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On 7/13/2021 at 2:14 PM, AngryDragon said:

Called Peninsula. Huge disappointment. Skip it. 

On 7/13/2021 at 2:16 PM, Zepol87 said:

Yea it sucks

I just watched the trailer and it looks awesome. how does it suck so bad?

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Updating my S Korea rankings

Oldboy- 10/10

The Handmaiden- 10/10

Burning- 10/10

The Wailing- 10/10

Parasite- 10/10

Memories of Murder- 10/10

A Bittersweet Life- 9.5/10

The Man from Nowhere- 8.5/10

I Saw the Devil- 8/10

Lady Vengeance- 8/10

Train to Busan- 8/10

JSA- 7.5/10

Age of Shadows- 7.5/10

Mother- 7.5/10

Tale of Two Sisters- 7.5/10

Cut (the S Korean segment from Three Extremes)- 7/10

Okja- 6.5/10

Sympathy for Mr Vengeance- 6/10

Chaser- 6/10

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I am a big Korean film buff.  Lots of good ones listed here.  I saw a mention of New World which is one of the most intense films I've ever seen.  Between that film, A Bittersweet Life and A Company Man, 70% of Korea's male population must be dead.  If you like gangster films, Don Lee is in a ton of them.  He plays the same guy in every movie but he plays it really well and they're always entertaining

If you like drama/suspense.  Joint Security Area is great and The Berlin File is really good (spy stuff).  The Thieves is entertaining as well (Ocean's 11 type movie).  The Brotherhood of War is pretty great (Korean war)

Twenty is a decent comedy about guys trying to lose their virginity and if you can find Welcome to Waikiki, that's the funniest k drama I've ever seen.  Season 1 is better than season 2 but the ongoing saga of Rebecca the car kills me

Koreans also do the best melodrama out there so if you can find Ode to My Father, that is fantastic.  More Than Blue is the saddest movie I've ever seen.  Sunny is phenomenal. There are some great romance dramas that aren't cheesy like The Classic, My Sassy Girl (anything with Jun Ji-hyun is typically really good like Il Mare and Windstruck), A Moment to Remember, Christmas in August...

If you like k dramas at all, there are too many great ones to mention but Netflix should still have Live, about rookie cops in Seoul and Misaeng, which convinced me to never ever work for a Korean company.  They just dropped Reply 1997 which is an all time great IMO.  There are dozens of great dramas though

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On 5/3/2020 at 7:21 PM, BNB said:

I saw the devil

Chaser

The Man from nowhere

Memories of murder

PSA: Memories of Murder is on Hulu at the moment. I watched it this weekend. I saw it recommended on tiktok and it was worth the watch and read (subtitles.) I don't really know much about Korean history but I had forgotten that South Korea was effectively a dictatorship/military rule even as late as the 80s. While not a plot point, it is set in that environment and you see it in the context. 

Great film and the last shot, very chilling.

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2 hours ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

PSA: Memories of Murder is on Hulu at the moment. I watched it this weekend. I saw it recommended on tiktok and it was worth the watch and read (subtitles.) I don't really know much about Korean history but I had forgotten that South Korea was effectively a dictatorship/military rule even as late as the 80s. While not a plot point, it is set in that environment and you see it in the context. 

Great film and the last shot, very chilling.

They caught the killer a few years ago too. Definitely preferred this over Parasite.

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Semi-related to the thread, Pachinko has been a good watch on Apple tv. Multi-generational story of a Korean family starting in Japan-occupied Korea. I believe the showrunner is actually Korean-American. 

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Watched a few Korean flicks over the weekend. 
all have already been mentioned ITT

Mother: pretty good 7.5/10

Yellow Sea: long, 7/10

Bittersweet Life: 8/10

Chaser: i liked this one 8.5/10

 

not a lot of happy endings (no inuendo intended) in K Movies. Memories of Murder is one of my favorite movies of any kind 

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6 hours ago, kingkoopa6 said:

Decision To Leave. 
 

anyone catch it? Hulu 

It's pretty good

6 hours ago, kingkoopa6 said:

Same dude that did Oldboy and handmaiden

And Lady Vengeance, and Stoker

Stoker is his english movie, and is fucking amazing 

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That actress is hella fine.


Caught the first hour before bed, left myself a cliffhanger.


Had to stop because it was almost 2 a.m., and finishing would’ve put me at 3. (I’m an insomniac with sleep apnea and 2 kids under 2, not an issue. But gotta sleep sometime.)

And why is it that I hate having subtitles on when I understand the language, but love them for international films/TV? With foreign stuff, it feels like reading a book but in movie form.

Which is probably why I like reading… I visualize what I’m reading like it’s a movie.

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40 minutes ago, dogbreath said:

And the actress was awesome in Lust, Caution. 

She looked super familiar . But now that you mentioned it. It’s cuz of the main guy in that movie was the same main guy in 2046 ( that I recommended earlier in here, but researched and realized it was Chinese) I saw lust and caution because of him and remember her. 
 

long time ago tho. Couldn’t tell you what it was about. But maybe it needs a rewatch 

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29 minutes ago, kingkoopa6 said:

She looked super familiar . But now that you mentioned it. It’s cuz of the main guy in that movie was the same main guy in 2046 ( that I recommended earlier in here, but researched and realized it was Chinese) I saw lust and caution because of him and remember her. 
 

long time ago tho. Couldn’t tell you what it was about. But maybe it needs a rewatch 

Now upon further research. The main guy is also the evil dad in Shang chi lord of the rings or whatever it was called. 

and a whole bunch of other movies 

 

but I’m rambling on, cuz I watched 2046 way back when blockbuster was sending out dvds in the mail  

before Netflix, yall remember ? It was like $5 a month and you could order 3 or 4 dvds at a time 

But anyway. I watched it cuz I read them two hot chicks from memoirs of a geisha was in it. 
 

zhang ziyi and gong li. Sexy to me back in 2005. 
 

was living in Okinawa then, but yea, I might have maybe been bit  with the yellow fever 

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Posted

Decision to Leave is good, but pretty mid for Park Chan-Wook, which says more about him than the movie.  He makes great movies. 

Decision to Leave is beautiful looking and that ending is wild.

Posted

A company man- on the South Korean cinema depravity scale of The Man from Nowhere to Oldboy, this is very close to the former. Solid action flick with a short runtime, streaming on prime 

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