600 - We Fight for China (2/7/22)
Added 2022-02-08 03:52:49 +0000 UTCWe ring in our 600th episode by taking our movie reviews international. We watched Wolf Warrior (2015) and Wolf Warrior II (2017), two entries in the emerging genre of Chinese action blockbusters. What can these films tell us about the new Chinese century? Does belt and road translate to the cinema? Can Xi thought defeat the neoliberlized menace of CGI blood and lead to the return of true action filmmaking? Is it based to get silly with your homies? All these answers and more await you.
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Comments
That was the coolest movie ever made, I now Fight For China
Madison Watson
2022-02-12 03:00:07 +0000 UTCPatriots, Traitors and Empires by Stephen Gowans is excellent and will give you a lot to think about regarding propaganda against the DPRK
bwen
2022-02-11 16:40:37 +0000 UTC"Heck tar rays" Ah yes, I too was home scowled.
Valerie
2022-02-11 14:01:19 +0000 UTCI liked Max Hasting’s book. Might want to try that one
Jim McKenna
2022-02-11 09:04:02 +0000 UTCOh hell yeah
Elliot Matheny
2022-02-11 06:14:48 +0000 UTCseason 3 of Blowback is gonna cover it so just give it a couple months
etienne
2022-02-11 01:15:12 +0000 UTCDumb dumbs. Hell or High Water.
Des Mosome
2022-02-11 01:03:36 +0000 UTCAnyone have a well sourced history text on the Korean War? I’m can’t get behind supporting North Korea in any way.
Stefan Catinella
2022-02-10 21:52:26 +0000 UTCOklahoma is a pure void of nothingness that exists between the great plains, south and midwest. It is not.
EvilCorgi
2022-02-10 12:46:17 +0000 UTCF the Chinese army
2022-02-10 09:49:29 +0000 UTCyou guys might be interested in The Taking of Tiger Mountain (2014), it's sort of Tsui Hark's Guns of Navarone
ALR
2022-02-10 04:56:11 +0000 UTCThat crooked ass patch would never fly in the US ARMY!!!
Evan
2022-02-10 04:46:13 +0000 UTCI've got a Charlotte ticket to sell. Inquire within.
myxomop
2022-02-10 02:40:43 +0000 UTCi just had an out of body experience earlier realizing that one of Felix's now deleted alts is the author of the original shoes look like a fam tweet and also that he went on Reply All as Carl Diggler. Im so, so old
etienne
2022-02-10 02:00:38 +0000 UTCIf you don't tour through both Tulsa AND El Paso, you should fuck your own SHIT!
The Children of Jack Acid
2022-02-10 00:42:05 +0000 UTCThe Battle at Lake Changjin seems to have Waterloo and War and Peace levels of extras and action in-camera. As well as squibs. Very happy that it’s as successful as it is for those reasons, very excited to watch it. Also what the fuck was that high pitched noise happening mostly when Felix was talking? Am I being brainwashed?
Evan C.
2022-02-09 14:50:29 +0000 UTC
