Ninjagrape

Ninjagrape

Favorite films

  • In the Mood for Love
  • Schindler's List
  • Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith
  • Harakiri

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  • The Witcher: Sirens of the Deep

    ★★½

  • The Last Emperor

    ★★★★★

  • Green Book

    ★★★★★

  • The Departed

    ★★★★½

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  • The Witcher: Sirens of the Deep

    The Witcher: Sirens of the Deep

    ★★½

    I really just wasted an hour watching a budget Little Mermaid. They really could have done better given the original source material

  • The Last Emperor

    The Last Emperor

    ★★★★★

    Great quotes:
    "You must learn to urinate at night without waking them all up"
    "The way to do it is to urinate against the side of the bucket, not into the middle"

  • Green Book

    Green Book

    ★★★★★

    Why the hell did they show a 30-second cut performance of Winter Wind. That has to be the most cursed, butchered rendition of the etude I've ever heard. Everything else was perfect.

  • The Departed

    The Departed

    ★★★★½

    I liked Internal Affairs (2002) a bit more than this mostly because the relationship between Wong and Chan is just much emotionally deeper than that portrayed here in The Departed. Might be a cultural thing though to have that teacher/student relationship blend into somewhat of a paternal one. 

    The descent into madness of Costigan (Chan in the original) is a lot more interesting here but let’s be honest, it’s hard to top Tony Leung’s acting on an raw emotional scale…

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