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600 - We Fight for China (2/7/22)
🕑 Added 2022-02-08 03:52:49 +0000 UTCWe ring in our 600th episode by taking our movie reviews international. We watched Wolf Warrior (2015) and Wolf Warrior II (2017), two entries in the emerging genre of Chinese action blockbusters. What can these films tell us about the new Chinese century? Does belt and road translate to the cinema? Can Xi thought defeat the neoliberlized menace of CGI blood and lead to the return of true action filmmaking? Is it based to get silly with your homies? All these answers and more await you.
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Comments
Madison Watson
That was the coolest movie ever made, I now Fight For China
bwen
Patriots, Traitors and Empires by Stephen Gowans is excellent and will give you a lot to think about regarding propaganda against the DPRK
Valerie
"Heck tar rays" Ah yes, I too was home scowled.
Jim McKenna
I liked Max Hasting’s book. Might want to try that one
Elliot Matheny
Oh hell yeah
etienne
season 3 of Blowback is gonna cover it so just give it a couple months
Des Mosome
Dumb dumbs. Hell or High Water.
Stefan Catinella
Anyone have a well sourced history text on the Korean War? I’m can’t get behind supporting North Korea in any way.
EvilCorgi
Oklahoma is a pure void of nothingness that exists between the great plains, south and midwest. It is not.
F the Chinese army
ALR
you guys might be interested in The Taking of Tiger Mountain (2014), it's sort of Tsui Hark's Guns of Navarone
Evan
That crooked ass patch would never fly in the US ARMY!!!
myxomop
I've got a Charlotte ticket to sell. Inquire within.
etienne
i just had an out of body experience earlier realizing that one of Felix's now deleted alts is the author of the original shoes look like a fam tweet and also that he went on Reply All as Carl Diggler. Im so, so old
The Children of Jack Acid
If you don't tour through both Tulsa AND El Paso, you should fuck your own SHIT!
Evan C.
The Battle at Lake Changjin seems to have Waterloo and War and Peace levels of extras and action in-camera. As well as squibs. Very happy that it’s as successful as it is for those reasons, very excited to watch it. Also what the fuck was that high pitched noise happening mostly when Felix was talking? Am I being brainwashed?
