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seoulsucker
Joined: 05 Mar 2006
Location: The Land of the Hesitant Cutoff
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I thought it was a good flick. Weepy at times, especially the mother running after the train bit, and the flashbacks to eating ice cream and all that junk...
I think the movie was made for UNDER 15 million dollars, which is pretty impressive considering the production quality. It's been the biggest hit for friends back home. |
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mack4289
Joined: 06 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 6:22 am Post subject: |
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If an American movie was made about the American Civil War, starring Vin Diesel and Paul Walker as brothers, in which Vin Diesel almost-singlehandedly won a series of battles against the South but then was somehow betrayed by an Northerner so decided to switch sides and fight for the South and the movie seriously exaggerated the significance of this, how would it get treated by the critics? How would you guys react to it? Maybe I'm reaching here, but are you guys taking it easy on this movie because you have lower standards for Korean films?
By the way, the movie I described would be hilarious. I wish someone would make that movie. |
Well....call me crazy but unless it states clearly "based on a true story" or "based on real events", I'd just consider it to be a movie and not a documentary or true account. So, I suppose that might be why some (or at least I) am blase about the movie...
That movie would be awesome!
Edit: I forgot to add an important point. Korean movies are pretty much over the top and dramatic ESPECIALLY when there's a historical theme, so I guess I didn't expect anymore or any less from this movie.... |
Taegukgi was based on true events. I wish the rest of the movie had been taken as seriously as the scene of the Seoul invasion. At least with the Vin Diesel Civil War movie (can you even say that without laughing? what would it be called? "Rebel Yell"? "The Secession"?) you would expect an absurd movie. With "Taegukgi" I expected something credible, not sappy schlock that required a complete suspension of disbelief. |
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Alyallen
Joined: 29 Mar 2004
Location: The 4th Greatest Place on Earth = Jeonju!!!
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| Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 6:42 am Post subject: |
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| mack4289 wrote: |
| Alyallen wrote: |
| mack4289 wrote: |
If an American movie was made about the American Civil War, starring Vin Diesel and Paul Walker as brothers, in which Vin Diesel almost-singlehandedly won a series of battles against the South but then was somehow betrayed by an Northerner so decided to switch sides and fight for the South and the movie seriously exaggerated the significance of this, how would it get treated by the critics? How would you guys react to it? Maybe I'm reaching here, but are you guys taking it easy on this movie because you have lower standards for Korean films?
By the way, the movie I described would be hilarious. I wish someone would make that movie. |
Well....call me crazy but unless it states clearly "based on a true story" or "based on real events", I'd just consider it to be a movie and not a documentary or true account. So, I suppose that might be why some (or at least I) am blase about the movie...
That movie would be awesome!
Edit: I forgot to add an important point. Korean movies are pretty much over the top and dramatic ESPECIALLY when there's a historical theme, so I guess I didn't expect anymore or any less from this movie.... |
Taegukgi was based on true events. I wish the rest of the movie had been taken as seriously as the scene of the Seoul invasion. At least with the Vin Diesel Civil War movie (can you even say that without laughing? what would it be called? "Rebel Yell"? "The Secession"?) you would expect an absurd movie. With "Taegukgi" I expected something credible, not sappy schlock that required a complete suspension of disbelief. |
Really?? The story of the brothers is true? Or do you just mean the war itself? |
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mack4289
Joined: 06 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 8:08 am Post subject: |
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| No I just meant the war. Sorry, should've been clearer about that. |
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Don Gately
Joined: 20 Mar 2006
Location: In a basement taking a severe beating
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| Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 8:50 am Post subject: |
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I thought it was overly melodramatic and sentimental in parts (which is typical of Korean art overall) but you can't deny that it really brings home how the war affected the day-to-day life of average people in Korea.
For Americans and Brits and Aussies our age (post WWII), "war" means sending kids off to fight somewhere else. The home is not the battleground. This war was here, and they were living in it and through it and it tore families apart. I thought it did a good job of illustrating that. |
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whatever
Joined: 11 Jun 2006
Location: Korea: More fun than jail.
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| Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 8:15 pm Post subject: Re: did you like "Taegukgi"? |
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| mack4289 wrote: |
| We Americans are probably more voracious consumers of patriotic hackery than people of any other nationality. |
Wrong. The Japanese win hands down. Go live there if you don't believe me. Korea's not that far behind.
Though many Americans are superficially 'patriotic', the vast majority only summon it in times of crisis...naturally and understandably. Quite a few don't care, even then. |
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ajgeddes
Joined: 28 Apr 2004
Location: Yongsan
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| Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 9:04 pm Post subject: |
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| -It could have mentioned the 54,246 americans who died in the war. That was my biggest gripe about the movie, it portrays the war as a solo effort. |
Yeah, because war movies from other countries always mention how many people from other countries die. I remember in Saving Private Ryan, when they were at the bridge and Tom Hanks said to Matt Damon, "45,000 Canadians died in this war, and 40,000 Australians died in this war, what a tragedy." |
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betchay
Joined: 23 Aug 2005
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 9:30 pm Post subject: |
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| I expected a lot from the movie... after all, Jang Dong Gun is my most favorite Korean star. I had anticipated the film before they even started filming. I ended up being disappointed. |
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merkurix
Joined: 21 Dec 2006
Location: Not far from the deep end.
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| Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 10:57 pm Post subject: |
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The whole "This is Korea Saving Lyan movie" hoopla got to me a bit, and the brother not recognizing his younger brother was a bit too Korean drama fluff/cheesy/lame enough to almost cripple a good film for me, but all in all, I enjoyed it.
What I would like to see is a nitty gritty American movie about the Korean war. Sure it would probably have its lame heroics as well, but that was a big war and there just aren't any recent movies out there on par with films about Vietnam and World War 2. |
It's been done. In 1982 Sir Lawrence Olivier was Gen. MacArthur in the movie Incheon. The movie flopped horribly; part of the reason was the bad press it received after Reverend Moon advised and financed the movie. Hollywood said "never again" to Korean War movies.
[url] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inchon_(film) [/url] |
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mack4289
Joined: 06 Dec 2006
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