Last seen ASIAN movie

[neverending]

One Missed Call.

I liked it a lot, but it didn't blow me away like many other Miike films have- particularly the ending. I really felt he cheated with that last scene.

[roshiq]

Chocolate (2008)

A Thai Martial Art action film from the director of Ong-Bak and Tom yum goong. Bit dramatic but the fight sequences were quite satisfying for any martial art fan..specially liked the final fight on the balcony & billboard!

>>: B

[psycho d]

Sympathy For Mr. Vengence. Obviously, a great movie. Not sure, but i may have liked it more than Oldboy. While Oldboy may have been a better movie (if just slightly), Sympathy really moved me.

***spoiler***

My only complaint is that i felt the last scene did not need to be explained. i thought it pretty obvious who the killers were and why they killed him. Brutal killing as well. Piercing/stabbing is the most intimate form of killing (aside from strangling, i guess), with dark sexual overtones. Awesome stuff. Ashe.
d

[psycho d]

Tetsuo: The iron Man. Freaking bizzare. Glad to have seen it; could not watch it a second time. Pretty impressive camera work. i could not imagine listening to that soundtrack. Ashe.
d

[Angra]

"Chocolate" 6-7/10

I have to say... didn't love it.

Compared to Jaa's movies, this was almost martial art in slow motion. I actually got a lil tired of watching the fight scenes. ME?!!!

[psycho d]

One Missed Call. Miike can definitely make a creepy movie without being over-the-top. i agree with with Neverending, though, that the very ending was kind of a cheat. Ashe.
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[psycho d]

Reincarnation (2006). Really liked this one. Almost rates up their with Pulse/Kairo. There were lots of scares, and most of them were quite original. i thought that the story was well-crafted as well. Ashe.
d

[neverending]

Yah, Reincarnation is one of my faves.

[psycho d]

Izo. i can see why a lot of people would not like this one. There must have been a lot of symbolism that got lost between cultures, but that is not going to stop me from taking a stab at what this movie was trying to say.

***potential spoiler alert***

Mu guess that what Miike had in mind is that man created a culture in which man himself was to be worshipped. Anything that got in the way of man's self worship was to be annialated, which in turn became a self perpetuating cycle of violence and absurd destruction. Now this may have two implications. First, i think that a major tenet of Bhuddism is that to become one with God one must annialate the self. In parallel but to the contrary, i think that Miike wanted to show that in man's drive towards apotheosis he must annialate God as well, which would have been all well and good except for the fact that is was only man's ego that desired to become God. In the end, man's/culture's destructive tendencies will only get him close enough to God such that he will be destroyed by the Almighty himself. Anyway, that is what i took from this flick. Admittedly, i could be way off the mark here, but what the heck. Ashe.
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[cactus]

Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance