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Na shan na ren na gou (1999)
Beautiful, Beautiful Film
Truly one of the best films I have ever seen. The landscape scenes are breathtaking. And the calm, balanced development is consuming. There is a peace and a serenity in this film that I can really only compare to what I used to feel when I would take long walks alone along the Chicago lake shore. I've also felt this kind of peace looking out over the Utah Salt Flats from the tops of the Pilot Mountains.
I don't know why this film is so hard to find in the U.S. market; all I can surmise is that American distributors are skeptical of the appeal a gentle, beautiful film. In an age, though, where we're bombarded constantly with terror alerts and hard-driving action films, I've got to believe that a film as quietly powerful as this could find audiences who will quickly be enchanted by a rural postman, his son, their dog, and the simple, wonderful villages they deliver the mail to.
Survival Island (2002)
Awful, awful, awful
Without a doubt one of the very worst movies I've ever seen. Bad acting, bad directing, terrible special effects. Some bad movies are so bad they're entertaining. This isn't one of them. You might think from the first minutes that the movie has an interesting cultural message. It doesn't. It's a stinker through and through, with shallow characters and special effects so poorly done that they drown out the ridiculous, superficial plot. But maybe that's a good thing.
Star Trek fans will definitely want to stay away--it was just painful to watch Garrett Wang in such a bad movie. If you're a super die-hard Jaime Pressly fan, and you want to see one of her less mediocre, albeit fully clothed, performances, and you really don't have anything else to watch, you might think about subjecting yourself to this.
Otherwise: Stay Away!!!!!!!