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dairyairy
Joined: 17 May 2012
Location: South Korea
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| IPayInCash wrote: |
| If you hate the commercials just do what I do and show up late to every movie. It works like a charm, seriously. 10 minutes. |
Sometimes 20 minutes late. Yeah, you'll still end up seeing those goofy "boys chasing that one girl" characters that copy Tom Cuise in "Mission Impossible" and "Titanic" as they explain how to get the HELL OUT if there's an emergency. Don't worry- I'll get the HELL OUT. Still, it's nice knowing the movie is about to start as we've usually had enough ads for ramen, cell phones, and God knows what else.
And someone still comes in late. Every time. wtf? |
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transmogrifier
Joined: 02 Jan 2012
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Fri Aug 02, 2013 12:27 am Post subject: |
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| IPayInCash wrote: |
| If you hate the commercials just do what I do and show up late to every movie. It works like a charm, seriously. 10 minutes. |
Be careful though; I went to see Snowpiercer at the CGV in Jeonju.
2:15 showtime, movie started on the dot, like it used to in Seoul. |
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spaceman82
Joined: 01 Dec 2009
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| Posted: Fri Aug 02, 2013 12:30 am Post subject: |
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| transmogrifier wrote: |
| IPayInCash wrote: |
| If you hate the commercials just do what I do and show up late to every movie. It works like a charm, seriously. 10 minutes. |
Be careful though; I went to see Snowpiercer at the CGV in Jeonju.
2:15 showtime, movie started on the dot, like it used to in Seoul. |
How was Snowpiercer? |
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IPayInCash
Joined: 27 Jul 2013
Location: Away from all my board stalkers :)
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| Posted: Fri Aug 02, 2013 1:45 am Post subject: |
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| dairyairy wrote: |
| IPayInCash wrote: |
| If you hate the commercials just do what I do and show up late to every movie. It works like a charm, seriously. 10 minutes. |
Sometimes 20 minutes late. Yeah, you'll still end up seeing those goofy "boys chasing that one girl" characters that copy Tom Cuise in "Mission Impossible" and "Titanic" as they explain how to get the HELL OUT if there's an emergency. Don't worry- I'll get the HELL OUT. Still, it's nice knowing the movie is about to start as we've usually had enough ads for ramen, cell phones, and God knows what else.
And someone still comes in late. Every time. wtf? |
Korean movie commercials are the worst and showcase their narcissistic culture in full force. Take for example the one now with the fit woman in tight yoga attire with her breasts popping out, prancing around in an empty studio. The entire commercial is literally her gloating in front of the camera, only to show a bottle of water at the end. You get it? This is how all woman in Korea should look and what true happiness is. Oh by the way drink our water. 
Every Korean commercial in the theatre fits this formula one way or another. Plastic faces gloating as if their lives are perfect then a quick product placement at the end. The saddest part is when I go to the theatre with Koreans they WANT to show up early so they can see the commercials. *vomit* |
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transmogrifier
Joined: 02 Jan 2012
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Fri Aug 02, 2013 2:46 am Post subject: |
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| spaceman82 wrote: |
| transmogrifier wrote: |
| IPayInCash wrote: |
| If you hate the commercials just do what I do and show up late to every movie. It works like a charm, seriously. 10 minutes. |
Be careful though; I went to see Snowpiercer at the CGV in Jeonju.
2:15 showtime, movie started on the dot, like it used to in Seoul. |
How was Snowpiercer? |
I enjoyed it quite a bit; not quite as much as Mother or Memories of Murder, but Bong does a far better job transitioning to English-language movies than Park Chan-Wook and Kim Ji-Won did.
It's more violent than I had expected (not that that's a bad thing), and balances the sci-fi concept, some enjoyably hammy acting (Swinton in particular) and some heady ideas quite well. I don't think they synthesized Song Kang-Ho's character very smoothly, but overall recommended highly. |
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transmogrifier
Joined: 02 Jan 2012
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Fri Aug 02, 2013 2:49 am Post subject: |
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| IPayInCash wrote: |
| dairyairy wrote: |
| IPayInCash wrote: |
| If you hate the commercials just do what I do and show up late to every movie. It works like a charm, seriously. 10 minutes. |
Sometimes 20 minutes late. Yeah, you'll still end up seeing those goofy "boys chasing that one girl" characters that copy Tom Cuise in "Mission Impossible" and "Titanic" as they explain how to get the HELL OUT if there's an emergency. Don't worry- I'll get the HELL OUT. Still, it's nice knowing the movie is about to start as we've usually had enough ads for ramen, cell phones, and God knows what else.
And someone still comes in late. Every time. wtf? |
Korean movie commercials are the worst and showcase their narcissistic culture in full force. Take for example the one now with the fit woman in tight yoga attire with her breasts popping out, prancing around in an empty studio. The entire commercial is literally her gloating in front of the camera, only to show a bottle of water at the end. You get it? This is how all woman in Korea should look and what true happiness is. Oh by the way drink our water.
Every Korean commercial in the theatre fits this formula one way or another. Plastic faces gloating as if their lives are perfect then a quick product placement at the end. The saddest part is when I go to the theatre with Koreans they WANT to show up early so they can see the commercials. *vomit* |
Just make fun of it like a normal person would do and get on with your life. Instead of ranting like a madman. |
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sligo
Joined: 15 Oct 2008
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It's all the smartphones lighting up and kakao talk messaging that gets me. When i see a film i want the outside world to go away for the duartion, so i turn my phone on silent (not vibrate) and enjoy the movie, but it seems that others cannot bear to be out of touch for 2 hours, and every 2 minutes my gaze is attarcted from the screen to a small bright light somewhere else. When i have tapped people on the shoulder, they look amazed that i consider the behaviour unacceptable, but usually refrain from repeating it. I even complained to a manager once that the sign forbidding talking on phones, should extend to using phones at all. He gave me a free ticket and an apology - Korean people really understand customer service!!!
Anyway i think this should be implemented everywhere:
http://kaispace.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/code_of_conduct.jpg
Oh 1 more thing
HTJI! |
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spaceman82
Joined: 01 Dec 2009
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| Posted: Sat Aug 03, 2013 5:57 am Post subject: |
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| transmogrifier wrote: |
I enjoyed it quite a bit; not quite as much as Mother or Memories of Murder, but Bong does a far better job transitioning to English-language movies than Park Chan-Wook and Kim Ji-Won did.
It's more violent than I had expected (not that that's a bad thing), and balances the sci-fi concept, some enjoyably hammy acting (Swinton in particular) and some heady ideas quite well. I don't think they synthesized Song Kang-Ho's character very smoothly, but overall recommended highly. |
Awesome, thanks. It's one of those movies people keep talking about, so I'm definitely gonna try to check it out sometime in the next week or two. |
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