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Meitantei Conan: Hiiro no Dangan (2021)
Hodgepodge
The stylization of skill was inherited from the earlier series.
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The Tomorrow War (2021)
A Father Can Sacrifice His Own Everything, Including His Own Life
I have to say that I mistook the cover of Chris Pratt for Tom Cruise which from 'Edge of Tomorrow' and those two movies' titles bear an uncanny resemblance to each other. My point was that Chris did slim some but not so. Thanks to the retouchers.
Chaos Walking (2021)
Out of the Mind Comes Evil
The originality of phonating with thinking was fairly refreshing. Tom Holland played as a chatterbox as he always does.
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Meeting Evil (2012)
Textbook Suspense Film
The plots were unpredictable from beginning to the end, but the trait transformation of the hero could be seen.
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Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV (2016)
Riveting Saga with Manifold Elements
The magic teleportation was a veritable stunt. The CGs were breathtaking throughout the movie. The deathmatch was oppressive but stimulating. Besides, the lines were touching and profound.
I would quote some for my memories.
Lunafreya Nox Fleuret: True power is not something that is found by those who seek it. It is something that comes to those who deserve it.
Nyx Ulric: Maybe not all miracles are made by magic.
Nyx Ulric: Oh, great. What the hell did you do to piss these things off?
Lunafreya Nox Fleuret: It's not me they're after. It's the ring.
Nyx Ulric: What's so special about this ring? Don't tell me the future's riding on it.
Lunafreya Nox Fleuret: He who wears the ring communes with the Lucii and commands great power.
Nyx Ulric: What kind of power?
Lunafreya Nox Fleuret: A forbidden one. Sealed within the ring, long ago.
Nyx Ulric: The old wall. I thought that was just a bedtime story.
Lunafreya Nox Fleuret: I can assure you it is not. But the Lucii grant their power only to those they deem worthy.
Titus Drautos: What of your kings' power now? They've given you a burden you cannot hope to bear. I told you before. Just wanting doesn't win wars. For the honor of my home, I fought and killed under a king I loathed. And still he betrayed me. He betrayed us all.
Nyx Ulric: We fought for the same thing. All of us. But you've looked too long on the past. You're blind to the future.
Titus Drautos: Predictable. Unlike you, I learn from history.
Nyx Ulric: But you're a slave to the past.
Titus Drautos: A man's past is his pride.
Nyx Ulric: No. My pride is shaping the future. Looks like I'm gonna owe him big.
Nyx Ulric: Show yourselves, kings of Lucis.
Kings of Lucis: You call upon the wards of this world's future, mortal. And if you come lusting for our power, you must first stand in our judgment.
Nyx Ulric: How long will you do nothing whilst Insomnia burns? Old or new, or whatever it is. Summon your wall!
Kings of Lucis: You do not command us. Yours it not even royal blood. It does not fall to us to guard your city. Man is fool creature, clinging to his past and cowering from his future. Wasting his strength on bygone days.
Nyx Ulric: And what future are you wards of?
Kings of Lucis: So shortsighted. And cursed never to rise above it.
Regis Lucis Caelum: Wait. I have seen what this brave soul is prepared to do. He, too, seeks to safeguard the future.
Kings of Lucis: Very well, young king. We will weigh your warrior's worth. But our boon does not come cheap. The cost is a life. His or her.
Nyx Ulric: No. To hell with your power. I'm not here for it. I only came to tell you, you are no kings, heh.
Kings of Lucis: Your worth has been weighed and found wanting. Now burn.
Nyx Ulric: You're going to lose your precious ring. But it's not too late to save it.
Kings of Lucis: You mean to barter for your life?
Nyx Ulric: No, no. My life is nothing. Giving a future to those who want to see it... is everything.
Kings of Lucis: Hmm. You do not fear, even if that future is doomed. If that sentiment is not false, perhaps you are worthy. We will grant you our light. But know it will set when the sun rises. And the price for it will be your life.
Nyx Ulric: You guys drive a hard bargain. Where do I sign?
General Glauca: So, the power of the Lucii return. No matter. You are out of time.
Nyx Ulric: For you, I'll make some.
General Glauca: What can you hope to do? One man against an empire. Against the daemons. How will you save Insomnia with no wall to protect you?
Nyx Ulric: You've got it all wrong. I'm not fighting to save Insomnia.
Libertus Ostium: We should move. It ain't safe here either. Hey. Don't worry about Nyx. He can take care of himself. Come on.
Lunafreya Nox Fleuret: No. We must part ways here. I can hardly travel in secrecy alongside so great a hero. And I, too, have a promise to keep to Nyx. I pray you too see each other soon.
Libertus Ostium: Yeah. Me too.
Lunafreya Nox Fleuret: Thank you, Libertus.
Libertus Ostium: Hey, queen! You and the king are always welcome in Galahd! Me and Nyx will be waiting for you!
Samâ wôzu (2009)
Mamoru Hosoda's Movies Never Disappoint Us
I have watched 4 movies of Mamoru Hosoda, which are Dejimon adobenchâ: Bokura no wô gêmu! (2000), Digimon: The Movie (2000), One piece: Omatsuri danshaku to himitsu no shima (2005) and Summer Wars (2009). His movies have an intense selfhood in them. Mystical, glum sequences and celerity rhythm of ups and downs can be seen in those works. My online name Omegamon was used for 14 years and never changed since I typed it on the first day I entered the virtual world. It all traced back to the Dejimon adobenchâ: Bokura no wô gêmu! (2000). I watched it when I was 10 or 11 years old, besides I owned my first computer at 12 and I used Omegamon as my one and only online name since then to now.
Summer Wars (2009) and Dejimon adobenchâ: Bokura no wô gêmu! (2000) bear a striking resemblance to each other. Their motifs are both about solidarity and network. In addition, their narrative structures are much at one. Astoundingly, this time, his skill has matured even.
The AI's evolution and images were creative and fighting scenes were not slow-moving at all. The first defeat of AI was given by Granny as a human shape CPU to guide the society back to normal. It was thrilling to me as a 2021 person.
Whereas the first two failures for family are because of disunity, whether it is due to children or adults. Subsequently the third time's success is out of all worldwide zeal.
It rocks!
Moreover, playing cards was an ingenious move as the disadvantaged counterpart for family. In particular, cards had a special meaning for family too.
All the more the final part of additional matches between heroes and Love Machine are really stirring. Nosebleed and unceasing body computer unlockings for hero are really cliff-hanging.
BTW, the MADHOUSE's animation production was extremely fine this time as before. What's more the ending kiss from heroine was satisfying.
Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
Too Young to Live, Too Fast to Die
James Dean 24
Bruce Lee 33
Marilyn Monroe 36
Kobe Bryant 42
Leslie Cheung 47
Those legends may not be their field's zeniths. But their untimely death gave them a romantic end to their life and reputation.
''Cause you got that James Dean daydream look in your eye', this verse of Taylor Swift's lyric was my first time to meet 'James Dean'. To my perception, his turtleneck sweater, vernal eyes, gallant and chivalrous attitude towards life were fashion leading and inspiring.
Because he died speeding at 24 and only left 3 movies as protagonists, his every film could be called as a magnum opus and his sprit of living in the moment passed on.
In this movie, James was mature enough to cope with any situation. That's impressive.
James Dean, Bruce Lee and Marilyn Monroe died young to leave their best image for those people who love them and distress to those people also, leaving cultural heritage to the American society and even earth, too.
Big Fish (2003)
Pulchritude
This film was fine as if a concinnity waltz and Alison Lohman was as a real fairy in it.
At first glance, the filter of this movie was not good. But as storyline went on, we could feel the warm and magic of it.
The Great Dictator (1940)
Scripture
The ending speech reminded me of 'Mein Führer - Die wirklich wahrste Wahrheit über Adolf Hitler'. BTW, I watched it when I was 12 approximately, and the ending of Ulrich Mühe being shot was truly stirring for a teenager after a whole movie time foreshadowing without omen.
Ulrich Mühe was remarkable in 'Das Leben der Anderen' and I saw this film when I was after 20. Nevertheless I did not know that he was the actor I had seen in teenage time.
Back to 'The Great Dictator', disgorging coins and putting them into the pocket was a nice detail for the hero. Analogously, woman at the gala dinner taking some cakes and a loaf of bread was thought-provoking too.
Charles Chaplin was a prodigy to write and direct. His subtle countenance and delicious double duty as Hynkel - dictator of Tomania, and as the Jewish barber were amazing. His pilot part was funny. Plus, some special effects shots were stunning even now.
But what was really diverting was that I first became aware of this movie when I was reading my history textbook in junior high school but I saw this film by myself until now.
After Earth (2013)
Yawns
This film spread itself too thin and became a 'jack of all trades and a master of none'.
It was disservice to use Will Smith as a half-dead character despite he was distinctly good in interpreting his role as he always was but he was too languid for no reason too protect his son in the film or this film itself.
In summary, his acting was something like constipation.
This film was too low and cheap for its investment and allocation. The outset part was like a Hollywood blockbuster and stringent specification Sci-Fi fragment. But after father and son touched down the planet, everything changed into a row and primitive teleplay whose motif was 'Man vs. Wild'.
This movie showed no signs of sincerity and it would merely idle away your time.
Harô Wârudo (2019)
A Sci-Fi Anime Movie Whose Core Was a Love Story
Personally speaking, this might be a best Sci-Fi anime movie whose core was a love story.
Director Tomohiko Itô has directed many splendid animations like 'SAO' series and 'The Town Where Only I Am Missing'. But this film he really made it a new level of telling a story in a magic way. Especially the ending part, he gave the two couples a brand new future and perfect interpretation of the logic behind this script by a succinct approach.
We had seen many Sci-Fi movies whose motifs were really abstruse.
First one, time, space and love, like 'Source Code'. Second kind, AI's awareness awakening, e.g. 'Free Guy'. Third type, veracity between reality and dream, exempli gratia, 'Inception'.
But this movie, it contained all elements above and those elements matched each other tunefully. They served the drama, and they were not some sort of publicity stunt.
Justice Society: World War II (2021)
Ordinary Work
We are no strangers to Justice League. However, when we realized that this was an earth with only 2 superheroes, we were so shocked. That explained why Flash was so strange to this Wonder Woman and her colleagues.
Like some netizens said, it was a pauper version of 'Flashpoint'. On the whole, it had no stunning point to me at all.
Injustice (2021)
Hurried Story
While holding justice is a normal thing, sometimes it can make people in a dilemma.
Augustine said 'Punishment is justice for the unjust.' But what he did not exposit was that in an ultra situation, people or even a god like superman could not hold back his personal feelings to the unjust. In the movie, we saw he made an extreme penalty to Joker with his hands. Hence, he became an injustice man.
'Really, what we want now, is not laws against crime, but a law against insanity.' Mark Twain pointed this kind of potential crime before us. But we could not solve it then, like we could not solve it now. It is the humanity we are talking about.
Furthermore, Superman killed everyman who did not conform with his values, in some situations, moods. Yet human has no chains to hold this monster or god back, so the third and first most intelligent man on earth (Mr. Terrific and Batman) came up with an idea to summon up an alternate universe Superman to fight with this out of control guy. Unexpectedly, foreign aid was taken a fall. Fortunately, trump card was prepared, which was undoubtedly Lois Lane.
The injustice concept was good, but this movie was awkward to express a story which was years' length in comics.
The Bone Collector (1999)
Spend your movie time wisely
In my past years, I selected movies by choosing actors and actresses. But now, I choose directors. I chose this movie for Denzel Washington& Angelina Jolie, however, they failed me. Exactly, Phillip Noyce did not fail me. He proved he was not talented in telling a story by cameras again.
This script was not bad initially, but director had no gift in dealing with his resources.
Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015)
A splendid film with no time for bathroom
Because you are so drowning into this art, you cannot dare to spare even just one minute to leave the seat.
The motorcycle fight scenes were the best for my record.
No Time to Die (2021)
So Long, James Bond.
Thomas Sean Connery, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig. 007s, or exactly, James Bonds, are legendary for all man who love movies. I have seen 15 series of Bond ('Dr. No', 'From Russia with Love', 'Goldfinger', 'You Only Live Twice', 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service', 'Moonraker', 'For Your Eyes Only', 'Octopussy', 'GoldenEye', 'Tomorrow Never Dies', 'Die Another Day', 'Quantum of Solace', 'Skyfall', 'Spectre' and 'No Time to Die'). So I think I am qualified to express some feelings about this historical movie for James Bond.
Daniel Craig's Bond was very tangled. For one aspect, he was tough and invincible in some screens. But in some parts, he was weak and real as an ordinary man. The scriptwriters were too careful to write an agent with artistic image for not to let people down but putting authenticity in this character also to shut the critics up. So we could see a hero with some dissociation. Bourne series and Mission Impossible series are responsible for this kind of 'evolution'.
But 007 was not just like this, he was a man with fancy cars and beauties for no reason. That's why we liked him for the first moment and that's the reason for all teenagers buying tickets to enter the theaters. They just wanted to have a dream with no logic.
So when Daniel Craig died in the ending, I was relieved with and for him and I think most audiences would have this same feeling too.
We saw the next 007 in this movie, an African female 007. With no offence, I am just dejected that we might not be able to see Bond girls in the unborn 007 stories in the future. But the saddest point was that we could not see James Bond in 007 again.
By the way, Bonds' soundtracks are classic also. My personal preferences are 'No Time To Die', 'Writing's On The Wall', 'Skyfall', 'Die Another Day', 'You Know My Name', 'Goldeneye', 'James Bound Theme', 'Tomorrow Never Dies', 'The World Is Not Enough' and 'Live And Let Die'.
Selma (2014)
But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.
It's shocking when I knew that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Had hired prostitutes and his wife knew that in the movie. As a middle school student back then, I had read his 'I have a dream' on my textbook and my generation had all recited its several paragraphs.
After finishing watching this film, I went online to check the information of this scandal and some said he had paid for sex with public money and had academic plagiarism issue.
Back to the movie itself, Martin was a great speaker. He knew how to win over the popularities. To put a big assumption, he might learn from Gandhi's Satyagraha Movement. They and their groups were all vulnerable groups, so they had to solve their problems without violence. And I believe violence never solve any problem, ever, no matter you are on the upper side or downer side.
The ending song 'Glory' was truly melodious and inspiring. John Legend did an amazing job as he always does.
The Expendables 2 (2012)
Can't Beat the Classic
I watched this when I was in high school. But actually, the first time I knew anything about The Expendables series was on a bank magazine. It introduced a lot of details about every character in this movie. By the way, it advertised The Bourne Legacy on it also.
I guess I just got fascinated with this movie the moment I saw it. The male hormones exploded in everyone who was in the film. Even for a teenager who has no idea about bodybuilding, you just cannot run away from the muscles in it.
Talking about muscles, this movie contains an earthshaking cast of tough guys. Too many big names in this movie, as a kid I like them then, and as an adult who loves bodybuilding now, I love and respect them. I mean, Scott Adkins could just play an underling for Jean-Claude Van Damme in this film. It's like a Dream Team, too many stars in it and the small ones can just play as subs. And it's really thrilling and surreal to see Stallone, Bruce Willis and Arnold Schwarzenegger in scenes together with guns and lines. We just watch them three guys standing there and we get some spiritual pre workout.
The 'Museum' punchline among big 3 in the end, 'I'm back' punchlines and its roast parts and many fantastic lines like 'Rest in pieces' are really icing on the cake.
This might be the third or fourth time for me to watch this movie. It's pretty rare for anyone in Information Age or to be exact, in 2021 to review a 2012 movie (Especially when it looks like a B-movie but it is not) for several times these years.
The ending fight between Stallone and Jean-Claude Van Damme is pretty old school like Stallone's personal acting style. It's highly controversial for Oscars and its audience but for people like me, it's really satisfying.
Bai She 2: Qing She jie qi (2021)
Sex Reversion in Animated Movie
We all know Green Snake would save her sis after improving her power in Chinese traditional opera. And that's how I predicted the plot would be; at least that was the title of this movie showed us, but this movie has turned the cliché core of revenge into a new focus of relationship between Green Snake and White Snake.
Literature has evolved into a new form of images with words and sounds like ACG (animation, comics and games), movie and television.
The meaning of literature holds within has been diversified by these new forms also.
As a kid ten years ago or as an adult now, I am a big fan of animation all the time. We can hardly see sex reversion in movies, to say nothing of animated movies. In fact, sex reversion is a new concept in novels even these years. It's pretty bold for the producers to make a decision of putting this idea into a sequel.
It's pure and fresh to use sex reversion without adding anything connected with parody. It's natural for us to know or to understand the plot that White Snake was the hero all along. For character set, they were both courageous and kind enough to sacrifice their lives for other people. For lines or fates, they both had something they could not give up, which was obsessiveness. And it was obsessiveness to make them go through metempsychoses. It was a classic Chinese script for love.
In the movie, Green Snake commented that people who do goods to others without power are killing themselves and also others. And she wanted to be a powerful woman to protect herself without any man. But at the later time of the movie she changed her mind and realized that being normal and living in an ordinary life was good enough for them. Some say it's a symbol of feminist movement, but I consider it to be a bigger picture. I think that she has understood the meaning of happiness truly and cherished her life from the bottom of her heart.
Of course you could say she finally admitted hardship was part of life also after all those shits happened.
All in all, she has given her obsessiveness up in the end.
And the ending was really touching. In the end of the movie, after seeing flashbacks for all the reincarnations White Snake had gone through, Green Snake finally learned that even without memories or power, no matter how many years or lives, her sis would fight tooth and nail to look for her and save her.
In fact White Snake and Green Snake are not real sisters; they knew each other and accompanied each other for a long long long time like thousands of years. Eventually they became sisters or something like that. This kind of relationship is hard to be identified or defined.
In history for 'White Snake' and its spread versions, showing up as a male was original in many stories for Green Snake. And for fairy monsters the genders are not even a problem in Chinese legends. In a situation of today's world, you can call Green Snake a fluid gender (not exact in Chinese original stories or cognitions). And in this movie, her sis was the reversion one.
We can see many criticisms online over the positive ones. It's natural for any advanced work which beyond its time. Let's be patient and clap our hands for this pioneering film.
This Is It (2009)
This Is It
Michael is an earnest man with great responsibility for his every show including rehearsal ones. You could see he had nothing to hold back in 'Jam' and he performed in a super high level even in his fifties.
You can feel the power and passion even life energy in his 'Human Nature' part, and he still got his way to make everyone get blessed with muse. It was really thrilling for me to see this even at my age of nearly 30. By the way, I was overwhelmed by this film in 2009 when I was 14 with no reason for a teenager who could express nothing clear but just saying amazing and absolutely amazing to reveal my heart's content.
'Beat It' is really an inspiring song or we could say a right song for current days even, especially for today's violence overflow in students circle. It's hard for an artist to keep a balance in his work for both commercial and artistic aspects, but Michael added educational needs in it too! What a brilliant job he had done.
He also put some environmental safety concerns in his 'Earth Song' with his one and only unique voice to convey his appeals in a really sad and tragical aria to invoke the power of empathy in our hearts.
For my record, it is really sorry and sorrow to say that after 12 years passed from this great genius leaving us and still no one has showed up to take the torch from him as a King of Pop.
MJ's move, music, talent, voice and everything you could possibly imagine in a humungous star had no flaw through his life even in his last dance which no one knew that it could be his posthumous work.
Above all, his moral quality was the best from best not only in his circle or field but in his all aptitudes. You can feel his gentleness and kindness in his behaviors to the staffs and people and you could feel his air in his field simultaneously. It is truly marvelous.
He still has some kind of impact or influence in this generation even. I heard some young people maybe in his thirties playing 'We Are the World' with saxophone in Harbin, China on Central Street a few days earlier in the evening and a bunch of people were listening it and lost in the melody.
In many cultures like in One Piece(Japan), Coco(America, Mexico) and in Chinese sayings, there is a kind of belief which expresses one same thing which is 'Death is not the end of life, forgetting is the end of life.' So we could say that even if there were just only one people playing his works and this man was still living in our hearts and memories. After all, Legends never die, and they become a part of us.
He did make human civilization progress and healed even are still healing the world like his song title right now with his works not just his songs but his charities.
In the end of the movie, Michael sang 'Man in the Mirror', and he really made it in his life. He looked in the mirror every day and made a change indeed like he sang in his songs.
When I was writing these and hearing his songs my eyes were glistening with tears.
Hope you rest in peace Michael and wish there would be a generous and healthy life you could enjoy in afterlife.
Space Jam: A New Legacy (2021)
Take the Torch and Make it Burn Brighter
This movie is insanely good for a 90s child if you ask any guy at that age. Like one critic said in the review for Avengers: Endgame-'The final chapter is for someone who has read the former stories.' This draws for the following arguments I represent. The movie is almost like a hip-hop version for Ready Player One. You can watch so many Easter eggs in this fantastic movie. I'll cite some that I can remember or I can recognize, The Matrix, Batman, Rick and Morty, Jobs, Superman, Wonder Woman(of course with her famous BGM), Joker, Pennywise, King Kong, Kevin Hart, AD, Klay Thompson and the most stunning one-Michael Jordan(with the Sirius BGM).
Without doubt, all these lined with LeBron James made it a masterpiece and of course, the performance of Don Cheadle is professional as always.
For those who grow up with those characters or players, I can say we all share an amazing feeling like 'Gosh! Finally someone put all those things in a 110 minutes movie.'
The group of Wonder Woman and Lola Bunny, Superman with Daffy Duck and Don Cheadle as Jobs really impressed me, but if you ask me which scene is the most incredible one, I can say it's the MJ's show up. When LeBron's team are all depressed with no hope in the half, the Sylvester said he found Michael Jordan to help them, and as the Sirius went on, we saw his shoes , we felt his airness and his power! And finally, here was the Michael B Jordan, even Daffy Duck roasted that 'we couldn't get Michael A Jordan, so we got Michael B Jordan?!'
The look on LeBron is very funny, we could see his complexion changed from expectation to shocked and last, disappointed. This punch line has got me too, my face was exactly like the LeBron at that time.
One man's meat is another man's poison. Unlike 1996, Space Jam made its best in that age. People in this time have a severe sight on everything, sometimes even mean especially when you try to take to flame from the legend, but I think LeBron made a different, outstanding, and impressing performance that could only be achieved by him not just in the court, but off the court, and in this film.