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John Woo's RED CLIFF Begins Its Release This Week!! See A 9 Minute Promo Reel!!
Merrick here...
The folks over at Twitch have nabbed two good quality videos showcasing John Woo's mammoth RED CLIFF project. Some of this material was previously available in less refined, less watchable versions. This particular iteration of the footage is nice & sharp.
RED CLIFF begins its release this week in Asia, after numerous & arduous production struggles succinctly encapsulated by THIS ARTICLE in Variety.
You can find the videos at Twitch [HERE], or via the Twitch-provided embedded playbacks below.
First up: this nine minute promo reel for the film, with no English. I don't know what they're saying, but it looks like they mean it.
Then there's this more traditional trailer, which does offer English subs:
RED CLIFF will show-up Stateside in January.
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HUh?
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Even though he was responsible for that Mission Impossible piece of shit. And that J-C Van Damme crap. Actually, maybe I won't be there.
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..don't get to be *the* new promotion method--Short trailers still rock (?)
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Good job. I'm glad to see you're keeping on top of things. It's dirty work, but someone has to do it.Now, why can't I get excited about this movie?
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Because who needs to read subtitles when you can get Ben Affleck and another shitty sci-fi plot to mix with a smoking Barretta in each hand?
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Warriors and swords, cool...
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Fred as happy as can be for someone whose balls are in jar.
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...otherwise you have no clue what is being said.
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Tony Leung is a class actor and I think will bring gravitas to the film whether Woo directs it well or not. I like the main theme of the soundtrack too. Its about time Woo brought us something great since the days of Bullet in the Head, Killer and Hard bolied. Forget the hollywood crap.
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Brown Turd.
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over 2 hours of slow-motion doves.
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Nuts to that. I'll have the region 3 DVD when it comes out in the fall.
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From what I have seen here looks like a reunion of the cast of Confession of Pain (Great fucking movie by the way)
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This looks not so good.
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... was getting Le Cercle Rouge by Jean-Pierre Melville restored and released. His actual movies... (low whistling sound)
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Is from Princess Mononoke... I love that score! Anyway this movie looks awesome! I'm so there!
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Tony Leung, and whoever that other guy is. this will be awesome.
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Remember when John Woo was supposed to be the second coming of Christ? The media machine was all over John Woo when he first came to America, but he never really made the splash that was predicted.
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You're right. And I wish we could get Criterion Collection prints of the other Melville films.
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Never made a splash? What about Face/Off. That movie owned, made money and was pretty well received by audiences and critics who weren't pompous fucks. MI:2 did him in but that's mostly because the script sucked so hard and it wasn't in keeping with the franchise.
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i just caught it by chance on TCM a couple days ago. YUL BRENNER is king Solomon. his tiny army uses reflective shields on the approaching army, blinding them so that they dont see the gorge between them and solomon's army. the blinded army plunges into the pit and they all dies. it was pretty good. the movie was pretty good. i was catching it only in portions.
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last spring i took a PRE-MODERN CHINESE FICTION IN TRANSLATION class. in it we read The Three Kingdoms, so i've been looking forward to this.
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Andy Lau is in Three Kingdoms, which I watched over the weekend drunk and enjoyed the heck out of it. Sammo and Maggie Q are almost non-existent though.
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and just made crazy melodramatic shoot-em-ups like the old Hong Kong days. I could do without any of his American films (Face Off being a very mild exception) and really wish he could just lose his mind and have fun again. I watched everything he made until the supremely stupid Windtalkers before I gave up on him. Fuck that guy. Bring back the blood and doves days!
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Jul 07, 2008 2:19:59 PM CDT
Fres wants to know: Is City of Violence is any good?
by freds_balls_in_a_mason_jar
Fred thinking of getting that, but not sure. Anyone have advice?
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Question was: is City of Violence any good?
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Yep, I also miss the John Woo Hong Kong action flicks. Guns, blood, doves and tough cops named Tequila who play the saxophone.
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Stop referring to yourself in the third person.
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Fred thanks you for advice.
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http://www.dvdinmypants.com/reviews/A-G/city_violence.php In short: it's goooooooooooooooooood.
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They started to look generic and boring. Army marching, slow motion charge, people talking in grandeur manner etc etc
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I know I was just being a smartass aren't both films essetially big bloated budget versions of the same classic novel?? Last night I screened Andy Lau (as a guest star??) and Eason Chan (With the gayest hair ever) in Brothers. Very entertaining Triad-brotherhood film. How did you get a copy of three kindgoms?? I have a region free but I want to wait for a Region 0 so I can play it thru my Blu-Ray for upscaling goodness!!
In the past week I have screened:
Brothers
Hammer (only US recent release US dvd I have thoroughly enjoyed for a long time a real classic!!)
Shanghai Grand
My new Blu_ray Inferanl Affairs II
Jiang Hu (Andy Lau and Jackie Chung plus Edison "Hong Kong Pussy master" Cheng)
and last but certainly not least I finally got a copy of Francis Ng's One Last Dance (Fucking amazing!!)
Telling you bro we need a Hong Kong cinema review and news section here I am sure we would be happy to help!!!! Most of these films are can be had at Best Buy and Blockbuster now days and if not there HKFlix and ebay certainly have them.
Today I also ordered another batch from HK including:
Wait till your older
The Wall (Not Floyd this one is a traid drama with Jordan Chan)
Exiled Blu-Ray ( Maybe the coolest action drama I have seen since Hard Boiled- No bullshit!!)
As Tears Go By - never saw it one of Andy Lau's first serious hits -
if this will be the first in a trilogy? the source material definitely deserves it...such an epic story that one film won't do it justice
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CGI robot doves!
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I'm slightly onboard with your point of epic movies starting to look boring. "Army marching, slow motion charge, people talking in grandeur manner etc." Yeah, there have been lots of those in recent years.
But despite the obvious wannabee Zhang Yimou stylistics of "Red Cliff," I'm hoping the old bastard Woo gives us something tasty. I hope it's not a bloodless, humorless affair. I hope it kicks ass. I hope.
The only "epic" film I'm really looking forward to right now is "Mongol". That film looks wonderfully well-acted and grippingly, non-CG intense. Anyone seen it? And does it compare with "Red Cliff?"
Oh, and Fred: it sucks that your balls are in a mason jar. And that you refer to yourself in the third person. But at least you were first. -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDqamjm8lc4
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The best Woo movie in my opinion. Face off 2nd. Everything else was pure garbage...Epic glorified war films are uninteresting, except for Braveheart and Saving private ryan.
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I'm still waiting for Woo's cut of MI:2. Tom Ooze treated John Woo like shit during that film.
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I'm kinda tired of the whole chinese grandiose period movies.
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I wonder if this will be realistic or stupid overjumping and fighting scenes? I hope it's American dubbed.
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Sorry I forgot to check back in on this thread. I got consumed in the Emmerich one.I got Three Kingdoms from HKFlix or RedSunDVD I think. I order from so many places it's hard to keep up. The quality wasn't very good so it's probably the equivalent of a DVD screener. And the subs were terrible.You're 100% right, Harry needs an Ain't It Asian News sister site. There's at least 6 of us that would contribute regularly.Exiled is fantastic. Simon Yam and Anthony Wong are brilliant.
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Last night I checked out Jimmy Wang yu's Knight Errant- early to mid 70's Jimmy was such a fucking badass (Master of the flying Guillitine, One Armed Swordsman, Man from Hong Kong, The Savage Killers - which would later become parodied with Master Pain). Master Pain (Fei Lung) was in it as well. In the film Jimmy runs over an older invicable female Japanese Karate master with a car to kill her or more specifically crushes her with the car. Lot's of good street fighting which was Jimmy's forte. Jimmy was not such a great Kung Fu master but he could box and streetfight for reals!!! One true story you may already know that Jimmy came home one night to find his cunt of a wife screwing another dude. Jimmy killed the fucker on the spot and was exhonorated by the courts and hailed as a badass hero!!! Jimmy also had connections with the Triads when they wanted to fucking murder Jackie Chan for one reason or another. Jackie went to his good friend Jimmy who went to the Traid bosses and got Jackie a reprieve. I'd love to see a big budget biography of Jimmy. Jimmy was also the first major star in Hong Kong to tell the Shaw Bros to Fuck off and helped to build Golden Harvest into a viable second large studio. Large enough to woo a young Chinese American Jeet Kune Do instructor and some time actor named Bruce Lee.
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And Jimmy is the man. I'm sure HK will do a biopic after he passes.
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Hope they have to wait awhile I believe he is only 61. Most of those HK stars started out so young (late teens to early 20's) they were over by their mid 30's. The Shaw stusio for example had an inhouse traing-borading school type system where they would take kids out of school and train them in acting, martial arts, stage construction, ect. ect.and recruit these kids into their films like being called up from a minor league baseball team. It also gave them an excuse to pay their major stars almost nothing as they took them in and trained them and housed them from their youth. Jimmy was only about 35 when his carrer ground to a halt in the early to mid 80's. Same with the Venoms, David Chiang and Ti Lung (Ti Lung being different in that he became hot agin with a better Tomorrow and many good roles thru the 90's and even to now) All these guys were very young men when Shaws closed and the Martial Arts craze died in the 80's.
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Hey guys,
I'm over in Beijing and I'll be going to the premiere screening of this at midnight. Can't wait! Note of interest, my family is descended from the Zhou Yu clan (character played by Tony Leung) so i'm excited to see my ancestor whoop ass and nail one of the hottest women in Chinese history. hehe
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