Movies Watched in 2023

• Infernal Affairs Trilogy
  • Trust no one
• Triple Frontier
  • Which country’s veterans live happily?
• Headhunters
  • The protagonist hiding in a septic tank is quite ruthless
• Dog God
  • Watched in cinema, no one left until the credits completely ended - first time I’ve seen this
• The Battleship Island
  • Internal disunity became a major obstacle to anti-Japanese resistance. This Korean film profoundly points this out. What about our anti-Japanese films?
• Under the Light
• Moscow Mission
• Across the Furious Sea
  • Every parent should watch this
• The Eighth Suspect
  • Tribute to every dedicated police officer
• The Killer
  • Stick to your plan, trust no one
  • Stick to the plan, forbid empathy
  • Stick to the plan, anticipate, don’t improvise
  • Stick to your plan, never yield advantage
  • Stick to the plan, fight only the battle you’re paid to fight, ask yourself, what’s in it for me?
  • Stick to the plan, empathy is weakness, weakness is vulnerability
  • This is what it takes if you want to succeed
  • Simple.
• Riverside’s Mistake
  • Is it the era’s mistake or humanity’s mistake?
• The Equalizer 3
  • Denzel Washington is getting old, retiring in Sicily
• A Haunting in Venice
  • Not as good as the first two
• Man on a Ledge
• Oppenheimer
  • Physics and politics
• Witness for the Prosecution
  • Men want too much, women only want love
• Heart of Stone
  • A waste of time movie
• No More Bets
  • Those who should be deceived will still be deceived
• Swordfish
• Face/Off
  • Like Swordfish, can only sigh that both Cage and Travolta have aged
• Meg 2: The Trench
• Fight Club
  • Filmed everything I was thinking
• Law Abiding Citizen
• Extraction 2
• Minority Report
  • When people use one system to control another, how do you ensure the system’s own stability?
• Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
  • Didn’t understand it the first time. The complex character relationships seem to reveal that the Cold War era was more terrifying than total war
• The Old Guard
  • Googled it, there really was a Finnish war god
• Catch Me If You Can
  • Based on true events. Can we do this?
• Hypnotic
• Maze
  • Human nature is inherently evil
• John Wick: Chapter 4
  • When watching the previous films, I always wondered what the “High Table” was. Now I know - “Rules” are the “High Table”
• Fast X
• The Covenant
  • Trust built in war is precious
• Argo
• Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
• Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
• The First Slam Dunk
• Red Sparrow
• Too Big to Fail
  • Centuries of capital accumulation - how can it fall?
• Hidden Blade
• Kill Boksoon
• Searching 2
  • The filming technique is indeed novel. This makes me want to enable two-factor authentication on my Google account
• Even Though I Just Lost My Phone
  • The plot is quite clichéd, but the scenes of everyone looking down at their phones in the movie are quite creepy

TV Series Watched in 2023

• Pantheon
  • Exploration of AI and the entire universe, quite profound
• Scavengers Reign
  • Peak of imagination, human insignificance
• Loki Season 2
  • A rare good Marvel series in recent years
• Bodies
  • Investigation across time and space
• 7 Hours of Hijacking
  • Master eloquence and you’ll fear nothing anywhere
• Secret Invasion
• The Glory
  • Why does every Korean drama start strong but end weakly with a feel-good ending??
• Silicon Valley
  • Entrepreneurship is hard, honest work is better