So the first 30 minutes were completely pointless?
>>62969295
how so?
>>62969295
how so?
>>62969603
>>62969631
there weren't any explosions at all
>>62969643
how so?
>>62969295
>that feel the Criterion version is out of print and is ninety dollars.
I want it so bad bros
house oh?
>>62969295
That was the dumbest shit I've ever read on 4chan for the past 8 years. Congratulations for having the creativity of thinking in such a retarded manner.
>>62969655
I got that shit mannn.
I actually stole it from my local library, I can't go back but it's all mine :)
>>62969603
Who /califorinadreamin/ here?
>>62969673
Howgh Sew?
ALL THE LEAVES ARE BROWN
>>62969603
how so?
>>62969688
Lucky cunt.
Thanks for the idea thought, time to visit every library in the next three cities over
>>62969699
AND THE SKY IS GREY
>>62969295
how so?
>>62969690
How so?
HOW?
>>62969295
>Chungking Express is a 1994 Hong Kong drama film written and directed by Wong Kar-wai. The film consists of two stories told in sequence, each about a lovesick Hong Kong policeman mulling over his relationship with a woman. The first story stars Takeshi Kaneshiro as a cop who is obsessed with the break-up of his relationship with a woman named May and his platonic encounter with a mysterious drug smuggler (Brigitte Lin). The second stars Tony Leung as a police officer who is roused from his gloom over the loss of his flight attendant girlfriend (Valerie Chow) by the attentions of a quirky snack bar worker (Faye Wong). The film depicts a paradox in that even though the characters live in densely-packed Hong Kong, they are mostly lonely and live in their own inner worlds.
omg this sounds clichés af worthy of an undergrad in philosophy.
>>62969813
Why are cross posters so stupid?
>>62969655
>tfw pierrot le fou is $130 CAD
>tfw ill probably cave and buy it eventually
>tfw the price only goes up
it was $90 when i starting eyeing it
fuck
alternatively, I got Le Cercle rouge for just over $15 at a barnes and noble sale and now it's $260
>>62969813
>Hasn't even watched it
>shits on it
>>62969849
>>62969922
But he's right, it was amateurish at best
>you will never live in HK
>>62969940
Be honest, you haven't seen it either
I am tired of the anti intellectual virus infecting /tv/. I want to talk about cinëma MEMERS GET OUT REEEEEE
>>62969982
Looks pretty shitty
>>62969982
That's a beautiful picture!!!FACT!!!
>>62970037
It's shitty but it's the future for all of us.
>>62969908
It's my favorite Godard but I guess I'll have to stick with a shitty bluray rip for the rest of my years.
>>62969982
Went to Hong Kong earlier in the year, it's pretty based and clean for the most part considering it's a massive asian city... Stayed down the road from Chungking station... As far as the movie goes, I thought it was alright, didn't really understand why it's so praised after watching it though...
>>62969982
damn FFVII remake lookin mighty fine
>>62970103
thought the same thing until i rewatched and it clicked and then I watched it again and again
Fallen Angels is -by far- the better version of Chungking.
Mood is WKW's best work.
2046 is underrated because nobody has seen enough of his filmography to put it together and denies it multiple viewings. Contender for his best film.
Days of Being Wild is p good too.
>>62970156
>thread about favourite director
>kill it by posting
just kill me
>>62970417
No you killed it with your tone of smug condescension.
>>62970449
Yea that's a real rarity on 4chan.
>>62970449
well said senpai
>>62970156
>nobody has seen enough of his filmography
Where the fuck are you coming from with this? Kar-wai isn't obscure anymore, a huge amount of people have seen all of his features. Me and a good chunk of this board included.
>>62970521
Sure some people on an obscure Laotian shadow-puppetry forum have seen them but a majority had it. How do you explain 2046's failing despite how much there is to the film?
>>62970521
Edward Yang is better anyways, Kar Wai is a meme director at this point
>>62969655
>own a shrink-wrapped copy
>torrented the disc image
What the fuck was up with Kar Wai's martial arts film that came out last year?
Why was it so bad,bros?
Fallen Angels is much better. You actually understand the movie when you actually watch it and the stories are much more solid.
Chungking Express is a movie that either requires multiple viewings or a careful analyzation (which is hilariously different for every person). It's actually a good concept, but
Don't get me wrong, I liked Chungking Express, but it's a movie for literal 2deep4u people who find various concepts of loneliness and love to be some sort of art. Fallen Angels on the otherhand is much more attached to reality and is less lovey-dovey.
>>62970156
you sound like a fucking loser and id love for you to be one of those people with undiagnosed heart conditions who die of a heart attack out of no where in their early twenties. id love for that to be you on christmas morning in front of your parents. how do you lack the self-awareness to see how unlikable you come off? get bent my man.
>>62970729
>Smoking on a bike
Enjoy getting smoke in your eyes
>>62970754
>how do you lack the self-awareness to see how unlikable you come off?
Oh, sweet irony.
>>62970729
Chungking Express is not a complicated film. It does not require careful analysis and multiple viewings to understand. You new, buddy? You make it through that IMDB Top 250 yet? Literally, LITERALLY, go back to /r/movies where you can continue peddling your fantasy that WKW is some kind of hidden gem director who makes impenetrable cinema.
>>62970754
You are the worst type of person. I just wanted you to know that. When you're unhappy and your life is shit, I want you to know it's entirely your fault. People don't hate you because your *insert your low self-esteem about weight, height, etc. here*, but because you're a terrible person.
The fact that you take the opportunity that 4chan and anonymity gives you, to be whoever you want to be, to be you without holding anything back, the fact that you take that and be this person? It says a lot.
I'm not upset. I'm not "mad bro". I'm disgusted, and I feel pity for you in a way, because deep down you know you are shit, and your life is your own fault, but you'll continue to be who you are anyways.
>>62970754
I'm the guy you wrote that too and I just wanted to reply to let you know my response is simply: kek
>>62970754
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>>62969945
>wanting to live in dirty shithole
>>62970729
>Fallen Angels
>Wong Chi-Ming's partner lives in the same building with Ho Chi Moo (Takeshi Kaneshiro), a crazy delinquent who escapes prison. She helps him elude the police when they are searching for him. Ho Chi Moo is mute and still lives with his father. For work, he breaks into other people's businesses at night and sells their goods and services, often forcibly to unwilling customers. He keeps running into the same girl at night, Charlie. Every time they meet, she cries on his shoulder and tells him the same sob story. Her ex-boyfriend Johnny left her for a girl named Blondie. Together they play games to look for Blondie, go see soccer matches at the stadium, hang out in restaurants, and take rides on his motorcycle. He falls in love. Somehow they lose touch for a few months but they run into each other while he's masquerading as a business owner. She's in a stewardess uniform, mentally fit, and in a new healthy relationship. She seems to have forgotten all about Ho Chi Moo.
this is horrendous.
>>62972211
>Judging a film by its plot summary on IMDb
Off yourself.
>>62969295
how so?
>>62972341
Doesn't do anything that the second story doesn't do better.
>>62970546
I'd chalk that one up to differences in opinion, but that's just me.
>>62969688
>>62969711
Yeah make it so that less people can see this Chunking Express. Good work.
what other directors are similar to directors like kar wai, ki duck, yang and hsien hou?
>>62973288
Pen-Ek Ratanaruang
>>62973288
Ki-duk is overrated. Lee Chang-dong is the real deal.
>>62973626
>>62973598
both of these are shit, as is Naomi Kawase. Kar Wai and HHH fly FAR above them, intellectually, emotionally and artistically.
>>62973598
lmfao, no
BECAUSE I'M COOOOOL
>>62973715
who would HHH be?
>>62969655
If you're not a total poor fag or still in school (like me) this shouldn't be too much, the problem I have with Criterion is that it's so expensive and if I start with 1 I will likely need most of them, I'm planning to buy a shit bunch of movies when I finally have a job.
>>62973806
ho hi ho
Literally DUDE SO QUIRKY LMAO except with chinks making Breathless references
>>62973715
Kar-wai did a kung-fu flick, My Blueberry Nights and a car ad.
Try to find a fault in Chang-dong's filmography. You can't.
>>62970729
I have not got that from chungking express at all, I wouldn't have interpreted anything if I hadn't heard someone say that it's about how you can't really connect and have relationships in such a huge and anonymous city. I really just loved how the story was told, the acting and cinematography and the actors, I didn't give two fucks about a deeper meaning except for that it's weird that those people don't just get together.
You seem like an asshole
>>62970721
It's 2 years, almost 3 years old now.
I liked it, but of course it was more of a "do this shit here wkw"- some producer, than a true wkw movie.
>>62973806
It's all about the game, and how you play it.
All about control, and if you can take it.Hou Hsiao-hsien
>>62970156
2046 is top comf, I have watched that shit so often in the last months
ITMFL is great as well, I haven't really seen more than chungking fallen angels and the aforementioned. And that IP man flick
>>62973806
Hou Hsiao-Hsien
