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Evaluation of the new movie 'Joy Ride'
Summary: A crude, uninteresting, and biased movie.
The entire movie is full of these "ABC" rough, vague, and reckless speculations about China. After watching this movie set in China (which was not actually filmed in China), you will find that the entire movie is belittling China and praising South Korea.
In the movie, China is portrayed as a eerie place filled with weirdos. As the story progresses, after the female protagonist discovers her Korean ancestry, South Korea becomes a comfortable and warm "normal world" for the protagonists.
I am not a person who cares about Political correctness. I do not hesitate to say that the Asian American female characters in the film have disgusting fat faces. The movie is full of vulgar jokes about sex and drugs , is this the way Americans promote their own values? These Asian Americans are truly beyond sympathy, and I hope they don't get involved with us.
Watching a group of people who are only similar in appearance but have no cultural connection to express China is really a torture for me.
Summary: A crude, uninteresting, and biased movie.
The entire movie is full of these "ABC" rough, vague, and reckless speculations about China. After watching this movie set in China (which was not actually filmed in China), you will find that the entire movie is belittling China and praising South Korea.
In the movie, China is portrayed as a eerie place filled with weirdos. As the story progresses, after the female protagonist discovers her Korean ancestry, South Korea becomes a comfortable and warm "normal world" for the protagonists.
I am not a person who cares about Political correctness. I do not hesitate to say that the Asian American female characters in the film have disgusting fat faces. The movie is full of vulgar jokes about sex and drugs , is this the way Americans promote their own values? These Asian Americans are truly beyond sympathy, and I hope they don't get involved with us.
Watching a group of people who are only similar in appearance but have no cultural connection to express China is really a torture for me.
So I just watched Oppenheimer in Imax and here are my thoughts. It's mostly going to be criticisms since shortcoming are easier to point out but by no means do I say this is a bad movie.
Oppenheimer is in my opinion a movie more made for movie critics than the average movie goer. It's a historical biopic which movie critic LOVE. But truth be told, alot of the events portrayed aren't actually terribly exciting and had to be carried by unusually epic music which signals to the audience how important it is.
Christopher Nolans recommend to watch all his movies in 70mm Imax, truth be told, it is completely unnecessary with this one, 95% of the movie is just people talking to one another in unremarkable settings, with the backgrounds blurred so you not allowed to look away. It is not a movie about visuals or spectacles, there's not much point.
Despite the memes about Oppenheimer being a movie for nerds, people who aren't socially acute might actually the greatest issue following the movie. The story aren't told in a linear or chronological fashion, it's fragmented with multiple plot-lines that's constantly switched between. And (alot) characters are being introduced constantly, without much of an introduction, alot of time a character show up, immediately disappear and show up an hour later briefly and then disappears again permanently. Almost all characters other than Oppenheimer and his wife are some variation of this.
It is definitely one of those movies already knowing the characters/content/plot inside out before you watch would improve your enjoyment. When you see a scientist character you would actually remember him and go "that's him!", instead of flying past your head and immediately forgotten about.
Oppenheimer is in my opinion a movie more made for movie critics than the average movie goer. It's a historical biopic which movie critic LOVE. But truth be told, alot of the events portrayed aren't actually terribly exciting and had to be carried by unusually epic music which signals to the audience how important it is.
Christopher Nolans recommend to watch all his movies in 70mm Imax, truth be told, it is completely unnecessary with this one, 95% of the movie is just people talking to one another in unremarkable settings, with the backgrounds blurred so you not allowed to look away. It is not a movie about visuals or spectacles, there's not much point.
Despite the memes about Oppenheimer being a movie for nerds, people who aren't socially acute might actually the greatest issue following the movie. The story aren't told in a linear or chronological fashion, it's fragmented with multiple plot-lines that's constantly switched between. And (alot) characters are being introduced constantly, without much of an introduction, alot of time a character show up, immediately disappear and show up an hour later briefly and then disappears again permanently. Almost all characters other than Oppenheimer and his wife are some variation of this.
It is definitely one of those movies already knowing the characters/content/plot inside out before you watch would improve your enjoyment. When you see a scientist character you would actually remember him and go "that's him!", instead of flying past your head and immediately forgotten about.
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There are some genuinely great Asian American movies and tv shows nowadays, but many Asian Americans have this mindset that simply breaking stereotypes takes the place of three dimensional characters and plot development. Ie. good writing=have a bunch of Asians swearing, doing drugs, partying up, and acting like assholes to give whites a real shock to the senses. Well it doesn't and that's why I've avoided that movie, eventhough most of my Asian American friends are raving about it.
And what do you know, the aforementioned formula didn't do shit. Made for 32 million dollars and only netting 14 million at the box office. Even a movie that played it 100% safe like The Farewell grossed way more money because the writing was solid.
The star actress is Korean American too.
They should've just made the movie about South Korea.
Just to comment a little more on Oppenheimer, the opening of the movie is fairly strong, the plot moves fast enough initially to introduce new information and intrigue to make things interesting, the part where Oppie mentally wrestle with the consequences with his creation and the Trinity detonation preceding it would be the best part of the movie.
However, the plot where Admiral Strauss get into a personal feud with Oppenheimer because of minor perceived slights is really not that interesting, it's practically going in circles and that thing feels like half of the movie.
Basically I feel the great parts of this movie is too diluted by the angsty people being mildly upset plotline.
However, the plot where Admiral Strauss get into a personal feud with Oppenheimer because of minor perceived slights is really not that interesting, it's practically going in circles and that thing feels like half of the movie.
Basically I feel the great parts of this movie is too diluted by the angsty people being mildly upset plotline.
Basically Asians acting like whites
