I thought it was a porno I had made but forgotten

The Man From Nowhere (Korean 2010)

Bargirl's revenge: She's got the goods!
Baseball Bat Fu! Potted Plant Fu!
We've got snacks for you: At the station!
Come on out or I'll kill you: Hey, you got flowers!
If you touch her, I'll rip your balls off!: You can ask me out instead!
Pawnshop Ghost!: Mine is Garbage!

Torture Mom in front of her little girl scene: Check!
You think I'm a high school bully?: Where did my knife go?
Mister! Save me, Mister!

I'll do as you say. Don't hurt them!: You made the right choice mister!

I made the delivery: Keep your word! Uh-oh!

Heroin Fu! Ground Fighting Fu! Golf Club (looks like a driver) at Top Golf Fu!
Throw the hero out the window into a net Fu!
Knifes his way out of the net and falls on the hood of the villain's car: Douglas Fairbanks Senior-esque!
Car chase, crash, trunk pops open: Mom!
Harvested!

Excuse me detective: Don't we get any snacks???
Excuse me, I'm left-handed!
Where's Detective Park?: Please don't kill me! I'm just the Chinese Major!

Let go of me! Let me see my Mommy!


And then he breaks out of jail(18 seconds and 6 cops hospitalized)!
And then they find out that the records lock code on Pawn Shop Ghost is: #11!

Hatchet Fu!
This is: Dolce and Gabbana!

Knife Fu; Towel Fu; Candy Dish Fu; Throwing Knife Fu!

Now it gets a little confusing, apparently he's stolen a car and is driving to the disco with a hostage…
Disco Scene!
Men's Room Fight Scene!

YOU made the delivery: YOU killed her!
The ones that live for tomorrow get ****ed by the ones living for today!: What are you babbling about?

Back alley junkyard bullet extraction: Check!

Beautiful wife shows him the joyous ultrasound: Splat!!!

There's someone I have to find: And we lose our Emo Veronica Lake haircut!

Be good like her and you'll go home like her: Straight to the harvest!
She's just an ant!
Drug lab run entirely by child slave labor: Kids are so dramatic!
Kerosene Lantern Fu!
Where's my Mom? Right here! Want to shake hands?
Gun Fu! Knife Fu! Carpet knife Fu!

Jar Full of Eyeballs Fu!

Bulletproof Car Fu!
Not-So-Bulletproof Car Fu!

It's all over! I've failed! I guess I'll kill myself!: Mister!!!
Did you come to save me?
Hug Fu! Convenience Store Fu!

Ya gotta love Korean vengeance flicks. Koreans seem obsessed with it. Probably the most violent place on earth since Elizabethan England. (Cf. Shakespeare et alii.)

You definitely want to see this one. Wikipedia states that this was the highest grossing film in Korea in 2010, and I believe it. A Lee-Child-style hero -- a mysterious stranger who has fallen from grace -- and a script that shamelessly checks every box. Plus a heroically-cute 2nd-grade orphan-girl, both spirited and brave, is placed in dire peril! Mandatory viewing for genre movie fans.

Check it out!

There's a scene where the hero escapes police custody by using his cap as a weapon and then crashing through a second floor window to the outside ground. Looks like it was not faked nor done by a stunt double but not 100% sure. Crazy Korea films. The end of movie knife fight is too gruesome to show.

Yeah, that's where he sees a little girl getting into a van, but he can't get downstairs because he's surrounded. When he goes through the window, they don't cut away from his face as you would expect, and I thought, "That's really him!" but then thought, "Nah, can't be."

Maybe it was...

Great flick. Wiki says this is the last flick he made. I wonder if he got hurt?

yeah, that was good tough guy role I should include in Caan's better films. I guess I should include Brian's Song as well since his acting elevated that movie from a being simply twee to being hagiographical.

Man From Nowhere is one of my all time faves. Glad to see it get some love here.

Maybe too lowbrow for this thread, but my thoughts on Thor Love and Thunder

Decided to give Ragnarok a try despite not enjoying much of the superhero or Avengers fare I've watched the last few years. Lasted 30 minutes before turning it off. Didn't find it entertaining at all and I have no idea why these movies are so popular.

hear hear

ragnarok was about the only superhero movie i genuinely enjoyed - it was more of a slapstick action comedy though and that's probably why i liked it more - the parts that tried to get all serious and get serious superhero moments etc were thes ones that sucked the most

They’re popcorn flicks with meta hijinks. I can definitely understand not liking them, but to act clueless as to their popularity is silly. This is the evolution of the blockbuster.

Content is Content...

Everything Everywhere All At Once

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I finally got around to watching this one and it was excellent.

I have a bone to pick with you guys crapping on this excellent movie, while at the same time praising the newest Batman as high art. This thread is like some weird bizarro world.

My first rule about movies is that you can always tell whether a movie will be good or not by its movie poster.



This looks like a film an algorithm created. Everything everywhere in the history of the world all crammed into the same movie! There's something for everyone to like!

A most excellent poster! It's not your fault that you can't understand it, you simply didn't do enough acid in the 60s.

There may be an alternate universe where Michelle Yeoh appears in a bad movie, but it lies undiscovered.

I loved both.

when i build a time machine the first thing i'll do is an acid trip with vintage 1960s phat mack

She sympathetically played a genocidal racist*

*alleged

woe... flashback

House of Gucci - I really enjoyed watching the individual actors in this one. I'm a huge Gaga fan and would probably watch her read the dictionary. Leto is one of my favorite actors. Pacino is great when he doesn't go full Pacino and he really toned it down for this one. I find Driver pretty meh, but he didn't bring the movie down.

Given all that, the movie itself was watchable but nothing special.

Took my mom to see Top Gun... she had no idea that it was a new movie and not the original.
Theater was PACKED on a Wednesday for a movie that came out MONTHS ago.

Booked.

Mrs. Dash?

I don't know if anyone has mentioned it, but your avatar is melting.

Your loss.

The Big Short

Don't Look Up

Saw both of these recently. The Big Short wasn't that interesting. A bunch of boring Wall Street guys in suits (and one boring Wall Street guy in t-shirts) make bets that earn them a lot of money. If you've read the news in the last 10 years you already know what happens. The fact that Selena Gomez and Margot Robbie have cameos to explain complicated finance stuff didn't make it more entertaining.

2 out of 5

Don't Look Up had a clever premise. The cast is good as well. The allegory was spot on, though a bit on the nose so if you disagree with message you likely won't enjoy it. The problem was that the movie was too long. It started off good and had a good ending but the middle muddled along for a while. If they cut about 30-45 min it would've been a lot better.

3 out of 5