Son Of General Retro Discussion

CiDeRmAn

King Kong was excellent and the game was a damn fine launch game and movie tie in.
Not all movies need to be cerebral and in portuguese to be valid!
Or do movies have to be in korean these days??

And, I agree, the 00's have felt kinda featureless, but that doesn't really match up to reality, if you could juxtapose 2000 and 2011 you'd see plenty of differences, world politics, technology, culture etc.
Apple was still something that twats with an graphic design degree prattled on about.
The Dreamcast still looked like a good idea.
America was seen as a nice place to visit.
Iraq was seen as a safety buffer against Iran, not too bad as long as you weren't a Kurd.
Fox still told lies, some things never change.
We had an economy.
We nurses were paid feck all and I was laughed at by mates in the building trade, WHO'S LAUGHING NOW ASSHOLLES!
Some of you had yet to stop being fascinated by your own excreta, a state some of you are still in.
Retr0 was still in primary school but was practising "Dr." symbols before his name in the margins of his copy books.
Sera had no idea what lay in store for her, but at least she had a Tamagotchi to keep her warm until Retr0 turned up.

And in 2000, Goldeneye was still considered, by everyone to be pretty great!

johnny_ultimate

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

King Kong was excellent and the game was a damn fine launch game and movie tie in.
Not all movies need to be cerebral and in portuguese to be valid!
Or do movies have to be in korean these days??

Japanese preferably, but Korean's second best.

But yeah, King Kong is awesome. It is over long, I admit that. But Jackson made a very entertaining film altogether. With dinosaurs.

pdbhp

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

Japanese preferably, but Korean's second best.

But yeah, King Kong is awesome. It is over long, I admit that. But Jackson made a very entertaining film altogether. With dinosaurs.

When I first saw KingKong I had very low expectations for it and was totally amazed by the movie even that fat little turd Jack Black couldn't ruin it.
Thats testament to how good a movie it is because Jack Black has to be one of the worst actors on the planet

amacachi

King Kong had the worst CGI since the music video for "Go West" by The Pet Shop Boys.

Retr0gamer

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Retr0 was still in primary school but was practising "Dr." symbols before his name in the margins of his copy books.
Sera had no idea what lay in store for her, but at least she had a Tamagotchi to keep her warm until Retr0 turned up.

Hey 2000 was my leaving cert year and my first year of college :P

Pyongyang

Korean cinema is bloody amazing. Been a fan of it for years and years. All my limited editions and box set stuff is in lock up in the UK.

If I had to recommend just 3 Korean movies you simply have to watch before you die, they are (in order):

1. ...ing
2. Il Mare
3. Natural City

Just buy the R3's at Yesasia and watch them already!

I have the ...ing limited edition folder which is one of the best R3 set's I've come across as well as the lovely Il Mare magnetic gatebook and Natural City steelcase.

Great films, pretty packaging!

Pyongyang

...or you can watch ...ing on YouTube. Don't be put off lads by the soppy premise, I guarantee you this film is bloody brilliant. Promise.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kiHNMHJat0

johnny_ultimate

I am very fond of South Korean cinema, they've really upped their game in recent years. Have been working through the filmography of Lee Chang-dong over the last few weeks after seeing his recent Poetry. Definitely worth checking out his films, Oasis particularly (imagine a more subtle, strange take on My Left Foot). And I'd say I Saw the Devil is the most entertaining film of the year, tied maybe with Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy They're definitely making the best genre films out of anyone at the moment - and not just revenge films, although there is a lovable surplus of them!

Japanese cinema will always be my first cinematic love, but if we're to pick 'favourites' in terms of country its surprising how many fantastic films have come out of Korea in the last decade. Maybe North Korea too, but who the **** knows about that?

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy

Sera had no idea what lay in store for her, but at least she had a Tamagotchi to keep her warm until Retr0 turned up.

how did you know? lol jk

didn't need a Tamagotchi, I'd a Saturn and the Nightopians :pac:

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

I am very fond of South Korean cinema

+1

Japanese cinema will always be my first cinematic love, but if we're to pick 'favourites' in terms of country its surprising how many fantastic films have come out of Korea in the last decade. Maybe North Korea too, but who the **** knows about that?

at the start I watched a few of each Japanese and Korean, then kept on watching Korean films so I'd almost pick them over Japan. I'd love to see more animation stuff, this is off like a DVD animation students made (I think?), there's a good few on it but this is my favourite ~

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STfjzX8qkiw

Xtravision used to have Tartan Asia cheap, I remember the first ones I bought were Wishing Stairs, A Bittersweet Life and Premonition (not the one with Sandra Bullock). There's tons left there to watch but I'm very slow to watch films by myself though, actually have ...Ing on my list.

johnny_ultimate

Tartan Asia Extreme was a wonderful series - there was a lot of generic J-Horror crapola, but they really got a lot of people into Asian cinema. Audition, The Vengeance Trilogy, Ringu (the most obvious one) etc... The absolutely bonkers Save The Green Planet was another highlight from the series.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NLbDgyMusk

If you like A Bittersweet Life, the director's other films are even more awesome. A Tale of Two Sisters, The Good the Bad and The Weird, and I Saw the Devil are some of the best genre films of the last decade.

These guys are the best distributors of quirky Asian cinema in the absence of Tartan. Love Exposure is a four hour long head**** of upskirt photography and religious satire. Confessions is Japan's superb attempt at a revenge film (demented, of course). And Cold Fish is the most endearingly hyperviolent film of 2011, easy. And there's so much more, but I think it would seriously be dragging this thread even more off topic than it usually is :P

CiDeRmAn

Not a huge fan of Korean cinema.
Enjoy the occasional bout of Amelie or City of Lost Children though.
I find myself drawn to more and more 50s/60s/70s science fiction books rather than movies tbh, everyone should try to read Black Easter and Cities In Flight, brilliant, I'm sure the pdf's can be found, out there somewhere, Black Easter is a hard one to find, I should know, I have owned 2 copies and both got half-inched!

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

The absolutely bonkers Save The Green Planet was another highlight from the series.

Retr0 has it sure he told me how good it was so I know about it.

If you like A Bittersweet Life, the director's other films are even more awesome. A Tale of Two Sisters, The Good the Bad and The Weird, and I Saw the Devil are some of the best genre films of the last decade.

I got AToTS as a birthday present last year but haven't watched it yet, will definitely check out TGTB&TW and IStD if it's the same guy thanks

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Enjoy the occasional bout of Amelie

Amelie is one of my favourite films of all OF ALL TIME, it's my feel good film

johnny_ultimate

Anyone who hates Amelie is a bitter, joyless individual :pac:

(no offense intended if anyone here doesn't like Amelie. I'm just talking in general terms)

Andrew76

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

...
I find myself drawn to more and more 50s/60s/70s science fiction books rather than movies tbh, ...

I've never had time for science fiction or fiction of any kind when it comes to books. Always felt it was a waste of time reading a book if you're not learning something about the real world, that's also probably something to do with having bugger all free time these days. Popular Science is where it's at (I noted you've come across the delights of Richard P. Feynman too).

Yet when it comes to films sci-fi is one of my favourite genres, something to turn the brain off for 2hrs. :pac:

Retr0gamer

Save the Green Planet is one of the best films I've ever seen. It might seem completely bonkers but it actually makes a lot of sense when you think about it.

Pyongyang

If you want a bonkers storyline try this:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0290808/

The film is crap though.

Jack burton

just saw this on imdb front page

http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi3866598425

Dunno what to make of it, solid cast and has a really different stlye to most films out there

Pyongyang

We've established SC-OCD and *sniff sniff*-OCD....but this is errr........just odd. Check out yer mans hands.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gmmc0qNlqRQ

Jack burton

Whats the sniff sniff ocd? Some kinda plastic one?

Hope I'm not coming down with a new condition

Mr Vengeance

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

Tartan Asia Extreme was a wonderful series - there was a lot of generic J-Horror crapola, but they really got a lot of people into Asian cinema. Audition, The Vengeance Trilogy, Ringu (the most obvious one) etc... The absolutely bonkers Save The Green Planet was another highlight from the series.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NLbDgyMusk

If you like A Bittersweet Life, the director's other films are even more awesome. A Tale of Two Sisters, The Good the Bad and The Weird, and I Saw the Devil are some of the best genre films of the last decade.

These guys are the best distributors of quirky Asian cinema in the absence of Tartan. Love Exposure is a four hour long head**** of upskirt photography and religious satire. Confessions is Japan's superb attempt at a revenge film (demented, of course). And Cold Fish is the most endearingly hyperviolent film of 2011, easy. And there's so much more, but I think it would seriously be dragging this thread even more off topic than it usually is :P

Love Expose is a classic. I love the theme tune as well - its unforgetable. It was on Film 4 recently enough, if its on again you guys on here should check it out - probably best recorded though!

Hong Kong flick Full Time Killer is one of my all time favourites too, up there with Battle Royale, the masterpiece I take my online name from, and the aforementioned A Bittersweet Life.

When Asian cinema is good, stuff in the West just can't touch it.

Jack burton

Well looks like I have a lot of films I need to watch, I have Love Exposure, just need to get around to watching it.

Only ones I've watched recently are the ones everyone has seen like Oldboy, The host and H

Watched the happiness of the katakuris aswell a while back, love it! Brother is another good one that comes to mind

johnny_ultimate

Jack burton wrote: »

Brother is another good one that comes to mind

Have still to get around to that - I'm a big Takeshi Kitano fan (just rewatched his superb Hana-Bi last night) but haven't get around to that yet. His latest film Outrage is brilliant - bitchin' yakuza action. Amazon says its out on DVD in November - shame it has been lingering around release hell for so long.

Definitely watch LE though, there really isn't anything like it. Have the DVD to rewatch having seen it in the cinema a few years ago, trying to find four hours to watch it though is a pain :pac: The guy who directed it - Shion Sono - seems to be crazy productive these days. His film Cold Fish was out at the start of the year, he has another out at the end of the month and his latest film has just premiered at Venice. Weird thing about the latter is that it semi-accidentally seems to have become the first major feature to reflect on the Japanese Earthquake.

DinoRex

Oh dear... just got a good laugh out of looking at the 3rd person animations from Dead Island:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXmZX8iz2SE

Myrddin

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Not a huge fan of Korean cinema.
Enjoy the occasional bout of Amelie or City of Lost Children though.
I find myself drawn to more and more 50s/60s/70s science fiction books rather than movies tbh, everyone should try to read Black Eastenders and Fair Cityies In Flight, brilliant, I'm sure the pdf's can be found, out there somewhere, Black Easter is a hard one to find, I should know, I have owned 2 copies and both got half-inched!

Lets just nip that in the bud now

DinoRex wrote: »

Oh dear... just got a good laugh out of looking at the 3rd person animations from Dead Island:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXmZX8iz2SE

Ouch, dreadful stuff! Is the character a Mambo dancer with a neckbrace?

o1s1n

EnterNow wrote: »

Ouch, dreadful stuff! Wow, beautiful stuff! Is the character a Mambo dancer with a neckbrace? I want to know as I'm a big girl and like to identify styles of dance in modern media

Fyp

Andrew76

o1s1n wrote: »

Fyp

Hahahaha do you know something we don't? He skirted (:o) around the idea of himself in a dress the other day too. :P

That dead island video is hilariously bad.

Pyongyang

I had a feeling Dead Island wouldn't live up to the hype...

James Howlett

That Dead Island 3rd person animation is what I would imagine Popeye to move like.

Myrddin

o1s1n wrote: »

Fyp

Now now, that wasn't a slip up by me...its an all out assault by you! Rules of engagement and all that jazz

Andrew76 wrote: »

Hahahaha do you know something we don't? He skirted (:o) around the idea of himself in a dress the other day too. :P

That dead island video is hilariously bad.

Actually that was your idea if I remember correctly, hidden insight into your darkest fantasies? :pac:

Pyongyang

Jack burton wrote: »

Whats the sniff sniff ocd?

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=73832350