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| Zyzyfer 469th Post
 
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|  "Re(2):Korean movies anyone?"
, posted Tue 25 Jun 21:59
most people know shiri and my wife is a gangster.
it's funny, i'm living in korea but i don't watch korean movies. this is due to the fact that subtitles for them in english are all but nonexistent. i'd have to get on a train for an hour, go up to seoul, then find the theatre and watch the movie, then catch the train back home. lotta work for a movie. then, when i do plot to do it, i always end up being alone, and i hate watching movies by myself. so, even that option is difficult.
the only recent movie i've noted that interested me at all was 후아유?"who are you?", which is kind of like "you've got mail" in that it's about online love and alL. i only was interested to see it though, because the soundtrack isn't too bad for it. otherwise, there's a movie that's extremely famous, about a young boy and a deaf/mute grandmother(or something like that), and another one that looks really nice, about a famous painter, but i just simply can't see 'em.
아싸아아...월요일임니다! ???
합기도화이팅!!!
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| TheBeast 546th Post
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|  "My opinions"
, posted Wed 26 Jun 02:40
My opinion about Korean movies is that they give another breathe into movie-viewing when I watch too much Hollywood. It used to be Japanese movies, but somehow Korean movies are beginning to take over.
Shiri is a decent action-packed movie that could match Hollywood with a very interesting storyplot.
Muza...I haven't seen it but so far most people like it...I am not sure whetherif that is because Zhang Ziyi is in it. I am hoping to see some neat martial arts stuff in it.
My wife is a gangster is a light comedy with a unique twist of gender roles. Not much of story plot, but good for some laughs.
Friends is a good movie, although to me it is rather cliche - there has been too many movies about gangsters. But the film was well-handled by the production crew.
I find that Koreans make great movies about love like Christmas in August, Il mare, One Fine Spring Day and I do agree to a certain extent that they are more lovey-dovey than other genres of movies. But they do come up with very hilarious movies like Guns and Talks and Hi!Dharma...and movies that touches on humanitarian issues such as JSA.
Hollywood has already noted the attraction of Korean movies and thus buying rights to produce the movies in US. This further proves the charms and trendsetting potential of korean movies. But the interesting thing is that these movies are less than 5 years old. From what I know, Korean movies began its popularity only after the success of Shiri. (hope I got my facts right)
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most people know shiri and my wife is a gangster.
it's funny, i'm living in korea but i don't watch korean movies. this is due to the fact that subtitles for them in english are all but nonexistent. i'd have to get on a train for an hour, go up to seoul, then find the theatre and watch the movie, then catch the train back home. lotta work for a movie. then, when i do plot to do it, i always end up being alone, and i hate watching movies by myself. so, even that option is difficult.
the only recent movie i've noted that interested me at all was 후아유?"who are you?", which is kind of like "you've got mail" in that it's about online love and alL. i only was interested to see it though, because the soundtrack isn't too bad for it. otherwise, there's a movie that's extremely famous, about a young boy and a deaf/mute grandmother(or something like that), and another one that looks really nice, about a famous painter, but i just simply can't see 'em.
Oh dear, that is rather sad. I just hate it when I have to spend a lot of time to travel far for a show or to find company... Are most of the cinemas located in Seoul?
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| TheBeast 548th Post
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| "Re(2):My opinions" , posted Wed 26 Jun 19:55
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hehe Shiri was kinda wierd for me..halfway through my roomate and I turned to each other and at the same time said "How long is this movie???" hehe. It was pretty good, albeit very linear.
I also got Bichunmoo on DVD...basically some HK-style swordfighting (not quite as elaborate but remeniscent of Jet Li's Swordsman II in a way, to me at least) with the thick romance that comes with a lot of Korean films. I enjoyed it a lot though...hehe, bought it for the cool case ^_^
Yes, I'm a dork..
Ahhhhhh Bichunmoo...How did I miss that out? It must be the most funniest martial arts film I have seen...Lets see why...
Spoiler (Highlight to view) -
1. The setting is in some old ancient days, but you get to hear quite a lot of techno music running in the background.
2. The actor, who played the male lead in the teens, got to play the male lead's son in the teens, in the same movie! Whoa, I never realised any father and son could look so much alike...
3. The male lead was poisoned severely, and yet he survived way long to the final minutes of the movies to unleash the ultimate death blow to the baddie.
End of Spoiler
Nevertheless, another enjoyable korean movie...
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| TheBeast 549th Post
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| "Re(2):My opinions" , posted Wed 26 Jun 20:06
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personally though, i prefer the hk drama genre, chou yunpa(chow yun fat) and wong karwai(spelling?) flicks, as opposed to most other stuff. i've been a diehard fan of "fallen angels" since the day i saw it.
Yup, Chow is one of my favourite actor too. He is a very talented, and if you get to see his much earlier HK flicks, you can see that his comedian side. I recommend one of his best movies "The story of Ah Lang"... he had the most touching performance that I still vividly remembered.
Yup, I enjoyed Fallen Angel too. Wong's movies are most often "puzzling", as you could most likely sit through the whole movie but ended up wondering what the movie is all about, or what the messages the movie is trying to bring across. Fallen Angel is one of those films that I could still understand by Wong. But don't let them fool you into believing that all Wong's movies are serious. He produced a couple of hilarious comedies too.
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| Zyzyfer 471th Post
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| "Re(3):My opinions" , posted Thu 27 Jun 00:17
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Yup, I enjoyed Fallen Angel too. Wong's movies are most often "puzzling", as you could most likely sit through the whole movie but ended up wondering what the movie is all about, or what the messages the movie is trying to bring across. Fallen Angel is one of those films that I could still understand by Wong. But don't let them fool you into believing that all Wong's movies are serious. He produced a couple of hilarious comedies too.
i had to watch fallen angels several times to begin to put together the smaller parts of the story and begin figuring out how connected it was. admittedly, the first time i saw it i was totally attracted to the cinematography, and not much else. but now, it's just all around good.
that final scene on the motorbike has to be my favorite scene in a movie.
yea, hk can make killer comedies too. i forget his name, but one of the famous guys in shaolin soccer, i've seen some of his stuff. stupid and cool, heh.
아싸아아...월요일임니다! ???
합기도화이팅!!!
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| TheBeast 550th Post
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| "Re(4):My opinions" , posted Fri 28 Jun 10:40
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Yup, I enjoyed Fallen Angel too. Wong's movies are most often "puzzling", as you could most likely sit through the whole movie but ended up wondering what the movie is all about, or what the messages the movie is trying to bring across. Fallen Angel is one of those films that I could still understand by Wong. But don't let them fool you into believing that all Wong's movies are serious. He produced a couple of hilarious comedies too.
i had to watch fallen angels several times to begin to put together the smaller parts of the story and begin figuring out how connected it was. admittedly, the first time i saw it i was totally attracted to the cinematography, and not much else. but now, it's just all around good.
that final scene on the motorbike has to be my favorite scene in a movie.
yea, hk can make killer comedies too. i forget his name, but one of the famous guys in shaolin soccer, i've seen some of his stuff. stupid and cool, heh.
yup...that motorbike scene was cool...I still remembered the male lead (who died before that)'s most memorable line "We shouldn't do things we weren't sure of"( something like that)
Shaolin soccer lead Stephen Chow made a lot of comedies, and most of them were hilarious movies based on chinese folklore...He even played a weird Monkey God falling in love with some lady demons! Well, some people can't accept him ruin the good chinese legends, so nowadays he just used new ideas of his own, which are terrific as well as Shaolin Soccer had proofed...
OK back to the topic, uhh to sum it up all, Korean movies still rock, and I am waiting for them to take the world by storm...heh...
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| Zyzyfer 474th Post
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| "Re(7):My opinions" , posted Mon 1 Jul 09:25
아 friggin' 싸!
finally found a place in my city which shows korean movie dvds, which means you can switch the language to english subtitles/korean speech, and i finally got to see "Gangster Wife", or, as most people know it, "My Wife is a Gangster". quite funny movie, though i fear some jokes are underrated. there's a couple of references in the movie to korean style of things that are difficult to find the humor in otherwise, like the bit where Cha Eunjin goes berserk on the dudes who yell at her for smoking.
i love the usage of scenery in the movie. it's so different, as they almost seem to just kind of plop down in the middle of a city somewhere and start filming. hollywood kinda does it too, but it seemed...authentic in this movie.
아싸아아...월요일임니다! ???
합기도화이팅!!!
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| TheBeast 554th Post
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| "Re(8):My opinions" , posted Mon 1 Jul 18:52
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아 friggin' 싸!
finally found a place in my city which shows korean movie dvds, which means you can switch the language to english subtitles/korean speech, and i finally got to see "Gangster Wife", or, as most people know it, "My Wife is a Gangster". quite funny movie, though i fear some jokes are underrated. there's a couple of references in the movie to korean style of things that are difficult to find the humor in otherwise, like the bit where Cha Eunjin goes berserk on the dudes who yell at her for smoking.
i love the usage of scenery in the movie. it's so different, as they almost seem to just kind of plop down in the middle of a city somewhere and start filming. hollywood kinda does it too, but it seemed...authentic in this movie.
Hmmmmm you are right, I don't really catch some of the jokes depicted in the movie. Yup, I suppose they are particularly funny to the Koreans who understand them. One other example is that when Cha Eunjin was approached by a kid and asked her what is another term for "policeman" and she answered "doughnut"....Everyone in the room was rudely shocked, but I couldn't tell the humour in it.
Nice movie huh? yeah I like the city scenes too...
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| TheBeast 555th Post
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| "Re(10):My opinions" , posted Wed 3 Jul 02:12
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Hmmmmm you are right, I don't really catch some of the jokes depicted in the movie. Yup, I suppose they are particularly funny to the Koreans who understand them. One other example is that when Cha Eunjin was approached by a kid and asked her what is another term for "policeman" and she answered "doughnut"....Everyone in the room was rudely shocked, but I couldn't tell the humour in it.
Nice movie huh? yeah I like the city scenes too...
that doughnut eater joke actually had nothing to do with doughnuts. my korean friend said it was just something really, extremely, utterly rude, and something you'd never hear a normal korean wife even dare to say. it was basically shibal(f***er) x 10~
i'll be catching a movie each weekend at that place until i exhaust the shelf. next week is jsa, joint security area.
Yup, thats what I meant: jokes that can be only understood by Koreans...By the way, does shibal really mean f***er? In the movie "My Sassy girl", the characters use that word like nobody's business, and the subtitle for it was "Damn it!"...
Oh yeah J.S.A., one of the best Korean films I have watched. Highly recommended. The plot was somewhat confusing though, and I do not catch 100% of it even after watching the 2nd time. Nevertheless, it did not spolit the movie, and you will find the cinematography very well done.
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| Zyzyfer 476th Post
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| "Re(2):Re(10):My opinions" , posted Wed 3 Jul 09:31
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Yup, thats what I meant: jokes that can be only understood by Koreans...By the way, does shibal really mean f***er? In the movie "My Sassy girl", the characters use that word like nobody's business, and the subtitle for it was "Damn it!"...
this is part of the problem in translating from the asiatic languages to english. in japanese and korean in particular, they just have generic curses, and it's more based on the way you say it to denote just how rude it is. like, if i say to a person "shibal" i can be calling them a f***er, or i can just be saying damn. it can translate into damn it, i suppose, but it holds a more profane status as a curse than "damn it!" does in english. the equivalent to "damn it!" in korean is stuff like "aosh" and "ishi", which i probably romanized wrong. you say "shibal", and conservative peoples' heads will turn~
likewise, if you translated curses in english back into direct korean, they'll be like "that's the worst thing i've ever heard!" it's true though, considering one of the worst curses involves calling the person's mother a comfort woman for japanese soldiers during the occupation, by referring to something i won't explain on the board...-_-
there's your korean cursing lesson for the day~
"But it has to be three words."
"Three words?"
"Yea..."
"I bang se..."
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| TheBeast 562th Post
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| "Re(3):Re(10):My opinions" , posted Wed 3 Jul 20:21
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Yup, thats what I meant: jokes that can be only understood by Koreans...By the way, does shibal really mean f***er? In the movie "My Sassy girl", the characters use that word like nobody's business, and the subtitle for it was "Damn it!"...
this is part of the problem in translating from the asiatic languages to english. in japanese and korean in particular, they just have generic curses, and it's more based on the way you say it to denote just how rude it is. like, if i say to a person "shibal" i can be calling them a f***er, or i can just be saying damn. it can translate into damn it, i suppose, but it holds a more profane status as a curse than "damn it!" does in english. the equivalent to "damn it!" in korean is stuff like "aosh" and "ishi", which i probably romanized wrong. you say "shibal", and conservative peoples' heads will turn~
likewise, if you translated curses in english back into direct korean, they'll be like "that's the worst thing i've ever heard!" it's true though, considering one of the worst curses involves calling the person's mother a comfort woman for japanese soldiers during the occupation, by referring to something i won't explain on the board...-_-
there's your korean cursing lesson for the day~
Oh yeah thanks for the explaination!
Hope you enjoy JSA.
I see you rewrote your signature to the one about My Wife is a Gangster...heh...
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| Zyzyfer 482th Post
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| "JSA" , posted Tue 9 Jul 09:52
copy paste job. complete with my bunk typing from another forum. woo!
i watched the next korean movie in the lineup, "jsA" or "joint security areA." it's a movie about soldiers on the north/south border of korea at the truce village of panmunjoum, who start off as enemies but end up becoming friendS. of course, with such high tension, something's bound to go wrong, and all except one man end up deaD.
there were some funny bits in the movie, and though i've only seen two korean movies so far, in those two i noticed they'll take a super-serious hollywood moment and do something completely off-the-wall which makes you just have to laugH. for instance, jsa is an overall serious movie, but there's one scene where the woman investigating is passing out files to the two men she's going to interrogate, and they look at the files for a moment, then back at heR. suddenly she just blurts out "sorrY!" and switches the files, having given the two men the wrong fileS. it's nothing ultra-hilarious, but makes the movie feel a little more reaL.
likewise, in gangster wife, during this super-serious duel between the gangster woman and her arch-nemesis, they're fighting in a fielD. they clash, and suddenly she disappearS. he looks around for some time, then hears the sound of peeinG. she pops back up, zipping up her pantS. whaT?!? heH...
there were a lot of tense scenes when guns went up, held in shaky handS. it's probably the closest i'll get to seeing panmunjoum, considering americans aren't allowed to access it, last i checkeD. definitely not a hollywood ending, since, like i said before, 3 of the 4 friends end up dead, and the last one doesn't have much else to look forward to anymorE.
the movie takes a while to make sense thougH. and the swiss/french english accents were a pain in the asS.
"But it has to be three words."
"Three words?"
"Yea..."
"I bang se..."
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| TheBeast 585th Post
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| "Re(1):JSA" , posted Tue 9 Jul 10:14:
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copy paste job. complete with my bunk typing from another forum. woo!
i watched the next korean movie in the lineup, "jsA" or "joint security areA." it's a movie about soldiers on the north/south border of korea at the truce village of panmunjoum, who start off as enemies but end up becoming friendS. of course, with such high tension, something's bound to go wrong, and all except one man end up deaD.
there were some funny bits in the movie, and though i've only seen two korean movies so far, in those two i noticed they'll take a super-serious hollywood moment and do something completely off-the-wall which makes you just have to laugH. for instance, jsa is an overall serious movie, but there's one scene where the woman investigating is passing out files to the two men she's going to interrogate, and they look at the files for a moment, then back at heR. suddenly she just blurts out "sorrY!" and switches the files, having given the two men the wrong fileS. it's nothing ultra-hilarious, but makes the movie feel a little more reaL.
likewise, in gangster wife, during this super-serious duel between the gangster woman and her arch-nemesis, they're fighting in a fielD. they clash, and suddenly she disappearS. he looks around for some time, then hears the sound of peeinG. she pops back up, zipping up her pantS. whaT?!? heH...
there were a lot of tense scenes when guns went up, held in shaky handS. it's probably the closest i'll get to seeing panmunjoum, considering americans aren't allowed to access it, last i checkeD. definitely not a hollywood ending, since, like i said before, 3 of the 4 friends end up dead, and the last one doesn't have much else to look forward to anymorE.
the movie takes a while to make sense thougH. and the swiss/french english accents were a pain in the asS.
I can't really tell from the review if you enjoyed the movie or not. Hopefully you did.
I really like the cinematography and the music being used in JSA. One really good shot is the one whereby the roof of a camp was transformed into the top of an umbrella. The transistion was really well-done.
Ah yes, the love of korean movies also come from the fact that the way that added humour to the movie, without disturbing the mood to experience the tension in the vital parts of the movie. In "my wife is a gangster", when the female lead was kicked in the stomach and she was pleading with her enemies not to kick her as she was pregnant, you could really sympathize with her in that situation, without realising that you laughed at her 10 mins ago in another scene.
Well, I suppose thats the end of the discussion, or unless you are going to watch another korean movie anytime soon.
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