Why don't we get cool as fuck Asian cinema anymore for the most part? Most Asian cinema these days tends to be extremely sterile, flat, terrible CGI heavy asian drama pieces.
Of course there is your exception once every so often, Bong Joon-Ho, Shin Godzilla, The Raid, The Assassin, but for the most part is seems like Asian cinema has gone down the tubes from it's heights in the 80s and 90s.
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You just described cinema as a whole
Jackie Chen isn't who he used to be
Well for one that was Hong Kong that pushed out all those kinos back then, China didn't have much going for it during that time and they barely have a movie industry now, if you can call that an industry.
I blame the fact that they seem to want to copy modern american movies instead of finding their own formula which most other asian countries can do like japan and korea, but china just seems to want raunchy half backed action films, but then again they made a police story in 2013 and sucked dong
Isn't The Raid directed by a Britbong?
>Why don't we get cool as fuck Asian cinema anymore
HK reverted to china
The post-1997 handover cratering of the Hong Kong film industry proved that only Western culture can ably produce action cinema.
Rising production costs and lower attendence numbers were damaging the industry before the 1997 handover. I think they struggled to compete with western movies that were more popular and had bigger budgets. A boost was expected from unification with mainland china but it never came and Hong Kong film makers had to deal with CCP censorship (generally drugs, glorifying crime and subversive elements get censored). Also, post Hong Kong kino
There was also the asian economic crisis in the last 90's that hit SEA pretty hard.
At the same time the korean film industry started to grow.
dubs of truth, england should have kept hong kong to herself
God of motherfucking Gamblers
Because niggers are in trend.
I would kill to see a documentary made about 70s-90s HK film industry
I'll be damned if I can remember the name, but it was a documentary about jackie chan, and a chunk of time was spent on talking about the hong kong film industry.
If you're looking for new movies in the vein of 80s-90s HK action flicks then you'll just find pale imitations, frankly there's no use in trying to revive it either I'd rather something new emerge. But if you really want that kind of movie Benny Chan (did the remake of Police Story) releases some decent movies
Was it a clipshow of questionable legitimacy?
It had a lot of clips from movies, behind the scenes stuff, and interviews with jackie at different points.
This poster has my favorite quality of a poster where it's not some amazing poster but it's still striking and makes me want to see the movie. Obviously Chow Yun Fat and Andy Lau help but I still think the imagery is cool.
>mfw waiting years to see the foreigner
It was one of those "everybody dies" in the end flick's with some really weird random incest thrown into the plot at least dragon blade & little big soldier was gold
>not the superior by stephen chow
jk, i love them all
but by god DO NOT watch any of Chow Yun Fat modern gamble movies, they suck ass so much it hurts
bumping this for answers. i'd even read a book about it, that era seems interesting as hell
>welcome to new york
will Sup Forums crowdfund one?
>No Trabble: The Jackie Chan Story
i got five bucks for that
The Foreigner was pretty good
On the Job. Filipino movie
the only good filipino movie im aware of
Heneral Luna
it was alright how was that other one with sci-fi?
it's not
Righting Wrongs is great.
>he never watched thunderbolt
worst korea is still making kino
Tiger on the Beat
South Korea is going real fucking strong to this day. Great stuff every year since at least 2000.
China/Hong Kong is weaker than it was pre-2000s, but there's still some really good stuff. Johnnie To is neither CGI heavy nor drama heavy and has made some of the best stuff in Hong Kong post-2000 (Throw Down, Election 1 and 2, Sparrow, The Mission, Exiled, etc.).
Japan I'm not as familiar with as far as modern stuff goes, but there are at least Takashi Miike and Sion Sono (only seen his Love Exposure an Cold Fish but both are great).
I think you mean
>righting wongs
First, why can't your racist ass distinguish between Japanese, Hong Kong and Korean cinema?
It would be like an Asian saying all American, Mexican and Bolivian movies look the same.
Second, the decline of Hong Kong cinema, which is the main point here, has been IMO mainly because of the rise of Mainland China cinema, which took most of their directors and stars and started putting them on terrible period pieces with shitty CGI, plastic surgery bimbos and pretty-boy singers. 80s Hong Kong were made for a smarter audience, and that's why it managed to be successful around the world. Chinese cinema now is made for the 1.3 billion dog-eating, street-shitting retards in the PRC. And that's why it sucks (except Stephen Chow, he's still cool).
Are you talking about Jackie Chan's "My Stunts"?
South
Korea
Japan and Taiwan's film industries both died
HK got absorbed by China
Mainland China sucks
Worst Korea is doing well right now
headshot was pretty kewl
>80s Hong Kong were made for a smarter audience
lol
>and that's why it managed to be successful around the world
it managed to be successful around the places britain conquered because brits forced the hong kongers to translate EVERYTHING into the king's as a condition of publication
Bump for more East Asian sick recs
Asian cinema has generally lagged behind the west for some reason. I really thought South Korea or China would save us from nu- Hollywood
Try Dragon Tiger Gate for some retro vibes
Just for you
Nice!!! Thank you so much for this posting.
hong kong used to be this niche, crazy ass environment where directors pushed the boundaries of everything, did whatever the fuck they wanted and put bodies on the line. since china took control of everything, they became soyboys. basically everything that the system was, china forbid.
we all lost.
its batshit insane what a tiny country like hk pushed cinema so much during so many years. first with the shaw bro studios, bruce mania, jackie mania and then the heroic bloodsheds.
the thing is johnnie to used to do whatever the fuck he wanted. now he needs to go to a fucking board and get his movie accepted. this isnt just a constraint at post-production. this affects the entire conceptualization of his movies.
The 90s wuxia produced by tsui hark were kino too
R’right !!! A dude in OP probably needs to educate himself the difference between a cinema & a flick. But I found his comment on the issue being right on the target cuz many ppl in the industry seem to lose grip on its crafts on some category.
Welshman specifically