leehenr3

leehenr3

Favorite films

  • Tampopo
  • Persepolis
  • Lilies of the Field
  • The Mission

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  • Mickey 17

    ★★

  • Shaolin Soccer

    ★★★★½

  • Heretic

    ★★★

  • House of Flying Daggers

    ★★★

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  • Mickey 17

    Mickey 17

    ★★

    Fails as a sci-fi movie, political drama, and comedy all at once. The jokes are something out of the laziest SNL skit imaginable. If you think this film says anything important, politically, you are incredibly stupid

  • Shaolin Soccer

    Shaolin Soccer

    ★★★★½

    Hilarious, stupid, and creative. The CG is dated but it doesn't matter because it's used for cartoon effects. It's hard not to compare this with Kung Fu Hustle (which I'd argue is Chow's magnum opus) and while it's as funny as Hustle it just doesn't look as good. Still top tier HK action comedy

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  • Bobby Fischer Against the World

    Bobby Fischer Against the World

    ★★

    To give you a sense of the tone in this movie: five minutes in, Henry Kissinger shows up as a talking head, followed by Malcolm Gladwell, who explains the 10,000 hour rule (this documentary is from 2011). Kissinger personally called bobby in 1972 to ask him to play Boris Spassky in the world championship, so the rest of the world would know that America Means Business. Fischer was reluctant but obliged (because the prize money increased due to a private…

  • Bullitt

    Bullitt

    ★★

    Expressionless guys having low-energy arguments about police procedure. Filler scenes of people walking around quietly. Example: Steve McQueen buys groceries and we are shown the entire sequence of him getting out of his car, getting a newspaper, talking to the clerk about vegetables, getting some frozen meals for himself, checking out, then leaving, then getting back in his car - and that's one of the more interesting filler scenes. Plot moves so slowly that you will forget what's going on…