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13 ASSASSINS (2010)

Started by RCMerchant, September 27, 2014, 08:56:15 PM

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RCMerchant

 Sweet Christ on a Cross.
Just when I thought no more epic-and I do mean EPIC-like the GOOD THE BAD AND THE UGLY kinda stories are not being made-I see this.
I know its a remake of an older film-but-dam -Takashi Mike makes it his own.
I was wary -I am only familiar with Mikes-ICHI THE KILLER-I thought this would be an over the top blood bath.
I was so wrong-it DOES have major murder-but it is so epic-so involving-I actually cared about the charecters and the story. This is a movie I would put in my best movies of all time list.
I love it. This film is-UGH! To f**king cool.
http://youtu.be/NgPC74-Tde8
Mike went beyond being a director and turned into an ARTIST with this.
It is in my top great films of all time.
OF ALL TIME.
13 against 200-and they win-but at a bloody price-my god-this is EPIC..
Oh- Did I say epic?  :cheers:
Supernatural?...perhaps. Baloney?...Perhaps not!" Bela Lugosi-the BLACK CAT (1934)
Interviewer-"Does Dracula ever end for you?
Lugosi-"No. Dracula-never ends."
Slobber, Drool, Drip!
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RCMerchant

I do not say this much-but DAM-I just watched it-and I wanna see it again! :buggedout:
Supernatural?...perhaps. Baloney?...Perhaps not!" Bela Lugosi-the BLACK CAT (1934)
Interviewer-"Does Dracula ever end for you?
Lugosi-"No. Dracula-never ends."
Slobber, Drool, Drip!
https://www.tumblr.com/ronmerchant

Rev. Powell

I agree, it's a pretty great movie. Miike's best mainstream movie, for sure.  :thumbup:
I'll take you places the hand of man has not yet set foot...

indianasmith

"I shall smite you in the nostrils with a rod of iron, and wax your spleen with Efferdent!!"

Jim H

It's pretty great, and for those of you with Netflix, it's on there now.  Everyone should check it out.  I'd give it a 9/10.

It's also worth a note that Miike is known in the west primarily for his shock horror/gonzo style films, but he also makes a pretty equal number of regular dramas, average comedies, family films, etc.  He's actually very prolific too.  It'd be sort of like if in Japan they'd only seen Howard Hawk's western films, and thought that was all he did, something like that.