What movies have you seen recently?

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Yesterday, I saw the 21 Jump Street movie again.

It's funnier the second time.

Watched this last night. I'll admit I was surprised that I liked it, I didn't expect I would.

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Part of 'All About The Benjamins' with Ice Cube. And part of Child's Play.

The Kids Are All Right - Overall I liked this movie, even though the humor didn't resonate with me and the relationship troubles between Nic and Jules made me very sad. But you can tell that both characters still love each other at the end, and that's what I like about it. I think that what I learned from this movie is that relationships are very hard whether that relationship is with someone of the same sex or not. Plus everyone was really good at acting in this movie. I liked Mia Wasikowska's character, Joni, a lot. She reminds me of one of my imaginary friends.

Miami Vice (2006)

This is not Miami Vice. This is Heat 2. Anyone expecting it to be anything like the TV show will be disappointed. But if you're like me and you love Heat (along with other Michael Mann crime movies like Thief, Manhunter, Collateral, and Public Enemies), you probably won't care much. It's too long, too overly serious, and I have my nitpicks with the cast (I can think of at least five actors who would have been better for Colin Farrell's part), but those are the only bad things I can say about it. Mann does crime like nobody else, and I hope he makes ten more in his style.

Sherlock Holmes
The help
Money ball
August rush
Etcetera....

The Hunger Games.

Hmmm.

I have seen the film The Great Magician, starring Tony Leung and directed by Derek Yee. It's set in early 20th century China after the fall of the Last Emperor, and it's about a master illusionist, Chang Hsien who travels around with his team of circus performers, but also opposes the generals of the Chinese army who try to turn the disarray in the country to their own advantage, especially the top army commander Daniu. Meanwhile, one of General Daniu's henchmen is conspiring to restore the Qing Dynasty. Among all this strife and intrigue, there's also Liu Yin, Daniu's seventh wife in his harem, who is actually Chang Hsien's long lost girlfriend.

I thought it was a pretty cool movie. It featured plenty of nice special effects, some good action scenes, a healthy dose of humour, and an unconventional take on the romantic triangle.

So I'd give it an 8 out of 10. This was the first movie I've seen in the Cinemasia Film Festival, which kicked off in Amsterdam today. I'm going for three more movies tomorrow.

I just came back from my second day of Cinemasia, and this time I saw three movies:

- Anak-anak Srikandi ('Children of Srikandi'), from Indonesia, is a documentary consisting of several short segments revolving around young lesbian girls in the city of Jakarta. Each girl has her own story to tell about coming to terms with their identity in a society that doesn't openly accept homosexuality- they face opposition from fundamentalist religious groups, as well as the risk of being rejected by their family once they come out. The segments are interwoven by the performance of two transsexual wayang-puppeteers, who deliver the story of the mythological figure Srikandi, who was born as a woman but reincarnates into a man.

- The second movie was The Frontline ('Gojijeon' in Korean), a South-Korean film directed by Jang Hun, and starring Shin Ha-kyun and Go Soo. It takes place in 1953, in the final days of the Korean War before the armistice between north and south. The border between North and South Korea has been all but defined; the final disputed area of interest is the Aerok Hill lying in the centre of the border. Lt. Kang Eun-pyo of the South Korean forces is sent to back up a regiment headed by his old friend and comrade Lt. Kim Soo-Hyeok, once a naive private, but now a battle-hardened veteran. Among the South Koreans are also Nam Sungsik, a 17-year-old rookie with a beautiful singing voice, Yang, a veteran from the war against the Japanese, and Captain Shin, an emotionless soldier who battles his physical pains by taking copious amounts of morphine. The North Koreans army's trump card is a deadly sniper known by the nickname 'Two Seconds'; whose steadyaim has taken many lives already from Kim's team.
Key to the story is the function of the Aerok hill as a short-term message capsule storage; as both the North and the South manage to control the hill for a short time before the other side takes over, each battallion leaves notes and gifts for the other side to be dug up after reconquering the hill.
I thought this was quite a powerful war movie. It displays the madness of wartime and the pointlessness of it quite adequately. At first I was afraid the supporting cast of characters wasn't engaging me enough, beside the two main characters of Lt.'s Kang and Kim, who were both played well, especially Go Soo as Kim Soo-Hyeok. Toward the end, I felt more and more involved with the fate of these soldiers.

-The third and final movie tonight was Lovely Man, another Indonesian film, directed by Teddy Soeriaatmadja, and starring Donny Damara and Raihaanun. It's a short story about Cahaya, a pious girl, who seeks out her father Ipuy in the center of the capital city Jakarta only to find that he's a transsexual street hooker. While Ipuy is initially not too pleased to see Cahaya, he is unable to shake her off, and decides to take her with him for a night in the streets of Jakarta, where they grow a bit closer to each other.
I thought this was a great film as well, good performance by both Raihaanun and Damara.