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indytrucks
Joined: 09 Apr 2003
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 Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 7:27 pm Post subject: "The Host" |
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Review.
Sounds pretty good. Anyone seen it? |
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ajgeddes
Joined: 28 Apr 2004
Location: Yongsan
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| Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 8:11 pm Post subject: |
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| It is one of the worst Korean movies I have seen. I could barely even sit through it. |
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SuperHero
Joined: 10 Dec 2003
Location: Superhero Hideout
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| Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 8:26 pm Post subject: |
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I thought it was a fun movie. It's not really anti-american except for the opening sequence and even that is laughable. It's light movie and you could do far worse.
watch it and enjoy. |
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kermo
Joined: 01 Sep 2004
Location: Eating eggs, with a comb, out of a shoe.
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| Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 8:45 pm Post subject: |
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I saw it and wasn't bowled over (see my review in this thread: )
However, it's being released in the States, and critics are raving!
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| The host with the most: It's been a long while since there was this much excitement over a monster movie. South Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-ho's "The Host" arrives today already drenched in praise. As we noted earlier this week, the New Yorker's Anthony Lane hailed the film as "a thing of beauty, yet that is what it is: a perfect mixture of the silly and the grave." Salon critic Andrew O'Hehir says it's "the most satisfying monster movie in many years," and calls it "a vivid, anarchic picture that's high on old-fashioned thrills." Manohla Dargis at the New York Times likens it, in a strange way, to "another recent horror film, the one in which a newly thawed alien with a giant brain delivers apocalyptic warnings to humanity about its imminent future. I'm talking of course about the documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth' ... 'The Host' is a cautionary environmental tale about the domination of nature and the costs of human folly, and it may send chills up your spine." |
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gsxr750r
Joined: 29 Jan 2007
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 6:53 am Post subject: |
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| It wasn't a bad movie. I love Bae Doo Nah. |
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rothkowitz
Joined: 27 Apr 2006
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| Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 7:21 am Post subject: |
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| mindmetoo wrote: |
| It wasn't a bad movie. I love Bae Doo Nah. |
I had a very out of the blue morning watching a bizarre korean movie on OCN one morning.
At one point there was a group of koreans jacking off against a wall.
A bit later I was watching Bae Du Na going for gold,banging for all she was worth.Small,pokey *beep*.
What the dickens is that movie?I sat through the tedium/torture of "Lokk after my cat",but it ain't that. |
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ulsanchris
Joined: 19 Jun 2003
Location: take a wild guess
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| Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 7:43 am Post subject: |
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| the host sucked. it really sucked. mot the worst korean movie i have seen,but i hate it the most i think. i can't think of one good thing about it. not worth wasting your time with it. |
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uberscheisse
Joined: 02 Dec 2003
Location: japan is better than korea.
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| Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 9:38 am Post subject: |
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people hate on the host because it has that one poorly acted part where the scientist, with very little conviction in his voice, says "yes, dump it in the han river" and because the rest of it is a cartoon.
but think of this - A GIANT MONSTER STARTS WRECKING SHOP IN JAMSIL AND APKUJEONG, EATING PEOPLE AND SPITTING THEIR BONES INTO THE SEWER. AFTER THAT, HOMELESS KIDS EAT RAMYUN AND THINK IT'S FOOD.
anyone who dislikes this movie is a moron. a dopey, dullheaded moron who doesn't know that monster movies are all about monsters killing people en masse and then getting themselves killed at the end, but of course leaving room for a sequel.
i'm willing to bet that the people in this thread who didn't like this movie also got at least a mild kick out of "apocalypto" and for that i'm challenging all of you to a fistfight, all at the same time. pm me for directions to said fistfight. |
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crazy_arcade
Joined: 05 Nov 2006
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| Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 10:06 am Post subject: |
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How is that funny? Do you actually think before you type? The fact that some actors were deported because they BROKE, I repeat BROKE, immigration law has nothing to do with the fact that a movie is being released in the States and will probably do quite well.
If everything that is remotely positive about Korea can be turned into a negative in your eyes--then why are you even here? |
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uberscheisse
Joined: 02 Dec 2003
Location: japan is better than korea.
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| Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 10:19 am Post subject: |
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| crazy_arcade wrote: |
How is that funny? Do you actually think before you type? The fact that some actors were deported because they BROKE, I repeat BROKE, immigration law has nothing to do with the fact that a movie is being released in the States and will probably do quite well.
If everything that is remotely positive about Korea can be turned into a negative in your eyes--then why are you even here? |
the issue is that the korean policy towards people who are genuinely interested in participating or contributing to their arts community is archaic and counterproductive.
people here are getting involved yet - just for the sake of being involved in the arts - not for money, because i'm sure none of these dudes are being paid some princely sum. so what is the problem? the fact these people BROKE THE LAW, or that the law is fucked up?
OH MY GOD THEY BROKE THE LAW. THE FIRST ORDER OF BUSINESS IS TO ENFORCE THE LAW, NOT CONSIDER WHETHER OR NOT THE LAW WAS POORLY COMPOSED AND PERHAPS COUNTERPRODUCTIVE.
JUST ENFORCE THE LAW. JUST DO IT. WE HAVE CRIMINALS IN OUR MIDST.
total horse sh it. |
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gsxr750r
Joined: 29 Jan 2007
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| Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 4:06 pm Post subject: |
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| crazy_arcade wrote: |
How is that funny? Do you actually think before you type? The fact that some actors were deported because they BROKE, I repeat BROKE, immigration law has nothing to do with the fact that a movie is being released in the States and will probably do quite well.
If everything that is remotely positive about Korea can be turned into a negative in your eyes--then why are you even here? |
Are you a native speaker?
If you couldn't understand what I said, and what context I said it in, I have to guess that you're not. |
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gang ah jee
Joined: 14 Jan 2003
Location: city of paper
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| Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 4:16 pm Post subject: |
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| rothkowitz wrote: |
I had a very out of the blue morning watching a bizarre korean movie on OCN one morning.
At one point there was a group of koreans jacking off against a wall.
A bit later I was watching Bae Du Na going for gold,banging for all she was worth.Small,pokey *beep*.
What the *beep* is that movie?I sat through the tedium/torture of "Lokk after my cat",but it ain't that. |
That would be Park Chan-wook's 복수는나의것/Sympathy for Mr Vengeance. Great film. |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 4:28 pm Post subject: |
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| crazy_arcade wrote: |
How is that funny? Do you actually think before you type? The fact that some actors were deported because they BROKE, I repeat BROKE, immigration law has nothing to do with the fact that a movie is being released in the States and will probably do quite well.
If everything that is remotely positive about Korea can be turned into a negative in your eyes--then why are you even here? |
Well, it is kind of funny. You would think a major movie production could manage to hire legal extras. And I don't think he made any other claim beyond it's just kind of amusing the hiring practices of a major film producer aren't kosher with Korean law.
Yeah the movie is a positive for Korea but as ESL teachers, it also offers a reminder that you should think twice about accepting work outside of your visa. Is that a negative about Korea? Golly. |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 4:29 pm Post subject: |
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| gang ah jee wrote: |
| rothkowitz wrote: |
I had a very out of the blue morning watching a bizarre korean movie on OCN one morning.
At one point there was a group of koreans jacking off against a wall.
A bit later I was watching Bae Du Na going for gold,banging for all she was worth.Small,pokey *beep*.
What the *beep* is that movie?I sat through the tedium/torture of "Lokk after my cat",but it ain't that. |
That would be Park Chan-wook's 복수는나의것/Sympathy for Mr Vengeance. Great film. |
There was also some movie Plum Blossom (2000) where she does a nude scene. Hard to find, that one. |
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