Evening of 08-8-16: finished Wall-e (the TS version, no other option). A robot’s innocent love… Evening of 8-22: finished Déjà Vu. The film’s logic is absolutely brilliant — you rarely come across ...

I took some time this afternoon to watch Bridge to Terabithia (aka The Bridge to Terabithia). After Howl’s Moving Castle, this is the fairy-tale fable film I’ve liked most.

It really is a big world full of wonders, and hidden masters just keep coming out of the woodwork! I came across this badass review over on Douban, -_- Is the author a huge detective & mystery fan or what? They actually worked out a hidden plotline. I can’t track down the author’s site for now — I’d really love to go pay my respects. What follows is the original text: I watched the movie twice more from the beginning and picked out a few details here and there, and I found that Tai Lung isn’t actually bad — he was most likely framed. On the contrary, Tortoise may be the real mastermind behind it all.

Bad movie.

In the afternoon I watched Alvin and the Chipmunks. Mm, an immortal theme — family.

Yesterday at 2 p.m. I sat down to watch and finished at midnight — nine hours of the trilogy in one go. I took in a bunch of epic battles, witnessed friendship, family, love, and saw both the ugly and the beautiful sides of human nature.

Finally saw Jumper, which I’d been looking forward to. Disappointed — the plot is a mess, zero logic. Then again, it was always going to be a surreal movie.

Just finished watching DreamWorks’ new film, Kung Fu Panda. The visuals are full of towering, magnificent mountains. The scene where the turtle sage reaches nirvana is so very Eastern! Halfway through I was filled with emotion — Chinese culture, inherited by Westerners, brought to life so vividly with modern comedic elements mixed in. The Chinese Taoist spirit runs through the whole thing; I really like the feel of that turtle sage, and I’m very happy with how the film positions him. Now this is what a grandmaster is supposed to be like — he already understands all things in the world, the universe lives in his heart, and he’s in tune with the fate of heaven and earth. Classic lines that really resonated with me: