Don't go bashing Woo based on only one Hollywood flick. While Mission: Impossible 2 may have sucked big time (I have yet to see it), his Hong Kong films like the Killer and Hard Boiled have great action, stories and characters. Woo directed and wrote those too, instead of the duo who brought us the latest batch of Star Trek movies.
I must be one of those peple who didn't love eXistenZ, but didn't hate it either. It thought it was mediocre, and muddled with only a few decent performances in it... but other than that... damn, I guess I disliked it more than I thought.
The other films? Pi I thought ws a great flick, and the same goes for the Matrix. As for Cube, I thought it was also mediocre, but better than eXistenZ.
Just another of the hundreds of reviews of this movie which have showed up in this thread.
In the gaming world, you're either a console gamer or a PC gamer. Rarely do you find a person who is both.
It looks to me like the XBox will either bridge the gap between console and PC gamers, changing the gaming industry forever... or just plain suck. Frankly, the latter outcome wouldn't surprise me, but it would be interesting to see what Microsoft might be able to do with the gaming world.
Interestingly enough, there is a documentary about (or at least partly about) just this subject: Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control by Errol Morris is 1/4 a documentary about a robot scientist who is designing robots which can be release in large quantities and would behave like bugs gathering information. They would be cheap to make, move quickly and be completely automated. Hence the title.
An interesting movie, the other 3/4 is about 3 other unrelated guys with their own passionate persuits.
Bear in mind, people, that the 15 year old Y.T. would not only be hard to cast, but would have to have sex with a giant mutated Aluet twice her age (another character who would be hard (read: impossible) to find an actor to play). A great scene in the book, but will it work on film? I can only imagine the studio execs' cringe level when they realize how some will equate their movie with kid porn.
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Don't go bashing Woo based on only one Hollywood flick. While Mission: Impossible 2 may have sucked big time (I have yet to see it), his Hong Kong films like the Killer and Hard Boiled have great action, stories and characters. Woo directed and wrote those too, instead of the duo who brought us the latest batch of Star Trek movies.
I think that the Wachowski brothers' influene by anime shows even more than their influence by comics. Just take a gander at Ghost in the Shell.
The other films? Pi I thought ws a great flick, and the same goes for the Matrix. As for Cube, I thought it was also mediocre, but better than eXistenZ.
Just another of the hundreds of reviews of this movie which have showed up in this thread.
It looks to me like the XBox will either bridge the gap between console and PC gamers, changing the gaming industry forever... or just plain suck. Frankly, the latter outcome wouldn't surprise me, but it would be interesting to see what Microsoft might be able to do with the gaming world.
An interesting movie, the other 3/4 is about 3 other unrelated guys with their own passionate persuits.
Bear in mind, people, that the 15 year old Y.T. would not only be hard to cast, but would have to have sex with a giant mutated Aluet twice her age (another character who would be hard (read: impossible) to find an actor to play). A great scene in the book, but will it work on film? I can only imagine the studio execs' cringe level when they realize how some will equate their movie with kid porn.