@avclub-de4a08d644135b09bd7e1a592dff156b:disqus  Where's your sense of twee merriment?   What on earth is overly precious about "gezellheized" performances featuring speakers outfitted to look like old timey Victrola ho….*barfs treacle and pixie dust all over monitor before completing thought*

This is a Christian house, boy. Ain't no hippity hop language in here!

This is a Christian house, boy. Ain't no hippity hop language in here!

It's not their fault.  They had to.  Because Kubrick. 

It's not their fault.  They had to.  Because Kubrick. 

@Professor_Cuntburglar:disqus I agree with you in disagreeing with Renaton.  Yes, it's corny but Liam Neeson sells it dammit.

@Professor_Cuntburglar:disqus I agree with you in disagreeing with Renaton.  Yes, it's corny but Liam Neeson sells it dammit.

Right…because as the AMERICAN EMPIRE crumbles Australia, a giant landmass of 10 million humans and a billion poisonous frogs  set adrift at the ass end of Asia is in a position to laugh.

Right…because as the AMERICAN EMPIRE crumbles Australia, a giant landmass of 10 million humans and a billion poisonous frogs  set adrift at the ass end of Asia is in a position to laugh.

It is as manipulative and "in the pocket of the Chinese Communist Party" as all of Zhang Yimou's latter day flicks unfortunately are.  That said, if the scene in Not One Less where the girl teacher breaks down crying at the TV station does not make you weep like a baby then you have no soul.

It is as manipulative and "in the pocket of the Chinese Communist Party" as all of Zhang Yimou's latter day flicks unfortunately are.  That said, if the scene in Not One Less where the girl teacher breaks down crying at the TV station does not make you weep like a baby then you have no soul.

YES.  The very pinnacle of Jet Li's career and maybe the greatest Kung-fu movie ever made ever.

YES.  The very pinnacle of Jet Li's career and maybe the greatest Kung-fu movie ever made ever.

Yeah, but Khondji's cinematography is always breathtaking and often put to the service of crap films (see also Alien: Resurrection, Stealing Beauty, To Rome With Love, etc.).

Yeah, but Khondji's cinematography is always breathtaking and often put to the service of crap films (see also Alien: Resurrection, Stealing Beauty, To Rome With Love, etc.).

Yi Yi is damned near perfect.  I'm still sad that Edward Yang is too dead to ever film a follow-up.

Yi Yi is damned near perfect.  I'm still sad that Edward Yang is too dead to ever film a follow-up.

Amy…Amy…good monkey…good monkey…

Delgo.

Delgo.