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Fury (2014)
War is ugly and disgusting
I would have given this movie a 10-star rating if not for the last 30 minutes. The first 90 minutes perfectly showed how every war is ugly and disgusting. The Americans, although on the side of the justice and righteousness, were equally ugly and disgusting on the battlefield. Unfortunately, the last 30 minutes of the movie tried to turn it into a heroic story, which was not in accordance with the first 90 minutes and became a political propaganda of USA.
Chun jie xin ling: Zhu meng yan yi quan (2015)
Awkwardly amateur and terrible
I regretted every minute I spent on watching this movie. Usually for any bad movies, I can find some sort of merits. Not with this one: even an amateur with no experience of filming would do better than this one.
First, awkward plot. I don't need to give a spoiler alert because there is nothing to spoil. The tag line would summarize the entire plot: a group of students from a Chinese film school tried hard to get into Chinese showbiz. The end. Yes, you read it correct. That's it. Every student had his/her own little story but the stories were either redundant or boring.
Second, amateur performance. The director is also the main character in the movie. The rest are real students from film schools. Even the director himself could only do superficial performing that loses audience every moment. What more could you expect from the rest?
Third, poor editing. Because the plot is highly fragmented, all pieces were connected by the director's monologues behind the scene. But he's also the main character. And there are many awkward scenes that feature the director but with his voice behind the scene. It makes the scene more like an animated Powerpoint, rather than a movie.
Fourth, terrible music. The theme song was composed and lyricised by the director himself, who has no music background at all and doesn't even know how to use music staff. Yet he had the guts to write the theme song for the movie. I could bear to finish the song and could only use one word to describe it: Uck!