Not Today

 Have been having a weird L'arc problem so i'm avoiding them now. Ahem. I did mention how there are two more FMA movies coming out right???  I originally gave the first movie a so-so review, saying that it was fun and looked good for FMA fans ONRII bc it would be incomprehensible to non-FMA fans. This was seemingly backed up when a friend of mine confirmed that indeed she didn't understand the movie and had no previous background with FMA.  I still more or less stand by that though. HOWEVER, upon watching it again, I definitely conclude that if you loved FMA, this was good stuff. And it looks like it's bouta be even better stuff with the next two. 

One of them just came out and the next one is due out June 21 or 24 I can't recall. Am hoping they will make it to Netflix STAT like Kenshin did. I've been watching trailers on the Hagarenmovie Twitter lol. One of which was a fight with Scar. I'm always randomly amazed at how good my Japanese listening is though bc i didn't need subs to understand it like at ALL. Also, upon watching that first one again, I suddenly realized that Yamada Ryosuke is legit a babe, even though he's short lol. I also started thinking he looked a bit like Edawn and someone at MDL in the comments for one of his dramas said the same thing and i was like DUDE. Y E S.

Anyway, moving onto Daybreaker that i just started. Li Yifeng is cornering the market on my favorite dramas this year so far, unless we count Lingjian Mountain, but that was an older one. Guh so this is very INfernal Affairs-ish with deep undercovers in drug gangs. DEEP BREATH as i try to explain this plot. Luo Xiang was deep undercover in a drug gang. He was killed during a bust by a police who seemingly tracked him down. Except he wasn't killed. He was rescued by someone and comes back five years later but he's hiding under the name Chen Mo. But I think that's his real name??? Now he's recruited to do it again but the guy who's recruiting him doesn't seem to know who he is, on the other hand, the police who killed him is highly suspicious that's who he is. 

So LYF is effectively playing three roles. There's Chen Mo, Luo Xiang, and fake Luo Xiang lol. Anyway it's really good and Li Yifeng is super hot. I have to agree, China really does like their super frosty ML, but idk i can't lie, that's more attractive to me too versus say, the ML of Tomorrow who is overly emotional and demonstrative.

 So thanks to a um...compilation thingy on YT, i've decided to fill the gaps of my Chen Kun movies. I think the only two other major movie actors where I've watched everything they've been in are Stephen Chow and Andy Lau. There might be a few holes in my completion of Andy's filmography, but I watched EVERYTHING Stephen Chow was in, even if he was just a support role lol. ETA - Oh i tell a lie, I've also seen everything Nic Tse and Cecilia Cheung has been in, at least up until a point when i started mostly watching just dramas. 

Anyway, so I finally got to watch Zhong Kui, Snow Girl and the Dark Crystal, which is a very unwieldy boring name, BUT that's also pretty much what it's about: ZhongKui, Snow Girl, and the Dark Crystal lmao.

Basic plot surrounds Zhong Kui, the anti-hero devil punisher dude from Chinese mythology. Played by Chen Kun. He's being handled by some guy, a master who either is an immortal or is trying to be, not sure. But the dark crystal is some super special item that allows demons to reincarnate or smth like that. Zhong Kui steals it and naturally a bunch of demons come to get it back. Li Bingbing plays Snow Girl, who is actually a snow demon that ZK met when he was a human. They're initially on opposite sides, but then ZK finds out some inconvenient truths and they end up on the same side again.

This was a pretty action-heavy, CG magic-heavy film and it definitely looked good. I liked the whole desert city aesthetic and whatnot. It was more action fantasy movie than anything else. Chen Kun is...wow lol. You show me anyone else who can look hot wearing a big fake beard lmao. I think he had a couple of good fight scenes and it reminded me of a recent interview where he mentioned a movie he filmed a year or so ago that hasn't come out yet, Weary Poet, where he said they had no stunt doubles and he had to do his own stunts and it was exhausting at his age or something lol. 

Idk i remember every movie I watched of his in the past always had some good sexytimes and this one did too. I swear, Chinese movies used to be pretty racy, but now they're pretty badly censored as far as I can tell. This one was 2015 so not too bad in that respect kek. 

Next up, I think i'll try to find West Lake Moment. There's one on YT but idk if it's subbed.