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I guess this is the first movie of the "marital bliss" for the leading couple.
Must be visually impressive; I just hope neither of them starts belting a song and a dance in the middle of a fighting sequence. I guess that is what Indian audience demands, but if Bollywood wants to go international, they will have to get rid of this annoyance. Can you imagine Clint Eastwood and Richard Burton taking a break from slaughtering the Nazis in the middle of "Where Eagles Landed" and doing a love duet? |
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Check out the trailer on the website. I heard choruses in the background but those were probably just the trailer's score. I got the impression that the movie was pretty serious.
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Hope you are right: I'll be the first one to Netflick it!
Say whatever you want, but, quoting Roger Ebers, Aishwariya Rai is not only the most beautiful woman in the world, but the second most beautiful as well. Last edited by ariel; 29th January 2008 at 01:40 AM. |
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Basically it's one big love story, with lots of time spent in character development. Big dance and song sequences, although to be fair they're integrated in court festivities, not just popping out of the blue, and the tunes are energetic and catchy. Pretty movie with a nice picture of Mughal and Rajput culture and art, and yes, a very beautiful Rai. Bad movie for weapons and battles. |
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The Queen Of Langkasuka (2008)
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Here's a trailer
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Very agricultural: 75 dead bodies per acre.
Looks good! Keep us informed about its availability. |
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JET LEE'S FEARLESS IS SUPPOSIDLY ABOUT CHINAS GREATEST WUSHU MASTER. I DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH IS BASED ON HISTORY AND FACT BUT I DID LIKE THE MOVIE AND THERE WERE SOME GOOD FIGHT SECQENCES SOME WITH WEAPONS. THE FIGHT SCENES ARE SUPERHUMAN AS USUAL BUT NO FLYING OVER HOUSES, RUNNING ON WATER AND FIGHTING ON BAMBOO FRONDS.
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Do u remenber Sandokan "The tiger of Mompracen" from Emilio Salgari ??
A story in borneo... Lots of kris, parangs, daos...dayaks! |
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I JUST WATCHED AN INDIA FILM (THE TIGER AND THE FLAME) IT IS SAID TO HAVE BEEN INDIAS FIRST CINIMASCOPE FILM AND IS ONE OF THE EPICS WITH A CAST OF THOUSANDS. VERY COLORFUL WITH PALACES,ELEPHANTS, DANCING GIRLS, CANNONS AND BATTLES, IT IS AVAILABLE ON DVD. THE STORY IS OF A QUEEN WHO TRYS TO FREE HER COUNTRY FROM THE BRITISH EAST INDIA COMPANY.
A STRANGE BLACK AND WHITE FILM THAT IS ALMOST OPERATIC IS (ALEXANDER NEVSKY)MADE IN RUSSIA IN 1938 IT DEALS WITH THE RUSSIANS FIGHTING THE GERMANS DURING THE DAYS OF SWORDS AND ARMOR. THE MOVIE (PATHFINDER) WAS MENTIONED PREVIOUSLY , THE RECENT VERSION WAS BASED ON A PREVIOUS (PATHFINDER). THE ORIGINAL IS MUCH CLOSER TO FACTS AND A MUCH BETTER STORY AS WELL. IT IS ALSO OLDER AND IF I REMEMBER CORRECTLY IN BLACK AND WHITE. I AM NOT SURE WHERE THE STORY COMES FROM ORIGINALLY BUT THE TRIBAL PEOPLE REMINDED ME OF LAPPS AND THEY DID HAVE REINDEER. |
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Hahahaha !!!
Back from the dead .... ![]() Warner Herzog's Aguirre (Wrath of God) . Klaus Kinski stars . Seriously good IMHO . ![]() Now back to watching the DVD . ![]() Rick |
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here an interesting one coming up:
http://www.filmstalker.co.uk/archive...2_trailer.html Ong Bak 2. freakin tony jaa is the fo'shizzle!!! can't wait for this one |
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I'd also highly recommend "Hero", an epic Chinese story.
The cinematography is superb, the sword fights are excellent, and the story that is full of twists and turns is very engaging. |
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having been reading the kampilan thread ala bill marsh with interest, i happened to see Hollywood's 'thief of Baghdad' with Sabu, over the weekend.
there is a point where he opens a bottle, gets the traditional genie & three wishes, he then gets flown to the top of the tallest peak in the top of the world to steal the 'all-seeing eye' from a temple idol. after arrival, he liberates a sword from a long dead skeleton, all covered in cob-webs ('conan' plagiarism?) as he cleaned off the web, it becomes obvious it's a kampilan, complete with traditional hilt wound in rattan, sinuous metal staple on one side, crocodile beak blade, etc. he then climbs the idol, and a giant spiders web with the kampilan between his teeth, kills the giant spider & unfortunately drops the sword never to be seen again.... there of course were the more common shamshir and daggers throughout. not bad for a sixty-odd year old movie. |
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Being a Filipino that is struck with kampilan-philia, I need to see that movie! ![]() Also, the kampilan's appearance in that movie was mentioned earlier -- ruelThanks again Kronckew ![]() Last edited by migueldiaz; 1st November 2008 at 03:37 AM. |
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i shall assume they got the date wrong then and they referred to the sabu version, as the sabu version was apparently 1940. , ruel's 1949 date of their post (and tom's spelling of thief) threw me off - there have been a number of versions
![]() while sabu carried the kampilan upside down for a while (edge up), when he was actually using it, cutting at the spider, and later when he cut it's suspension thread, he held it correctly, striking with the edge, not the back of the blade, i looked carefully ![]() ![]() ![]() the kampilan in the movie was similar to the above, which is edge down, and the angled fork of the grip up when held, tho some kampilans in modern repos have the angled fork also down, as below. ![]() (images from google image search) Last edited by kronckew; 1st November 2008 at 12:19 AM. |
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in the meantime that i haven't seen the movie yet, i was wondering what type it was they used. so thanks for posting the above image. regards. |
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Mongol (2007)
WOW! Swords, spears, shields. Wonderful movie! |
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I absolute LOVE this film, own it and have watched it many times. ![]() Also mentioned before (but if you like Hero), by the same director Zhang Yimou, see House of Flying Daggers. I like this one even better. ![]() |
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One thing that came to mind immediately when I saw the trailer for this was how there were a lot of malay/indonesian Keris daggers in the beginning of the trailer, and at the end we see stuntman-turned-leading actor Dan Chupong wielding a Moro or Bruneian-type kris sword. was that just me or was he just holding a big keris as opposed to a kris? Here is a pic featuring Dan Chupong in the centre, holding the weapon in question with his outstretched arm: ![]() Last edited by ThePepperSkull; 4th September 2009 at 09:05 AM. |
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was intrigued by the movie trailer, so i found a copy of the dvd with english subtitles, just finished watching it. not only were there lots of keris, but there were in fact many moro kris, complete with kakatua grips, horses hoof grips, baca-baca and all. the blade the head army guy used had an ivory kakatua grip, and a distinct central ridge. there were also quite a number of dyak swords amoungst the pirates, and even one interesting axe. looked like copper breastplates, some bronze spears and quite a few flintlocks. they even worked in leonardo style hang gliders, a neat form of chain shot and even some ninjas. japanese armour, plate suits, and a few more items of interest here. even the dragon mouthed cannon... most of the edged weapons looked like the real thing, at least in the quick glimpses. i think they must have had acess to a museum or an old armoury somewhere.
all in all a quite good film. you do need to get it with your languages subtitles if you do not speak the language. |
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Definitely adding "The Queens of Lang-Kasuka" to my TO SEE list!
![]() anyone heard of Seediq Bale? It is a Taiwanese film supposed to come out this fall - last I heard. It is about the Wushe Rebellion, the Atayal Seediq's last attempt to free themselves of Japanese rule... though the warriors carrying out the mgaga with their laraw must have know the futility of facing thousands of modern soldiers, planes, and artillery with their spears, guns, bows, and swords. youtube trailer of Seediq Bale |
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