The first story wasn't that great honestly. It was probably the worst of the three in this series. Wasn't much to it and more gross than anything.
The second story felt like Jeepers Creepers minus eating people but I loved the ending to it. Lol That was justice.
I probably liked the last one more even though it broke my heart. See, this is why I can never have a robot. I would feel so bad if anything happened to it because I would see it as human, lmbo.
Sorry this review is kinda shitty, there wasn't much I actually liked about this series and I had to have it all set to x2.0 just to get through it because the pace was so slow, I felt like it was dragging.
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Beautifully Short & Worth Watching
This is only 37 minutes so I didn't have high hopes when I watched it because I'm used to a movie that's around two hours in length. But this went beyond my expectations...The actors truly did a great job portraying their characters. They were able to infuse such emotion and skill into every ounce of their performances and that's astounding. They've both found a new fan in me.
The production was great, everything was beautiful from the costumes, hair, and makeup to their surroundings.
I will say that story-wise, it was very compact. There was nothing extra--very to the point. But yeah...37 minutes, what else did you expect?
I'm glad I watched it. ^_^
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A gift for ONE OK ROCK fans
First and foremost, I want to say that I am a MASSIVE fan of ONE OK ROCK and have been since discovering them with the song "Clock Strikes" in 2015, while watching the South Korean variety show "We Got Married Global".Since 2015, I have seen them live a total of three times, where most fans, especially international fans like me are lucky to have been able to see them perform live at a concert once.
That being said, when the pandemic hit and artists were forced off tours indefinitely, all of a sudden, OOR announced on their social media pages that they would be holding a live stream concert. I had wanted to see them, but tickets were roughly $50USD. Being so expensive, I opted out, but seeing the announcement of the documentary, I got super excited.
While watching, we got behind the scenes content of not only just how they prepared for the concert, but never before heard background stories of the band, the members, and how each ended up joining. I loved seeing Tomoya and his lovely baby boys, and my belated congratulations on a third child, as well as Taka seeing his father, making a surprise visit to his family home.
We saw the band struggle as they rehearsed and goofed off. We also saw a new side of Taka. My impression of him is that he is a big jokester, but here, he was serious and professional, and his commentaries and critique to staff seemed somewhat brutal - especially after hiring an AR team for the concert, only to forgo the entire idea due to none of the graphics not matching what he wanted in the end - which makes him seem hard to work with. Essentially, we saw a perfectionist Taka, which I still think was great to see.
The documentary also mentioned how Toru ended up testing positive for COVID-19, months prior to the concert, but it was briefly even mentioned, as Toru only retells how he felt sick one night, called up Tomoya and went to the hospital. His only other comments about the event was that he would like to never go back there. I personally wohld have liked to hear a little bit more, since it was dramatized for the trailer, but, I get it since being that sick must have been traumatizing.
I personally also would have loved to see more about Ryota and his life behind the scenes, but his screen time seemed to be limited to interview shots and B-footage.
As for the concert parts itself, they were really great to see, as again, for someone like me who didn't pay $50USD for tickets to see the event, even snippets of the end results of the concert. The edited comparisons versus actual concert night and rehearsal was a nice touch. Seeing the performances reminded me how great OOR is live in person and makes me hope that they will perform on tour again.
My heart absolutely broke at the end when Taka started crying, which resulted in everyone, from the other band members, to crew breaking out in tears. It showed the stress of how hard they worked and the time and effort they gave up for this once in a lifetime livestreaming concert was absolutely worth it in the end.
This documentary really is such a nice gift for OOR fans, especially for those who could not afford to buy tickets for it. If you are not a fan of the band, I highly recommend watching the documentary and checking out all of their stuff. The band members are passionate about what they do, and you can see that not just while they are performing on stage, but while rehearsing in the studio and the way they talk about their jobs. They are a band that has been around since 2005 and still together to this day because of how passionate they are about music and what they do and who choose to continue to be ONE OK ROCK.
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I'm so confused. I actually have no idea how to review this movie because ... no thoughts. Just confusion.
I feel like this movie was supposed to be a part of a series and I missed the first 2 movies.
I feel like this movie was put out like a puzzle and it's up to you to put it all together with ZERO picture to go off of.
I feel like this movie was supposed to be in order but during edit, someone got tired and just dropped random moments together.
Had this movie made any sense to me, it would have been a EASY 10. I just have so many questions.
We were given so many characters and little to no background??
I don't know, it feels like a mess.
EDIT!!!!:
I plan on rewatching this ASAP because I found a different version with better(?) subs and hoping that it will shine a bit better light on everything! Because I really want this to make sense. lol
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I feel like these stories were more humorous than scary but I can't even be mad at it.
I think the last one of the elevator game was my favorite though. It was too funny. XD
The second story was okay but confusing, honestly.
The first story just reminds me of every snickers commercial I've ever seen.
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Turtle vs Bat
Gamera vs Gyaos is the third installment in the Showa era for Gamera. It features the two Kaiju, the requisite annoying child, and a Kaiju merry-go-round with a fountain of pink bubbling "blood".After Gyaos emerges from an active volcano, the giant, bloody battles are on! Gyaos is able to split things in half with his laser-like sonic sounds. He can't turn his head and like a vampire, avoids the sun. Gyaos also enjoys eating people when he's not carving up planes and buildings with his beams. Gamera acts as the good guy in this movie battling this fierce opponent. There is a subplot about people wanting to build a road and the "greedy" farmers and villagers who apparently want to be paid well for their land and being displaced.
The humans, with the exception of the annoying child, do a good job in their various roles trying and failing to stop Gyaos. When there's a terror on the loose only a turtle can handle the job!
The rubber suits were not very good. Gyaos was a poor man's attempt at Rodan. Gamera's wires were visible on several occasions. The special effects, even for 1967 were rudimentary at best. Having said that, Gamera's spinning fiery flying was fun to watch.
The one positive I would say about this movie is that the monsters are on screen more often than not and there were several battles. Though with the exception of the blood letting and people falling to their deaths or being eaten and the giant vat of blood used to lure Gyaos into the daylight, this felt like a children's movie. If you can watch it with a child-like fascination it might prove entertaining. I found it unintentionally humorous, but I'm not sure that is a reason to recommend this movie.
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Road trip story with four guys
Overall: Three friends (and one potential hook up) go on a road trip. I'm grading this on a curve as it's from 2008, low budget and addressed a couple important topics. Watched on gagaoolala.Content warnings: homophobia (internal & external), a transphobic comment
What I Liked
- that they addressed the topics of HIV, jobs/poverty and homophobia
- the intro song which is played throughout was fun to listen to
- favorite line "change is the most permanent thing in this world"
Room For Improvement
- it appears that Michael got closure but the way he went about it was bad
- I think they could have cut some scenes out or made them shorter and then developed the characters and their relationships with one another more
- the subs had some errors/I didn't understand a few things
- the night scenes were too dark and it was difficult to see
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Plot is a vehicle for NSFW scenes
Overall: An interesting premise, but it ends up feeling like just a way to show explicit NSFW scenes. Watched on gagaoolala. It's only an hour and 10 minutes so it's not a huge time investment if you like watching steamy scenes.Content warnings: there are very five sexually explicit scenes, 1 dub con
What I Liked
- I liked the sister and wish we could have seen more development of her/their relationship
- the overall premise is interesting, it just needed to be delved into more instead of NSFW scenes
- the color grading, how in the past it was more grey scale. It can be difficult for me to tell when flashbacks happen, but it was very clear in this short(er) movie.
- that ending scene seems pretty unrealistic but I quite liked it
Room For Improvement
- I wish there was more development/explanation of what was happening with the protagonist's romantic relationship. We mostly get ghosting/ignoring and then just a little at the end. There is an apology, but for what? What happened between them?
- odd, why is the protagonist sleeping in the living room of his parents' house - aren't there at least two bedrooms?
- odd, why wouldn't the protagonist push for the name of the movie where he is named after a character? He just drops it, I'd want to know the movie if it were me...
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Mismatched couple who mature...too late!
I personally would like to see kids in Junior/Senior High to watch this in class and talk about it...The cinematography and support actors/actresses did a good job filling in the spaces but not taking focus off of the couple in question.
The movie shows two immature teenagers (Zhou Xiao Qi aka Greg Hsu and You Yong Ci
aka Zhang Ruo Nan)), the male reckless and the female insecure, cross-matched and continually losing each other.
Her requesting him not to fight anymore shows she wanted him to be around for her; and not in and out of her life. He was awestruck with puppy love grew a little more mature when he agreed not to fight anymore (but at the time, he didn't know this!)...
A drunken father finding his wife and her his daughter, forced her and her mother on another move, something that the young girl grew tired of, but I thought it was caring of her to tell him to leave while the crowd watched her clean up the broken glass; she knew in her heart that her stability with another move was threatened. I felt that she was thinking of him at this time.
He gained the impetus to go to college, seeing her photograph on pictures of university life; but alas, she is already dating someone else and another separation ensues when he forces the soccer star to reveal his two-timing promise that he made to two separate women!
Again, as a swimming star, they meet again, and an injury forces him to give up his main goal in life....what is funny, nothing would have happened had he swam the race!
Fast forward to two lovebirds finally living together, with a reality check when his injuries prevent his stardom and large endorsements. I personally think had he not been so worried about his athletic injuries and taken a stable low-paying job, the ending would have been totally different. You Yong Ci unfortunately hears his lamenting about meeting her in a conversation with his friend, which brings back all her insecurities and seeing him as her father who was never there for her. Last separation...
The loss of You Yong Ci and the fact that he had to get a stable job to pay the rent taught him many lessons about his past and gave him the the ability to mature...but too late for reuniting with his former over.
The meeting with You Yong Ci on her wedding day shows how much more mature BOTH parties were.
You Yong Ci laughs when he says he is a master thief, and thanks him for coming to her wedding; both appear to be at ease, even though they broke up a few years ago...she is smiling while they talk.
His statements he made to her shows the maturity he gained having a low-paying but steady job as he had to deal with other kids like him in high school:
"You look wonderful in your wedding dress"
"I used to be a fool...worrying over the future...while wasting the present."
"You're more mature" (what he is saying to me, is that HE is more mature)"
"But today, I want no more regrets"
"But when you called me by my name...then in a fleeting moment...then I was back when I was seventeen."
All these statements - to me - show that he will be ready to have another lasting relationship in the future, but not with You Yong Ci ...I believe that the character of You Yong Ci realizes he finally gained the maturity to have a meaningful relationship..., but not with her.
The supporting actors did a fantastic job as well, and I would recommend this movie, especially to youthful couples...what wasn't said in the movie was that the individual must die as any couple matures.
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This movie is your pretty basic "bad guy turned good" but the storyline itself was new to me... yet... not. It's weird. Like I feel like I've seen it but I don't think I have. Unless I have but just don't remember so I'm just going to say it's new to me. lol
I actually liked the whole reset day thing. Lol That's how you know you really hate someone... when you try to kill them multiple ways. Haha But other than that, the movie wasn't much.
I honestly thought there was no way in hell I would ever like He Zhi Zhou, and I was right. Because even when they helped him to not be a total dick, he was still a dick. When she said he should compliment her, he insulted her then tried to make it better with backhanded compliments. Are you freaking serious? Ugh. It was at that moment I knew I really would never like his character.
I freaking loved Shen Xi and Dou Dou though. Oh my gah lol that friendship is pure goals. I loved that no matter what, they could rely and bounce off of each other. Lol I loved their characters and story together more than anything else, honestly. Dou Dou is the reason you should always listen to your astrology friends!!! lol XD IYKYK
I hated the ending. It didn't make sense to me. At all. Like I want to lay it all out but I don't want to give the ending away but for real... what the hell was that ending? I feel robbed. It was like they didn't know what to do past a certain point so they just said "do anything, we need a ending". and left it at that.
I wanted to rate this higher because I did still enjoy it, but there was just to much going against it that I couldn't rate it anymore.
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For me it was a movie to pass the time, I guess. The love story was cute but There really wasn't much in words of "unique" other than it's probably the first time I've seen a snake demon like that. Lol
I really can't hate on the movie to much but I do with the pace had been better and the back stories had been told on some characters. I don't know why I found it kinda annoying that it was pretty cut and dry "bad guys - bad. Good guys - good" without any reasons as to why? Lol
Glad I got a chance to watch this but wouldn't say I would watch it again.
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This is an amazing movie starring Iwata Takanori and Mackenyu. For me, it's as beautiful in its tragedy as Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning. I'm not going to talk about the plot because the slow unraveling of Makoto's "master plan" is the whole point of the movie, it's really well paced and it's better to go in unspoiled. What I am going to talk about is my heart, in itty bitty pieces...This movie is also known under the title The End of the Tiny World and said tiny world is that of Iwata Takanori's Kida. Like he said to the girl he loved, Yocchi, "My world is really tiny. It's just me and you and Makoto." (Paraphrasing!) And the movie is about how his tiny world ended and he was left with nothing. It's heartbreaking.
And Iwata Takanori is mesmerizing to watch here. Seeing his Kida turn from a small town mechanic into a self-assured negotiator for the mob, to someone who pulls a gun and fires it without blinking, that's a thing to behold.
A truly unforgettable movie. Small, almost intimate yet unforgettable.
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Fresh is Best
The plot of this story is unique to me. Original concept. From introduction of each character they are fully developed with minimal film time. Emotional investment and attachment for Zen starts with Phatchatorn's young Zen and only continues to grow thru the movie. The time and effort, study and research, Yanin puts into this part, gives her complete authenticity and creditability. Body language and manner of verbal iterations are typical autistic behavior. Yanin brings her youth, diminutive size (5ft2in, 90 lb), and the explosive power of her martial arts . The styles of martial arts she portrayed required further research. Tributes to Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan are beautifully choreographed . Yanin's fight scenes display masterful talent, unique attacks, and brutal reality. Prachya Pinkaew is famous for his skill as a director, and with Yanin , he reached new heights. Yanin herself comments on the dangers of the choreography and fight scenes. The cut outs at the end of the movie demonstrate the risks. Coming out of Thailand , this movie is a standout for its inclusiveness of crossdresser/transgender actors. Their parts are seamless and natural, just another character in the scene. The amount of masterful talent of Yanin's physical skills, original concept, directing , choreography, and inclusiveness makes this movie unique, fresh and the best.Was this review helpful to you?
Yanin having fun
Yanin is impressive with her physical skills. The amount of pain and injury she endures in Chocolate and Raging Phoenix is just brutal. This movie is just miles away from the pain. I love the fun that comes out in this movie. Yanin smiles a ton, beautiful to see. She has off beat funny in her. It look's like she just has a blast making this film. This is the perfect film to watch for campy content, with ass kicking, ass kickin from Yanin. Petchtai Wongkamlao is a huge presence. He brings his timely humor into every scene, and at the same time that steadfast experienced persona you see in his other movies.Was this review helpful to you?
