Jason's DVD Collection - Movies I Like - #3

More recommended flicks from my huge binder of DVDs.

Films I talk about in this installment include:

A Hard Day's Night
High Fidelity
Heathers
Jerry Maguire
Jaws
Kill Bill
The Last Emperor
Legend
Last of the Mohicans
La Femme Nikita

I'll be filming more segments this weekend. Thanks for your feedback so far. :)

-Jason

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[42317]

Add-on: I may dislike Cruise but I absolutely hate the "Kill Bill" movies. I cannot bear the rape of the Japanese language, but more than that as an Anime fan I was aghast to see that Tarantino shows Anime in exactly the way that all the die hard critics of Anime want to see and dismiss it: mindlessly violent crap from Japan. Thank you, Mr. Tarantino.

[TaishaJason]

While I think you can dislike KB for your own reasons, I think it's unfair to take Tarantino to task because he didn't represent the breadth and variety of anime in the short segment in KB. It's not QT's responsibility to be anime's abassador - he wanted something cool in his movie & that's the style he likes - that's why he's the director. Does it fit the film? I would argue it does.

It's like criticizing C Tiger H Dragon for using wire work & making it seem all Chinese films are like that.

[xxbanditzxx]

great movies :p and did you know your camera likes to follow your face? Lol

[TaishaJason]

i know! kinda freaky huh... :P

[TaishaJason]

well GPB is a GREAT flick too, it just doesn't happen to be in the binder.

[hanqho]

How could you not mention Gross Pointe Blank? that's like John Cusack's best movie. Well I say that because it was the first movie I saw with him in it, so that may be giving me a bias.

[SpinningBirdKick1]

I've never seen Jaws before, but It just seems kind of lame to me. I mean it's a movie about fear of sharks, and that's just not what is scary these days, but I suppose I should see it one day since you suggest it.

and Killbill 1 was awesome. Killbill 2, even more AWESOME. I have no idea what 42317 is talking about, there was real ANIME in Kill Bill to dislike the movie, even for an otaku.

[xxbanditzxx]

No I think that's neat :p I would like that but after awhile it may get annoying haha

[DarkNekoStudio]

Well Tarantino's just showed a type of aniem that's all,i don't think he was saying that's what Anime is all about you know.Would you have seen the magical girl type in this movie?no,so that's why i think it was brilliant.

[DarkNekoStudio]

Happy that we think the same!;3

[42317]

Of course QT couldn't show the whole range of Anime in such a short time slot. That's why I think he should have omitted the topic in the first place. Western representations of Anime tend to be that way in general, and I have a problem with that - kids' stuff, gore or porn: as if there was nothing inbetween. It's like saying Chinese movies were all about Kung-Fu...

There is a deal of truth in every clichée, but it's hard to convince people that the whole picture is less conveniently simple.

[TaishaJason]

Last Samurai had just come out when I arrived in Japan, and all my male teachers had that Watanabe Ken goatee. :)

I do enjoy that film - Ed Zwick is great at that type of movie, most notably the fantastic civil war movie "Glory."