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  1. The movie's like new robot character Cogman. Desultory, shameless, insane, fascinating.
  2. I think Hirokazu Koreeda has little in common with Asghar Farhadi.
  3. Hirokazu Koreeda's humorous & heartwarming depictions about broken family and immature adults were somewhat routine yet quite adorable.
  4. Yeah '71 version was pretty intriguing, provocative film. All the women in the film were damn sensual yet creepy and especially Geraldin Page was best to me.
  5. Elegant and stirring reminiscence about unusual glory in gloomy age. Clint Eastwood is the master.
  6. La La Land deserves way more attentions and appreciations. But many Korean audiences really love social criticism & sob story like Pandora.
  7. Saw the film. Vincente Minnelli, Jacques Demy, Robert Wise, Stanley Donen and any other master would appreciate the bewitching beauty of it. Entrancing work.
  8. Didn't you know? Wolfgang said whopper was gorgeously delicious.
  9. I don't give a shit and any fucker could be regarded as great filmmaker. Coen brothers's favorite filmmaker is Adrian Lyne. Even some "greatest" filmmakers are not sacred cows. Bergman thought Antonioni & Godard just sucked ass. It's not about right and wrong. Art asks whether you agree or disagree. That's it.
  10. First of all, making "all time classics" is not the only way to prove someone's filmmaking talent. And what's the absolute standard of all time classics? Is there an irrefutable criteria for judgment? I've seen bunch of people who think Bay's films like Armageddon & Bad Boys etc are timeless classics. Some of them are just average Joe, but some of 'em are passionate moviegoers and even filmmakers. So are their opinions relevant? Or not? You talk like you're enumerating some objective facts like "water is wet." But actually it's just opinion. Even "The Rock is a cool action movie" is not a factual account of events. It's just subjective view which I agree with. I know Bay is not a favorite figure to many moviegoers and critics. But nobody has to follow critical consensus and I think it's one of the great thing about art. I think some opinions which take for granted that he's an just awful & negligible figure are pretty ridiculous.
  11. I don't know. Maybe some people genuinely appreciate the films and I wouldn't call them being ironic or hipsters. And Bay has made 12 feature films besides Pearl Harbor and ROTF for over twenty years.
  12. Joss Whedon, Nicolas Winding Lefn, David Gordon Green, James Wan, Jason Reitman, Todd Phillips, Jordan Vogt Roberts, Dan Trachtenberg etc love Bay's works too. Yeah they are fucking clueless hipsters.
  13. Technically, Seoul Station has little connection with Train To Busan. It's not a prequel but just another Zombie feature from same filmmaker. Personally I liked Seoul Station. Some technological limitations like crude design and unripe voice acting may bother many audiences. But its latter half is relentlessly scathing. Especially the model house scene is a riot to me.
  14. Wow it's indeed a mess. Not a fun mess but tedious, mawkish, hypocritical mess which unexpectedly disregards such a bad-ass premise. I don't know who might be responsible. I just know whoever they are, like Harley Quinn said. "pussies."
  15. There was a time when 10 million admission film in SK market seems absolutely impossible. Now we've got 18 films. And today, many independent films rarely get 10 thousand admission. Such a glorious polarization. BTW what's your favorite film among them? I like The Host, Veteran, King And The Clown.
  16. It was a charming film. Vividly captures innocence and cruelty of children.
  17. Train to Busan was quite a disappointment. I expected it's a somewhat generic blockbuster, but I didn't expect it's a lifelessly generic like this. Actually it embodies all the flaws of Korean tentpole films for several years. Merely functional and bland characters, clumsy and expository dialogues, wooden or exaggerated performances, horribly corny sentimentalism etc. Even it rarely has some inventive or energetic action scenes. Of course it has some merits. We can appreciate Yeon Sang Ho's critical look at inhumane characteristics in Korean society which mislead public opinion and ostracize the weak and refuse the solidarity. But that's all. I don't have a problem with typicality of summer blockbusters. But it doesn't have to be unsophisticated, literal-minded, banal like the film. I just hope his next feature Seoul Station is keen and daring like his previous works.
  18. Enormously liked Yeon Sang-Ho's previous animated features. Those have haunting thrills and horrifyingly scathing insight into social absurdity and human nature. But while I really wanna see Train To Busan, it seems pretty archetypal tentpole. I think The Tunnel could remind many audiences of MV Sewol accident and resonate with them.
  19. Yeah I agree with your opinion. I feel its "caper film" aspect encroaches on the ladies's emotional story. The film intensively deals with hidden conspiracy and twists and its rhythm becomes rushed. But frankly I want sensual hooks like "thimble" scene a little more. I want the film makes me truly feel the passion and tension of the ladies's affections. But in the end, I was somewhat unsatisfied. While I did enjoy the film, I don't think it's Park Chan Wook's one of better works.
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