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Comment on HELLCATS leaves its feisty mark by Brian

Brian — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 04:26:30 +0000

I enjoyed bits and pieces of Hell Cats but not the film so much as a whole primarily because the two main female characters engendered so little empathy from me. Ah-mi the main character is generally dislikable spending most of the film getting drunk and whining and her sister is brittle and totally nasty to the younger man in her life (leaving money on the bed after sex). The film for me was redeemed though by a wonderfully sweet performance from Ahn So-hee who plays the teenage daughter (who is rather plain but truly adorable) who is as surprised as the audience is to discover that her heart belongs to her best friend who is a female schoolmate. When they practice kiss a whole new world is suddenly revealed to them that is delicate, innocent, numbing and exhilerating. That felt like the only true moment/emotion in the film to me.

Comment on Nikkatsu Action in the Pacific Northwest by Asian Movie

Asian Movie — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 03:46:35 +0000

Hi, what entice you to post an article on Nikkatsu Action in the Pacific Northwest? This article was extremely interesting, especially since I was searching for thoughts on this subject last Saturday.

Comment on TOKYO GORE POLICE gets HR review by Stan Glick

Stan Glick — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 18:49:14 +0000

How could you not love TGP? As I walked out of the theater, I said something about Citizen Kane no longer being the greatest movie ever made! A bit ofg hyperbole, but it reflected my feelings at the time. More realistically, I haven’t enjoyed a film this much since I saw Ichi the Killer a few years ago. And that’s really saying a lot!!!

Comment on Shark Week by Marc

Marc — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:41:18 +0000

My favorite shark attack:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=1nzd0R_OeOc

Comment on Shark Week by thatjasonguy

thatjasonguy — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 02:48:55 +0000

“The name “Burke” comes from “Carter Burke”, Paul Reiser’s character in ALIENS who set the bar high for all Burkes to come.”

The name “Burke” is doubly appropriate for this type of character:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=berk

Comment on NYAFF Audience Award by Brian

Brian — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 08:09:06 +0000

Geez no love for SUKIYAKI from you guys! How much of that was not being able to understand the actors? I had a lot of people come up to me afterwards and tell me they would have liked it a lot more if they could have actually understood the dialogue. I saw it at Pusan where it had English subs and I liked it a lot though it definitely meanders a bit too much at times. But more importantly, how is the Sukiyaki T-shirt hold up?

M was one of the more divided films - a number of people took a real dislike to it but a whole bunch of people voted 10 on it and some told me they thought it was a masterpiece. But Lee Myung-se’s films often tend to divide audiences - DUELIST which we showed in 2006 has loads of rabid fans in Korea who saw it dozens of times but it got reamed in the press and flopped badly at the box office. Perhaps my favorite Korean film is his NOWHERE TO HIDE made back in the early years of this decade - again very much style driven but incredibly visually interesting and creative. The Korean Fest in August is showing this film as part of their retro on Ahn Sung-Ki and I highly recommend it - though you may well hate it!

Comment on NYAFF Audience Award by essrog

essrog — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:37:33 +0000

I do applaud the addition of the Jury Award / even if I won’t necessarily agree with their decisions. I wasn’t able to see Saaa-ad, Va-cation (I can’t get that whinnying title song from the trailer out of my head), but I will definitely keep an eye out for it since the Jury has spoken <—- tell this to your sponsors, distributors, etc. for future leverage in getting more quality flicks to future festivals

I was also unable to see Maaa-ad, De-tective (no song that I recall, just fun), but I will definitely make an effort after the anecdotal feedback in these comments.

Sukiyaki Western Django: Ai-yi-yi! This one falls into that category of his movies where he apparently came up with two or three quality novelty scenes and then connected these with so-so filler. In a sense, Like A Dragon was kind of like this, but was much better: more and better quality scenes, cogent story (it’s relative), fascinating characters. The musically thumping scene where the baseball-bat-wielding nemesis swaggers down the block to start a rumble easily puts the movie over the top of SWD on its own, and there were many more cinematically transcendent (it’s relative) moments. Like A Dragon: watch it, friends

That said, SWD came with beer and a t-shirt and the title screen was pretty rad. Aooooo-wooooo!

Comment on NYAFF Audience Award by essrog

essrog — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 13:02:00 +0000

Ok, for Audience Award Winner this is acceptable … I mean “Fine Totally Fine” ha ha.

“Adrift In Tokyo” was similar in tone and also a better movie. But FTF did have a better trailer (in which they gave away most of their best sight gags) … So?

At any rate, FTF is a fine movie, and the lead actor is hilarious to watch. For a stretch I was concerned that “M” might win it (good grief).

(Why yes, as a matter of fact you * do * care about my opinion)

Comment on NYAFF: Last Day at IFC by gaminette

gaminette — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 20:55:07 +0000

Rock on, Magic Marker Rembrandt. \m/

Comment on Director Lee Myung-Se Q&A on Tuesday by grady

grady — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:52:47 +0000

You’re absolutely right. I meant “South of the Border, West of the Sun.” For some reason I always name the fairy tale rather than the novel which is really negligent on my part since it’s one of my favorite books.