I saw goody glo with the devil
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the lesser of two weevils. toastie. she/her.
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does that mean you can now vote for the fencing pope
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maybe the doors will slam shut and lock and they'll never leave
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pulling up hungry ghost lore to catch up and learning the contemporary iterations?????? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getai
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shitlord 13yos bullying the murderers, justice is real
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yes!!! I'm kind of gobsmacked. I expected a more nostalgic response but being a little let down.
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that's scary! scarier than a demon with a gigantic killer tongue? MAYBE???
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they play for laughs but the bounty hunters who run around looking for faces that match a drawing, to cash in on bounties, selling lives, not really caring what these supposed criminals did or didn't do
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it's interesting to see other responses based on the genre mixing but it's not really what struck me. I was more struck by the themes of weariness and withdrawal from the temporal world (having read recently of failed communes etc), living a good and moral life, kindness breaking through
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he mentioned tiff but not specifics. ahhh it'd be great to see more HK classics in town on the big screen.
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yes!! we ended up chatting more and introducing ourselves to each other. agreed so kind of him to share!! he spoke to a small but rapt crowd
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popcorn eaten and joe I didn't realize I'd be so full of FEELINGS, the theme of kindness, the turmoil of human life, the wishes just for someone to get another chance at life
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he talked about how a real estate company somehow owns rights to a lot of HK movies and they just don't give a shit, and it's like ... fuck
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a local collector was in the lobby sharing parts of his collection, lobby cards rescued from now closed chinese theatres in town. I learned the royal used to be the golden princess, which closed when I was just 6 so I didn't know
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i don't remember the last time I saw it, so quite possibly not since the 90s. what a treat to come back and realize yeah, it's a masterpiece
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also naturally if you cast leslie cheung you get him to sing a song but it's too bad they don't subtitle his song or sally yeh's. yeh's especially since it's about wishing the dawn won't come, iirc
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I also forgot leslie cheung and Joey wang write a poem together and inscribe it on her painting, SWOON
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I totally forgot the interlude for a goofy satire of the courts ??