Comments on: Kozo’s Top 20 Hong Kong Films of the Decade

By: Peter

Peter — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 05:55:35 +0000

Amazing list! I was so happy to see you list ‘Running on Karma’ so high, since I rated it #1 and wasn’t sure any other people really got its rich philosophical appeal. I mean, c’mon. It’s Andy Lau in a muscle suit!

By: Eric

Eric — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 03:48:29 +0000

Hi,

Let’s not forget that Avatar was scripted like 14 years ago or something (correct me if I’m wrong).

Besides that, a rather interesting list there Kozo

I don’t usually post on the message boards but I regularly check your site for reviews, as I often wait to watch some HK movies here in Australia, gets a bit exciting when storm warriors is playing in cinemas in sydney (didn’t that bombed lol, literally I was like “no”, “why?” did that make it like this hehe).

-cheers-

By: kyra

kyra — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 09:38:41 +0000

Avatar is another overrated hollywood movie, which is superior only in the visual effects, so many views from Miyazaki Hayao’s animes, not to mention the story..So hard to forgive them for the remake of The Ring, The Eye, and everything else, especially Scorsese for The Departed & James Cameron this time =). Looking forward for more and more great Asian movies (especially Hongkong movies) in the upcoming years

By: Webmaster Kozo

Webmaster Kozo — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 04:49:12 +0000

@kyra, I have seen AVATAR, and it was THE GREATEST MOVIE EVER MADE. Just kidding. Awesome effects, competent everything else. The animal taming scenes were a little disturbing.

@AlHaru, SPY DAD is one film I don’t think any amount of subliminal suggestion will help. Unlike MY WIFE IS 18, I can’t even fool myself into thinking that it’s a good film.

@Glenn, my list is somewhat arbitrary in that I was looking to recognize different types of films - and yet still, Johnnie To gets at least 20% of the list. Your comment on how my site may have shaped some tastes is something I feel enormously guilty about. I apologize if I’ve steered some of you from having more popular and socially acceptable opinions.

By: V

Wed, 27 Jan 2010 05:01:47 +0000

Thank you, Kozo, for posting your top picks. I rely on your reviews almost entirely to pick HK movies to watch, so a list of your personal favorites carries a lot of weight.

I have yet to see High Noon and Hollywood Hong Kong. Hollywood HK has been out of print for quite some time though

Hopefully in this new decade, Stephen Chow and Wong Kar-Wai will bring us some movies that make up for their (somewhat) disappointing output during the second half of the Aughts.

By: darren

darren — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 23:12:39 +0000

love your list, especially with election 2 as #1, i really felt it was better than the 1st, crouching tiger would easily be in my top 5 as well and Ive enjoyed every Fruit Chan movie Ive seen.

didnt care for in the mood for love or after this, our exile but thats because i cant stand movies with long shots of not much happening, short attention span lol

did enjoy way we are a lot though

By: glenn

glenn — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 19:47:51 +0000

I was going to compliment you on your great taste when I saw this list and then I realized that, clearly, my own taste in HK cinema has been shaped by this site for 8 years so, clearly, what I consider great taste is self-evident on your part.

Or something like that, LOL.

Anyway, I am happy that you listed Hollywood Hong Kong; I sort of forget about that film and then some image will come into my mind from it and I will feel like I really need to rewatch it.

I have not seen enough of Fruit Chan’s work but that film seemed like a small masterpiece in some way.

And uniquely HK, obviously.

There are 5 films on that list I’ve still not seen but I’ve been putting off on Dumplings, IA2, and Red Cliff intentionally. High Noon seems to have slipped by me for some reason until now.

By: AlHaru

AlHaru — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 02:50:52 +0000

I knew you were going to put NEEDING YOU somewhere, same ol’Kozo in the mood for “lady cop”

But where the hell is THE SPY DAD you were talking about? Blasphemy!!

With THE WAY WE ARE, I forgive you for not having JULY RHAPSODY. 30 years in filmmaking, Ann Hui is just getting better and better.

@kyra: “Why don’t anybody suggest Hollywood to stop remaking asian movies?”

Bring it up in the forum. I addressed part of it in the Maggie Q thread before reading this.

By: kyra

kyra — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 11:04:10 +0000

Why don’t anybody suggest Hollywood to stop remaking asian movies? =p
Kozo, have you seen James cameron’s Avatar?