Arthouse & ClassicsArirang Arirang edition >QotDFavuorite Korean /film/?>BonusFavourite Korean director?Previous: >>219334248
Queen of /film/
John baked, cursed thread, evacuate while you still can
>>219417936*찌르다*
>>219417936rude unnie
>>219417936AN UTTERLY EXTRAORDINARY THREADNO-ONE, ABSOLUTELY NO-ONE IS DOING IT LIKE OP
>>219417905>thread dies before it even starts
>>219417936John?
>>219418213Thanks.
>These days, however, the entire concept of what is a movie is more inclined to inspire contempt in me than generosity. Which is fair enough, because by comparison the movies of the last six years make the 80s seem like the 30s. I’ve seen movies I liked since then – West Side Story (2021); Horizon: An American Saga Chapter 1 and 2 (both 2024), a few others, but nothing that really held me in its grip and swept me away to the magical land of enjoyment that I use to visit regularly and was the reason I loved movies above all other artforms. These days I’d rather read a book. >But a suspenseful new movie has come out that did grab me and held me for its entire duration: Joe Carnahan’s The Rip, starring the dynamic duo of Matt Damon and Ben Affleck. The film is an exciting cop thriller with a novel premise that man- ages to deliver the goods in really clever ways. The whole package worked for me: Carnahan’s direction, the splendid cast, the look of the film (courtesy of cinematog- rapher Juan Miguel Azpiroz) – but the real powerhouse component of this splendid collection is the sensational screenplay by Carnahan and Michael McGrale.
>>219418316>Being a cynical fuck about modern movies I kept expecting this one to drop the narrative ball and it never did. If I made a list of some of my favourite cop flicks it would include The French Connection; Freebie and the Bean; Busting (1974), which is basically Freebie and the Bean sans irony; Electra Glide in Blue (1973); To Live and Die in L.A. (1985); Bullitt (1968); Nighthawks (1981); The Black Marble (1980) and David Mamet’s Homicide (1991). I’d also include a few 70s TV movies like Foster & Laurie (1975), ‘Starsky and Hutch’ (the 1975 pilot) and Last of the Good Guys (1978). (I consider cops chasing serial killers Dirty Harry, 1971; Cruising, 1980; Se7en, 1995 a different sub-genre.) While most of those movies have high-flying moments that are more spectacular than The Rip, there usually were some flaws that required my forgiveness. This movie betters its elders by sheer virtue of never making a mistake.In Electra Glide, Robert Blake’s performance, the mythic Monument Valley locations and all his routine encounters with motorists on the road were great. But the murdermystery and the whole subplot featuring Jeannine Reilly and the always-dull Mitchell Ryan were a drag. After one great setpiece after another inthe excellent Freebie and the Bean, the one that ends the show in the Candlestick Park men’s room is an ugly bummer. William Petersen and Willem Dafoe are terrific in To Live and Die in L.A., but John Pankow as Petersen’s partner is a miscast disaster. And when it comes to The French Connection, it’s William Friedkin’s doco-style direction that makes it so realistic, not the glaring implausibility of Ernest Tidyman’s hack screenplay. Would the French dopers really leave a car stuffed with so much smack on the street, so the cops can do exactly what they did? Carnahan and Michael McGrale’s script is just a much better and more cleverly written tale. This movie betters its elders by sheer virtue of never making a mistake
Who are the most interesting female characters in /film/?
>>219418486Depends on your interpretation of interesting. Some will say the bitch from Jeanne Dielman but I say Nikki Grace.
>>219418560Personality wise, deep complex ect.
I REFUSE THIS THREAD
>>219418744The Housemaid is a classic.
>>219418856That bitch was sexo
>>219418486Jenjira Pongpas' character in Cemetery of Splendour.
>>219418887Ms. Kwak's friend too.
What do you guys think of Haugerud's Sex Love Dreams trilogy? What's your favourite one?
>>219419748Watched this. It's a cure for insomnia-tier flick.
>>219420117i'm gonna watch it....at some pointit seems to not have made any particular splash, but the films look curiousDreams getting the Bear was strange tho, not only wasn't it a world premiere, it wasn't even a 2025 premiere, the film had a theatrical release in Norway in 2024, but this is just my autism speaking where i feel like awards should highlight interesting shit of the specific year
there's an 90s korean film about a blasian korean kid whose mother slept with an american soldier, lots of dog abuse but i liked it in a sense that you won't find films that raw anymore, i like old korean films, especially the 90s era for their unapologetic violence
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>>219417925thoughts on mektoub 2?
>>219421053this but their unapologetic terminal illness melodramas
I refuse to watch anything K*rean on principle.
>>219422144Ok lil tommy whatever you say
the korean mind isnt art compatible.everything they do is just a recreation of something else thats better. look at their cars- the whole elevator pitch is: >duuude it looks just like a bentley but its wayyyy cheaper!>duuude its JUST like a porsche SUV but we made it so its wayy cheaperlook at their food:>duuude its a fusion of other cultures>we totally didnt just cobble together a bunch of slop and call it our ownlook at quite literally any other form of art:>duude its not that we have 0 notable painters total>its that we were assfucked by japanese occupation 100 years ago so we haven't recovered yetlook at their entire culture as a whole:>dude its totally not a shitty version of american and japanese culture squished together>its definitely incredibly unique something we created on our own
>>219422778Korean derangement syndrome, sad.
>>219422778TRVTH NVKE
>>219422778Epic catfag bait post time
>>219422778John's got you by the balls eh
>>219422912>>219423042>>219423096>>219423218>get this>for breakfast we have rice with SOUP
>>219423648yeah, better to have a bowl of sugar instead
>>219422778BASED
here is a short list of Korean films to get you started with arirang april
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John you'd probably succeed at getting people here to watch movies you like if you didn't spam stuff relentlessly
John, I'm only dancing.
>>219417905Name a better New Hollywood girl.
is kfagging just another form of waifucooming?do we /kslop/ so we can edge to women who only look good after six figures of plastic surgery?
>>219426174This homewrecker
>>219425645Not really when they have Korea derangement syndrome like>>219422144>>219422778
>>219426263i would wreck her home if you understand what i mean
>>219426263>>219426385Boomers had it so easy
>>219418254Sounds boring as fuck.
>>219426381I shagged her
I'm watching the movie 'Parasite'The mise-en-scene and the photography is above the mediocrity of our century.But my suspension of disbelief is breaking away.Minute 16: the son is trying to make a big speech (typical of east asian cinema) to his tutored student... he is palpating her wrist pulse wrongly... my suspension of disbelief is in perilMinute 17: The milf turns her back to the camera and the editor cuts the scene immediately to a different scene, giving only a fraction of a second to admire her well-shaped buttocks. This is infuriating. I'd forgive the editor if he added ninjas or gunfights but he is not even trying to do his best.
>>219426791Bong Joon Ho is a sellout, watch Im Kwon-taek.
>>219426791>The mise-en-scene and the photography is above the mediocrity of our century.Not really. It's slightly above Hollywood standards at best, while trying its hardest to emulate them.
>>219418316Tarantino embodies the whiplash tonal shifts of 1980's film better than anybody. It's nice that he has 70's ambitions at least.
>Why am I temporarily blocked from posting?Users are temporarily blocked from posting when there is a pending ban request placed on their IP. This block lasts 15 minutes from the time a janitor submits a ban request, and is removed immediately if the request is denied by a moderator. If the request is approved, a regular ban is applied.
>>219426174I cannot, she had a unique elvishbeauty and was a genuinely talented actress to boot. Watched Badlands and Prime Cut this past weekend and fell in love with her all over again.>>219426263I know I'll be crucified for this but Sybill really has never done anything for me, she always seemed very cold and bland. Frankly an inferior version of Jessica Lange.
>>219422778I couldn't take their horror films seriously for some reason, even the supposed classics of k-horror.
>>219428435That's normal since horror in general shouldn't be taken seriously.
>>219422778>american and japanese culture squished togetherYou gotta be fair here: It doesn't really take anything from Japanese culture, it only takes the mold (i.e. the empty form) of Japanese pop-culture, with none of the tradition. k-pop superficially looks like j-pop, Korean animation superficially looks like anime, Korean manwha superficially look like manga, and so on. Ironaically, Korean films look nothing like Japanese films, but that's probably because the Hollywood style is easier to copy and has more (international) mass appeal.When it comes to content, it's all US American "culture", and those quotation marks do some heavy lifiting: Because we're not talking about the very rare 18th or 19th century American author who actually contributed to world literature, or the even rarer American director who dared to make a meaningful film. No, it is once again the pop-culture that Koreans take and adapt into their own pulp.
>>219428529No that's really abnormal for an attempt at horror... I mean I love the tone of comedies like The Trouble With Harry but k-horror has that sort of shlocky Roger Corman feel. I'd argue that Coppola's DRACULA is very sincere about the spiritual core contrasts of its characters, it just lacks an understanding of the weight of a human soul and the ramifications of spiritual decision-making; horror should never be without that. Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Pulse or Doppleganger seem much more adept at conveying horror even if the tone isn't serious, the characters are played consistently.
