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Tokyo Taxi - of course when you have two amazing actors on screen things are very nicely done esp with their little gestures. Taxi drive was given a ride with an older lady. He was subbing for a friend so he had no idea it was such a long drive. Vaguely 60-100 km from Tokyo to Kanagawa (esp they had to go from teh woman's house to Kanagawa.
Truly a smooth 1.5 hr movie - a bit of flashbacks of the lady (80+) which was during and about the war. The flashbacks are legit, solid, actual issues and despite it was told by an old woman in a taxi, you feel for her in the stories.
Something about the movie just makes it so easy to watch, heart warming and you want to follow the character. Everyone can guess the ending, you KNOW it's coming so I can't spoil it but despite that, you jsut dn't want the movie to end.
Movie was filmed with green screen backgrounds of them in the taxi which is like duhhh... one give away was there ai'nt too much shadows from the sun which i guess AI / green screen can never give you.
Jacky Chan's newest movie.
过家家 | Unexpected Family - NOT a single kung fu move by Jacky Chan. He can barely run in the movie. It's truly a movie 100% about Alzheimer's Disease .
He is a father who has a son who has been training for 1995 weight lifting. That's the back story - he lives in his own place and has 3 friends, older female neighbor, friend who's a car wash owner and a girl that keeps sending / giving him herbal medicine. That's pretty much his environment.
Now in comes a kid who is a run away seeing "wages + free food and accommodations" and appears and the 'free' accommodations is at Jacky Chan's residence.
The kid now has to act as Jacky chan's son as his Alzheimer's Disease is acting up. Yes there are a bit of a gong show given so many loop holes - how does one just take care of someone, doesn't anyone work? etc.
Regardless, as the movie progresses, its gets worse and you can watch the end. There are a lot of emotional baggage at the end, it goes against China's mentality "i'm going to get my son to be a lawyer / doctor or else you're a disgrace etc". it was good to see the that being played out and the final scenes were just onions cutting everywhere.
A few of the supporting cast were super solid and helped the movie a bit.
It's a tear jerker movie to watch cause it hits home for many.
what a crappy movie. Marty Supreme had huge raves because of the acting and it was good. Timothée Chalamet did a great job, the portrayal must have been fun to play given the goody two-shoes role in Dune, this was a stretch role and you get to be an ass.
Now, what was crap was the story. Yes it's LOOSELY based on a character on Marty Reisman who was also a ping pong player. I'm a huge fan of ping pong so it was great to see them play, what I did not enjoy were two things - was this a movie about sports or about drama. You need to have a clear line between the two. Now, if it was sports related, it did ok. If this was drama of a life of a person, why would you want to write up a douchebag. Having stories about this life being a low life all the way just wasn't my thing. I just didn't like someone / movie playing a bad ass with a no consequence ending. Then we got Gwyneth Paltrow who played well along with Kevin O'Leary (husband and wife). The story line of how the three .. not so much.
Timothée Chalamet could have won many trophies - I kept having to remind myself it was him - Regarding his nomination, he was going to win UNTIL he made a comment on "no one cares about ballet or opera" which got him some huge bashing and most likely costed him.
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