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Du zi deng dai (2004)
Well made movie - on clueless loser guys!
Am sure the girls were laughing their *****s off. I was beating my head against the TV....I give this a 1 coz am tired of all this clueless guy movies with a curious dry feeling between their legs. Usual plot line - A beautiful girl pops up and the stags or the main male actor can't keep his pants on. Well after monkeying around for a good part of the movie the dude gets whacked and smacked by the 'girl of his dreams'. Saving face that his friend's sis has a crush on him and he has some romantic salvation in the end!
Some tips for all these "Romantic Comedy" movie makers
STOP MAKING A*****S OF GUYS. If you yourself suck with women get some experts to write the script. Hint: If the girl is screwing around right smack on the guy's face, what does he do.....that girl is history he will not even remember her for the next 10 lifetimes. In other words move on to the next girl. Maybe next time you can line up 10 actresses for the lead to go through....am sure your movie will be rated higher. And for God's sake don't have guys on screen like they just got out of prison after 10 years!
Porn of the Dead (2006)
Buddha's smiling
Trying to make sense of this movie all along, like someone said it leaves a bad taste after watching it (someplace below!?). In a related thread, just read how Buddhist monks overcome lust in Tibet by visualizing mating couples as corpses(who said the ancients did not have grotesque porn). Especially young teenage novices(with tanks full of testosterone)are shown special drawings of copulation included with bones, flesh, blood and the inevitable decay of the human body. Some of the truly belligerent ones may be asked to meditate on dead bodies whenever lust creeps in!! Of course the idea is not to indulge in lust but to actually prevent it from being overwhelming. Thought this movie just did that at least personally.
Objective, Burma! (1945)
Setting the record straight
Great movie most of us agree! What made OB stand out apart from Flynn's acting is the British(led by Mr Churchill) outrage in those times of the apparent American claim to glory in the China-Burma-India(CBI) WW2 front win over the Japanese. The anger is understandable as this was the only movie of its time of a 'Forgotten Front', and obviously in it we only see Americans in action. However looking at the entire CBI theater, there were three main thrust areas. The North area from Ledo in Assam(India) over the Patkai into Burma was under American general 'Vinegar Joe' Stilwell. OB is set out in this area, based out of the airfield in Dinjan/Dibrugarh(Assam). Also the setting for another movie 'Merril's Marauders' also an American guerrilla force based out of Ledo. Intelligence operations under the newly formed Office of Strategic Services - the predecessor to the Central Intelligence Agency, based out of a tea planter's premises in Nazira, Assam. USAAF planes flew from these airfields in Assam over the "Hump" (the tail end of the Himalayas of North Burma) with supplies to China. The other two fronts were down south in Manipur(India) and Arakan(Burma) - both manned by British Forces. There was another daring bunch of American airmen of Air Commando One, supporting British forces in Manipur and Burma. So while the entire war in the CBI was a combined American and British enterprise, OB is just a snapshot of a piece of the action of the loads of guerrilla warfare behind Japanese enemy lines. What the movie brings out is one of the many daring stories both American and British in the CBI theater and how the Allied forces tried matching up to the ultimate jungle warrior - The Japanese soldier, who almost attained invincible status in the CBI war! But did someone say Kachin Rangers of the US army and Gurkha units of the British forces. To pack in all the these supermen into a movie would turn out a mega epic. 'Objective Burma' is just a preview.
SG Assam
Merrill's Marauders (1962)
Little bit Real world background on the area where the real war happened
http://tinyurl.com/6kjv2j I am from Northeastern India and am excited that the old road from Ledo in Assam(India) to Kunming in Yunnan(China) that Frank Merrill's men along with the Kachin Rangers and Vinegar Joe's Chinese army, fought for and cut out from India to China in 1942-45 via Burma, is going to come alive again!(see the blog linked above) Its a six lane highway running next to the "Stilwell Road" in China! This movie brings to a large audience a war fought by brave men in some of the most unbelievable conditions in the area of Northern Burma bordering India and China. The battle of the Marauders have other players as well notably their older British counterparts the Chindits. And not to forget Uncle Bill Slim' Fourteenth Army and the (Bruce Willis style Die Hard) bitter battles of Kohima and Imphal in Northeast India. They went on to drive the Japanese out of Burma. All these were battles in the same theater. Some other notable personalities of this war are Orde Wingate, a guerrilla warfare expert of the British Army and his American Air Commando One fleet led by the flamboyant Phil Cochran. Some of the stories of these guys are simply incredible, fighting behind enemy Japanese lines!