movie reviews

[ex_thecosmic790]

don't be an idiot -- don't read this if you want no spoilers. i'm certainly not going to ruin the ending or anything, but something might slip. believe it or not, i have watched all of these movies in the past week. i kind of want to run them down here, for my own sake, and for recommendations. feel free to call me out on anything mentioned in the

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[robotsinspace]

To respond to your tidbit about Memoirs, with this particular movie set in this particular time period with those two particular cultures, it would be like making a movie about WWI with French actors playing Germans. Everybody in the west would be all up in that, being like, "what? That doesn't make any sense." It's not necessarily the ultimate sin in Memoirs, but ultimately frustrating. There are plenty of beautiful, talented Japanese actresses who could've played the parts and who WOULDN'T have had to go to "Geisha school" for the film, but I guess they just weren't big enough names.

I mean, I have no right to speak badly of the film as a whole because I haven't seen it, but I'm afraid to see it because it will very likely make me angry. I also have heard nothing but bad things about the book from anyone and everyone in the Japanese department at Pomona, so I've been wary from the beginning. I really should just sit down and watch it to get it over with (at the very least I can enjoy the visuals), but the fear of blatant Orientalism keeps me away.

/blabbering