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justin moffatt · Joined: 29 Aug 2006

I have come out of hibernation to warn you. This Korean movie was the most painful movie I have ever been forced to endure. The director has fallen far from his perch since Old Boy. Picture all the stupidest aspects of every bad movie you have ever seen either in Korea or abroad. 2 and half hours of my life I will never get back. I can't believe they released this piece of shit, let alone nominated it for Cannes, and received Universal Studios sponorship, being set for release in North America later this year. The critics there will rip this one apart. I hope the trauma will wear off . . .

detourne_me · Joined: 26 May 2006

I disagree.
I thought it was a fun, sexy answer to the drivel that was Twilight.

Silk · Joined: 09 Oct 2008

like the critics ripped batman apart? please

justin moffatt · Joined: 29 Aug 2006

I knew better than to waste my time on teenage Vampire knock-offs like Twilight (nothing holds a candle to Lost Boys). The story had potential, but fell completely apart half way through the movie, after a slow moving diatribe of stupidity. Check out an accurate review.

Emile Zola meets New Age vampirism in South Korean helmer Park Chan-wook's "Thirst," an overlong stygian comedy that badly needs a transfusion of genuine inspiration. Inspired by and following key plot elements in Zola's 19th-century novel of murder and adultery, "Therese Raquin," the two-hour-plus pic is slow to warm up and largely goes around in circles thereafter, with repetitive (and often plain goofy) jokes about hemoglobin lust and bone-crunching, sanguinary violence. Some major surgery could help its specialized offshore potential, but this is startlingly unnuanced work from the director of such classy fare as "Oldboy" and "Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance."

http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117940255.html?categoryid=31&cs=1

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Miles Long · Joined: 27 Oct 2009

Thirst was actually one of the top 25 vampire movies of all time according to IGN. I haven't seen it yet, so I can't really pass judgement, but I am looking forward to it.

And speaking of Cannes, avoid Lars Von Trier's Antichrist at all costs.

Pojogae · Joined: 30 Oct 2008

I saw Mother and Thirst recently and they're both good. I thought Mother was better, but Won Bin's performance really annoyed me. He was acting like it was a comedy whilst everyone else treated the film as a drama, which it was. Also, a good actor shouldn't need a 'mental' haircut to convey that he is handicapped; although I guess this was the director's decision. Couldn't help thinking how much better that dude in Marathon was at playing the same sort of role, as was Tom Hanks and Dustin Hoffman for that matter.

I didn't like Park's last two films much, but Thirst did it for me. Old Boy and Lady Vengence were alright, but were a little too over the top for me to take them seriously. Thirst (despite being a vampire film!) is a lot more slow paced and plausible, therefore I liked it. The colours, set design, and cinematography were immaculate, which is one of the main reasons his films get so many accolades in Cannes. He certainly has a disinctive signature anyway, which is what it is all about for some critics.

By the way, I saw Thirst overseas and it had full-frontal male nudity in it. Surely they are not going to show it like this in Korea?

youtuber · Joined: 13 Sep 2009

Park Chun Wook seems to be slowly slipping since Oldboy:

JSA - good
Mr Vengeance - excellent
Oldboy - amazing
Lady Vengeance - good
I'm A Cyborg - meh
Thirst - Haven't seen it...but I hear it's just meh

I think he peaked at Oldboy. I wonder if he has complete artistic freedom anymore? Probably he has a few Mr Kims telling him what to do and how to do it since so much is invested in his movies nowadays?

crossmr · Joined: 22 Nov 2008 Location: Hwayangdong, Seoul

I'd like to watch it if they'd show it with subtitles for more than a day. It was out earlier in the year for like 1 or 2 weeks then disappeared, then it was out for a weekend again and then it was gone. I haven't seen it up for download with subs yet, unless its just out this past weekend.

But hey mother was in theatres with subs for like 4 months or something..

Silk · Joined: 09 Oct 2008