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Message no. 1
From: shadowrn@*********.com (BD)
Subject: Cyberpunk
Date: Fri Jun 29 22:00:01 2001
> For non-cyberpunk movies that are, in a way, an example of the genre I'd
> suggest Heroic Bloodshed films like "The Replacement Killers", and
"Hard
> Boiled", and "A Better Tomarrow".

Another pretty wicked one is Kamikaze Taxi. Very cool.

> A perfect example of why this doesn't work, watch "A Better Tomarrow" and
> then watch the first sequel (sp), "A Better Tomarrow II"

I'm'a poppin' in more spoiler space for A Better Tomorrow III.





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> At the end of "A Better Tomarrow", Mark dies. At the start of "A
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> Tomarrow II", it shows Mark's twin brother (also played by Chow Yun Fat),
> who is the main character, which acts almost identically in the end like
> Mark. Basically, it's Mark, but not Mark, because Mark is dead. Clear as
> mud, right?

And in number three, it's Mr. Chow again, AND he's playing Mark again,
because it's a prequel! Get it? Makes perfect sense.

But hey, at least it's a little more plausible than finding out Something
Has Survived yet again... :)

====-Boondocker

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