...I'd fuck Johnnie To!
As a thank you for making all those brilliant, brilliant movies! Here's his latest one, or one of them anyway (he's putting them out faster than... something really fast). This cat's making TWO films a year while Hollywood directors put out 2-3 films per decade!! And that's not even counting the films he only produces!
Anyway, his new one is VENGEANCE and it's already out on DVD in Hong Kong. Needless to say he's got everyone's favourite loonatic actors Anthony Wong and Simon Yam in it and thank fuck for that! It also stars some French guy called Johnny Hallyday but Hongkong people like me don't know about these gwilo guys. I read somewhere he's a famous rock singer in France. Btw, interestingly enough, someone from Singapore mentioned in his IMDb review that he was happy the film was filmed in a mix of Cantonese and English. It seems films fully in Cantonese can't be shown undubbed (into Mandarin) in Singapore due to Singapore's censorship regulations. Wauw! Talk about censorship.
NB: The headline quotation is of course from TRUE ROMANCE but you knew that didn't you.
From the makers of VENGEANCE -this guy called Johnnie To-, I've got MY LEFT EYE SEES GHOSTS on dvd. This either goes into the trashbin or I send it to You in return for one of your ZOMBI 3 dvd!
ReplyDeleteI guess you didn't like it, eh? I haven't seen any of the two you mention so I can't really speak about them. You ain't gettin' my Zombi 3 dvd tho!!
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I like Johnnie To's work (not all) but this MY GHOST SEES LEFT or what the fuck it was called really tested my patience. I figured if You'd FUCK HIM then maybe You would WATCH IT (I dont know which one would be more enjoyable)
ReplyDeleteWow, that bit about Singapore censorship sounds absolutely insane...
ReplyDeleteDon't believe I've seen a To film outside of Fulltime Killer...I know...
Well, Jayson, if nothing else that means you've seen one of his films I haven't. xD (altho, obviously, it's sitting on my shelf, lol).
ReplyDeleteAnd yeah, it's IS insane censorshit!!
Haha, Andras. No, I don't know which would be more fun either. :/ I'm by no means an expert on To as I've only seen a handful of his films but that one handful contained nothing but highly recommendable films. Obviously with an output like his I'd be surprised it there weren't some less good ones.
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