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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2 (2011)
End of a long journey
I've grown up with the books and it's nice to see the end of Harry and his friends' magical journey. It's well adapted and portrayed by David Yates and the cast that I'm familiar with and love since the first movie.
The movie is of course not at all like the book and has many plot points skipped but also introduced some very nice additions. I'm not gonna go into details and spoil it, but if you have read the book thoroughly and watched this movie then you'd know what I mean.
Overall, the last movie is a great experience. It's dark throughout the most part but the bright ending leaves you with wonderful feelings of a better future for our main characters and their offspring.
I'm a bit sad to see a conclusion to HP movie series but like all parties, there is always and end. Time to grow up and move on to different things, I suppose.
Other thoughts: this is by no means my favorite HP movie but it's definitely in the top 3.
Man cheng jin dai huang jin jia (2006)
OK movie, not what I expected but I still like it
So people have been talking a lot about this movie (mostly hateful comments though.) So here are the bad things that I agree: 1. The terrible subtitles are really getting on my nerves. 9 out of 10 Chinese movies have cheesy subtitles that do not go along with the script (well, at least the translated script) How much have they spent for this movie? Says, a million bucks? And they can't make the damn subtitles any better? You gotta be kidding me. The Empress says "Come back!" but the subtitles read "Go now!" 2. Colors, there are thousands of color, maybe even more than my LCD screen can display. This time the director might have got too carried away with his "impressive cinematography". It gets annoying if you keep doing that Mr. Zhang!
Other than the 2 annoying things above, I have to admit that Chow Yun Fat and Gong Li did a wonderful job portraying the rotten and corrupted royal family. I'm impressed the most by Fat, he really turned into a mean Emperor.
The storyline is a bit old since I've seen this kind of "royal tragedy" so many times. It's just kinda old.
Overall, I give the movie a high 8/10. Now you Chinese movie haters can start sending me hate mails, haha.
American Soldiers (2005)
So you wanna see how an RPG cannot destroy a Hummer?
I can't believe this director is still making movies. I mean, look at the movies he's made, they're almost all rated less than 4 stars. I wish there was a negative rating here so I could give it at least a -5 for such a terrible movie. The acting is completely and extremely lame. The soldiers look like they have never seen and/or touched a gun before, and it scares me. Think about it, those guys are the people who are supposed to protect our country and they can't even shoot straight. My 5 year old cousin can even shoot better that (with a toy gun of course.) It makes me wonder why the hell I wasted 2 hour to watch this stupid movie. I guess I've lost some IQ after watching it.