Beasts of No Nation
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Yea gotta disagree on Marco Polo since I personally enjoyed it, but will echo the other responses here that Bloodline is a great series.
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The tell me more about your culture aspect of Marco Polo was a bit heavy handed but overall I enjoyed the show.
Sense 8 has an interesting concept but god damn is it slow to get in gear (people are surprised to see thru others eyes for the entire season) and the gay/trans thing was coated so thick it's barely tolerable after a while.
Sense 8 has an interesting concept but god damn is it slow to get in gear (people are surprised to see thru others eyes for the entire season) and the gay/trans thing was coated so thick it's barely tolerable after a while.
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I liked Marco Polo, but I can see why others wouldn't. Had some pretty campy Kung Fu movie aspects, but I love Kung Fu movies..so meh. But overall acting was really good, sets were amazing, and when the story didn't roll off into Kung Fu, when it was mainly historical drama about Kublai Khan? Show was fantastic...Kublai was definitely the highlight of the show, fuck Marco Polo himself.
Marco Polo is essentially Crouching Tiger meets Rome. It works for me because I like, as said, the whole Kung Fu theme some of it had. But yes, that shit is serious camp, you need to have an acquired taste for it.
Marco Polo is essentially Crouching Tiger meets Rome. It works for me because I like, as said, the whole Kung Fu theme some of it had. But yes, that shit is serious camp, you need to have an acquired taste for it.
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I can't think of a last time I physically cringe at a movie scene
But dat first kill scene with the machetes.
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Great acting, really gritty and disturbing story, Idris Elba. Only problem I have with this movie is it didn't seem to want to tell a complete story. It ends very abruptly and there was very little meaningful character development outside of Agu.
All the soldiers just leave the commandant alone in the jungle, get taken in by the UN, and then Agu finally goes into the ocean to let us know he might be able to become a kid again. Left me feeling like "That's it?"
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Agu's arc is that, the death of his family and forced service with stringer, left him marked in his mind, and the final conversation illustrates that. there is no moral to the story or point. which is entirely the point of the movie and book its based on.
also this is entirely agu's narrated pov story. the other characters don't require or have arcs.
also this is entirely agu's narrated pov story. the other characters don't require or have arcs.
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That would have made it way worse. No.
The movie was filled with tension and straight up evil behavior and then... "Peace we're out". That scene where they all leave the commandant wasn't very tense at all which felt a little jarring considering the previous content.