The Killer 1989 Internet Archive Jun 2026

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In 1989, Hong Kong was four years away from the handover to China, and its film industry was at a creative peak. John Woo, fresh from A Better Tomorrow (1986), directed The Killer — a balletic, blood-soaked tragedy of honor between a hitman (Chow Yun-fat) and a cop (Danny Lee). The film became a cult sensation worldwide, influencing Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez, and the Wachowskis. Yet three decades later, finding a legitimate, high-quality copy of The Killer is notoriously difficult. The original Hong Kong cut is out of print on DVD; the Criterion Collection laserdisc is obsolete; and streaming rights have lapsed or are region-locked. the killer 1989 internet archive

A thread on alt.cyberpunk where users argue whether the future internet will be a utopian free-for-all or a corporate panopticon. One post eerily predicts: “They’ll let you speak, but only to sell you something. Your anger will be the product.” If you download a file with multiple audio