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In Reply to: Your vote for best "Shoot-em-Up" Action Film Scenes of All Time posted by Scott on March 10, 2000 at 08:18:18:
Audiohead posted a similar challenge a while ago for the non-warfare film with the most gunfire: his pick was "The Gauntlet". I nominated "Hard Boiled" in response and noted that it probably had more ammunition than "Saving Private Ryan". It is hard to imagine making a commercial film with more gunfire than "Boiled". It is also impossible for American filmmakers to duplicate it (without CGI); American actors are protected from hazardous situations involving squibs, explosives, and blanks, that HK actors wouldn't bat an eye at (ahhh, the power of litigation). Just look at all the flying shrapnel and explosion fire that Tony Leung has to avoid in the warehouse scene. John Woo makes a cameo appearance in the film as the drummer/nightclub owner backing up Tequila during the opening.A couple of action film nominees of my own:
Best Swordfighting: "The Blade" ("Dao"), Tsui Hark's period epic of an orphan's revenge has a final duel that you just have to see to believe (again, I think people were injured during the making of this film).
Best Martial Arts (hand to hand): "Fist of Legend" with Jet Li, just released on DVD. Chen Zhen's battle with Fumio Funakoshi is a visual "Master's thesis" on combining many fighting styles. If you liked "Enter The Dragon", you're gonna love this politically-correct remake of "Fist Of Fury".
Always nice to meet a fellow HK film enthusiast!
the rescue shoot out from 'The Matrix', i have been using this to show off
my HT, and it is really something. The recurring use of slo-mo is hypnotic;
especially the lobby explosion, the whoomp,whoomp of the chopper contrasting with the tinkle of casings seguing into the staccato splash/splash/splash of bullets hitting water. Whoever did the sound work on this did a great job. So far, i am 3 for 3 using this as a demo; they have all said something like 'holy s***'.
Don't expect "Hard Boiled" to be a home theater technical demo showstopper; the print is rather faded and the sound is typical of Hong Kong movies, i.e. compressed mono.
> > > the print is rather faded and the sound is typical of Hong Kong movies, i.e. compressed mono < < <You're probably referring to the Criterion LD; it is horribly washed out. The 2-disc Japanese LD looks much better (but has a strong blue cast that is incorrect but suits the movie subjectively).
The Criterion DVD looks fantastic on a calibrated monitor.
The Japanese LD is mono but has excellent low level detail and dynamic range.
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