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07/31/09
Note: that still doesn't mean I'm watching GI Joe, Lee Byung-Hun's American debut (as Storm Shadow, fyi). Can't believe that dude went from a modern cinema classic in The Good, the Bad, and the Weird to GI "starring Dennis Quaid" Joe.
08/01/09
08/03/09
...then again, Depp's acting debut was in Nightmare to Elm Street, so I suppose there's still time.
07/31/09
I wouldn't mind a return to something more like JSA, wherein the characters were actually relateable, instead of something like the Vengeance trilogy, that seemed like just pushing a character as far as they could go before they snap, and voyeuristically watching their descent. Thirst seems more like the latter, unfortunately (please tell me I'm wrong!). I get that people are fragile and corruptable, Mr. Park, I'm just not sure I want to devote another 2 hours to a movie it feels like I've watched two or three times before.
07/31/09
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08/01/09
I haven't seen the film, but from your description, it sounds as if those extra, almost repetitive, scenes you mention regarding the subplot are present to provide contextual counterpoints to the main events. I'm curious, did the couple's guilt feel weightier or lifted with each subsequent scene?
08/01/09
But really my complaints about this film were extremely minor. I thought a lot of the drawn-out, weird scenes worked well to convey a sense of unease, and I made that quite clear in my review.
08/01/09
07/31/09
Have you seen Big Man Japan? Can you write a review for it?
Here's an excerpt of Ebert's review:
Well, I guess this is the movie I’ve been asking for. Whenever I see a superhero epic, I’m always nagged by logical questions -- like, when the Incredible Hulk becomes enormous, how do his undershorts also expand? "Big Man Japan" answers that question with admirable clarity. Before the Big Man grows, workers winch an enormous pair of undershorts up on two poles, and he straddles the crotch. Then he expands to fill them. Had to be something like that.
07/31/09
08/01/09
Ebert's review from a few months ago is what turned me onto the film. You could see he wanted something like this from HANCOCK, but just didn't get it...
BMJ streeted this week and I caught it Tuesday. The first 30 minutes are so subtle that it's barely the comedy its billed as, but as it goes along it ventures off into some inspired everyday lunacy. It's like a mumblecore Kaiju...
08/01/09
Came out last week on DVD. It is quite amusing, but I wonder if a lot of the Japanese in-jokes will soar over people's heads.
The ending is amazing.
08/01/09
Does the country still harbor that much anti-American sentiment, or was that ending just the filmmaker's way paying thematic homage to the king of Kaiju, Gojira?? BMJ is a pretty scathing indictment of Japanese pop-culture and sheep-like mentality w/ regard to fads, not to mention the younger society's pack-like tendencies towards the weak (ie. bullying). Are American's supposed to be the Kaiju Bully Kings???
Didn't you just love Big Man's reaction to everything taking place?
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Not promising.
06/19/09