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CD Smiles added 1 item to Albums Heard in 2020 list

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Albums Listened to in 2020 (223 music items)

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CD Smiles rated A Matter of Life and Death

A Matter of Life and Death 8/10

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CD Smiles added 1 item to Albums Heard in 2020 list

May 27th

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May 27th Directed by: Shunya Ito Downloaded.

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CD Smiles rated Titans of Creation

Titans of Creation 6/10

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May 27th

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May 26th Directed by: Shunya Ito Downloaded.

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CD Smiles added 1 item to Movies Re-Watched in 2020 list

May 25th Directed by: Seijun Suzuki 2nd Viewing Previous Rating: 4 After: 4

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CD Smiles added 1 item to Movies Re-Watched in 2020 list

Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets

May 23rd Directed by: Shuji Terayama 2nd Viewing Previous Rating: 4.5 After: 4.5

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CD Smiles added The Fly II to wanted list

The Fly II

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CD Smiles added 1 item to Movies Watched in 2020 list

May 25th Directed by: Shinji Sômai Downloaded.

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May 24th, 2020

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May 24th Directed by: Takahiro Miki This is pretty much what I expected getting into generic looking recent Japanese movies. It is quite generic. Despite this, I acknowledge that this is actually a really well written movie, even though it's painfully overdramatic and very archetypical. The only thing to really stand out here is the characterization, the three leads are actually pretty interesting on a surface level, the movie takes you through the lows of each with varying degrees of success, with little good to balance it out, actually. The movie does nothing to really make me believe these kids are more passionate about their school's choir club than they would be about any other extracurricular activity they chose, and once you kind of zoom out that we are indeed talking about a choir club, it makes the extreme dramatics feel very silly. There is a clear attempt at making this a feel-good movie but it never gets there, it's done a lot in my mind to prop up better examples like The Woodsman and the Rain. It feels unfocused and uninspired, but it's not a terrible movie. I could see this being very popular amongst choir kids, but this isn't worth a watch for anyone else. Downloaded.

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May 24th Directed by: Yûki Yamato I wouldn't believe you if you told me this wasn't based on a shojo manga, this has all the markings of a bad adaptation, complete with socially unaware, pseudo-anime actions that you'd catch those kids (you know the ones) in your middle school doing. They thought they looked cool, and this film is no less embarrassing than those kids, just because you're actually Japanese doesn't mean you can get away with it. Unfortunately I have to accept that I walked into something meant for 14 year old girls, but that doesn't stop me from being baffled by how inept this entire production is. The music is constantly wrong for the mood or just playing at strange times, the camerawork is inconsistent and puzzling, the story is shameful and wraps up so quickly and bizarrely at the end that it's actually funny. Five minutes into this movie I could tell I was in for a time, but I was actually excited because it seemed like it'd be funny-bad, well it was mostly exasperating but in the end I think you could watch this for a laugh. This is kind of what I thought I'd be getting into picking random modern Japanese movies to watch, but this is truly the worst of it, and honestly one of the worst movies I've ever seen. I genuinely can't think of one redeeming aspect. Downloaded.

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