Decadent costumes, interesting history and a perspective Western viewers won’t often get
Dialogue at times wooden and production very obviously from a different time but an epic watch that recalls the highly resource intensive filmmaking of old
Wild whitewashing of Maoist reeducation camps and don’t tell me they actually had that much cabbage in the streets during the Great Leap Forward but I guess that’s the price of getting the CCP to buy in.
Manners maketh the man but cocaine maketh the comedian. At times, it played a bit like a shallow series of apocryphal anecdotes from the lives of people now in their twilight years BUT, a worthy tribute to one of the greatest institutions in American cultural life. Star studded with cameos, Defoe and Simmons especially exciting.
Instant classic. JGL, Julia and Heath appropriately aged and peaked. Essential viewing. Stadium and poetry reading scenes especially notable
