Dang. Anyone know who owns the rights to it now?
I'm going to be picking up the original films on DVD, but SHOGUN ASSASSIN is a lot of fun. The Diagoro narration, and score are great.
I watch SHOGUN ASSASSIN, and the original BABY CART films for completely different reasons.
Jeff
The HK DVD is a Region 3 disc. There's a VCD which isn't the best quality, but since VCDs aren't region coded, you could watch that.
I liked parts of the film. Not crazy about it as a whole though.
Certainly get some Kurosawa films though. I'd start off with SEVEN SAMURAI, and HIGH AND...
Obviously in the minority, I loved FREDDY GOT FINGERED. It's one of the funniest films released in the last few years. I can see it not being everyones cup of joe, but I don't understand how it can be so universally hated.
Oh well. I'm anxiously awaiting the disc. It's got Rip Torn on the...
Michael,
Who's the distributor in Montreal? The distributor who puts out Sony Picture Classics' films here in Canada, went bankrupt earlier this year, so I thought there'd be no chance of seeing it until DVD.
Jeff
MEMENTO bored me. Too much repetition of footage. It underestimated its audience, and that annoyed me. Not much going for it other than its structure, either. Not to say that any of the performances were bad. They just weren't great.
The best two films I've seen this year are MOULIN ROUGE...