public enemy trilogy

[two_if_by_sea]

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[keelain]

Huh sounds interesting.

For some reason this reminds me of Internal Affairs, a movie I could not understand at all (there were no subtitles!)

Thanks for introducing :D

[two_if_by_sea]

Infernal Affairs is one of my ALL TIME FAVORITE MOVIES, and one of my all time favorite trilogies!! I'm sorry that you couldn't find subtitles. :( The first movie can usually be rented from Blockbuster &c. with subtitles, but there's this scene during interrogation that they mistranslate one of Andy Lau's lines and I always RAGE SO HARD because it's sort of important to warn you of what's happening in the movie, sigh.

And anyway my favorite IA is actually the third one, hahah, and that one you have to get DVDs from China with subs.

[keelain]

Yeah my cousin believed that I needed Asian culture so he forced to watch this complicated film without English subtitles and it kind of turned into the result of whatever happened when he watched Inception without Chinese subs (and thought the whole movie was about Fischer reconciling with his dad)

This... might be a tad weird but I don't have a blockbuster card haha or netflix (even though I keep on saying I'll go get it) but I'm sure I can find it on the web somehow.

I've been catching up on movies during the break and I actually got Chicago from the library a few days ago and I'm going to see Phantom of the Opera in Vegas after Christmas so I finally get a dose of that...

[two_if_by_sea]

You can totally torrent the IA series. I think I have my own copy somewhere. As for Public Enemy, I know I almost dled the first movie from megaupload, so it's definitely somewhere, hahha.

musicals! I am woefully undereducated in that respect, but I enjoyed Chicago? The music, at least, and Catherine Zeta Jones is really hot. And I grew up with Phantom of the Opera, so I always have a soft spot for it. (Though I hate the recent movie...)

[petronia]

I watched the first of these and was unimpressed for all the reasons you state (actually, all the Korean films from those start-of-boom years that ppl raved about left me cold - the interesting ones, for me, started showing up later). I didn't even know there were sequels!

[two_if_by_sea]

It's just so disappointing to hear everyone being like OH IT IS A GREAT ACTION FILM AND THE CHARACTER BECAME REALLY FAMOUS IN KOREA and then to watch it and just come out of it thinking, really? Really? I agree, I think the more interesting Korean films came after that period. Which might be why I enjoyed the later ones. XD Well, that and Another Public Enemy was just so these are our Asian virtues that I couldn't stop laughing and crying at the same time.

[lihsa]

Never heard of these (even though I love gritty Korean action flicks!) and definitely adding Another Public Enemy to my to-watch list. (You made it sound a lot more enjoyable than the other two... socially awkward heroes are always a bonus.)

[two_if_by_sea]

WELL I CERTAINLY ENJOYED IT MORE THAN THE OTHER TWO, so I hope you do too. :D