I've watched some Chinese war movies on YouTube but I only found them cause someone either linked it directly or gave me the name of it. I'd also need English subs, I only know like 15 words of Mandarin lol.

I was wondering if they had a cool movie about the Chinese Civil War/revolution. I'm really a sucker for literally any war movie but I'm down with anything that's actually good.

  • emizeko [they/them]
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    2 years ago

    Battle of Xiangjiang (2017) I haven't finished this yet. so far the historical biographical scenes are cool but the battles are garbage where crowds stand and fire with no cover

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Xiangjiang_River

    From November 27, 1934 to December 1, the Red Army fought with the Kuomintang army in Xing'an County, Quanzhou County and Guanyang County in the territory of Guangxi province for 5 days, finally, the Red Army through Xiangjiang in the border of Quanzhou County and Xing'an County, they broke through the blockade of the Kuomintang army.

    • Golgafrinchan [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      I've tried watching Chinese war movies. The ones made nowadays all have English subtitles. However, they're just terrible. Overly dramatic, overwrought, 100% pure heroes and 100% evil villains, I can't get through one of them. You'd think the action scenes could save them, but no. I can only like the scenes with massive numbers of extras, like when Hollywood used to make movies with the Roman legions of thousands of men marching around the battlefield with absolutely zero CGI.

    • emizeko [they/them]
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      2 years ago

      btw there is no English for the character introduction title cards but you can figure out who they are with freeze frame and google translate camera

    • JoesFrackinJack [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Cheers thx, I'll put this one on a second.

      I've watched quite few soviet era war movies and a lot are really good. Most the Chinese ones I've seen are pretty cheesey to me but I still enjoy watching them. I really just wish there was a Chinese Netflix so I could just poke around and see if anything catches the eye

      • Mardoniush [she/her]
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        2 years ago

        Yeah, "Osterns" usually have "The noble white aristocrat officer who comes to realise the error of his ways and joins the revolution." and that's fairly rare in Chinese War Films.