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I was agreeing with you.
Watched The Villainess last night on Netflix.
A Korean ultaviolent action thriller with the usual over-the-top melodrama elements delivered with the endearing sincerity of a Korean film (something I actually really like about their popular films). The actors deliver the melodrama in a nicely understated style that makes it all the more effective.
Pretty stunning action sequences as the trailer suggests but the story and characters pull you in as well. I take it as a given that Korean films will be overlong, they regularly push past the 2.5 hr mark but this one feels relatively tight and concise.
One word of warning, while the fight scenes are very bloody there is also a very disturbing incident late in the film that may be too much for those who are not jaded exploitation fans who have seen the likes of the notorious HK Cat II film Run to Kill.
I wonder if BedrockBrendan has seen this yet and what his opinion of it is.
In French or with subtitles? I seem to recall the English subtitles were interesting because the translation was not exact, especially in the beginning when he is composing his poem whilst dueling and making a fool of a fop, and the translator was making things rhyme in English and frequently the translation was nothing like the French.
Watched The Villainess last night on Netflix.
A Korean ultaviolent action thriller with the usual over-the-top melodrama elements delivered with the endearing sincerity of a Korean film (something I actually really like about their popular films). The actors deliver the melodrama in a nicely understated style that makes it all the more effective.
Pretty stunning action sequences as the trailer suggests but the story and characters pull you in as well. I take it as a given that Korean films will be overlong, they regularly push past the 2.5 hr mark but this one feels relatively tight and concise.
One word of warning, while the fight scenes are very bloody there is also a very disturbing incident late in the film that may be too much for those who are not jaded exploitation fans who have seen the likes of the notorious HK Cat II film Run to Kill.
I wonder if BedrockBrendan has seen this yet and what his opinion of it is.
Finally got to see it (I think it came down from Netflix very shortly after this message, so I ended up getting the bluray). I enjoyed it a lot. Put my thoughts together on it HERE.
Nice review thanks. I agree about the opening fight scene and yes the switch in perspective does take place when she is smashed into the mirror. For a Korean film this was fairly short, lots of Korean films push the 2.5 hr mark. I do find it interesting how much their genre films mix in a large dose of melodrama, when done well as it is done here it can really add to the film as you're more engaged with the characters.
I saw Pacific Rim: Uprising tonight.
Best. Movie. Ever.
It's pretty much the exact same movie as the first, but why change a winning formula?
Watched this on your recommendation, and thank you! It's a very solid movie. Looking back on it, it is impressive how is maintains such a methodical pace without ever feeling slow.Just watched A Dark Song. Very low budget, Irish-made independent horror movie. Has to be the single best representation of real occultism in movies. Tells the story of an ardent women who rents a remote house and employs an experienced occultist to carry out a ritual to summon her guardian angel in order to speak to her dead son. The ritual takes weeks and is an actual representation of the Abramelin ritual carried out by Aleister Crowley. The movie is driven by dialogue rather than the usual violence seen in most horrors these days, but there are still a few moments and the whole atmosphere is as claustrophobic as...well...hell.
If you have a mind to run some scenario involving realistic occultist magic, like Call of Cthulhu, World of Darkness or Kult, then this is a great movie to reference.
Kudos on not being afraid to enjoy Prometheus. I can't really argue with most of the criticism, but I didn't care. I had fun watching it.So here's the ten best films I've seen from the last ten years....
Kudos on not being afraid to enjoy Prometheus. I can't really argue with most of the criticism, but I didn't care. I had fun watching it.
I definitely haven't seen that many. Maybe five, at most....I think I've seen maybe a dozen movies at the theater in the past ten years...
I watched that as well. It was fantastic.Thanks to whoever first recommended A Dark Song... we watched it last night and were pretty much blown away by it. Best horror movie I've seen in a long while... even my friend, who doesn't much like horror, loved it.
I think a Howard the Duck movie could be awesome, but if I were Marvel, I would stay the heck away from any angle with it that reminded people of the previous movie.Dear Lord. Lea Thompson has a meeting scheduled with Marvel to pitch a Howard the Duck remake, with herself as director.
Dear Lord. Lea Thompson has a meeting scheduled with Marvel to pitch a Howard the Duck remake, with herself as director.
I agree. It's a solidly passable '80s movie, and having Lea Thompson didn't hurt. I just think they would have an easier time getting a movie made if they drew attention to the comics and not to the movie. While the movie isn't abomination people like to paint it as, it's still perceived as such.Howard the Duck really isn't that bad. Better than many other movies George Lucas has produced, anyway. And I had a massive crush on Lea Thompson in the 1980s. Still my favorite fashion era.
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