Black Rain (1989) Jump in and talk about this suburb 80's action flick

I wonder where I've listened to this before...
youtu.be/Yg5EdPODcew?t=1924

you weren't in that /brit/ thead on /int/ were you?

Actually, no. link?

The third act is a mess. But I think it would actually make a pretty good TV series where you could develop the characters more and get more in depth about the Yakuza and the whole fish out of water thing. Maybe do it like a true detective thing where it plays in two different time periods until the end, where Douglas' character, now disgraced due to the corruption scandal, has been living in Japan for years illegally, trying to get the guy who killed his partner and refusing to leave before its done, and he's trying to dodge the police because he'll get deported, so he's doing shady shit to surive, etc. Maybe have one or two local cops looking the other way and bailing him out when he gets nabbed on small shit because they have their own vendetta against the Yakuza boss. There's a lot you could do with the entire basic storyline.

this was a few days ago just some random user posted this film and /brit/ did it's tired old /brit/ routine of unfunny in jokes and pessimism. no actual god discussion was had

A lot of 3rd acts are a mess. Directors and writers, maybe because of studio pressure, tend to fumble by trying to resolve everything or ramping the conflict/spectacle.
Check the difference to live and die in la. It's not even the subversion, but how fucking poignant those last moments are, not just as this shocking/twist thing but it also encapsulates everything we've seen until then.

yeah Ridley Scott really seemed to be off on a style over substance bender in the 80's.

nah. I just pointed that the batman theme from batman begins was basically the black rain soundtrack just way faster.

is there supposed to be english subs for the japanese parts?

did you link the right video?

yo what was the flick about some jap 80s tech company movie? with murder mystery or some shit

some user dropped it a few months ago and i never watched it

oh i was able to find it

its called Rising Sun

Well in this case IIRC the issue was more that they got into some kind of a fight with Japanese side of the production because apparently they're really anal about everything, a reason why Ridley hasn't done anything in Japan since or anybody else for that matter when it comes to blockbusters, so in the end they literally had to fuck off and shoot the end of the movie in L.A. or whatever to get it finished. And that's why the climax takes place in the middle of nowhere field.

i think so. its this youtube.com/watch?v=Yg5EdPODcew at 32:03

watchable but kinda dogshit

Based on a Michael Crichton book, that butchered the ending if I'm not completely mistaken. Horribly dated but fun movie, with weeaboo Sean Connery to boot. I could swear there's also some other similar movie from the same period.

watching the clips on youtube i'm leaning towards no. None of them have them. I think its deliberate to make Douglas's character seem like a fish out of water

Sean Connery telling Blade to call him senpai and the photoshop scene are quite memeworthy

Yeah in the early 80's/90's Japans economy was set to voertake the USA's leading to a spate of Japanese paranoia flicks. It's influence is also noticeable in other films like Back to the Future 2 and more prominently - Die Hard

YOU MADE THE RAIN BRACK

yeah i hear what you're saying. Guess Zimmer just dug some old stuff out and phoned it in for the capeshit

>why the climax takes place in the middle of nowhere field.
In a “Japanese” vineyard*

LMAO. Had no idea about this. It's the same exact progression.

I thought the idea of the Villains country retreat kind of worked for the ending. Never felt out of place when i first watched it. Must have been really bad in Japan to make Scott stop filming there though

>Japaranoia
What?

see

I think that user was wrong I had read that they just ran out of time shooting so had to leave

i think the point was that ordinarily it wouldn't be hard to get a little extra time to film if they overran but in Japan they had their set amount of time and once it was up the strict bureaucracy wouldn't allow any more

Thanks for the recommendation user. Showtime has it, maybe I'll watch it tonight.

There was a lot of red tape and bureaucratic shit to deal with that made Scott vow never to shoot in Japan again despite being a weeaboo.

Style is substance, plen

Yet were this film just to have even a slightly better script it would be a well known classic instead of relatively obscure as it is

>if it focused more on the palatable elements of movies that people who don't care about art enjoy, then it would be more popular
NO SHIT FAGGOT

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I remember the day this came out, Sep 22, 1989. It was my grandson's 40th birthday and I treated him to this movie and paid for a gook prostitute.
R.I.P Alex.

is this some kind of pasta? You wrote this in the last thread i made on this too

We didn't eat pasta that night, we had pizza iirc.

is it some kind of boomer meme? how would your grandson be 40 in 1989 and you still be alive now? how old are you theoretically?

classic hack zimmer

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