I thought you meant top 3 Asian films. What did you think of Oldboy?
Old boy is awesome. Top three Asian films would be something like
Chunking Express
Seven Samurai
Apu Trilogy
Iād have to fit Memories of Murder in there somehow too.
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This is the one that is the bedrock of modern film right?
Yes. Star Wars took most of its good from it. 
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Yeah Im familiar with The Magnificent Seven borrowing heavily from it. Ive never studied film that way as Ive never wanted to pedanticize my imagination but Im probably limiting my experience.
Ive always considered Akira to be the post modern version. So many films borrow from it. Pretty effing crazy too that Akira was set in the year 2019.
The director views Chungking Express and Fallen Angels as one film that should be watched back to back. I actually prefer the latter even though itās not as well known, so I strongly agree with him that you should watch both.
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Spoiler story in which Iāll blur the spoiler, just in case someone here hasnāt seen the movie (I doubt it):
When my wife and I saw Inception, we told the babysitter what movie we were heading out to see. She had already seen it and said it was great. She started telling us about it, but we told her to stop because we didnāt want spoilers. She proceeded to say, āOh, this isnāt spoiling anything, but it was really cool how the top wobbled just a little at the end so we werenāt sure if he was dreaming or not.ā
I mean WTF.
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and then she never worked for you again right? lol
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Watching original jumanji with my son, started tearing up a bit over robin Williams, so sad
My fave Asian movies are the Stephen Chow masterpieces :)
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Looks good
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https://twitter.com/BillCorbett/status/1311871646949675009?s=20
Honestly, Bill is correct: Cynthia Rothrockās whole deal as a white suburban kung-fu mom was a great concept that never got enough love or traction. And she definitely put the work in, if you want an extremely stupid fun 80ās movie, you canāt go wrong with a Rothrock joint.
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I feel like āChildren of Menā never got the love it deserved. What an experience.
I donāt know if weāve had the discussion of movies that are much better than the books they are based upon, but this is a prime example.
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I think the best example of this might be Fight Club, where Palahniuk himself has basically said the movie is better.
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Watched Enola Holmes with the family tonight.
Honestly, a little disappointed. On a binary scale, Iād give it a thumbs up, but I found it kind of boring. Millie Bobby Brown was great, the style was fantastic, and the overarching theme/message was really good, particularly for young girls, but something just didnāt grab me for quite a while. It did pick up, though. I was really tired, so maybe that affected me.
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Godfather
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I liked the book. Guess I really should watch the movie. Not sure why Iāve never gotten around to it.
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Movie is so goodā¦the long takes are incredible
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I am a massive P. D. James stan, but that book just misfired. It was a great concept but then she just whiffed at the execution. To be fair, how many murder mystery authors take a stab at sci-fi?
The movie adaptation is phenomenal.
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Starship Troopers the movie is a masterpiece. Except for inventing space marines and tactical nukes the book is pretty awful.
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