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Ne Zha 2 2025
was curious to see this, the first global success of the Chinese filmmaking industry. Biggest non-English movie ever, tenth-highest grossing film ever period. Watched on IMAX
Quite good. Some really cool and impressive visuals. I went into this trying to find differences with Western animation, but past the superficial aesthetic and worldbuilding choices, the plot is extremely Western/postmodern, almost ridiculously so.
Also, it's fucking hilarious that "cultivation" is a real, popular worldbuilding premise in China. I only know it from…
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Crazy Rich Asians 2018
Maybe I just don't like romantic comedies. Didn't like this, very cringe and fake, some nice moments, cool scenery. Also, I feel like it's giving me a wrong picture of what very rich people are like.
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The Tatami Galaxy 2010
A revelation.
Groundhog Day on acid.
Still trying to make sense of all its twists and turns. Catches you off guard at every corner. The speed. The flowery, hilarious translation. I can't praise it enough. Might've literally changed my life.Edit: Sadly the sensation faded so it didn't change my life :(. Maybe could've meditated on it a bit.
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Eraserhead 1977
Really cool. A bit too incoherent for me. And the kind of scariness it has didn't really work for me somehow? Idk. Maybe just too tired to take it as activation energy / let it punch through my system.
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