The eight hundred : first half is a decent effort at a war movie, second half is shameless Chinese national propaganda. Weird they are not communist troop but kuomintang, I wonder how it passed censorship.
The CCP controls China. The KMT is part of China's history. So in actuality the CCP is doing a brilliant ploy to control the historical narrative and to take control of the KMT's image as part of Chinese history. While the KMT is no longer in control of Taiwan. This is actually a clever strategy to undercut the KMT and their claim to China's history, and the current perception of Chinese history among the Chinese populace.
Who are KMT fighting in the film?
My friends have been obsessed with Cobra Kai.
It was supposed to be a cash grab with the karate kid actors, but apparently it’s become really good.
Been on a massive Mafia binge, starting with re-watching the Godfather trilogy (Part 3 is better than I remembered, still the low point obviously..), then Goodfellas for the first time and ending it with the Irishman. So lots of slow-moving, ridiculously long films worth all the effort it takes to watch them.
Then I went to the Usual Suspects..it may just have aged because its tropes have been used in every crime film since then, but honestly I felt underwhelmed.
Don't forget casino, donnie brasco, scarface, the king of NY, etc..
I binged through the whole Sopranos lately
Bless covid lockdown!!!
Promising Young Woman. Cool.t he ending a bit excessive, but quite good in my opinion.
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The Lie
What a mind- .
Synchronic
Really bad, I could only watch forty minutes. Some nice dialogues. Huge script stupidity (unless it was fixed at the end somehow).
Schitt’s Creek
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I’ve binged it twice since Christmas.
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The Square
Well, it's a film. Veeeery slow-paced. Kinda funny at times because of the absurdity/idiocity.
Does have one very interesting scene starring Planet of the Apes actor Terry Notary that goes on for longer, and gets a lot spicier than the youtube clips show.
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