I don’t why, but I got to thinking about the action scenes that have really floored me. If I missed any, add them in the comment section. Here they are in no particular order:
The Wild Bunch - The Railroad Detective’s Ambush
This whole sequence is just masterful. The way director Sam Peckinpah uses slow motion, the […]
Apr
22
The Greatest Action Scenes of All Time
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Feb
24
The Difference Between Trash And Garbage
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Lately, I’ve seen an lot of really terrible films.
These days, with all the fan sites out there, it is possible to see many, many obscure genre releases from bygone years from Italian cinema, Hong Kong cinema, and Japanese cinema.
Back when I first became a fan of these film scenes, we didn’t have this kind of […]
Oct
3
Reel Life vs Real Life
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My observation has been that there is a funhouse mirror relationship to reality in films.
For example, when viewing American films, people native to Asian cultures often notice that people often get up from bed and go to work without taking a shower, which would almost never happen in their culture. They think that all Americans […]
Jul
11
Forum Rules
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Actually, this title of this post is misleading. There is only one forum rule.
Anyone who posts anything that does not have to do with film (such as Viagra or cell phones) will have his or her account deleted and all of his or her posts.
Duh.
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Jun
2
Google +1 Button - If You Like What You See…
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Hello, faithful readers.
You might have noticed a funny looking red, blue, green and yellow box on my posts, right above the icons/movie poster that usually links to Amazon.com (except when Amazon.com doesn’t carry the movie — shame on them).
Well, this is the latest doodad from Google. Here’s the way it works. +1 is shorthand […]
Mar
16
Does File Sharing Negatively Impact Content Creation?
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Just read an article called File-Sharing and Copyright by Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Koleman Strumpf. Interesting.
While the article seems biased in favor of file sharing, it stops short of claiming that file sharing doesn’t have an impact on content creation.
I quote:
As our survey indicates, the empirical evidence on sales displacement is mixed.
While some studies find evidence […]
Jan
29
Why Subtitles Rule
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I just saw an indisputably good movie, The Great Silence AKA Il Grande Silenzio, but for all I know, it could well have been truly great. Why the uncertainty? Because the only version I could get hold of was dubbed.
The Great Silence is a spaghetti western, so obviously it was originally in Italian.
There are many […]
Dec
25
Repo Men Takes On the Privatization of Health Care
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If there’s anything that gets me excited, it’s when a clever writer finds a way of touching on contemporary issues of great importance through a science fiction premise. That’s what Eric Garcia has accomplished with his novel The Repossession Mambo, which has been made into the film Repo Men, coming to a theater near you.
The […]
Oct
22
Goodies For Lovers of Asian Film
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I’ve got to say, I haven’t been too impressed by the participation of this blog’s readers.
Whatever.
But, for those readers who happen to really love modern Korean flicks and Golden Age of Hong Kong movies, I might be in the position to do you a solid, but only for those of you who are worthy.
Now, how […]
Sep
5
The Virtual Reality Elephant In The Room
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Recently, I read an entry on Geoff Boucher’s blog, Hero Complex, about the spate of “out of body” movies coming out, like Surrogates, Gamer and Avatar. Boucher says that the reason these movies are all coming out at roughly the same time is a reflection of society’s anxiety about “…the slippery nature of humanity in […]
