sitenoise
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No, I would've fist pumped my ass off. I did also like the other endings, but the one you suggest would have been otherworldly!
Review Comrades, Almost a Love Story
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sitenoise
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I like separating out films worth talking about into their own thread. I'd do it more often myself but most of the films I like aren't worth talking about. A shortcoming of putting everything into "Recently Seen" is that visitors from an alien world are unlikely to see them. Some stranger might open the Asian Forum to see what's going on but they are unlikely to read through eleven pages of tangents and digressions to find red meat. But "Recently Seen" does promote the easy, no pressure talkiness I enjoy.
sitenoise
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Yes. My quibble is that is wasn't done very well. They were trying and it almost worked. When Maggie tilted her head back during coat number one, eee gads, you see how brilliant she is. The scene overall had the Classic going on, which to me is inauthentic, which boils down to the fact that the guy wasn't in the same league as Maggie.
plsletitrain
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Agreed. I also do that when I find a movie/series something worth shouting out to the world.
And yes, that coat scene spelled AWKWARD. Like errrr......can we get this done and over with awkward.
sitenoise
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You are not alone in that. Most people don't even know what bad eating-acting is! lol
I can't describe what a sigh of relief it was, that scene, the two of them walking down the street after the bracelet purchase. How beautiful it was. Just bodies and words. [Update - scratch the words. All I need is bodies. They can stare off into space and say nothing, as long as they're not chewing on something.]
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plsletitrain
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That's one thing worth commending for. Especially with Maggie. I think she brought the guy (too bad we only call him as the guy lol) in the film. Its like, even if she's not talking, she says something.
sitenoise
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That's what I'm sayin'. I think Maggie does better when she's not talking. Like that scene where she's in the car, and the guy, he's inches away staring at her (continuity issues notwithstanding). And she sits there. That's really hard to do, I imagine. Then as the guy, as he walks away, and Maggie bumps her horn. That's red meat. No words.
Zelena
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Haha, don't blame me, man! I did review this in some depth a couple years ago, but I don't remember what I said and those write-ups are ERASED FOREVER.
I guess I know you guys' taste well enough by now that it was easy to foresee you would like it, and comrade @sitenoise would hate it. Too Hongkongy and when I remembered it has Eric Tsang in it, I knew that was the death-knell. Like, if you wanted to invent a boogeyman that would remind you of every single Hong Kong movie, it would look like Eric Tsang. But I love that guy, he's a geezer. Well, anyway it's good to have dissenting opinion -- that's the richness of the discussion. My taste is about as mainstream as it gets, considering what I choose to watch -- it galls me that my ratings are rarely more than one click off from the consensus.
For the rest of us, a great film. I find it interesting that this was made right when Hong Kong was "handed over," and it really was the end of something, the last of the good times. Usually, when it seems like the world is coming to an end, the world is coming to an end.
sitenoise
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I'm starting to like this film 
We haven't even mentioned Christopher Doyle. Why hasn't anyone ever mentioned him before? As far as side characters go, he was fun, him and Cabbage--probably named as an homage to one of the cats in If Cats Disappeared from the World.
I also thought the social commentary in the first act was cool. Not so much later on.
We haven't even mentioned Christopher Doyle. Why hasn't anyone ever mentioned him before? As far as side characters go, he was fun, him and Cabbage--probably named as an homage to one of the cats in If Cats Disappeared from the World. I also thought the social commentary in the first act was cool. Not so much later on.
sitenoise
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It galls me that I enjoyed Strobe Edge twice as much as this movie.
plsletitrain
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Agreed on that. But that torrid kiss in the car (with the guy outside) was terrible. Too terrible I will forget it ever existed in this film.
plsletitrain
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Well I must have brushed it over. You know my attention is usually caught when I see "the other one dies", "one suffers amnesia", "they go their separate ways", "it has lovely pets here", etc. so I didn't realize you have mentioned this before. Eric Tsang was naturally loveable here! He had mickey mouse tattoed on his back!Haha, don't blame me, man! I did review this in some depth a couple years ago, but I don't remember what I said and those write-ups are ERASED FOREVER.
I guess I know you guys' taste well enough by now that it was easy to foresee you would like it, and comrade @sitenoise would hate it. Too Hongkongy and when I remembered it has Eric Tsang in it, I knew that was the death-knell. Like, if you wanted to invent a boogeyman that would remind you of every single Hong Kong movie, it would look like Eric Tsang. But I love that guy, he's a geezer. Well, anyway it's good to have dissenting opinion -- that's the richness of the discussion. My taste is about as mainstream as it gets, considering what I choose to watch -- it galls me that my ratings are rarely more than one click off from the consensus.
For the rest of us, a great film. I find it interesting that this was made right when Hong Kong was "handed over," and it really was the end of something, the last of the good times. Usually, when it seems like the world is coming to an end, the world is coming to an end.
sitenoise
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Hey, slow down or you'll have to drop your score lol. But yeah, most of the porn wasn't good. I mean the kissing and whatnot.
Zelena
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Dude. I don't really know how to use that galaxy of emojis you seem to have access to, but try to picture one with me shaking my head and rolling my eyes at the same time, while panning my gaze over to plsletitrain and making a sort of NY-style "dis guy" gesticulation jerking my thumb. I will never understand your taste in movies. I mean, I know it, but I don't get it. You are like a professional contrarian. In any case I'm glad you draw my attention to some movies I never would have heard of. But Strobe Edge is not one of them.
plsletitrain
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So you're starting to like the film, I'm starting to hate it by enumerating those terrible scenes. Ladies and gentlemen, this the power of real-time- posting our thoughts on a certain film.
Yeah, imagine that pumping scene (supposedly simulated sex) and they fell down on the bed only to be revealed that they're still wearing bras and whatever. Yeah, what exactly were they pumping for????
plsletitrain
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Amen to that. Sitenoise is so hard to figure. For instance, he might like something with this scene on, but on another movie with that similar scene, he won't. I've always labelled him as a species of his own. He's very very unpredictable.Dude. I don't really know how to use that galaxy of emojis you seem to have access to, but try to picture one with me shaking my head and rolling my eyes at the same time, while panning my gaze over to plsletitrain and making a sort of NY-style "dis guy" gesticulation jerking my thumb. I will never understand your taste in movies. I mean, I know it, but I don't get it. You are like a professional contrarian. In any case I'm glad you draw my attention to some movies I never would have heard of. But Strobe Edge is not one of them.
@sitenoise
Aw come on, you can come up with a much better emoticon than that.
divemaster13
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@sitenoise
You've mentioned The Classic twice as an example of what you don't like in a movie..
I love The Classic. LOL
You've mentioned The Classic twice as an example of what you don't like in a movie..
I love The Classic. LOL