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Fun Stuff => ENJOY => Topic started by: Ikrik on 01 Jun 2008, 21:41
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My friend gave me a link to the trailer about a couple months ago. I wrote it off as a joke, the trailer seemed too ridiculous to be an actual movie. However, finding out that it wasn't a fake trailer I proceeded to download The Machine Girl. I can say without a doubt that this film is by far my favourite film. It is one of the best films I've seen in my life. The best description I can think of is that the Japanese looked at Quentin Tarantino's films, to be specific they looked at Kill Bill and Grindhouse and decided that they could do a much better job. And they did. It's insanely violent and bloody but it doesn't have that repugnant Tarantino feel to it. The story is centered around revenge and while the story isn't really what you should watch the movie for, the filmmakers did a pretty neat job of adding some cool features to it. So if you guys liked Kill Bill (the first volume) and want to see a film that's much better you should definitely get The Machine Girl.
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...they looked at Kill Bill and Grindhouse and decided that they could do a much better job. And they did. It's insanely violent and bloody but it doesn't have that repugnant Tarantino feel to it.
FIGHT YOU. seriously.
I pass my sigquote from Storm Rider on to you, heathen.
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Yeah, watch the film and if you have the same opinion then I will fly down to wherever you are, and we can fight. You might win...but I will fight you.
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And the trailer does in fact look retarded.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSpCWJnnWVI
and here's another clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9w-Wp0QcJuE
The movie is obviously bad on purpose though, I'll give it that. So its some sort of self-aware japanese action movie/melodramatic farce which is a lot like more western movies like Scary Movie or whatever those lumps of crap that come out every couple of years to try and cash in on the latest Hollywood trend with a few lame jokes. Only instead of a huge amount of bad comedy they've replaced a lot of it with a gore-fest. True, Tarantino's Kill Bill Volume 1 and Rodriguez' half of Grindhouse (Planet Terror) share a lot in common with these types of movies but aren't the same. For one thing, I very much doubt I'd like this movie as much or better than those because mainly the schools of filmaking that they come from. I'm not saying that Hollywood is better or that Asian produced movies are bad but they play to very different audiences. I just don't "get" a lot of the movies, anime etc. that comes from Japan, because its part of a different culture that I wasn't raised on, with different styles and conventions that can make something just downright wierd to one of the uninitiated. You get it, obviously, but don't be dissin' my Tarantino. (or Robert Rodriguez, for that matter).
Also since you really liked this movie I can recommend Tears of the Black Tiger http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0269217/ to you heavily. Saw it this year in my Genre Theory on the International Western class this semester and it was extremely quirky and extremely stylized along the conventions of Melodrama more commonly found in Eastern film. Yet it is a Western in its own way.
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That movie looks really fucking stupid :(
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FLYING GUILLOTINE!
Yeah, not my type of movie, unless I can pull an MST on it. It seems like an MST sort of film...
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Looks pretty repugnant to me...
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Looks like a great movie, but no Riki-Oh.
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DRILL BRA
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This movie is pretty ridiculous. I actually watched it just a couple days ago. I suppose, statistically, it is likely that there are worse movies out there, but I can't think of any offhand.
Don't get me wrong, this movie can be plenty entertaining. It's just terrible.
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i just give it 4 ridiculouses out of 5 ridiculouses. no good or bad into consideration, just fucking ludicrous.
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I thought this was great. It is in some of the same territory as Planet Terror but steers well clear of Death Proof, which despite being packaged with PT took its influences from very different places and was a vastly better film. The Machine Girl has the sense of gleeful fun Planet Terror lacked, channeling the best parts of the cheap old splatterfests that I used to watch as a kid but with a lot of distinctly Japanese elements, poking fun at the extremely violent end of Japanese cinema at the same time as it revels in it. The Super Mourner Gang, bathing a man in his son's blood using his decapitated corpse as a hose, a drill bra, kicking off with a ridiculously brutal fight scene where people's heads explode from the sheer amount of bullets... they basically get nothing wrong.
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-> a pack of wolves
Thank you. Thank you so much. I'm so happy that I'm not alone.
It's a great movie, if you don't like anything violent dont' watch it. But don't be dissing movies without actually seeing them first.
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This is the cinematic equivalent to Dethklok i.e. actually really freaking awesome.
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I've seen the trailer and I've wanted to see this very very badly ever since. Also, to me Planet Terror was obviously the superior movie in the Grindhouse double feature. So telling from the previous comments, this is right up my alley.
What tickles my funny bone is that apparently, the Machine Girl actress is a soap opera TV star in Japan.