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Jan. 26th, 2011 10:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
darchildreTonight, because I had some time to myself, I decided to watch a couple of movies I've had lying around for a few weeks from Netflix. I do this thing where I get foreign films and then I don't watch them because I can't crochet or knit during them and still follow what's going on. It's a problem. But now I have watched them and can send them back!
The first one was House, which I've been wanting to watch ever since I read a review of it on teleport-city and which I'm terribly glad is now available in the US. And man, if you like movies that make you go "...what", you should totally see this film. It is a Japanese haunted house movie and I love haunted houses enough that that's almost reason enough to want to watch it but also it is gorgeous. In a deeply weird way. The whole movie looks like a cartoon made while on drugs. It's not actually that scary but it is pure sugar-coated crack. And worth tracking down.
The second movie was Legend of the Shadowless Sword, which I have absolutely no memory of putting in my Netflix queue at all. I have no idea why I wanted this movie. But I watched it and it is a Korean martial arts movie, full of very attractive people fighting each other in prettily choreographed and physically improbable ways. Also, sometimes, if one of them hits someone in a certain way, that someone explodes. Which has reminded me that I always sort of mean to watch more martial arts movies, as I always enjoy them when I do, but that the genre is so huge that I'm not really sure where to start. Does anyone have any recommendations? Preferably of movies with fantastical elements, rather than just punching-people-in-modern-cities. Though those are fun, too.
And this has been tonight's installment of Sara's Adventures With Foreign Cinema.
The first one was House, which I've been wanting to watch ever since I read a review of it on teleport-city and which I'm terribly glad is now available in the US. And man, if you like movies that make you go "...what", you should totally see this film. It is a Japanese haunted house movie and I love haunted houses enough that that's almost reason enough to want to watch it but also it is gorgeous. In a deeply weird way. The whole movie looks like a cartoon made while on drugs. It's not actually that scary but it is pure sugar-coated crack. And worth tracking down.
The second movie was Legend of the Shadowless Sword, which I have absolutely no memory of putting in my Netflix queue at all. I have no idea why I wanted this movie. But I watched it and it is a Korean martial arts movie, full of very attractive people fighting each other in prettily choreographed and physically improbable ways. Also, sometimes, if one of them hits someone in a certain way, that someone explodes. Which has reminded me that I always sort of mean to watch more martial arts movies, as I always enjoy them when I do, but that the genre is so huge that I'm not really sure where to start. Does anyone have any recommendations? Preferably of movies with fantastical elements, rather than just punching-people-in-modern-cities. Though those are fun, too.
And this has been tonight's installment of Sara's Adventures With Foreign Cinema.
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Date: 2011-01-28 04:50 pm (UTC)mm..martial arts movies.. let's see..
Versus (zombie ninjas, but awesomer)
Equilibrium (i'm not a fan of lots of guns, per se.. but basically "samurai" fighting with guns..wicked!)
Chocolate (is golden colored, with an asian gal on the front - autistic(?) gal remembers every kung-fu move she sees)
Ong-Bak/Honor of the Beast (there's elephants and some of our fav thai flavored martial arts scenes evar)
Just some off the top o'my head :D