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[salinea]

Top five films seen in the last twelve months for novin_ha
1/ No Country for Old Men
2/ LA Confidential (I finally watched it a few days ago. Just as good as I had been led to believe)
3/ Zodiac
4/ Children of Men
5/ Life of Others

Top five fictional characters you would like to send into intensive therapy for sophiap
1/ Subaru. Then again, he's not so amusing when he's not broken...
2/ Gerald Tarrant - he really needs to deal with his issues with women, and with his family
3/ Akito. I don't need to comment, do I?
4/ Anthy, also it would be amusing
5/ Tyrion, Daddy issues to be dealt with.

Top five fight scenes in movies/television for shelled_avenger
1/ Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon - Bamboo fight scene, with the restaurant one as a runner up
2/ Avatar, The Blue Spirit + Aang vs Archers in The Blue Spirit
3/ Once Upon a Time in China, Bamboo fight scene (i think it's in the second one)
4/ Avatar, Jet vs Zuko in Ba Sing Sai
5/ PotW: World's End final fight scene
... Basically I love Kung Fu ^_^, swashbuckling comes slightly after it

Top five fictional villains for sakanagi
1/ Littlefinger (ASOIAF) he's just so clever, he's a such a bastard yet I can't help but loving him
2/ Desty Nova (Gunnm/Battle Angel Alita) cuz he's my favourite mad scientist ever
3/ the Mayor (BtVS) My favourite Buffy villain (and Buffy had plenty of very cool villains), I just love his cheerful, all-American style
4/ Drusilla (BtVS) Crazy, sadistic, weirdly innocent and generally awesome
5/ Cutler Beckett (PotC) I seriously adore this little guy. Smart, cool, ruthless, ambitious and adequatly fearsome while being nicely understated

Top five ASoIaF characters you'd invite to a dinner party for redcandle17
1/ Oberyn, he obviously knows how to party
2/ Sansa, she'd be polite and cool and compliment people and look pretty
3/ Tyrion, he'd be witty and fun, and if it was my birthday he'd buy me a rare book which is awesome, and in case someone gets murdered we can always blame him
4/ Jaime, also witty and also looking pretty
5/ Tom O'Seven, for the music. Bonus point if he insults everyone and it ends up in one big brawl

Comments

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

All the Hero scenes are gorgeous, but they're gorgeous dramatic scenes rather than gorgeous fighting scenes IYSWIM

Okay, start again, slowly, tell me the name of each of those movies...

[niamhotoole.livejournal.com]

Well I disagree. Jet Li vs Donnie Yen is a proper fight scene (at the start)

- Zatoichi (n et b), 26 episodes
- Shanghai Knights (Jackie Chan)
- Can't remember in which movie did Jet Li do thge drunken warrior stuff. Donnie Yen did it too and others. Some 80's cult classic
- And too hungover to remember any other names either. Donnie Yen has filmed in near as many period films as Jet Li during the 80's
- I'll add "Legend of a fighter" as a freebie, because as kung fu goes, it's awesome. I mean the 80's original, not the Jet Li Fearless version. No CG, no ropes, no stunts, pure kung-fu and some of the best there was ever shown.
- I'll add also my soft spot director Ryhuey Kitamura, namely with Azumi, Aragami, Alive, Versus. Proper japanese bloodshed.
- Oh and dammit, put in Lady Snowblood, the original of Kill Bill. Japanese fighting is short and to the point, but no less compelling for all that

[niamhotoole.livejournal.com]

Jet Li: fist of legend, tai chi master, kung fu master, legend of fong sai-yuk, Last hero in China, Once upon a time in China

Donnie Yen: Iron monkey, fist of the red dragon, Drunken tai-chi, some of the above...
None of them masterpieces you understand :P but Highly highly entertaining stuff.


House of flying daggers is by the same director as Hero. As Curse of the golden flower, that doesn't have any kung fu I can think of though, but mighty fine acting (based on King Lear)

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

woot, thank you very much for those recs. I'll have to look 'em up.

I did watch - and loved - House of the flying daggers, i agree it was a great scene dramatically if a bit overdone. Curse of the golden flower, that's the one called la cité impériale in French, watched it too. Gorgeous movie and I loved the Empress character (she kept making me think of how unhappy I am with Cersei as a character... >_>;;), I do love a good tragedy, and it did have a little bit of good fighting scenes too.

I think I have a DVD of Azumi lent by a friend lying somewhere, I should find it and watch it although I'm not usually as fan of Japanese martial art movies as I am of the Kung Fu ones :D (very different aesthetic)

[daydreamweaver.livejournal.com]

(based on King Lear)

I did not know this, but it makes a lot of sense. Saw the film last year for my birthday, and my friends were all very disappointed by the lack of kung fu, and I'm there going 'but this is awesome! what's wrong with you people?'

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

I thought it was based on a Chinese play, not King Lear, though.