As part of our cultural exchange with https://soyjak.party thanks to @HeDoesItForFree's API, I noticed that the erudite and cultured soyteens of /qa/ have a Three Kingdoms thread pinned so I think we should have a thread too.

The Romance of the Three Kingdoms is one of the great Chinese epics based on the Warring States period at the end of the Han dynasty.

There are two big serialized adapatations of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, one from 2010 and one from 1994.

I watched the 2010 some years ago and it's . The actor who plays Cao Cao is particularly good and has a unique take on the character.

I've been watching the 1994 one recently. It follows the book a little more closely and I think I may actually like it better.

It should be noted that this is fricking LONG but a great series highly worth the investment. If you liked the political intrigue stuff from Game of Thrones this series beats the shit out of it.

Whichever version you choose, I recommend reading along with the book. There is a great online translation here with lots of funny side notes from users

https://threekingdoms.com/

THREE KINGDOMS (2010)

>EPISODES 1-21

https://wudang.academy/three-kingdoms-2010-hd-1080p-01-english-sub/

>REST OF SERIES ON YT

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZdQdRhS5zpiDHJCtL75amjbEiJQadaPq

THREE KINGDOMS (1994)

Not sure how many other episodes are on YouTube

The rest of the series is getting a fresh translation at

https://gentlemenofthehan.wordpress.com/2022/03/01/announcing-romance-of-the-three-kingdoms-1994-episodes-1-23-english-subtitle-release/

Everything Eastwood has directed post that movie where he yells at Filipino kids has been treated with kid gloves, because he's been 100 years old for ages and every expects all his releases to be his last. So when he releases an absolute stinker critics will sort of acknowledge that the movie is poorly directed but still give it a charity thumbs up.

But he's never been a good director, even when he was a spry 60 year old back in the 80s. He's gotten worse, for sure, and he basically stopped 'directing' actively now that's he old enough to get a letter from the Queen (he apparently has a bunch of assistants that do everything for him on set, it's not clear what his input is aside from choosing a script) but he's ALWAYS been incredibly lazy. Every movie he's made that has been passable has been so on the basis of a strong script and performances (Million Dollar Baby, some of his westerns) from actors that don't need direction. But when he's put out to sea without either of those things you can see that his 'directorial style' amounts to pointing the camera at whichever actor is moving the most and making the most noise, giving them one take and if they don't get it right frick it, cut and print. Lighting or sound fricked up? Who cares, no one pays attention to that.

it's sad because he's always been kind of based, and it's funny that he keeps casting relatively young women to frick him for the movies in which he acts. nothing funnier than a full-blown decrepit 90 year old being blown by a Hollywood-faced 45 year old woman pretending she's a similar age as him

like every year some retatd studio executive has 20 million to burn and decides to give it to clint eastwood to barely direct some movie about a horse rider who gets sad about mexico or sum shit

After three episodes I am pleasantly surprised and give it an 8/10.

Ok,maybe that'clip is not real. But this apparently is.

https://x.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1761244293769871805

What does "modern" American psycho even look like? How are they going to put a chick in it, and make her lame and gay?

!kino

!chuds !nooticers

@ 4:07 if the timestamp link doesn't work

!truecels don't watch it unless you want to get blackpilled af

Before YouTube deactivated my recommendations, I got stuck in a Korean live-stream recommendation bubble. That's all they'd recommend to me.

As a result I ended up subscribing to a bunch and spend many hours a day watching a variety of weird Korean people dance, sing, and talk about their lives. Now, I can't speak Korean, but I don't speak Orangutan either and that's never stopped me from watching a nature documentary, plus Orangutans rarely sing or dance unlike Koreans which spend most of their days doing both (as well as drinking and smoking heavily and getting plastic surgery).

I thought I'd share with you these unrecognized cultural icons. A lot of the things I'm going to convey about the channels are my interpretation of their body language and behaviour, as many of you know I'm a professor of anthropology so I came to understand these people through that lens rather than what they say which is all gobbledygook to me. As a result some of this information may be inaccurate.

Professional entertainers

It seems Korea has a category of street performers called Pumbas or Gakseoris, in the past they were bums who performed for food. Nowadays they've made it a cherished tradition and it's become a job of sorts I guess.

Pathetic Pumbaa ( 한심해품바 ) Starting strong with Pathetic Pumbaa, he's a dwarf who sings karaoke every afternoon, usually accompanied by an elderly man or an elderly woman on the drum or for backing vocals. He seems to always be drunk but that might just be because he's a dwarf.

My Princess Pumbaa ( 나공주품바 ) That girl is nuts, probably my favorite. She sings and dances and jumps all over the stage for hours. She's got a great voice and crazy stamina. In the softer part of the songs people will come stick cash in her belt, kind of like a stripper but less exciting. Fantastic entertainer. If you need more convincing just watch this shit:

Mountain hillbilly families

Sanyacholove (지리산심마니집) This is a family who stream themselves eating every night. The wife never smiles, she seems like dreadful nag, always picking on her husband. I think they might be some has-been reality TV stars from a show about remote living. They have a rivalry with another livestreaming family (the one below), although they sometimes go on vacation together.

Jinangoweo ( 진안고원 산골 이야기) This is the better hillbilly family of the two. Former TV reality stars as well. The father looks like a stereotypical asian monk you'd find in an 80s movie about KungFu. They have a dozen children and they stream themselves eating their evening meal in the mountains. They often eat outside during the summer and you can see the incredible landscape in the background and the setting sun over the mountains, it's beautiful. Also the wife is a hottie .

Cancerous patient or Witch?

Hwamyeong-dong Witch ( 화명동마녀 ) This is a woman I found hiking through the mountains with her dad or husband. I say dad or husband because it's unclear how old she is. She looks 12 but has tatoos and drinks and smokes like a sailor. Initially I thought she might have cancer (shaved head) and her parents were letting her do these things before she died but now I think she might be a witch and a degenerate. Either way her first hiking stream was spectacular with incredible mountainous landscapes, since then she mostly livestreams herself in hotels, drinking, smoking, dancing which is also fun. It's clear she's a person with a strong personality, which she earned either from facing death or from manipulating the occult.

Single mother with fat kids

Kiruki mom ( KIRUKI예슬씨) Nothing very interesting about this one but she often cooks on stream which is nice to see and her kids are fat. It's always fun to watch fat kids eat, although I imagine for burgers it's stopped being funny, like a comedy you've watched too many times.

That's All. I always welcome new recommendations of foreigners streaming themselves doing weird shit, if you know of any.

!kino !fellas !truecels

Before anyone asks, it's AI.

https://instagram.com/aesthetic_cultist_

I've been putting off watching this for my whole life waiting until the right time because it's so hyped, especially in the nerds of my generation subculture.

It's good. There's a reason why it had so much cultural impact in nerd communities. But it didn't move me in the same way as for example the terribly underrated Sinbad the Sailor (1947) with Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and his redhead medieval Persian wife.

I think it's just too disjointed. There are great scenes which we all know before we watch it. I mean they even did an homage to the poisoning scene in TNG. But there's not enough of a beginning, middle, and end structure.

Cary Elweys and the princess drift in and out of the story, but while it's supposed to be about their "true love" we see virtually zero. Yeah, I get it, this is the conceit that little gay boy Fred Savage has an age appropriate aversion to girls and kissing and stuff. But maybe Kathleen Kennedy should have swooped in to subvert the expectations of 10 year olds and hint that you actually will like girls/boys.

It all makes a lot more sense tho when you spend 5 minutes looking it up on Wikipedia. His daughters (4-7) wanted to hear bedtime stories about princesses. There is nothing that a true chad loves more than when his little girl asks what happens next in your story.

Avatar is no longer a baby cartoon for kids, adult normies can enjoy it now.

It's also offensively mid and misses all the marks, but not by a longshot.

Hi !kino bros

The book I'm currently reading about nazi art theft and the recent post on Weimar made me dig futher on that period's cultural stage.

The Weimar era Germany had a thriving and innovative film industry, many of the works of that period were labeled as “Entartete Kunst” (Degenerate art ) among them masterpieces like “Nosferatu” “Metropolis” and “M”

Have you guys watched films from that era? What are your favorites if you have one?