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Just finished watching The Killer. Damn, that was a fun fucking movie.
I didn't know what to expect going in, save for a shit ton of guns and blood, but I got that along with a sweet little romance and THE POWER OF FRIENDSHIP, plus some sick 80's city porn.
Really made me think about how I'd want to make an action movie. The hyperbloody squibs were fucking awesome.
>>63302324
bump
Probably shouldn't have started that thread before watching the movie.
Why did Hong Kong action films fizzle out?
>>63302514
China
>>63302514
China took them back in 97, thats why Woo, Chan, Li, and many other stars turned to america
>>63302514
Changing tides, I guess.
>>63302527
>>63302528
>dat hivemind
Question: How did they blur the city lights in this? Made 'em all fuzzy.
>there are millennial chinks that have no interest in seeing anything from pre-1997
>>63302652
>tfw half chink
>tfw almost 19
I just want to see what I'm missing out on. This was awesome, and I know that there's a one-take scene in Hard Boiled that's fucking incredible. Face/Off was good, but these were amazing.
Are most of John Woo's movies like this?
>>63302324
DUDE HEROIC BLOODSHED LMAO
>>63302780
Broken Arrow is campy but good (it has Howie Long as a bad guy which is cool if you're a football fan).
Mission Impossible 2 is good imo but I know a lot of people feel it's a weak sequel.
I actually liked Paycheck but I seem to be in the minority about that one too, most people disliked it
Windtalkers sucks ass
>>63302951
All the M:I movies have different feels to them, so I judge them all separately.
>>63302951
>forgetting the amazing Hard Target
>>63302514
China took back Hong Kong
China a shit
>>63302780
a better tomorrow is a good film. And a better tomorrow 2 has one of the best over the top ending gunfights in all of his movies.
>>63303244
I'll be sure to check it out.
Trying to figure out where I could learn to shoot a good gunfight. Obviously the build-up is what really sells it, but there's something to be said for execution
>>63303333
>quads
>>63302324
Shit was awesome. Check out Hard Boiled too.
A better tomorrow is great too.
Favorite woo movie is the killer though. You started with the best
>>63302324
GOAT action movie
john woo's second best, the first being hard boiled obviously
