILER note: chihiro tells me that in this film, the us and japan seemed to be equal in power. In reality, she says US totally wiped the floor with japan in the saipan battles.

Tsubabababa!

The first thing i ever saw was robotech. There was other animation on tv like gi-goe and transformers, but robotech had that style we that love anime is known to have. The attention to detail and big eyes... I didn't get to watch the whole robotech saga until much later. But when I did, I appreciated it even more. There is more depth in the story than one would think. I highly recommend it as a drama. In middle school, a friend of mine let me borrow akira. I was blown away! How could that kind of art escape me? In my opinion, it was generations ahead of its time. What got me hooked were these two. It all started with awesome animation. All that detail for everything. Even now, the animation on american tv is still up to par. I'll give a little credit when cars actually look like cars. Nowadays, I also enjoy anime with style and story.

i:m glad to see an open mind to these movies. again, the good chinese flicks are few and far between and the usa woo movies aren:t a consistent A. For all those guys that saw hard boiled and liked it, i recommend the killer and a better tomorrow. note ^ most, almost all of the time, the subbing sucks.

First of all, props for nick for putting up this and the wonderful pics! Chow is god, not yahve. Anyway... let's get to the itty bitty details. John Woo has directed many movies, the most memorable ones being The killer, hard boiled, bullet in the head, better tomorrow 1 & 2, broken arrow, hard target, face off and mi-2. Also directed a tv movie of once a thief, which was originally a HK flick with chow too. He has been in the production team of the big hit, replacement killers, and others that i don't know off the bat. I am going to be nitty gritty - john woo has flops (most of his early stuff and some of his amreican films.) However, when he does the good ones, they go above and beyond. First off, I don't think broken arrow and bullet in the head were that cool. (a lot of people would disagree with the bullet in the head.) Why did i vote for the killer as best movie? I really liked the strength of friendship in the movie. It showed that against many odds, there's always a friend that's got your back. It also had a lot of drama, conflicts, and betrayal. Of all his films, save face off and a better tomorrow a close two, this has gotta be the most flowing and dramatic one in my opinion. Hard boiled is second. it's got that ganster/friendship mayhem that puts 'er there with the best shoot outs of all his movies. And don't forget a better tomorrow. It didn't have the fancy shootouts, but it sure had good story. I'm not sure, but i think he wrote these movies. All the american movies don't have the asian flavor cause everything has to be 'happy' and it's someone else's script. Among his american movies, face off had the only good script. ain't much to work with. hard target, once a thief (english version; has witty jokes too :p) had some really good action sequences, which saved the movie in my opinion. broken arrow has no saving features. now why - you ask, do you have mi-2? the action sequences arent' as cool as his hk flicks and the story bites... Here's the answer. it's the first one of his movies to take advantage of dolby digital after dd was invented. none of that bs mastering dd stuff. comon, the action sequences were pretty cool. Go chow! watch out for windtalkers!!!! ps... i can only get into chinese when you get the subbed version. note - many fans of hard target are furious that the edited scenes weren't included. great, you can put in robocop's gory stuff, but can't do it for john woo... dammit