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I can't believe 2 hours of my life are gone just like that.
This is one crappy flavoured chocolate.
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Rated 2 out of 5 stars
01/15/23
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An uneventful movie featurin disgustin characters who are all deplorable and amoral, and aren't even cinematically or stylishly so. Indulgent rubbish from an otherwise able director, I'd say.
Rated 1.5/5 Stars •
Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars
01/15/23
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Part 2 of the unintentional 9 or 10 day movie blur...this was supposed to be the "non-hollywood" post, but I forgot I saw Shawshank >_>;;
:fresh: [u]Shawshank Redemption[/u]
Wow, I didn't know of this movie before IMDB, and I actually really, really liked this. It's so goddamn cool the whole way through. It's hopeful, it's inspirational - it's just an amazing movie. I thought it would suck - a prison film set in the 70's SNOORE...but this was the complete opposite. Unlike some films which feel too long (looks at Gangs of New York and Yi Yi), this feels just right. Highly recomended.
:fresh: [u]Chinese Chocolate[/u]
Well, this wasn't a good movie for Asian men. At least, Asian men and Caucasian woman couples. If you're in any sort of relationship where one person can speak a language, and the other can't don't see this movie. At least not together. You won't trust each other ever again (muwahaha...ha...never mind :(). And I actually think this was a bad movie for men as a whole. Men just aren't portrayed very well in this movie. But to furthur justify the low-ish rating, when the back of the DVD box says something you didn't pick up in the film, that's not very good either. This whole movie just kind of sucked its way along, right to its sucky conclusion. However, the set-up was so good, and the characters were just so good, and the acting was so good (!!IN A CANADIAN FILM? GOOD ACTING? OXYMORON!! However, Shirley Cui was SO SO OMG amazing in this film, I couldn't believe it. She's only been in two other movies though :( ), I couldn't resist. It plodded slowly at times, but hey, this is probably the best Canadian film in existance, so it's okay.
:rotten: [u]The Way Home[/u]
on the IMDB, people are saying they cried SOOO much in this movie. Well let me tell you, I checked my watch SOOO much in this movie. Oh. My. God. This was the epitome of boring. Some bratty kid disrespects his elders, the elder puts up with it, and after that I just didn't give a shit. Makes you want to take up Christian child-rearing values - beat 'em. or not have children. I'm going with that option (I've always never wanted children, this movie didn't talk me into never having them...just to be clear I'm not soo duuuh to get my mind changed by a movie)
Ha, and add yet another Chinese film not on RT...
[url="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0450099/"]:fresh: A Time to Love[/url]
[b](6/10) [/b]It was slow. It was kind of like "Uh okay, I REALLY don't think they're so strict in China that they wouldn't allow those two to be together." The whole thing was very contrieved. I think they needed to add more things to the plot. But it started out well, and it did at least kind of keep your intrest through out so...6/10 is appropriate
(random movie chatter)...I still have three "foreign" movies (Quitting, a movie I saw a bit of an LOVED a few years back, Monsoon Wedding and Yi Yi) that are due at the library...well, they were due yesterday. Don't you go knocking the library's movie selection! Granted, if you physically go in, you'll find nothing good, so you have to request movies online. But for people in rural areas like myself, it's the only way to get non-mainstream films. My local store wouldn't pick up Hustle and Flow, and that would only take place in a neighbourhood an hour away. Racism? I'd bring it up, but I like my job there...Not to mention the library is free...if you can return your movies on time...a skill which eludes me...
Rated 3/5 Stars •
Rated 3 out of 5 stars
01/20/23
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woah, sunday morning and my weekend plan is still untouched:
[list][*]"complete my article on olympic wushu/berkeley cmat" - all i did is found the tape where i have the interviews of bryant fong and cui yahui and organize the pics i collected from several sources.[*]"see a friend from spain probably tomorrow night" - shame on me, i received two calls from him but did not reply, i didn't feel like going to the city last night, instead i stayed home watching DVD's. I will have to give him some lame excuse next week.[*]"organize my apartment" - ha, this is like a joke, i only have two big boxes left and 3/4 of shelf furniture to organize, still i don't do it...[*]oh, and the activity score ended skate 4 - wushu ZERO :([/list]so on the movies side, i watched two interesting independent movies, hard to rate though, one is [u]chinese chocolate[/u] made in canada mostly with chinese actors that is supposed to explore sexuality of chinese women living in the west, but to me what it really does is highlight the aweful situations that inmigrants have to go thru, in this case, women. I can relate perfectly to those stories becuase i have been friends with chinese inmigrants in all the countries i have lived, so i have seen stories and met people like the ones shown in the movie and even worse than that.
another of the DVD's i saw was an independent, more on the experimental side, korean movie called [u]301/302[/u]... domestic violence and psychological problems or effects shown under strong symbolism of food, story is told in dissorder with a lot of flashbacks.
last DVD, a hongkonese production called "men in their fortys (nan ren si shi)" but just found out in english is called "[u]july rhapsody[/u]" hehe... oh man, this movie tells the story of a guy at 40 being teased by a highschool 17 y.o. girl... no comments! the guy is married and has two kids, has also some wicked past stories with his wife and they are revealed to their older son... interesting movie, but can be a bit hard for those who are getting closer to 40 and like young girls ;).
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the girl happens to be the very realistically cute karena lam, the same one who acted in that leslie cheung movie "inner senses", the man is a very convincing jackie cheung.
okay, let the sunday continue...
Rated 3.5/5 Stars •
Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars
02/21/23
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