Movie Talk (New Films, Old Films... doesn't matter) (85 Viewers)
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By my favourite Korean director Chan wook park, and Mia wasikowska is ever more wonderful young actress, but besides some good tense psychological scenes (its a dark triller), its doesnt really stand up to the directors Korean work. Get what he was trying for, but it dragged on way too long that made it harder to really get immersed into the story, though the best scenes were engaging enough. Perhaps I shouldnt have had such high hopes, besides an Ang Lee work here or there, my prefered asian directors dont tend to fit too well in their style with western/american work.
P.S I'm going to semi-spoiler you and make it clear it has NOTHING to do with vampires, despite the name of the movie.
Saw a wild collection of movies in the past 24 hours:
This is the End - Liked it. Kind of a ripoff of Dogma in a way, but the actors playing themselves redeemed it.
Iron Sky - You have to be kidding: Finnish production of Nazis in space living on the dark side of the moon and planning to attack earth again? And there are legions of morons investing in this movie and its related crap?
Oh, a thumbs up for the comedy value alone.
The Doomsday Book - I know this won awards for its three stories. And I honestly tried to be sensitive to, say, how a Korean would tell a zombie story. But dammit if it didn't drag on and put me to sleep. Lame.
Pontypool - OK, yet another zombie movie, but this time in rural Ontario. But I really liked this flick. Good acting, and the scene-setting came off as a play. What was refreshing was that the movie worked on the unknown. Just too often we're given some horror or tragedy right in the visual face with CGI going berserk that it's nothing like how real tragedies happen -- which is usually with confusion, with a lack of information, with a vague piecing-together of what people have observed, etc. Yeah, it's a bit of a modern War of the Worlds radio play in that sense, but it worked. Recommended.
This is the End - Liked it. Kind of a ripoff of Dogma in a way, but the actors playing themselves redeemed it.
Iron Sky - You have to be kidding: Finnish production of Nazis in space living on the dark side of the moon and planning to attack earth again? And there are legions of morons investing in this movie and its related crap?
Oh, a thumbs up for the comedy value alone.The Doomsday Book - I know this won awards for its three stories. And I honestly tried to be sensitive to, say, how a Korean would tell a zombie story. But dammit if it didn't drag on and put me to sleep. Lame.
Pontypool - OK, yet another zombie movie, but this time in rural Ontario. But I really liked this flick. Good acting, and the scene-setting came off as a play. What was refreshing was that the movie worked on the unknown. Just too often we're given some horror or tragedy right in the visual face with CGI going berserk that it's nothing like how real tragedies happen -- which is usually with confusion, with a lack of information, with a vague piecing-together of what people have observed, etc. Yeah, it's a bit of a modern War of the Worlds radio play in that sense, but it worked. Recommended.
Iron Sky - You have to be kidding: Finnish production of Nazis in space living on the dark side of the moon and planning to attack earth again? And there are legions of morons investing in this movie and its related crap? Oh, a thumbs up for the comedy value alone.
Oh, a thumbs up for the comedy value alone.
