Zhang Yimou is director with marginal talent though he possesses an uncanny flair for visuals. Which is why he blew the world’s minds directing the opening of the 2008 China Olympics. Which is also why his movies are usually hit or miss depending on who he’s collaborating with.
Hero was a piece of pretentious crap that got popular because of the astounding martial arts direction by Tony Ching Siu Tong, really pretty cinematography and equally pretentious critics. Raise The Red Lantern took me 3 viewings to complete because I kept falling asleep. House of Flying Daggers was an empty waste of time which had an amazing soundtrack by Shigeru Umbayashi and really pretty cinematography. To Live is a great film because of the script adapted from a great novel about a really shitty life in Socialist China(Yes, China was socialist. It has never really been communist. Don’t be fooled by people with agendas.) and the extraordinary acting talents of Ge You and that chick from the Miami Vice remake. Red Sorghum was a fluke.
THIS MOVIE WAS WORSE THAN VENOM!!! FUCK!!!
If you see this movie on netflix and read the reviews of critics gushing over a movie because it’s shot “artistically” in a language they don’t understand and you’re tempted to watch it, remember he also directed that piece of crap called The Great Wall starring Matt Damon.
Saw this slasher/exploitation film called terrifier on netflix, was a strange throwback to low-budget 80s slasher flicks. Now when I was young (like 12) I would watch these a lot of 80s slasher films because I didn’t have access to porn but I did have access to netflix and other streaming services and I knew for sure these films would have boobs in them lol. This film didn’t have any, however for people who like old 80’s slasher flicks or 70s grindhouse cinema/exploitation films you might want to check this one out. Due to the films “throwback” vibe to exploitation cinema, despite the low budget and semi atrocious acting at times, the film is extremely graphic, it’s very harsh, even by horror film standards, would easily merit an NC-17 in the US for the violence, hence why it was released unrated. There’s no real point to watching films like this though, there’s no story, just senseless violence, so if that’s not your thing or you’re easily bothered by gore than don’t watch this I guess.
I’ve yet to watch mandy because I saw this and apostle instead, apostle was a good film, terrifier was… I hesitate to say a waste of time because I appreciate the throwback to old horror flicks but not good film.
Zing! LOL. Is this where I confess that, way back when, I briefly kept a log titled “Coming Out of the Closet”?
…unfortunately, (I hear the parties are so much better!) straight as an arrow…
I have the same taste as whoever cast Benjamin Button: Cate Blanchett (my favorite until the botox froze her face and she lost the nuances of expression that made her so great), Juliette Binoche, and David Bowie…errrr, I mean Tilda Swinton!
I have also been infatuated with Cate Blanchett lol. But that started when I saw her in Bandits. Then there was that movie I couldn’t complete where she played Bob Dylan…
straight as an arrow…