Happy Holidays from Heroes Three! This week we are closing out 2024 with Marty's host pick, God of Gamblers III: Back to Shanghai directed by Wong Jing and starring Stephen Chow, Ng Man Tat, and Gong Li!
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Full blog post with gifs here!
Timestamps
(0:00) Intro
(3:00) Production background
(6:36) Carlos and Matthew Initial Thoughts
(8:40) Hong Kong cross talk with hollywood
(11:01) Movie Thoughts
(16:05) Gong Li: Too Hot for Taiwan?
(26:22) Back to the movie
(58:40) Possible releases in the US
(1:01:14) Ng Man-tat and Stephen Chow
(1:03:10) Final thoughts and plugs
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137 The Host
Welcome back to Heroes Three! Host picks continue with Matthew's choice, and he brought the Bong Joon-ho monster film from 2006, The Host!
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Full cast and credits at IMDB!
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Making of The Host documentary
Full blogpost with gifs here!
Timestamps
(0:00) Intro
(1:35) Carlos's "The Host" history
(2:58) Marty's "The Host" History
(8:01) The strengths of this movie
(13:05) The cast
(16:29) Carlos plot recap
(20:18) Movie discussion
(54:30) Final Thoughts
(56:06) Plugs and training for next week
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136 Memories
Welcome back to Heroes Three! Some host picks to close out the year and Carlos brings one of his all time favorites, Katsuhiro Otomo's Memories from 1995!
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Full cast and credits at Anime News Network!
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Full blog post with gifs here!
Making Memories Documentary
Read the Memories short by Otomo here!
Animation Obsessive's great writing on Magnetic Rose here!
Weird cel wobble from Fist of the North Star
Timestamps
(0:00) Intro
(0:52) Why Memories
(2:49) Carlos Memories memories
(7:54) Marty's surprising Memories memories
(11:27) Matthew's Memories first time
(16:10) Production History
(19:26) Based on a true story??
(20:53) Wrong info online
(23:08) Magnetic Rose
(37:11) Stink Bomb
(52:54) Cannon Fodder
(1:04:56) Final thoughts
(1:09:51) Outro and training for next week
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Carlos vs Japan!
This week, we take a detour to hear about Carlos's super fun trip to Japan! Ninja museum, boar encounters, and
super grannies await!
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Full blogpost with pictures here!
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135 Purana Mandir
This week on Heroes Three, we make a brief Halloween diversion to look at Bollywood horror with the Ramsay Brothers' Purana Mandir (1984)!
Watch it (stretched out but in full) on youtube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X400ruYdui0
Timestamps
(0:00) Intro
(1:24) Raat thoughts
(2:10) Purana Mandir discussion
(37:42) Lily Li RIP
(39:09) Outro and training for next week
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