Movies Watched in 2022

• Constantine
  • This movie made me truly quit smoking.
• Surrogates
• Nope
  • Jordan Peele’s classic racial themes plus a lament for Hollywood’s decline.
• Hawkeye
• Jumper
  • The superpower I dreamed of as a child - traveling the world without taking planes would be wonderful.
• Triangle of Sadness
  • When a woman gains power, she also becomes domineering and possessive of attractive men. When humans are in certain positions, they naturally exhibit instinctive behaviors regardless of gender. This is humanity’s tragedy.
• God’s Crooked Lines
  • I pretended to be mentally ill to enter a psychiatric hospital for investigation, but ended up having to prove my sanity. The last ten seconds of the film tell me I am indeed mentally ill.
• Avatar: The Way of Water
  • Colonial countries still love to repent. Can’t help it - audiences love to watch.
• The Yearbook Project
• The Gifted
  • Classic racial themes. Harry Potter has aged too.
• Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
  • A rare film that surpasses its predecessor.
• R.I.P.D.
• Enola Holmes 2
• Decision to Leave
  • Park Chan-wook’s cinematography is poetically beautiful. Tang Wei perfectly portrays that suppressed love. “The best way to destroy a man is to become part of him, then disappear from this world.”
• Remember
  • A qualified product from South Korea’s revenge film assembly line.
• Black Adam
• Confidential Assignment 2: International
• Three Thousand Years of Longing
  • Three thousand years of waiting is actually a woman’s waiting. But sorry, can’t empathize.
• Frequency
  • A sci-fi film from twenty years ago, the father-son relationship is touching.
• Strange Tales
  • Domestic sci-fi film, the third story is terrifying upon reflection.
• A Simple Favor
  • A woman who appears harmless, helpful, and bullied versus one who built her own business and could kill her own sister - the former is more ruthless. Men become playthings in the film.
• Werewolf by Night
• The Hunt
  • Lee Jung-jae’s directorial debut, surprisingly good. Also lamenting that the Chun Doo-hwan era is truly an inexhaustible source of stories for Korean cinema.
• Bullet Train
  • Star-studded action comedy. Incidentally, the director was once Brad Pitt’s stunt double. Also, “Five Hundred Miles” sounds great.
• Top Gun: Maverick
  • American military recruitment propaganda, but it really got my blood pumping. Tom Cruise is still so handsome.
• Thor: Love and Thunder
  • You can tell Marvel’s Phase Four just wants to slack off, but it does serve as a bridge. The cosmic entities “Eternity” and “Living Tribunal” introduced in the film are anticipated to have larger roles in Phase Five.
• Fall
  • “Buried” was underground, “Fall” is atop a TV tower - both are films with few actors but great effect.
• Mad Detective
  • Wai Ka-fai is old, Lau Ching-wan is old too.
• Day Shift
• Warriors of Future
• Backstage Player
• Prey
  • Who is the hunter, who is the prey?
• The Gray Man
• The Roundup
• The Witch: Part 2. The Other One
• The Big Short
  • Requires some financial background, but very enjoyable to watch.
• Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
  • The director made the American version of “The Grudge,” plenty of horror elements.
• Spiderhead
• Jurassic World Dominion
• Arrogant
  • Looking forward to the sequel. Martial arts belongs to China, and good martial arts films will return.
• Everything Everywhere All at Once
  • Michelle Yeoh might win the Oscar for Best Actress. Also, wonder what the children of those Bay Area Chinese dual-programmer parents who grew up being pushed think when they see this film? Or are they not allowed to watch it at all?
• Sonic the Hedgehog 2
  • Watched both the first and second with Momo, miss 4399 mini-games and Jim Carrey haha.
• Cop vs. Killer
  • Oppressive, oppressive
• Uncharted
• The Contractor
• The Outfit
  • A small tailor shop stages one drama after another.
• Moonfall
• Spider-Man: No Way Home
• The Adam Project
• Death on the Nile
  • Went to the cinema for Kenneth Branagh and Gal Gadot, but it was indeed mediocre.
• The King’s Man
  • Not as good as the previous films.
• Guilt by Design 2
  • Not as good as the first.
• Antique Bureau Middle Bureau
• Eternals
  • The appearance of Celestial judge Arishem was indeed shocking.

TV Series Watched in 2022

• Perfect Partner
  • Relatively realistic.
• The Peripheral Season 1
  • “The Three-Body Problem” should really learn from this what sci-fi film texture means, and this series isn’t even as good as episode three of “The Last of Us.”
• Tulsa King Season 1
  • “The meaning of a college degree is to tell employers that you can consistently complete a series of tasks on time for four consecutive years. If they hire you, you’ll come to work on time every day and won’t mess up their business.”
• Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities
  • I’m still afraid of waking up to see a little boy standing by my bed staring at me.
• Gangs of London Seasons 1 & 2
• Little Women
  • Started strong but ended weak, still falling into the cliché of Korean chaebol-criticizing assembly line films.
• Suriname
  • Korean version of “Narcos.”
• Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber Season 1
  • “Are you an asshole?” “Yes.” “You are hired.” Admiring Travis’s boldness and Anthony Levandowski’s genius.
• Love, Death & Robots Seasons 1, 2 & 3
  • The ceiling of sci-fi animation. Humans have only two strokes in Chinese characters, yet are more complex than everything else.
• Reset