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60 of 199 · most liked firstchow yun fat in A BETTER TOMORROW is the coolest a dude has ever looked on film
positive · AI labelView post →Shout! Studios launches Hong Kong Cinema Classics label variety.com/2025/film/ne... Hard Boiled and City on Fire begin digital roll out on June 24. A Better Tomorrow trilogy, Peking Opera Blues digital on July 22. A Chinese Ghost Story trilogy, Bullet in the Head Aug 5/Aug 19 Jet Li box set 7/29
neutral · AI labelView post →Watched A Better Tomorrow! Man, I fucking loved it. Chow Yun Fat's acting is so electric and raw -- every time he's on screen, I'm buying whatever he's selling, dude. Ti Lung also kills it, and their best-friendship is just...it rocks. The soundtrack fucks. The vibes are immaculate. What a movie...
positive · AI labelView post →attn movie buffs: after decades of scarcity, you can watch the 4k restorations of 'The Killer', 'Hard Boiled' and 'A Better Tomorrow' I & II for free on Tubi 📽️ link.tubi.tv/snpN27ciCWb
neutral · AI labelView post →Happy 40th anniversary to the action film that put John Woo on the map, made Chow Yun-fat a cinema icon, and codified the "heroic bloodshed" genre: 英雄本色 aka A Better Tomorrow
neutral · AI labelView post →Watched A Better Tomorrow again last night for the first time in decades which compelled me to draw The Coolest Man Alive™︎, Chow Yun Fat. #Art #JohnWoo #HongKongCinema #ChowYunFat
positive · AI labelView post →Oh wow, the original version of John Woo's The Killer - along with several of his other films, like Hard Boiled and A Better Tomorrow, and many others - is no longer caught in a rights hell anymore.
neutral · AI labelView post →Picking a random film from my collection to show off for no real reason! Year 2, Day #79 "A Better Tomorrow" (John Woo/1986) Do I even need to say anything about this one? Another masterpiece from director John Woo. You've probably already seen it so check it out again!
positive · AI labelView post →someone is now pointing out that A Better Tomorrow deserves a mention, too. the prompt was technically 5 movies, I simply can't list every single John Woo movie, or whatever movies other people prefer. I mean, my phone case is literally a screenshot from A Better Tomorrow. pls...
neutral · AI labelView post →Four 📽 Faves: John Woo No one loves juxtaposing white doves with a symphony of bullets like Hong Kong master Woo! Even more beautiful in slow motion! 🤣 1986 A Better Tomorrow 1989 The Killer 1992 Hard Boiled 1997 Face/Off Due for a rewatch marathon soon! #filmsky 📽
neutral · AI labelView post →Picking a random film from my collection to show off for no real reason! Year 2, Day #235 "A Better Tomorrow II" (John Woo/1987) You know it, you love it, you want it! Another John Woo action masterpiece, A Better Tomorrow II, check it out!
positive · AI labelView post →I'd seen THE KILLER, HARD BOILED, and A BETTER TOMORROW when I found this flick on VHS at the Asian video store in downtown Stockton. Safe to say, BULLET IN THE HEAD knocked me on my ass. For years (until RED CLIFF) I told people it was Woo's best film. ...been a long time since that VHS. I'm ready.
positive · AI labelView post →Chinese studios are planning AI driven remakes and updates of classic martial arts movies including Fist of Fury, Drunken Master and Once Upon a Time in China. A trailer for the AI remake of John Woo’s A Better Tomorrow turns into an animated cyberpunk movie. Unlike Hollywood they’re all in on AI
neutral · AI labelView post →The last 4 movies I watched... Superman (2025) Cure A Better Tomorrow Megadoc #lastfourwatched #letterboxdfriday #letterboxd #filmsky #moviesky boxd.it/Iqj
neutral · AI labelView post →I have had a major thing for that dude since the Crouching Tiger movie. A Better Tomorrow absolutely slayed
positive · AI labelView post →[Watch Party] 英雄本色 A Better Tomorrow (1986) Monday 28 Sept, 8pm US ET. #MondayActionMovie on Mastodon is showing the film that kickstarted the whole "heroic bloodshed" genre, by John Woo, with Chow Yunfat, Ti Lung, Leslie Cheung et al. > A reforming ex-gangster tries to reconcile with his estranged policeman brother, but the ties to his former gang are difficult to break. More info, streaming links etc here: https://eggplant.place/collection/3dbcisTUvJzKp2CDrx7XiC
neutral · AI labelView post →339.) A Better Tomorrow (1986) Watched for the film's 40th anniversary. I find it funny that this has been called one of John Woo's "grounded" films because it's the film that popularized the image of Chow Yum Fat (delivering an Oscar worthy performance) sliding across the floor with two pistols.
positive · AI labelView post →Now watching: A BETTER TOMORROW (1986, dir. J. Woo), in which a guy known for light comedy and kung fu movies reinvents the action movie genre forever
neutral · AI labelView post →I would be happy to be able to buy just A Better Tomorrow parts one and two, the third one is mid (Tsui Hark and John Woo had a falling-out after the sequel and Woo took his idea for the third movie and refashioned it into Bullet in the Head)
neutral · AI labelView post →My fave pre-A Better Tomorrow John Woo movie is Plain Jane to The Rescue. You got an autistic coded working class gal as your lead in a screwball comedy, I'm invested.
neutral · AI labelView post →Just watched A Better Tomorrow II and holy shit, this is like the quintessential heroic bloodshed movie. It's got everything, it's amazing. Climactic battle had me levitating. And wow, whole sections of these action scenes were copied nearly 1:1 by so many other movies
positive · AI labelView post →So many great first-time film viewings for me this past month. A few of the most memorable: A BETTER TOMORROW RIEFENSTAHL THE SUPER INFRA-MAN RED PSALM LEVIATHAN (2014) FIRES ON THE PLAIN 28 WEEKS LATER: THE BONE TEMPLE boxd.it/RhMWY
neutral · AI labelView post →Okay change of plans tonight's movie is now A Better Tomorrow 2
neutral · AI labelView post →54. The Killer (movie, 1989) The only uncharitable thing I can say about this movie is that it isn't A Better Tomorrow. But that's like comparing two masterpieces. Holy shit, John Woo has it.
positive · AI labelView post →204) A Better Tomorrow (1996) #FrightClub on Tubi #2026FirstTimeWatch 186 #NowWatching #FilmSky #ABetterTomorrow
neutral · AI labelView post →If you're in Toronto, the Fox is screening the remaster of John Woo's A BETTER TOMORROW tonight, an absolutely iconic film, best appreciated in a cinema youtu.be/SR7q9_8qmak?...
neutral · AI labelView post →A friend and I would rent them at Scarecrow. Probably starting with City on Fire because of Reservoir Dogs. Just grabbing every Chow or Woo film we could find. A Better Tomorrow, The Killer, Full Contact, Once a Thief. Then all the Jet Li movies they had. And the Wong Kar-wais. What a time.
neutral · AI labelView post →That happy feeling when you're all alone in the movie theatre watching John Woo's A Better Tomorrow
positive · AI labelView post →We present a new 4K restoration of John Woo’s A BETTER TOMORROW on 3/2 at NW Film Forum! Buy tix now cuz Hard Boiled sold out quick! “…established the formal and thematic template for a new era of crime movie…” @theendofcinema.bsky.social grandillusioncinema.org/film/a-bette...
neutral · AI labelView post →Histrionic, homoerotic, and mostly just people crying and shouting at each other, but A Better Tomorrow is a 100% a Movie-Ass-Movie.
positive · AI labelView post →#NowWatching A Better Tomorrow (1986) #Junesploitation @fthismovie.bsky.social Day 24 ‘Hong Kong Action’ Don’t ask me why it’s taken me this long to sit down and watch this film 🤦🏻♀️
neutral · AI labelView post →A Better Tomorrow is the greatest movie of all time. And then A Better Tomorrow II is even greater
positive · AI labelView post →Where to find #FrightClub tonight! #ABetterTomorrow (10ET/9C/8M/7P/3BST) Tubi: tubitv.com/movies/10004... #ABetterTomorrowII (11:50ET/10:50C/9:50M/8:50P/4:50BST) Tubi: tubitv.com/movies/10004... Prime: www.amazon.com/gp/video/det... Both also on Kanopy and YouTube. Thanks to @mshep.bsky.social!
neutral · AI labelView post →Well I searched and we now have French dubs of — Chungking Express —- A Better Tomorrow —- Infernal Affairs So movie nights are sorted for the next few weeks.
neutral · AI labelView post →TRIVIA: The stylized, balletic gunplay featured in ‘A Better Tomorrow’ is considered the source of gun fu fight sequences. The movie's popularity led producers to introduce more melodramatic elements into crime films, leading to the emergence of the “Heroic Bloodshed” film genre. (Wikipedia) 🖤
neutral · AI labelView post →49. A Better Tomorrow (movie, 1986) I am a god. Humans can be gods. He who controls his own fate is a god.
positive · AI labelView post →205) A Better Tomorrow 2 (1987) #FrightClub on Tubi #2026FirstTimeWatch 187 #NowWatching #FilmSky #ABetterTomorrow2
neutral · AI labelView post →FILM FREAK FRIDAY #FilmFreakFriday A BETTER TOMORROW (1986) The film that transformed John Woo from a struggling director into a defining force in Hong Kong cinema and reshaped the action genre in the process. On Plex and PlutoTV 🎥
neutral · AI labelView post →A Better Tomorrow (1986) - John Woo, Chan Hing-ka, Leung Suk-wah, Cinema City Enterprises, Film Workshop, Golden Princess Amusement still one of the greatest to ever do it.
positive · AI labelView post →A Better Tomorrow II is the kind of movie where if it was just a bit more solidly constructed, and if they cut a few of the more egregiously bad ideas, it would simply be an infinitely worse movie
neutral · AI labelView post →main reason why i want to see A Better Tomorrow 2: "Chow Yun-fat, the breakout star of the first film, returns to play his original character’s identical-twin brother."
neutral · AI labelView post →A BETTER TOMORROW 1-3 triple feature presented by @amcinematheque.bsky.social and @beyondfest.bsky.social with a fantastic intro by the legend himself, John Woo!
neutral · AI labelView post →Man, Kit is an idiot. Where is his freakin' backup? #MondayActionMovie #ABetterTomorrow
negative · AI labelView post →A BETTER TOMORROW - new 4K restoration! The movie that established John Woo as the king of the Hong Kong gunplay films & made a superstar of Chow Yun-Fat! Intro'd by Seattle Film Society programmer Patrick McFarland. This Monday at 715pm at NW Film Forum! grandillusioncinema.org/film/a-bette...
neutral · AI labelView post →A Better Tomorrow 2 is the first movie I’ve ever seen that tried to play “identical twin of guy who died in the first movie” completely straight
neutral · AI labelView post →We've needed a FUN Superman movie for years now. No offense to Brandon Routh or Henry Cavill - They were good actors for their versions of the character, but for current times? This is a Superman EVERYONE can fall behind. For Truth, Justice, & a Better Tomorrow, GO SEE THIS MOVIE! #Superman
neutral · AI labelView post →I have a feeling this is the road the new Superman movie is taking towards the " Truth, justice, and a Better Tomorrow" instead of the American Way.
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm going to ignore the subtitles for the ending credits and assume this melody is about Kung Pao Chicken. #MondayActionMovie #ABetterTomorrow
neutral · AI labelView post →Corrupt cops. Corrupt ex criminal partners. This town needs an enema! #MondayActionMovie #ABetterTomorrow
negative · AI labelView post →Saw A Better Tomorrow in theaters, great film. Easy to see why it’s a classic. I gotta watch more Hong Kong stuff. Also Chow Yun Fat is the coolest person on planet earth in those first 10 minutes
positive · AI labelView post →putting a note in for tonight's #Forgotten80s going to the Cinema with my family to see the Hong Kong film called 'A Better Tomorrow' hope to see you next week, enjpy the show @matthewjrudd.bsky.social
neutral · AI labelView post →finally watching John Woo's A Better Tomorrow 2 (a glaring omission on my part, I know) and 25 minutes in they reveal the identical twin twist...this may become my favorite film of all time 🤌
positive · AI labelView post →Our Hong Kong Cinema Classics series returns on Monday, November 10th with a new 4K restoration of A BETTER TOMORROW, the film that established John Woo as the king of the Hong Kong gunplay film, and made a superstar of Chow Yun-Fat! Tickets: hollywoodtheatre.org/show/a-better-tomorrow
neutral · AI labelView post →The only movie better than A Better Tomorrow is A Better Tomorrow II
positive · AI labelView post →OH SHIT! In September @robsaucedo.bsky.social is programming HONG KONG CINEMA CLASSICS at the River Oaks! A BETTER TOMORROW Trilogy! HARD fucking BOILED! BULLET IN THE HEAD! CHINESE GHOST STORY TRILOGY! And More! www.theriveroakstheatre.com/movie/RiverO...
neutral · AI labelView post →A Better Tomorrow II is a much sillier movie than the first one, but it winks at the twin brother gag a lot, but also the third act is the most action carnage I’ve ever seen on screen. Also Chow Yun Fat on staircases is a must in any movie
neutral · AI labelView post →Also, I wanna say A Better Tomorrow is one of the heavy inspirations of the film but not 100% anyways, that's a great flick, Chow Yun Fat was in a bunch, Stranglehold as a movie is only B+ he's got so many better so watch those too.
positive · AI labelView post →A BETTER TOMORROW 2: Movie frame drawing 2. I’d stumbled upon John Woo in the early-90’s when I was absolutely starved for cool Asian representation outside of Bruce Lee. Along with Tony Leung, these dudes did some heavy lifting for my undeveloped brain.
unlabelledView post →@revmagdalen @SesameSquirrel I will light a cigarette with some burning dollar bills in Mark's honor, and hope the fire alarm doesn't go off. 👍 #MondayActionMovie #ABetterTomorrow
neutral · AI labelView post →Yeah, I coulda told you stopping to have a dramatic heart to heart in the middle of a gunfight was a bad idea. 🤦♂️ #MondayActionMovie #ABetterTomorrow
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