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| Zyzyfer 511th Post
 
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|  "continuing the movie discussion"
, posted Sat 27 Jul 11:17
so i watched the much-hyped 쉬리"shiri" (technically it's like, suiri romanized) tonight, since the gf is outta town. i was shocked by the beginning because it was so bloody and brutal and i didn't have any idea why.
this was a good sentimental movie. i thought that the initial plotline started to get too loose and meandering towards the end, but i really really really liked the plot twist. most people can easily catch that hyun is hee before they even make it known, but the really interesting and painful part is that she was formerly with ryu, the agent who died. at least...that's what i gathered from the movie. this made the entire situation really powerful to me, though i felt it wasn't touched on enough.
i really liked that song that played for the ending credits, the one in english when the other agent(i forgot his name...) visited the real hyun again. coupled with the image of the ocean from chejudo, it was really nice, and got me all sentimental. i really liked how the couple(hyun and her fiancee, the agent i don't know the name of) played off each other on the screen. it was purdy.
strange mixture, but not bad. it's no fallen angels!
i should develop a ranking system for these flicks...
"But it has to be three words."
"Three words?"
"Yea..."
"I bang se..."
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| Zyzyfer 513th Post
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| "Re(1):continuing the movie discussion" , posted Sun 28 Jul 07:11
two movies in two days.
i watched 무사"moosa" or "musa" today. it had good points and bad points to it, but overall, this movie had a really cool feel to it. i love chinese history, most notably the three kingdoms period, so these blockheaded battles and insane strategies where the outnumbered can manage to win always impress me. i really loved the scenery and the props for this movie.
but a couple of things didn't make sense. first, the desert scene in the beginning. second, why all the troops magically disappeared for that last scene. i know they all weren't dead...
the fights were brutal but there always seemed to be more deaths than there were troops, and the action moved just a little too fast for me. sometimes i couldn't even tell what happened. the same thing occured at the beginning of shiri.
and zhang ziyi was in it! though she wasn't playing a character very unique from her showing in crouching tiger hidden dragon. still spoiled and all.
the quiet dude yeosol, daejung, the general, and byuljang were my favorites out of the cast. honorable mentions to the mongol/yuan commander. isn't he a pretty famous chinese actor?
i was surprised at the use of both korean and chinese in the movie. it really created this weird effect where you could sort of see how it'd be difficult to communicate. but too many were able to get by with basic chinese from the korean group.
yeosol was probably the coolest character. straight up badass.
i really liked the epic feel of this movie. i just thought the very end got too heavy-handed. and i wonder why daejung managed to survive.
"But it has to be three words."
"Three words?"
"Yea..."
"I bang se..."
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| TheBeast 698th Post
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|  "Shiri + Musa"
, posted Mon 29 Jul 17:50
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two movies in two days.
i watched 무사"moosa" or "musa" today. it had good points and bad points to it, but overall, this movie had a really cool feel to it. i love chinese history, most notably the three kingdoms period, so these blockheaded battles and insane strategies where the outnumbered can manage to win always impress me. i really loved the scenery and the props for this movie.
but a couple of things didn't make sense. first, the desert scene in the beginning. second, why all the troops magically disappeared for that last scene. i know they all weren't dead...
the fights were brutal but there always seemed to be more deaths than there were troops, and the action moved just a little too fast for me. sometimes i couldn't even tell what happened. the same thing occured at the beginning of shiri.
and zhang ziyi was in it! though she wasn't playing a character very unique from her showing in crouching tiger hidden dragon. still spoiled and all.
the quiet dude yeosol, daejung, the general, and byuljang were my favorites out of the cast. honorable mentions to the mongol/yuan commander. isn't he a pretty famous chinese actor?
i was surprised at the use of both korean and chinese in the movie. it really created this weird effect where you could sort of see how it'd be difficult to communicate. but too many were able to get by with basic chinese from the korean group.
yeosol was probably the coolest character. straight up badass.
i really liked the epic feel of this movie. i just thought the very end got too heavy-handed. and i wonder why daejung managed to survive.
*GULP* so sorry, I must have missed the last thread you posted on Shiri!
Regarding Shiri, I watched that movie like 2 years ago so I can't really recall the bulk of it. But it was one of my first korean movies and I could only remember that it was very well done as an action film. The storyline about the conflict of North and South Korea was great just like JSA - I suppose in reality the koreans do feel bitter about the split since they belong together. The cruel side of politics. I will go find the VCD, watch it again, and get back to more discussions.
Yes, I enjoyed Musa as well. Besides the fact that it was a Mortal Kombat set in Ancient China (the movie really shows how many different ways you can die in a battle), yes I do agree that the sceneries and props are the main factors that contributed to the success of the movies. But I didn't notice that they deploy a lot of successful strategies in the movie - most of them failed right at the start anyway... and it is always yeosol coming to save the day...Oh yes I agree yeosol is simply one of the best characters I have seen on-screen - he simply rules!!! I bet the actor must have gained a lot of new female fans...
The desert scene was there because the chinese captured the korean troops who were there to talk about some military affairs (I think). But instead of killing them the chinese banished them to the borders of China, which is deserted and close to the deserts (if I remembered yes there are deserts in china...but I could be wrong).
The troops? All the korean troops died during the castle battle, so did the chinese troops. I suppose the general only lead a small army to attack in the final castle scene as he was given the orders to retreat, but he was still determined to get the princess.
Zhang Ziyi was pretty OK as a babe factor in the movie, and yes she was not quite different from Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon. The chinese general was not a famous chinese actor, but appeared in many movies and serials though - he was given a lot of supporting or baddie roles, hence he never enjoyed a lot of fame. It kinda surprised me that he was given such a meaty role in the movie, but he really carried the role well, and kudos to him for that.
Daejung survived because he was a sniper! I suppose he was hiding in the corners that he couldn't be noticed easily...heh.
The only thing I do not really understand is...Why the hell do they need a translator where everyone seems to understand one another? The koreans can speak chinese pretty well anyway...
Hey zyzyfer, I noticed that you kinda avoided those lovey-dovey Korean movies. Perhaps you can try watching them with your girl, huh? I recommend "Il mare" or "My Sassy Girl" if you are interested.
Glad to know you enjoyed Musa...Me too!
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| Zyzyfer 518th Post
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| "Re(1):Shiri + Musa" , posted Tue 30 Jul 01:09
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The storyline about the conflict of North and South Korea was great just like JSA - I suppose in reality the koreans do feel bitter about the split since they belong together. The cruel side of politics. I will go find the VCD, watch it again, and get back to more discussions.
yea, but in jsa, the conflict was reasonable and viable. i could realistically see that happening day-to-day. in shiri, the plot was too fantastic, and overdid the sentiments quite a bit...
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The desert scene was there because the chinese captured the korean troops who were there to talk about some military affairs (I think). But instead of killing them the chinese banished them to the borders of China, which is deserted and close to the deserts (if I remembered yes there are deserts in china...but I could be wrong).
yea, there's deserts in china. namely in that area.
but i remember someone all died during this, they cut off his hair, and then next thing i know, administrative matters are happening. confusing.
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The chinese general was not a famous chinese actor, but appeared in many movies and serials though - he was given a lot of supporting or baddie roles, hence he never enjoyed a lot of fame.
really? i've seen him around, in something...dunno what though. ah well.
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The only thing I do not really understand is...Why the hell do they need a translator where everyone seems to understand one another? The koreans can speak chinese pretty well anyway...
yea, the chinese couldn't understand a word. i also noticed that they *usually* tried to keep the talking really simple for those who only knew one language when they interacted with the other language. i know the princess once asked what everyone was saying. the korean general might actually know some stuff, and the administrators probably would know some stuff. it was always the interpreter who went into detail for the complex issues. but really, it's a movie and following that fact rigidly would've slowed it down a whole heckuva lot.
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Hey zyzyfer, I noticed that you kinda avoided those lovey-dovey Korean movies. Perhaps you can try watching them with your girl, huh? I recommend "Il mare" or "My Sassy Girl" if you are interested.
i'm working my way down to those. i usually get stuck watching stuff by myself...and i'm trying to watch the famous recommended movies first, then find rarities. really, i'd prefer to watch 후아유 Who Are You? as the first lovey-dovey movie...or something like that. might watch with the girl, but...she probably watched them all before~
I don't mind the sun sometimes the image as it shows
I can taste you on my lips and smell you in my clothes
Cinnamon and sugary and softly spoken lies
You never know just how you look through other peoples' eyes...
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