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Paul Williams

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 18:57:29 +1300

Yup, Infernal Affairs and it's two sequels (well a sequel and a prequel) hit the festival circuit in '04 – fun, but by the end you needed a flow chart and a lot of aspirin, as 90% of the characters either died or were recast between one film's intricate clockwork…

eporcel

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 16:53:40 +1300

LOL?? Penelop Cruz is Spanish ¬_¬

Craig Ranapia

Tue, 06 Mar 2007 06:05:32 +1300

Yup, Infernal Affairs and it's two sequels (well a sequel and a prequel) hit the festival circuit in '04 – fun, but by the end you needed a flow chart and a lot of aspirin, as 90% of the characters either died or were recast between one film's intricate clockwork…

Ben Austin

Mon, 05 Mar 2007 10:30:06 +1300

They showed Infernal Affairs (HK version) at a film festival a few years back in Wellington, maybe 04? Great big screen action film.

Craig Ranapia

Mon, 05 Mar 2007 01:02:56 +1300

Oh, yes... Babel is the cinematic equivalent of Mike Leigh and Spike Lee co-editing The Guardian. Alejandro González Iñárritu and his writing partner Guillermo Arriaga are full of worthy (if banal) sentiments beaten to death by a disjointed narrative that is very clever but I can never quite see the…

Muriel Lockheed

Sun, 04 Mar 2007 00:36:07 +1300

oh well at least it was better (slightly) than the pompous twaddle that was Babel..........eek. Very mediocre films nominated for best picture this year methinks.

Craig Ranapia

Fri, 02 Mar 2007 10:57:19 +1300

Hey, my major (hell, my only) academic achievement in 7th form was teaching a Japanese exchange student the finer nuances of English obscenity: There is a difference between telling someone to fuck up (cease your tiresome prattle!), fuck off (depart from my sight!) or just go fuck themselves (you are…

Keith Ng

Thu, 01 Mar 2007 21:10:34 +1300

Craig: Indeed, the vernacular was flavoursome. Not quite as flavoursome as Elections, though. Having worked as a translator, I got so miffed when they translated a line as "There's nothing I can do", when the original was literally "He's holding my little brother" (which means: He's got me by the…

Craig Ranapia

Thu, 01 Mar 2007 10:42:29 +1300

TXe Ming:

To be fair, at least Martin Scorsese swung into uber-film geek mode and reminded everyone that Hong Kong and Japan are two different countries – not that you'd know from the cast list of Memoirs of a Geisha, but least said soonest mended. Then again, there seems to…

andrew llewellyn

Thu, 01 Mar 2007 08:36:19 +1300

"based on the Japanese film, Infernal Affairs"

I laughed & laughed! At least they didn't announce that Letters from Iwo Jima was about the Chinese in the Pacific.

Tze Ming Mok

Thu, 01 Mar 2007 08:23:51 +1300

I don't know why Keith is displaying so much misplaced parochial pride in Infernal Affairs. After all, as the Oscar announcers pointed out, The Departed was "based on the Japanese film, Infernal Affairs." Oh yeah, and apparently, Penelope Cruz is Mexican. Thanks Ellen!

Communicating with Morse code? I think it…

Craig Ranapia

Thu, 01 Mar 2007 06:52:23 +1300

Ah, but the headshots!

Jack Nicholson masticating the scenery like a P-crazed termite! Everyone trying to drop more F-bombs on the Scorsese canon than Joe Pesci managed in Raging Bull, Goodfellas and Casino combined! Corn syrup sprayed around the sets with a water blaster!

I own both parts of __Kill…

Rosie

Thu, 01 Mar 2007 00:36:09 +1300

I thought The Departed hung together better than Internal Affairs (though I don't speak Cantonese).
The love triangle thing was a little far fetched and the female lead looked disconcertingly like Heather Mills McCartney but I thought it improved the film (except for the sex scenes)

Communicating with Morse code?…

Victor Chou

Wed, 28 Feb 2007 22:59:54 +1300

It's impossible for Jack Nicolson to be TOO frazzled and insane.

Hamish

Wed, 28 Feb 2007 21:46:10 +1300

Ah, but the headshots!

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Wed, 28 Feb 2007 21:46:10 +1300

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