Secret Ninja Movie Club (aka what have you watched lately)

[aspect-dubz]

double post

[tyson]

"I'm a Cyborg but that's OK"

Very good film by Oldboy director Park Chan-wook. This probably has the lightest atmosphere of all his films.


Dead Alive (aka Brain Dead)

I've seen this almost 10 times and its still awesome!

[firky]

It was shit.

[firky]

Very good film by Oldboy director Park Chan-wook. This probably has the lightest atmosphere of all his films.

It's great

[nr]

not as funny as i thought it would be

[Motorway to Roswell]

[2manynoobs]

Only Half an hour long, Blew me away.
Great recommendation.

my god. This was wonderful

[WhosZena]

Only Half an hour long, Blew me away.
Great recommendation.

my god. This was wonderful

Isnt it just. Glad you enjoyed it.

[Motorway to Roswell]

[ST100]

[firky]

His best film IMO, it's timeless.

edit: **spoilers ahead**




yeh definitely, what do you think about the ending though? Did he die or was he really saved? My thoughts were that he did die and that what you see at the end is his ideal outcome on the situation, i read an interview with Scorsese and he explains the film as showing how the media would glamorize murderers and psychos.

I think or rather wonder if Scorcese set out to make a political statement deliberately (which I sort of came round to after watching it so many times), or whether the politics is just incidental.

His obsession with Betsy, the democrat campaigner which turns sour, so he tries to assassinate her candidate as a way of getting back at her. The juxtaposition of the slums where people are completely forgotten, and their middle class leaders who have no time to deal with these areas of New York because they are aiming for the middle class vote

And of course the fact that Betsy rejects Travis and then when he resorts to extreme violence which results in him becomes semi-famous in NY; she comes to try to make up with him, like a representation of the middle class vote and their fickleness.

I think that is why it has been likened to Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment.

[ST100]

[firky]

It's probably good but we talked through most of it

[DZA]

[firky]

Only Half an hour long, Blew me away.
Great recommendation.

That was class.

[-dubson-]

Surprisingly good.

[Motorway to Roswell]

[deepfiend]

And a few other documentaries that Herzog has done - 'Bells from the Deep', 'Wodaabe', 'Wheel of Time', 'Encounters at the End of the World' and 'Wings of Hope'

[jiba]

Only Half an hour long, Blew me away.
Great recommendation.

That was class.

It sure is!!

Watched it again today, simply beautiful.

[parson]

wheel of time is one of my favorite herzog films.

check out white diamond if you haven't. and don't ever watch wild blue yonder.