Savage (2018) by Siwei Cui

[cranefly]

This stars Chen Chang, who was Dark Cloud in CTHD and in that film had a striking resemblance to one DM, especially in his inebriated singing.  In this movie, he reminds me more of Daniel Wu.


He plays a very stolid cop in this paint by number actioner where most of the numbers are for white.  While it's refreshing to see a Chinese movie set in snow, still, this is a very ugly movie of greed and betrayal, with the few good people conveniently being stupid when the plot calls for it.  And you never really get to know anyone.  I ended up rooting for the snow.  Overall unpleasant and a disappointment, and with an ending that I'm still trying to unravel in my head.  Where is a wikipedia write-up with complete spoilers when you need it?

Oh, by the way. I see that Chen Chang has a role in the new DUNE movie (directed by Denis Villeneuve) slated to come out in 2020.

[Drunk Monk]

Alas.  My Dark Cloud daze.  When I had less exposed forehead and dated Z.



I can still belt out a mean inebriated song tho.  There is nothing like a DM & Greg duet of Heartbreak Hotel.  

[Greg]

Total cringe.

But I'm game. Probably without the drunken part.

[Drunk Monk]

Hard pass.

There’s YouTube now. We wouldn’t want evidence. If memory serves, the only witnesses to that epic DOOM duet were my wife and Legbone. Maybe scapino too? Anyway, my wife has much more damaging  dirt on me, scalp is blackballed until here starts posting here and we all know what became of LB.

[Greg]

Scapino stayed home from our foray to the Bombay Bicycle club. For Scapino's sins, we newspapered his door shut.

[Drunk Monk]

i remember now

he's still blackballed.  

until he posts on DOOM.

easiest reinstatement ever but it's scap so it's gotta be softballs, right?