Comments on: Steven Seagal blames FBI for loss of career

By: Jade Oc

Jade Oc — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 03:43:24 +0000

Only if by “he rocks” you mean he has the acting ability of a chunk of stone….

By: M-Bone

M-Bone — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 13:37:21 +0000

“HE’S A VERY GOOD ACTOR AND SINGER AND MARTIAL ARTIST.”

Can we just say that he rocks and leave it at that?

By: CINDY L TRUITT

CINDY L TRUITT — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 12:26:47 +0000

STEVEN SEAGAL DESEARVES A PUBLIC APOLOGY FROM THE OFFICIALS WHO INVESTIGATED HIM FOR TIES TO THE MOB.STEVEN IS A VERY NICE MAN.HE’S A VERY GOOD ACTOR AND SINGER AND MARTIAL ARTIST.

By: Mutantfrog Travelogue » Blog Archive » Sean Connery vs. Japan: “Rising Sun” and “You Only Live Twice”

Fri, 16 Jan 2009 12:42:18 +0000

[...] of Rising Sun on Mutant Frog a few times now: Sean Connery’s dialogue came up in comments on two posts dealing with our favorite craptacular bilingual action star, Steven Seagal; the book came up [...]

By: Aceface

Aceface — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 22:28:32 +0000

Anderw Lau also bandwagoned the recent Korean wave and directed “Daisy”with complete Korean cast set in the Netherland.
Saccharin HK romance meets Korean tearjerker.The outcome is a cinematic disaster.So I wouldn’t count too much on Lau’s directoral talent.I liked ID though.

By: Roy Berman

Roy Berman — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 20:54:57 +0000

Hmm, if the HK Initial D was from the same director as “Infernal Affairs” I may actually check it out someday.

I happened to see a few minutes of Karate Kid III on TV this afternoon. What a shit movie that was. Is there even such a thing as naturally occurring “wild bonsai trees?”

By: Aceface

Aceface — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 04:03:57 +0000

Anybody saw a French film”Fear and Trembling”(directed by Alain Corneau)?
I haven’t.But my friend living in Paris did.She told me it’s sort of”Lost in Translation”meets”Stalag 17”.....

By: Jade Oc

Jade Oc — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 03:07:46 +0000

“What I do have trouble is renowned Hollywood stars(caucasian)playing Japanese.”

However I think we can not worry about that one too much as it doesn’t happen these days – that I am aware of, of course. It’s a historical curiosity, rather than something reflective of current Hollywood ideas.

By: Aceface

Aceface — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 10:45:40 +0000

OK,Please don’t do this next time when I’m taking vacation,talking about Hollywood adoptation of Japanese images….

I just came back from Okinawa.It’s my third visits there.and Yes I saw Karate kid 2 in Shibuya in 1986.What can I say…The movie was pretty “imaginative”.
Everyone at the theater broke into laughter in the climax scene when the director(John G. Avildsen of “ROCKY”)actually intended everyone to hold their breath.
最後の勝敗がまさに決まる瞬間にラルフ・マッチオを周りの人が、妙なでんでこ太鼓で応援してさ・・・・

“Initial G”is OK.It’s from”Infernal Affairs”(HK original of “The Departed”)directors Andrew Lau and Alan Mak had directed.Not an auto freak myself,but the movie has good car chase scenes compared to the CGs in anime version(and highschool girl in sailor suits does the usual Enjyo Kousai as any high school Japanese girl would do,played by Suzuki An whose debut to the silver screen was I thought the Hollywood production of “The Snow Falling On the Cedars”)
It’s also fun to see Anthony Wong acting as Gunma Tofu Shop daddy in the film.So I have no problem with Chinese acting as Japanese.
What I do have trouble is renowned Hollywood stars(caucasian)playing Japanese.Anybody seen”Teahouse of August Moon” starring Marlon Brando?He is an Okinawan Fisherman in that movie.I’ve only watched some clips for a while on TV,pretty disturbing thing.

“That article is vague enough so I still expect it to be a Magnificent Seven style remake, set in some other context than either the original OR the Western remake.”
Hey,I have no problem with seeing George Clooney fighting in Darfur along with Bono and five others to save innocent refugees from camel ridin’,Al-Quaida backin’ ,evli Arab militias in this new Hollywood “Seven Samurai”remake.Just don’t let Matt Damon does the usual “wise-ass-in-the-crew”role.

By: Jade Oc

Jade Oc — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 07:17:14 +0000

Tokyo Drift is another wonderfully educational movie, like Last Samurai and Rising Sun and all those others. It educates you as to how Japan is NOT. The plot was nonsense, and street racers race the hills in old Nissan 180SXs and the like, not in poser-style jigger pimpmobiles which they would never dare as much as scratch or even take out in the rain. But then are all movies – and by extension all ‘art’ – about another country or culture required to be as accurate as possible? Are we naive at best for thinking something like Tokyo Drift would ever present a realistic viewpoint – of anything? Not all art is created equal, and I would only save my ire for movies that claimed to be based in careful research (like The Last Samurai) and not live-action arcade games.

Did like the emphasis on drift though (but drifting through the Shibuya crossing? Like hell…). It’s not as well known outside Japan as it should be. And since Japan’s roads are narrow and drifting has the very good chance of drifting right off the road, you wouldn’t want to do it in a thousand-horsepower Nismo Skyline Gt-R with Veilside aero parts and a paint-job worth more than your salary….

I’ll start being really upset about Hollywood using Chinese to play Japanese when they stop using Americans to play French, or Brits to play Italians, or whatever. Just…don’t make them speak Japanese….