RED CLIFF

One of the best movies I have seen in years. No surprise, it had nothing to do with Hollywood. The American version cuts two movies down into one and it still felt like a great cohesive narrative. The battle scenes were staggering and easily the best ever laid to film. The movie walks the line between the historical account of the last days of the Han Dynasty and the Romance of the Three Kingdoms perfectly, especially for the uninitiated. Of course nerds into that mythos all along hate this, but when don't they hate film adaptations based on their nerdisms?

When I say nothing to with Hollywood, I mean not produced by Hollywood. Actually I think the movie stylistically is influenced by the best in this genre, like LOTRs.

Have to check it out. Thanks man.

Yeah it looks cool as hell.

John Woo makes much better films when he's situated in Hong Kong.

can you buy this withou the 2 hrs cut out?

I read that you can and my search begins, but even this cut version feels utterly complete.

Gonna definitely check this out. Good one Wolf

Its a great film, I enjoyed watched because I did play the video games based during this time in China (Dynasty warriors). Just netflix this movie, it's on there. I watched it on my xbox.

I'll have to check this out.

This film, Red Cliff, seems to be a 3 hour plus epic. I better fucking like it Wolf or you'll hear from me.

4445Frank wrote:

This film, Red Cliff, seems to be a 3 hour plus epic. I better fucking like it Wolf or you'll hear from me.

Well it looks like it is 148min, but from the what I am reading and watching the trailer, I think I'll be thanking Wolf for this.

OUSOONERSOU wrote:

4445Frank wrote:

This film, Red Cliff, seems to be a 3 hour plus epic. I better fucking like it Wolf or you'll hear from me.

Well it looks like it is 148min, but from the what I am reading and watching the trailer, I think I'll be thanking Wolf for this.

I was just joking OUSOONERSOU. You'll get used to me. LOL

with both parts its over 3 hrs

It's just over two hours in America. With both Asian parts taken as individual movies it's over four hours, for clarification.


And SOONERS, I don't believe you will get used to frank. I haven't yet.

Wolf where do you stand on the extended versions of Lord Of The Rings ?

I have all three special edition boxed set versions. They're amazing and are even better than the theatrical releases.

Wolfgangsta wrote:

I have all three special edition boxed set versions. They're amazing and are even better than the theatrical releases.

Agreed, I especially like the extended Return Of The King edition with the extra scenes with Borromir and Farimir.

Have you heard when they might be coming to Blu Ray ?

Probably when the Hobbit gets released

Did you know there is even more footage, hours worth of potential screen time, still hidden from the original shoot?

Wolfgangsta wrote:

Did you know there is even more footage, hours worth of potential screen time, still hidden from the original shoot?

Yeah I heard Peter talking about possibly releasing the ultimate edition on the tenth anniversary.

I wonder if it'll include the scrapped idea of Arwen fighting at Helms Deep.

Finally found a version last night with English sub titles. Pretty awesome film. Chinese picks like this have a rare kind of epicness to them. The version I watched was 2 hrs 24 min. I thought this version was about 10 minutes to long, surprising because movies that flow like this tend to be way to long. But all things good. Ii though the strategist was gonna go rip ass at the end. I guess he was too smart to even consider needing to do that.

Ali wrote:

John Woo makes much better films when he's situated in Hong Kong.

Very true, especially when that cover references Face/Off...yuck