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DVD Full Metal Yakuza
For those who enjoyed the cyborg-revenge plot of Robocop but felt it was a little light on the violence: fear not. The bloodbath that Verhoeven's film touches on, Takashi Miike's Full Metal Yakuza delivers in spades. Not surprisingly, Full Metal Yakuza is a complete hyped-up retelling of Robocop in futuristic, gangland Japan. The plot is simple. A low-rent gangster accidentally gets killed by the yakuza that are attempting to whack his boss. After a mad scientist reconstructs his body, RoboYakuza is out for revenge. What follows is an avenging tour-de-force of violence and gore that oftentimes dips into the realm of the extremely uncomfortable. Though lacking the artistic merits that made Ichi the Killer, Fudoh, and Audition, interesting films, Full Metal Yakuza will no doubt have its fan base. If violence for violence's sake is your cup of tea, you will not be disappointed in this early Miike flick, so by all means indulge. --Rob Bracco
having recently become a takashi miike fan i thought id give this one a spin, and while it wasn't a total disappointment, it did leave something to be desired. i was expecting something that would stimulate me on both a visceral level and an intellectual level as well. sadly it did neither. it had neither the amount of gore or the level of wit and symbolism ive come to expect from miike. all in all worth a rent, but im glad i didnt blindly buy it.
I read quite a bit about this movie before actually seeing it. I was expecting some incredibly depraved, unholy sickness, just flowing over me and making me wonder why I wasn't turning the film off.
Eh.
That sure didn't happen. There's some unhappy stuff, but nothing shocking to me. It's not disturbing.
There is gore. I like that. I don't like that it's CGI. That about ruined it.
Then there's the story. Whatever. I didn't find it all that interesting, to be honest. WOOHOO SADOMASOCHISM. Yeah, ok. They got the point across fairly early on, and then the movie last another two hours. Really, this film kinda dragged near the end.
At least(MINOR SPOILER ALERT AHEAD) we got to see a little kid die. And in the end, that's what... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Takashi Miike DVD Release Date: Released the 18 November 2003 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Don Coscarelli directs and Bruce Campbell stars as the King of Camp in this intentionally over-the-top schlockfest. Bubba Ho-Tep is partially about Elvis Presley and partially about the title character, an Egyptian cowboy zombie, but mostly it is about camp. The movie is equal parts story and back story. We learn through narration and flashback how Elvis didn't really die, ending up instead in a rest home in East Texas with JFK (played by Ossie Davis), who was dyed black and had his brain removed, presumably for reasons of national security. Campbell and Davis realize that something strange is going on when their rest-home compatriots start dropping off suspiciously. The whole movie leads up to a final showdown to the death with the Egyptian cowboy zombie who has been sucking... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Bruce Campbell - Ossie Davis - Bob Ivy Director(s): Don Coscarelli DVD Release Date: Released the 25 May 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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A curse hangs over Kaneto Shindo's primal Japanese classic like a looming storm cloud, but the supernatural has got nothing on the desperation and savagery of the human animal trying to survive the horrors of war. In 16th-century Japan, a hardened middle-aged woman and her young daughter-in-law have turned predator to survive, murdering the soldiers who wander into the sea of pampas grass surrounding their hut and selling their weapons for rice. When their war-deserter neighbor returns home and makes his moves on the young woman, their numb equilibrium is complicated by greed, jealousy, and lust. The consequences are terrible and not exactly surprising, but they are gripping. Shindo's unnerving close-ups, bobbing handheld camerawork, and soundtrack of pounding drums and howling flutes... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Nobuko Otowa - Jitsuko Yoshimura Director(s): Kaneto Shindô DVD Release Date: Released the 16 March 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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If you're into stuff like[...](and why wouldn't you be, for gods sake) this is your movie. Never has there been such an unrestrained indulgence in all things that are awesome. This goes beyond the self-conscious spoof or the hapless low-budget B-movie, into its own realm of pure KICKASS. Every guitar player should probably own this dvd. There is a drinking game included in the special features, or at least there is on my copy. And let's just say, Guitar Wolf's climactic defeat of the UFOs is possibly the most amazing thing ever put on film.
ps. when ace discovers "the truth" about Tobio, make sure you pause the dvd to catch the little graphic that flashes. too funny More Info about this DVD Director(s): Tetsuro Takeuchi DVD Release Date: Released the 28 October 2003 Usually ships in 24 hours
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