Posts Tagged ‘Asian cinema’
I’ll keep this brief but I knew that a remake of Oldboy was going to happen. What I didn’t expect were the two least likely people to direct or star in the film. Those being Stephen Spielberg and Will Smith respectively.
I’m not really sure how I feel about this. Oldboy is a very sick film. I [...]
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Tags: Asian cinema, Choi Min Sik, film, Oldboy (2003), Park Chan Wook, Stephen Spielberg, Will Smith
Foreign film fans! I bring you wonderful news!
The My Sassy Girl remake will be a direct-to-DVD release, thus saving us (and the original film) the agony and humiliation. I just hope this ends up into obscurity and no one will ever know that it ever existed.
I suppose whoever the powers that be in the studio [...]
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Tags: Asian cinema, direct-to-DVD, foreign films, My Sassy Girl
It just can’t be avoided anymore
I’ve been kinda avoiding doing this entry for a long time now… mostly for the sole reason that I will finally have to except the fact that Hollywood once again destroyed another Asian film. A GREAT Asian film. My Sassy Girl. Well, the trailer has been leaked onto YouTube for quite awhile and it’s finally [...]
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Tags: Asian cinema, foreign films, Hollywood, movies, My Sassy Girl
Subtitles > Voice Dubbing
I love foreign films. I also love English subtitles. Why? Because American voice dubbing usually sucks. Or rather, any sort of dubbing or voiceover sucks. For any of you who are familiar with the Vietnamese dubbing of Asian dramas (in particular, the Chinese and Korean ones), you should know what I am talking about.
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Tags: Asian cinema, foreign films, rants, subtitles, voiceovers
Leave the Asian films alone!
It seems to be some sort of disease that Hollywood keeps making terrible remakes of awesome Asian films. I think the only exception to this would be The Departed which was a remake of the Hong Kong film, Infernal Affairs. I have yet to see either films, but the fact that the remake won an [...]
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Tags: Asian cinema, foreign films, Il Mare, Infernal Affairs, Ju-on, My Sassy Girl, rants, remakes, Ringu, The Departed, The Grudge, The Lake House, The Ring
