Comments on: Sukiyaki Western Django Blu-ray Review

By: Marina

Marina — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 00:41:14 +0000

I’m with Kurt on this one – thoroughly enjohyed it. And I felt the other way about the use of phonetic English – bothered me to begin with but by the 20 minute mark, I foundit pretty funny.

Not sure I need to see it again immediately but I’d like to revisit it at some point. Still – way, WAY more interesting and fun than Miike’s new film “God’s Puzzle”. Now THAT was a missfire.

By: Kurt

Kurt — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 15:33:42 +0000

I thought SWD was a lot of fun. An interesting and goofy take on cultures borrowing things from one another cinematically and comic/manga stylings as well.

I liked the phonetic language.

I dug THE GOOD THE BAD AND THE WEIRD a lot too.

Swarez: Hot naked Nazi chicks -> go back to the source THE NIGHT PORTER. Then there is always the Ilsa films, the first one anyway.

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 10:29:51 +0000

“Outside of some interesting visuals, the film is tedious and borderline incomprehensible, and feels like some sort of inside joke that I just didnÃ¢â‚¬â„¢t get.”

Exactly how I felt.

By: swarez

swarez — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 22:24:02 +0000

Only in Italy can a openly racist and chauvinist ass be the hero of a movie.
It needed more boobs though, there aren’t enough of hot naked Nazi chicks in movies.

By: Ryan M.

Ryan M. — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 16:54:43 +0000

This is next in my queue so hopefully I’ll disagree…

I’m tired of every Japanese movie having CG bullet-time bullshit these days. Why do they think it’s still cool!? Old trick is shitty and old.

P.S. Watch Inglorious Bastards if you haven’t already. It’s a bunch of fun: completed by Fred Williamson and organic stuntplay. Also, there is a long special feature of Tarantino interviewing the director that’s worth a look.

By: joe

joe — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 13:40:46 +0000

Good review, and thanks for mentioning about the making of. I think that would be interesting to see.

Imprint has the same problem of broken, phonetic English, but it doesn’t distract too much since it’s a horror movie with relatively less dialogue (though still chatty feeling). I’m still interested in seeing this, if not just to support North American-released foreign movies on high density. Plus I think I’m in that niche.

By: swarez

swarez — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 11:19:03 +0000

Definitely no Miike’s best. I saw it at TIFF without subtitles and I had a hard time following what was going on most of the time. Looks good and all that but left me wanting more that’s for sure. But I would give it higher marks than one and a half star.
I felt the same with The Good The Bad and The Weird.