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May 2, 2026 # Movie: Animal Farm
Watched the movie Animal Farm, and was a little bit disappointed. The disappointment mainly came from my liking for the George Orwell novel Animal Farm on which this movie is based. The novel, though bears a similarity to a children's fairy tale, was not written for children, nor was it meant to be childish. This movie adaptation, however, casted it into the form of a very typical children's cartoon. I'm OK with the introduction of some modern elements, such as drones, but the fabricated ending, the all-bad-guys-eliminated (in a laughably easy way) and the world-falls-into-good-guys'-capable-hands ending, is so typical in children's cartoons, and so typically childish, that it spoiled the reservedness of the novel, and turned an insightful warning into a stereotyped preaching.
May 3, 2026 # Movie: The Devil Wears Prada 2
Watched the movie The Devil Wears Prada 2. Upon passing by the below scene near Union Square on the way to the theater (with a long line of people, not shown in this photo, that I suppose were waiting for turns to take photos with it), I realized that this movie must be popular. Surely enough, it was confirmed by the fact that the theater capitalized on the popularity of the movie by adding five more minutes of advertisement before it. It is an enjoyable movie, comedy in nature, full of humor and sarcasm, and yet well-mingled with sincerity.
May 9, 2026 # Movie: The Sheep Detectives
Watched The Sheep Detectives, an admirably creative movie "starred" by a group of "bilingual" (human language + sheep language) sheep. It is not only pleasantly amusing, but also wittily philosophical, all thanks to its unique angle from sheep's point of view. I particularly liked the sheep's comments on the human God, which reminded me of the below cartoon that I saw many years ago (and which impressed me a lot) that pictured a cockroaches' version of God, which is as self-centered as the human version and thus, I'm sorry to say, is no sillier than the latter.
May 17, 2026 # Movie: The Sheep Detectives
A "homebrew" music performance today in a nicely shaded outdoor area at the Sands Point Preserve, a seashore park that I last visited during the pandemic. To those who have read Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby (or watched the corresponding movie), this park is on a peninsula known as the "East Egg" in Fitzgerald's novel.
May 22, 2026 # Movie: The Mandalorian and Grogu
Watched the movie The Mandalorian and Grogu. As a half-hardcore Star Wars fan (literally half, since I'm a big fan of episodes I-III, somewhat OK with IV-VI, but more or less pissed off by VII-IX), a movie with a baby Yoda is certainly worth watching. The result? Generally OK. I'm especially amused to see that the immovably heavy Hutts can actually fight physically (against a few physical and biological laws though). My complaints are: The baby Yoda and his miniature Anzellan friends are made too cartoonish for a non-cartoon movie, and the plot armor is too extreme even measured by the bar as ridiculously low as was set by episodes VII-IX.
May 29, 2026 # Movie: Pressure
Watched the movie Pressure. It's about meteorologists racing to provide a weather forecast for the largest seaborne invasion in history: D-Day. The "pressure" that so strongly presses on both the meteorologists and the generals, and subtly drives the exceptionally turbulent weather, is presented in a very colorful and impressive way, and truly deserved to be the title of the movie. A very nice WWII movie, and I enjoyed it a lot.
PS: It seems my English posts are becoming more and more predominantly movie reviews, but there is nothing much I can do since pretty much everything else is covered by my non-English writings. :-)
June 5, 2026 # Movie: Backrooms
Watched Backrooms, a "science fiction psychological horror" movie (the "science fiction" part is largely a mislabel). I'm not a fan of horror movies, much less psychological horror movies, but was seduced by the preview that leaned towards mystery rather than the psychological and horror aspects. Didn't like it, for the same general reason that I don't like psychological horror movies: the lack of even the minimal explanation and logic (in this movie, for instance, why would Clark, who had just found the backrooms in panic and shocked by losing two employees there, suddenly become so used to and familiar with the place?).
Watched the movie Tuner. The main idea of the movie, that an extraordinary hearing capability was used in safe-breaking, is not new, and I have watched something similar many years ago. But there is plenty of space to make interesting movies with similar ideas, and I'm glad to say that this one, both the idea and the movie, in my opinion, fall into this category, and I enjoyed it. I also particularly liked the ending of the movie, in which Niki, after his hyperacusis condition that had long prevented him from playing piano was accidentally neutralized by his injury, had a masterful piano performance that moved his on-the-verge-of-breaking-up girlfriend Ruthie into tears. It is an ending better than having Niki and Ruthie explicitly break up or explicitly reconcile, though it is doubtful that someone, however talented he might be in the past, can play piano at a professionally great level after so many years without proper hearing, let alone practicing.
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