John Woo going back to China for next pair of flicks'

...I am. Heh... suck. Especially those of you hate it when people write FIRST!

See the way I left out entire words in my rush to post that? ...Yeah. That's how much I needed this to happen. And oh yeah, John Woo. Cool.

john woo is gone. he needs to get back to great action and drop all the bullshit but i dont think it will happen

The Battle of the Red Cliffs was a confrontation during the Three Kingdoms period (about the time the Roman Empire was winding down), between the ruthless military genius Cao Cao (who holds the same resonance in Chinese history that Julius Caesar has in ours) and Liu Bei, who tried, and ultimately failed, to prevent his conquest of China. If anyone has about six months to spare they can try and tackle the novel "Three Kingdoms." It's a phenomenal read.

I surely hope so. Face/Off was cool, but seems dated now. Hard Target might be the best Van Damme movie out there. But he hasn't done anything up to his Hong Kong standards in the US. Sadly. Let's hope for the best and that he will be making some excellent movies, once more.

I love how his own press release is reluctant to mention "Paycheck" and "Windtalkers," he did three American flicks that made money, and, um, well he did these two flicks too, I guess. I still love Face/Off though, love it, but since then Hollywood has sucked the good out of him, but I just can't muster up enough faith to expect anything decent from him it at this point.

THE KILLER changed my life in as profound a way as STAR WARS or RAIDERS.

Cause he had the Affleck!

I want to see a REAL John Woo film again.

DISCLAIMER: That's a quote from DONNIE DARKO and not me being racist. No need to ban me. :P

There, I said it.

The only John Woo film I've liked so far is the one with slow motion and pigeons. Can anyone explain to me why it is that Eastern filmmakers, whose cultures are filled with beautiful subtlety, are the ones who use the most blatant imagery in their movies? Their dumb scripts usually translate into a cute innocence, which is why, for instance, we forgive every bad Asian-scripted Jackie Chan film but not his American-scripted bad films. It's a strange paradox.

You go, Woo!

Never since has an action movie even come close to being that good. Seriously. Shoot 'Em Up was described as "John Woo's wet dream" - fuck that. How about "totally derivitave of John Woo and Tsui Hark's Time and Tide". Woo has lost it, especially with Windtalkers... But Hard Boiled... it's hard to believe it's been nearly twenty years and no one's topped that elevator action sequence yet.

good: hard boiled, the killer, bullet in the head, face/off.......meh: broken arrow, windtalkers.......suck ass: hard target, m:i-2, and the ultimate atrocity paycheck......i sure as hell hope woo does something worthwhile again soon or everyone will be going "john who?" (get it? who rhymes with woo! see what i did there?)

Remember when he is about to get in the plane, and he is given a box of goodies, and he pays the guys with cash, there you can see the MONEY CLIP with the dragon head shape bitting on the money. Cool clip, anyone knows where to find one?

didn't need to be reminded either. Paycheck was fuckin awful.

Why the hell is that that whenever there's a movie set in Asia you have to drop a frickin' white guy in there? Do we really NEED an 'American visiting China' in this story? Sounds like it's gonna be a$$ to me.

...almost all of Woo's film degenerate into the same morass of shitty shoot-out scenes with meaningless explosions. Take WINDTALKERS for example, one of the worst "I want to be taken seriosly" war movies of all time. The number of people flying through air after mind-numbingly rediculous pyrotechnics (without blood I may add) made the movie feel like something out of the power rangers. And how that movie warranted a 3-disc dvd set...

From the director of PAYCHECK, WINDTALKERS, and BLACKJACK! From the writer of THE AVENGERS! (with uncredited rewrites on GODZILLA and ENTRAPMENT)...comes another generic, over-the-top crapfest!

That is right folks, John Woo and Chow-Yun Fat will be venturing into the videogame business! "Why should I care," you ask. Well, it's for the next gen systems(PS3, X-Box 360) and Fat shall be reprising his role of Inspector Tequila. I saw some video footage shown at E3 on G4's "cinematech." It looks freaking awesome!!! P.S. I am probably the only one, but Face/Off should get a double dip re-issue. Brand new re-mastered anamorphic transfer and re-mastered sound with a dts track maybe. But best of all a huge amount of extras!!! Make it happen Paramount!!!

it has so many brilliant moments that i cant see how everyone who loves movies not loving the film. i saw face/off three times in theater, and i only do that for one other film. from the opening scene, where cage enters to kill travolta, i knew i was watching a great movie. it was shot, edited, and complemented by the music perfectly. of course, the moment he sold his soul to make a tom cruise movie, that's when his career begins to go downhill. but i have faith in him. he will make a comeback. after all, he made hardboiled, simply the greatest action film of all time! everything else is a far second. and i said that with no exageration or pretension.

Thanks for bringing up my favorite John Woo Chinese movie!!!! The "elevator action sequence", Suh-Weeet!!! Then, again, the last 30 or 40 minute "hospital blasting sequence" is jaw-dropping!!! (I know that was part of it). Here's a weird analogy. One of my favorite comedies is 1941! Spielberg did that whole movie as a "Rube Goldberg" experience. John Woo shoots his movies, at least the Chinese ones, the same way! Events tumble into other events (you don't know where they're going), they, always, come together at the end, usually, with mind-numbing violence!!!!! The Chinese Sam Peckinpah!!! 2, or more, "heroes" going against 40 or 50 gun-toting bad guys...it's fuckin' MYTHIC!!! I'll watch anything The Woo (As Tom Cruise calls him) does!!!!! Yeah, that includes Paycheck and Windtalkers!!!!!

First, he was going to do SpyHunter (who gives a rat's ass). Then he shitcanned that to do Masters of the Universe (fuck yeah!). That's not to mention the, what, two or three in between those that he said he was going to do then just wandered away from. Now he's shitcanning MOTU to do these? Anyone wanna guess some odds that these aren't going to be seen? Seriously, dude's just saying he's going to be doing all these flicks. I'm starting to doubt he'll ever actually follow through on any of them. Nothing sadder than a filmmaker that constantly forgets what fucking film he's making at the moment.

About time he directed another action movie with him.

I laughed so hard I cried. It was like Joel Schumacker (whipping boy from all crap directing with a fey tint) directed the 2nd unit. Woo should have went straight to LAX and got the fuck out of Hollywood. Or should I say get out of North Hollywood. Mission Impossible 2 made me feel I sat in a gay bath house for 2 hours. Fuck you Woo. Maybe he can make a decent actioneer over seas again. Sell the doves and get packin' buddy! Send us a post card when you get there.

The Chinese Government is pretty unrelenting. Look at Bai Ling. She can't go back. Whatever John Woo is doing, I hope it's worth it.