lol
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weird that everyone from david ayer to john woo are getting roped in to the post-john wick stylized ultraviolent revenge movie industrial complex but at least woo’s looks like it has a funny gimmick (no talking)
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i havent been obsessed with anything he’s done post-hollywood but imo he’s like a great living director still i think a new john woo movie is interesting to me by default
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i recall being really surprised by Manhunt–maybe not a great movie but way more fun than i expected it to be. not sure what to think of this one based on the trailer but, between the two of these it really feels like he’s growing out of whatever phase he had been in since like Windtalkers and going back to just being very serious about making ridiculous action movies again. i just hope he’s having fun!
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Red cliff tho
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is that statham murdering a bunch of techbros because 
Nice to know that telemarketing has reached the cinematic vengeance catharsis stage
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the one big thing I liked about red cliff was when Tony Leung made some kind of dastardly maze to trap his foes. my husband and I now sometimes say “I feel like I’ve been trapped in Tony’s maze” when we want to express that we have been foiled, thwarted, etc
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I do have to say that I find it highly suspect that this trailer is basically just like “JOHN WOO IS THE KING… HE’S BACK… EVERYONE KNOWS JOHN WOO IS THE GREATEST” over and over again. Like trading on his (well-deserved!) reputation instead of the actual merits of the movies he makes is kind of why his last 2 decades of movies have sucked
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THE TURTLE FORMATION!!!
Tony’s maze is more iconic to me than many other john woo things. Red Cliff really is one of his best movies
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i aspire someday to commission art of tony’s maze for the walls of my household. it really is an iconically silly moment. I love it when big budget action bullshit is self-serious about goofy stuff like that
also I watched the two part version of red cliff and I cannot imagine how it could possibly be cut down into the short US version without becoming totally incomprehensible. I haven’t seen the short version at all though
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I haven’t seen the short version either because why would you watch that? The long version is clearly a complete movie. Seems fucked up like there’s no way the insanely sentimental camp infiltration subplot survives cutting the movie down
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red cliff is cool, i think the crossing was fairly well received too. his last few english language movies have a bad reputation i guess. i think it’s more like ‘this guy is doing movies like he used to make again instead of whatever weird stuff he’s been doing since face/off’.
i mean, that was basically also true of Manhunt but it got mixed reviews for reasons i don’t understand. people want john woo to grow out of the kind of schtick he used in MI:2 etc., but also just want him to keep making face/off over and over again, it’s confusing. the older HK movies he made that everyone is obsessed with are like, a product of a very particular micro era of hong kong history that cannot be recaptured.
i think his post golden era career has been better than tsui hark’s, but tsui hark is just more prolific so still happens to make a good movie every now and then
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Terence Davies, award-winning filmmaker, dies at 77 | Terence Davies | The Guardian
R.I.P. One of the great English filmmakers.
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i havent seen any of his films but saw a lot of acclaim for the raju murugan film joker, and i love karthi after watching the ponniyin selvan films…
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sounds like it’s if a neil blomkamp movie was worse
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