wongrie Reviews

The Creator (2023)

I'm sooooooo mad

[2/10 · 5 March 2024]

In the film, American troops can enter Vietnam like walk in their own home, but the story does not explain why they are allowed to do so. Are the entities of Asian countries all gone?

Asian countries chose to coexist with artificial intelligence, but their technology did not grow. Instead, Western countries abandoned the use of AI, and they built a battlestar which can launch missiles all over the world? And the movie can't even tell there are how many NOMADs in the world. When it finally falls from the sky I can't tell if it's in Los Angeles or Japan.

There are too many such bugs in the story. They make me so angry that I can't even finish the movie.

Hollywood Studios should stop putting money on this Director who writes garbage story and have no sense of politics and science-fiction at all. I'm mad because the budget for sci-fi movie is Becoming less and less every year. And they put limited money on this Garbage project for what?

Legend of the Demon Cat (2017)

Not just having beautiful shots, this film tells a profound story

[9/10 · 4 January 2018]

Chen Kaige's best film since 21th century. As the biggest Chinese-Japanese co-production film ever, Yao Mao Zhuan is very different from the Hollywood cliches. I can feel the flow between each shot, just like traditional Chinese ink-wash painting. And the story structure is very interesting. It splits into two parts, these two parts are like mirrors, you can find same symbols, characters and plots in both sides. And all those things come together, make the magnificent Tang Dynasty comes alive. However, Chen Kaige is not satisfied in telling the greatness of Tang, but also the dark side, the politics and humanity.