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  1911 2011

  ★★★ Watched 22 Mar 2025

  Not awful, but nothing to write home about. Like Beginning Of The Great Revival, it suffers pretty severely by moving at a breakneck pace and sort of losing track of its character stories.

  There's a good story in here, between Huang Xing and Sun Yat-Sen taking a deal with the devil Yuan Shihkai to overthrow the Qing, but it's just buried in a multitude of less important subplots. Jackie Chan is actually quite good in this, I think, and it's…

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  Beginning of the Great Revival 2011

  ★★★★ Watched 21 Mar 2025

  Genuinely a pretty good film, other than the breakneck pace of it. Sort of feels like a movie cobbled together out of 15 minute vignettes of history, but that's actually pretty cool if that's what you're in for! There's some really neat shots in here, I really like the actor used for Mao.

  Historically fascinating. I find the CPC's focus on territorial sovereignty to be something that is really interesting to view from my own Western viewpoint, because in America…

Popular reviews

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  Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade 1999

  ★★½ Watched 24 Jun 2019 5

  I wish i liked this movie, because it's very pretty and has some good lines, but it's also like "dang... it's so hard to be a cop" The Movie and that's just disappointing.

  
  I get that there's an angle of PTSD and how that affects people in armed conflict but it REALLY stretches the truth when the 'sides' in this armed combat are depicted as a) megacops with bulletproof armor who are effectively above the law and b) starving, poor,…

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  Live from the Space Stage: A HALYX Story 2020

  ★★★★½ Watched 01 Sep 2020 7

  Quite frankly I find the whole "Disney superfan" schtick to be at best fascinating and at worse extremely grating, so I probably wouldn't have watched this at all if it wasn't on Defunctland, which is, I think, one of perhaps three Theme Park Youtube Channels that I can stand. And the good news is that Defunctland is probably far and away the best in terms of historical contextualization and writing, so that's important as well.

  This isn't "A Defunctland Movie"…