• ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝MA
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    7 months ago

    In some kind of rough order from those I’ve seen:

    • Kung-fu Hustle
    • Blade II
    • Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
    • Battle Royale
    • Hero (2002)
    • Tokyo Gore Police
    • Old Boy (2003)
    • House of Flying Daggers
    • Shanghai Noon
    • Versus
    • Minority Report
    • Kill Bill 1 and 2
    • Hellboy
    • Serenity
    • Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith
    • Equilibrium
    • Spider-Man (2002) and the other Raimi offerings
    • Once Upon a Time in Mexico
    • Smokin’ Aces
    • Ong Bak
    • IP Man
    • Banlieue 13
    • District 9
    • Batman Begins and other Nolan Bat films
    • Meatball Machine
    • Machine Girl
    • Night Watch (and Day Watch)
    • Shoot 'Em Up
    • Children of Men
    • V for Vendetta
    • Resident Evil
    • Iron Man
    • Sin City
    • Crank
    • Shaolin Soccer
    • Hot Fuzz
    • Zatoichi (2003)
    • Underworld
    • Æon Flux
    • Zebraman

    Worst:

    • League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
    • House of the Dead 2 - I had to bump up my rating for House of the Dead so I could give this the lower rating
      • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝MA
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        7 months ago

        they’re all bangers

        My criteria was if I had some free time and the film came to mind, would I go “hell yeah, get that on!”.

        they cover many genres and styles

        Which made it tricky picking one favourite as they are very different. I gave Kung-fu Hustle the top slot because it is so good but it is a bit niche and some of the others make better recommendations to people depending on their taste in films. Versus is probably got a higher position than most people would give it but I was obsessed with the film when it came out and it would lead, by circuitous routes, to the films I describe as New Japanese Gore (Tokyo Gore Police, Meatball Machine and Machine Girl make this list too).

        you’re the only one so far who understands that the 2000’s are a decade.

        Yeah, I was a bit confused by that “2000s” is a decade but “so far” suggests they meant “of the 21st Century” or “since the Millennium”. However the list was big enough already so I stopped there.

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          7 months ago

          Kung Fu Hustle is so good! I still think about some of those fights randomly sometimes.