JemyM
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Resident Evil: Degeneration
Fan-service mostly. Although I happen to be a fan since I finished the entire series 1-2 years ago.
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Resident Evil: Degeneration
Most Asian most likely never noticed the things you mentioned such as the overacting. I am not very sure about the reason but these could be related to cultural characteristic of Asian movie-making, ways of carrying a character by actor/actress and expectation of audience.
Before i exposed to Hollywood stuff almost two decades ago i thought those movies were awesome. Issues of over-dramatic, excessive amount of deus ex machina used by filmmaker, or the over-acting hardly ever noticed. Everyone actually expecting those elements and liked them. Many movies and TV series in Hong kong and Taiwan follow very formulaic plot-structure, story-telling and pretty same movie-acting style. I noticed Japanese movies and TV series contain over-acting element as well as in on-stage traditional performance.
But now, i'm accustomed to realism and natural performance as in many western movies. Many of those old classics you mentioned and new movies just doesn't suit my taste anymore. However i also found considerable amount of Chinese/Japanese movies that don't have those elements, mostly serious art house movies. E.g see the earlier films by Zhang Yimou "Ju dou", "raise the red latern", "Red Sorghum", "To Live", "The Road Home", etc; plus films by Ang Lee and couple others from mainland China and Taiwan.
They showed some old movie posters and the titles of those shows were beyond burlesque (although it wouldn't register with kids). Given the time period, stag film stars probably would be more appropriate.i the book, which i finished a few days ago, they were just aged stage actors who possiblely could have been burlesque but i surely didn't garner that from the book. did they actually say porn stars in the movie...that's strange?
It's very comparable to "Nightmare Before Christmas" with less blood-n-guts. The twinkies are 8.5 and dealt fine, so your son should be good to go, IMO. I think some of the darkest stuff is "nuanced" in the dialogue to the point where only adults take the full impact.dte - how is the scare / darkness factor? My younger son wants to see it on his birthday, but is a bit concerned. He gets creeped out fairly easily even though he's turning 11.
Terminator Salvation Trailer. Looks sweet. Can't wait to see it. I love the greyish and gritty feel of the movie.