sgt137216h ago

#Movies #ActionHeroes . . .

We male #AAPI #ChineseAmericans have few positive male movie icons or heroes.

For us #Boomer Chinese-Americana, this was #BruceLee, who died far too young. Not only did he have a white wife, he was a "bad dude" & dispelled the negative sexual stereotypes of Asian men that still exist.

While I don't think he's the greatest Asian hero of all time, as the following article suggests, #ChowYunFat was a successor to Bruce & his partnership with John Woo is akin to that between Mifune & Kurosawa but while significant within the genre of Asian action films, far less groundbreaking than the Japanese collaboration was.

In any event, if you never seen #HardBoiled, #ABetterTomorrow & #Killer, you should make the effort to do so, because they are ground breaking movies in the modern #HongKongMovie genre & are essential to a full understanding of Asian action films.

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20260402-films-greatest-action-hero-is-not-who-you-think

Forget Cruise and Schwarzenegger: Why Chow Yun-Fat is cinema's greatest action hero

The Hong Kong actor made a series of films with director John Woo that revolutionised the action genre – and key to them was his beguiling mixture of toughness and tenderness.

BBC
SaltiredPopcorn2d ago

A weekly video? THIS week??
Yes. Yes it is.

https://youtu.be/U9jX57BIRtA

#podcast #podcaster #LikeAndSubscribe #PleaseAndThankYou #bluray #4k #MovieCollection #HardBoiled #SalemsLot

It's Easter, Some Things Get Hard Boiled

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montrak4d ago
Heute gab es mal was klassisches vom Postmenschen. Der heilige Gral der „Heroric Bloodshed“ Welle der 90er Jahre, das Meisterwerk von John Woo. Hier wird nicht lange gefackelt, hier wird niemals nachgeladen, hier wird nur geballert, was die Berettas hergeben.
Und jetzt auch in 4k und auch legal im Gegensatz zu den deutschen Releases (Bootlegs).
Hach das waren noch Zeiten :)
#neuzugang #hardboiled #johnwoo #uhd #arrowvideo #foreverphysical
jon zellweger5d ago
Mixed review here. Mostly because I got bogged down in the writing style. This is thriller/noir/speculative fiction set in what feels like 1950s NYC. It wants to read like a hard-boiled Raymond Chandler detective novel. But the writing isn’t as snappy (gold stars for some very “bottom 10% of words used” poetics). Thankfully, it wasn’t the other extreme — it’s still a tight, 235 pages. The notion that there was a branch of the timeline that could have had the elevator bureau as one of the most powerful organizations in the country feels a bit contrived. The analogue is obvious: elevation is not just height, but social and civil status. Bearing that in mind, it’s an entertaining allegorical work about sexism and racism. Putting the contrivances aside, the story peels away slowly and reveals a zinger at the center of the onion and it’s perfect. There may be others that use this theme (trying to avoid a spoiler here), but it’s the first I’ve read it laid out like this. I cannot believe they’ve not made a movie out of this.
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#colsonwhitehead #theintuitionist #speculativefiction #elevators #racism #sexism #hardboiled #ex_libris_jz
Show threadklu95d ago

@IanMoore3000

I might have to watch it again to check. Always good to have an excuse to rewatch Hard Boiled

#JohnWoo #HardBoiled

Show threadIanMoore30006d ago

Also my recollection of the chit chat in the opening scene is that the two cops explicitly reference Hong Kong's then approaching return to rule by mainland China as reasons why they might emigrate, something that did not feature in the version I saw last night.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fcwFheTLdE

#HardBoiled #JohnWoo

Hard Boiled (1992) ORIGINAL TRAILER [FHD]

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IanMoore30006d ago

I saw John Woo's Hard Boiled last night. still brilliant. But are the subtitles and perhaps even some of the dialogue different to when I saw it in the early 1990s? Memory is unreliable, but I recall the line "Your piss has saved my life" featuring.

#HardBoiled #JohnWoo

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LeoyCrocheteoFeb 11

#BookTour: The Fatal Saving Grace, by Jim Nesbitt @partnersincr1me #TheFatalSavingGrace #JimNesbitt #hardboiled #crime #western #SpottedMulePress #excerpt #giveaway #PICT

THE FATAL SAVING GRACE by Jim Nesbitt February 9 - March 6, 2026 Virtual Book Tour Synopsis: ED EARL BURCH HARD-BOILED TEXAS CRIME THRILLER MAYHEM WITH A BADGE After wandering the peephole wilderness of a private detective for two decades, defrocked Dallas homicide detective Ed Earl Burch is finally…

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#BookTour: The Fatal Saving Grace, by Jim Nesbitt @partnersincr1me #TheFatalSavingGrace #JimNesbitt #hardboiled #crime #western #SpottedMulePress #excerpt #giveaway #PICT

THE FATAL SAVING GRACE by Jim Nesbitt February 9 – March 6, 2026 Virtual Book Tour Synopsis: ED EARL BURCH HARD-BOILED TEXAS CRIME THRILLER   MAYHEM WITH A BADGE After wandering the peep…

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David Cantrell 🏏Jan 29

Oooh one of my favourite films is on at the #BFI in March - #HardBoiled!

#cinema