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Clearly this is well outside my normal film tastes, but I had to see.
It was good - FOR WHAT IT WAS!!!.
By which I mean that everyone did a fine job, the Hong Kong Actor who played "Cane" was excellent, a humorous nod to "The Blind Samurai", the fight-scenes, choreography, settings, all amazing. Keanu Reeves trains very well and is in excellent shape to realize the role.
So, temper your expectations to moderate or reasonable and you'll be pleasantly surprised.
Now, 4 chapters in and I'm hoping this lays the franchise to rest. Although I doubt it, when has Hollywood ever let a good thing rest?
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Saw this on NetFlix, gave it a try and was pleasantly surprised. Hindi/Bollywood, India under the British Raj and and the British are portrayed much as they like to portray the Nazis, basically the same, and - really, English Colonialism was every bit as savage as French, Belgian, Dutch, Portuguese and Spanish Colonialism. So they're not far off.
It's about 10 X better written than any American film, with a lot more depth, nuance and complexities to the plot. That's not to say it has a lot, just more. And it's nice to see cultures represent their own history - as opposed to us doing it. Even if it's clearly a ridiculously over-the-top fiction. The dancing was fun, the jumping with the tigers and torches, brilliant, I mean - Hollywood's problem is that they feed us utter rubbish - Marvel Movies, for example - and they try to keep it a bit "Grounded" by slight attention to the laws of gravity and such, this - they don't fucking care. Turn it up to 11...no, no, 12...fuck it, all the way up to 100!!!! Nobodies supposed to believe it, just be amused.
Anyways, I've had a few Bollywood movies on my list and now I'm inspired to try and see a few more...
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Yes, I know, hardly new but like a lot of movies I hadn't seen it. Knew it by reputation.
So, younger - unrecognizable almost Ben Affleck, Minnie Driver (Heard about her, still no real clue as to who she is), and Matt Damon, because he was pretty popular in a lot of other movies I never saw.
Anyways, good, not great, and certainly in no ways deserving all the heavy-handed praise. Just good.
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I don't know how I've never heard of this.
Absolutely bloody brilliant, 1965 Black & White Polish movie about...
Well, I don't want to spoil it, but it's an Arabian Nights of sorts, and as I'm going to briefly describe it (Spoilers below - don't do the read more unless you've first watched it...)
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This was good. A pretty accurate cast of customers and staff in a high-end restaurant. With an end that every staff member has at one time or another fantasized about.
More and more films on this as of late, genre films like "Triangle of Sadness" and "Parasite" that talk about the overthrow of the clueless patrons and elite who quite literally feed upon the misery of their servants.
Ralph Fiennes plays an excellent chef, the power dynamic is spot on, it's clear they Paid a Writer. This is pretty rare these days, you have to applaud them.
I mean, I worked here, not even a year ago...