Watched some awesome movies:
Ben Hur
Police Story
King of Comedy
God of Cookery
From Beijing with Love
Marathon Man
Unleashed
Ben Hur, what to say? Its like taking Gladiator and then making it good
Rightfully said to be one of the best movies of all time, got it on DVDr at last so watched it right away.
Police Story, as far as chinese films go this one was big budget and violent. Everyone must have seen this, since its a good Jackie Chan film and they are pretty rare these days this all the 'baffoon comedy' movies he's doing these days. Nothing like a leasurely cruise through a shanty town or some excessive fight scenes through bits of glass. LOL, although i have to say, the replay of the 'big budget scene' 3 or 4 times kind of showed that they'd put a lot of practise into it and could only take one shot.
Great film though.
King of Comedy, is a piss funny Stephen Chow film. This guys hilarious and this one he did before Shaolin Soccer. Its about a guy that's crap at acting with all the usual storyline traits. Well funny, recommended!
God of Cookery, another piss funny Stephen Chow film. This time its about a celebrity chef who gets ruined by a former business associate and has to reclaim his 'iron chef' "God of Cookery" roll. Same usual crew for other Chow films... hell if it ain't broke, why fix it?
From Beijing with Love, This is one of the first famous Chow films, its a piss take out of James Bond. The 'field operation' scene with the distraction is piss funny, you have to see it! It shows up how inadequet hollywood parodies of bond are too since this one is hilarious.
Marathon Man, the classic with Dustin Hoffman... is it safe? Great film.
Unleashed, now this one was weird, but excessively violent on Jet Li's part. The concept is a bit cheesy, but its one of Jet Li's best films. Bop Hoskins is a gangster that's 'conditioned' a kid through is life to go violently insane when he takes his collar off. So Bob Hoskin's uses him to collect protection money off of various idiots. Unfortunatly, Danny (Li) still has the brain of a kid so he's not the sharpest tool in the kit, but there's some awesome fight scenes in here. Its a new movie, check it out if you want a bit of martial arts.