Revisiting Windstruck Randomly
Jun Ji Hyun :bow:.
Welcome to Dongmakgol - Another fine film. Recommended to like minded viewers. :D
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Revisiting Windstruck Randomly
Jun Ji Hyun :bow:.
Welcome to Dongmakgol - Another fine film. Recommended to like minded viewers. :D
Tokyo Sonata. Started well with a simple premise, progressed expectedly, followed up with a bizarre detour and quite a rewarding end.
The Good, the Bad, the Weird
Crazy ass Korean Western film. Good Entertainment.
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Good bad and the weird
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This guy Ji-woon Kim has some style...all his movies that I have watched are aesthetically too good. As the original, the funny weird charecter stole the show when compared to the other two guys..
We get to hear the famous kill bill song "please dont let me be misunderstood" in one of the important sequence...even the thought of Tarantino remaking the original leone - eastwood classic is mouth watering....tarantino must make a western..pure western..
Vicky :D 8-).
Speaking of Kim. "I Saw the Devil" is another #WIN (4th one in a row!) Following psychological horror, existential mob drama, & kimichi-western, Kim takes on serial killer/revenge flick in mold of Heat/FaceOff/The Dark Knight! Like all his previous films, it's the surface that he's most interested in. He scratches it, even if barely, for the ridges (Futility of revenge, disparity of other forms of violence in face of rape, and so on.) to be made felt. But it's the immediacy of the faceoff, & carnal violence that one finds gripping. It feels weak when it explores adultery that borders on statutory rape. But it also seems like Kim doesn't want our 'consent'. He takes the genre to unknown territory (breaks the convention like all his previous films without seeming like empty gimmicks!), and for the first time (at least to me), unfolds with a seamless narrative (the plot-points seem less wrinkled). The most fascinating aspect of Kim is mood control (take all the bouts of silence between the explosive action setpieces of TGTB&TW). If it's Leone, Melville, or the Hongkong masters in his previous films, with ISTD he tries to marry Fincher to Cronenberg by the way of Mann & Nolan. This is a schizophrenic mix, but Kim pulls it off.
All said, a much more worthwhile experience (than films nominated for Oscar this year). Contains my favorite opening sequence of the year. And contains my fav. performances of 2010. Oldboy's Choi min-sik returns (if Dae-su kicked off the early part of 2000's with one of the rawest performances of all time, Kyung-Chul in flesh and blood seems to be a concoction of Stuntman Mike & Max Cady with Ledger thrown in for bouts of irreverence & vanity! But it all seems organic like Min-Sik could only be!) Mr.Lee lives up to the 'Korean Delon' tag bestowed on him post-Bittersweet Life.
Thanks to Grouch, I got the English/Holly equivalent of Choi min-sik - Gary Oldman !
Eh, Oh. Remember reading about him in this entry in Cracked.com
Ah, spot the odd Carrey out. Ha ha. Good list that, De niro, DDL, C-M-S, and even Bale. One can't truly know the intricacies of their 'methodical' approach, but I suppose the idea is to be fully transformed at end of it. Which they all do, for my money..
DDL's are insane! Gosh, the dedication to the craft.
Here are a few Genre:Horror movies from Asian cinema :
The Shutter (2004) By Pang Brothers
Cello (2005) By Woo-cheol Lee
Infection (2004) By Masayuki Ochiai
Dead Friend (2004) By Tae-kyeong Kim
A Tale of Two Sisters (2003) By Ji-woon Kim
Sigaw (2004) By Yam laranas
Eye 1 (2002) By Pang Brothers
Eye 2 (2004) By Pang Brothers
Muoi (2007) By Tae-kyeong Kim
Re-cycle (2006) By Pang Brothers
Face (2004) By Sang-Gon Yoo
Koma (2004) By Chi-Leung Law
Most of the movies will have a weird twist in the end ... I will post a list of Drama/Thrillers later.
Not seen quite a lot in this genre. But whatever I've seen have been extremely informed by online film journals, and therefore ALL make up the list. Especially last decade belongs to Asian Horror (and my favorite from the West in 2000's is Swedish "Let the right one in".)
"Pulse" by Kiyoshi Kurasawa,
"A Tale of Two Sisters" by Ji-woon Kim,
"Audition" by Miike,
"Thirst" by Chan-Wook Park,
"Strange Circus" by Sono (his "Love Exposure" made my decade's best list),
"Three..Extremes" (Miike, Park and Chan in order),
"Battle Royale".
We love making lists don't we! In that spirit, the classic Asian horror:
Korean "The Housemaid" (the original one),
Vengeance Is Mine" by Imamura,
"Onibaba" by Shinde, "Kwaidan" by Kobayashi,
"Ugetsu" by Mizoguchi,
"Face of Another" by Teshigahara,
"Jigoku" by Nakagawa.
Asian cinema rocks!
Watched Kokuhaku(Confessions) sometime back. The story is of a thriller but it transcends the genre and becomes more of a drama and I felt it to be intentionally done. It was a nice movie.
The Chaser
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The first chase after the accident was the only interesting part in the whole film. They didn't know when to stop, how to make it 'thrilling'. Idhula naduvula social commentary, humanisaum vEra. 'shabbA.
No Mercy (Korean).
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Nerd engirundhaalum medaikku varavum!!Quote:
Originally Posted by P_R
I don't think I wrote here but I too liked the film Chaser.
PR :noteeth:
Actually I completely forgot about the film. I went to imdb, still could not remember anything. Went to wiki to read the entire plot, halfway through I was able to recollect. Then I went back in this thread to look for my post about the film :oops:Quote:
Originally Posted by littlemaster1982
Anyway (think) I found the film very thrilling and supremely entertaining.
Running Tortoise - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1517239/
I go with Nerd. Like most Korean films, it manages to be gripping in a very classical sense using keys, cellphones, tower level, labyrinth like streets, handcuffs, shrapnel, hammer, and so on. Weak when it suddenly uses a bunch of narrative tricks to earn our feelings for the 'one last victim' (who could be salvaged) & then go on to turn our gaze to the victim's as we're proved wrong. The massacre itself is choreographed with empty virtuosity.
It's no "Memories of Murder" in showcasing Korean police force's investigative shortcomings, or "I Saw the Devil" in macabre-level vengeance seeking FaceOff. The informative tidbits about the Serial killer, much like the killing sequences itself, shoddily opened-up. All the "suggestive" bits (artistic curiosity, religiously inclined torture methods/techniques, impotence, and so on) were nullified by quirky Slasher-esque demon-looking performance. The only great thing about it is the lead performance of "chaser", nearly Choi-min sik level in later stages.
Yes. I liked Chaser too. My wife swallowed 2 mosquitoes in the process of watching this film.
Kid,
Any idea about 'The man from nowhere'?
Nerd, K-g, my prob. is I didn't find it thrilling.
After he is arrested and taken to the station the film confused me - in terms of 'what are they going for'. The bungling system, the topcops having their own issues/agenda, the pimp being the only one who is on-target, his search and piecing things together as he proceeds, unrestrained whacko, having to release him, the murders in all detail.
Too many things stuffed into twelve hours: Finds the girl, girl gets lost, chase again, drops asstend to search, buy soup, hospitalize, go out to do stuff, come back to bedside, gael escape, scary(?), coat clad, clobberfest fights....with no thrill at all. I found it quite tedious. pOdhAkkuRaikku I have little appetite for explicit stuff. adhunaala total damage.
Well of course, it's not that thrilling, which is why I opt for 'gripping' in my post.
:D Oh idhula reNdu koalty irukkAQuote:
Originally Posted by kid-glove
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Originally Posted by P_R
Achually I found the memories of murder to be 'WTF was that' when it ended, much like zodiac, enakkum mudivu (or at least left to audience interpretation) irundhaa dhaan pudikkin. Now this is a spoiler, but I am only doing those who have not seen a favor :lol2:
The anticipation & anxiety of what I'm going to say is the 'thrill'. But if I held your attention throughout, I could be fairly confident of my 'grip', I never intended to 'thrill', it's not my fault you came looking for it! :lol2:Quote:
Originally Posted by P_R
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Recently watched !!
watched "Robin B. Hood" with Jackie Chan
like two men with a baby (a real cutie) who (surprise!) are conmen
of course great stunt scenes
especially in their apartment when overrun by henchmen
just a fun watch overall
actually one great (outtake) scene is when Jackie jumps out a window,
clambers down a wall, lands and jumps to the ground and without losing speed runs to meet
an officer who messes up his one line to which Jackie yells "stop messing up your one liner now I have to do all that in one take again!!"
Madeo a.k.a mother.
sumaar ragam.
I Saw the Devil - most brutal film I have seen. I found few of the plot points very convenient, but that was negligible. Never knew a serial killer film can be shot this beautiful. Top class cinematography :thumbsup:
Yojimbo
If only I had the ability to like a series of great sequences, 'genre exercises'....
Not as wholesome as Seven Samurai.
Toshiro Mifune oozes excellence in the film.Quote:
Originally Posted by P_R
After a good 2 and a half (Indha 2 1/2 ennai vidadhu pola)years I am watching My Sassy Girl (2001) again. What a funny ass film. :clap: Yenda indha madhiri ellam Tamil la edukka maatinguringa. Chai.
Shush! Be careful, Venkat Prabhu might hear you.:smile:
I saw the devil - It's official now. Koreans are the most twisted screenplay thinkers in the world. Great choices of both Protoganist and the antagonist. The knife stab scene in the car can put almost all H/W stunt choreographers to shame. Kalaasal.
Haha, that scene was totally wacky and unexpected.Quote:
Originally Posted by ajithfederer
I saw Noroi The Curse a few days ago... Mindf*cking i must say...
Departures. Man, how do they even think of these stories :notworthy: A poignant film, though a little sappy towards the end.
A takeoff from the excellent Six Feet Under (Starring Dexter's Michael C Hall), I'd think.