Parasite (new Bong Joon Ho movie)

Besides Burning I only know Secret Sunshine and Poetry, both good.

will try poetry and report back

mother was the one for me too

it's been a while but i remember thinking it was on par with great hitchcock

I liked this a lot more than Burning but I would never think to compare them.

I enjoyed the hell out of this movie.

Count me among those who haven't ever really gotten terribly into this dude's work up until this movie and fully embraced the crossover. Enjoy re-rewatching The Host to the rest of you, tho.

oh hey if you want another class warfare movie from this year (and one that will definitely be in my faves of 2019), try 'The Last Black Man in San Francisco'

Parasite was so good that I don't want to see any other class warfare movie from this or any other year ever again. If anyone puts on The Last Black Man in San Francisco while I'm in the room I'm getting up and leaving.

that's the spirit!

oh hey, here's another one you'll want to leave the room for that I just remembered that's not so much class warfare as an eco-comedy/drama with a lot of bong's penchant for comic bookish magic realism: Woman at War
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2v3_jHrvBQ

https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/drqrii/im_bong_joon_ho_director_of_parasite_ama/

Parasite is the best move ive seen this year

Snowpiercer was also great craic

this was ridiculously entertaining, and powerful at the end. definitely preferred this to snowpiercer and okja (okja was similarly structured for maximum gut-punch), and the cast was incredibly charming.

i liked snowpiercer a lot, it's dumb but imo dumb things are good

this movie was excellent though. i would like to vigorously disagree with everyone upthread and say the climax is the best part

besides the ghost scene

i've avoided seeing Okja because he is sure as shit gonna make me feel for the big hippo thing and then kill it. i've played the last guardian; can't fool me again

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, October 27, 2019 8:41 PM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

has anyone informed you that doesn't happen

though the ending *is* depressing in a fundamentally similar way

the flooding scene in this movie made me wanna die

okja is really bad imho but this is incredible, best dark comedy since get out

“Fundamentally similar” is close enough for me thanks

i did not enjoy okja but i'm glad i got to see that jake gyllenhaal performance anyway

Sister sitting on top of the toilet smoking in the flooding bathroom was an incredible shot, imo

is there a thread for the lighthouse yet?

arr it be The Lighthouse (Eggers, 2019) - Pattinson, Dafoe, sea shanties

saw this in the theater tonight. really really amazing movie

i have at least four friends who basically never see movies who were raving to me about how brilliant this was

this is me right now

Sister sitting on top of the toilet smoking in the flooding bathroom was an incredible shot, imo

― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Saturday, November 9, 2019 10:12 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Very otm

jeez i can't stop thinking about this movie lol

Watching The Host just cause of this movie. Loved it.

the comedy in the first half was amazing. when 1/4 of the pizza boxes are folded badly and they look at the father lmao

many xps back to tipsy but i watched chang-dong's Poetry and it was fucking devastating. i see what you mean about "enjoying" Bong's work more, it's certainly easier on the palate and the soul! both are master filmmakers tho and I'm looking forward to strapping on the emotional armor and trying again with another film.

I saw this tonight and thought it was great. It was so well executed that its heavy-handedness didn't bother me. Besides Snowpiercer and Burning I haven't seen any of the respective directors' stuff so I'm stoked now to explore their filmographies :)

liked this a lot, though one small moment that irked me (SPOILERS) was when Mr. Park turned over the basement guy's body to get the keys and then actually holds his nose. I get that it was the impetus for the dad to flip out and stab Mr. Park but there had to be a better way to get to that moment. I know Mr. Park was a rich asshole but it still felt very false to me that your son just got stabbed and you're frantically trying to save him and yet somehow, instinctively I guess, you take that extra second to physically hold your nose?

there's more than a few moments like that, played for theatrical clarity to the rafters, and they're among the reasons that I find the "BRILLIANT FILM DEMOLISHES THE ELITES" criticism a bit silly.

they should have included odorama scratch-n-sniff cards.

dude's been living in a basement with no shower or sunlight for like 10 years, he probably smells pretty awful

TBF he probably got to shower from time to time when his wife was the housekeeper. But he definitely hadn't bathed in several weeks by the time Mr. Park smelled him.

you guys may be focussing on the wrong point there

Tbh I actually got slightly distracted trying to figure out the plumbing of the bunker, bc when the housekeeper first goes down there she gives her husband that thermos and he drinks it as if he's been dying of thirst. But then in the final montage Mr. Kim is shown flushing a toilet iirc? Implying that theres running water down there, which would also make sense if it was built as a panic room/nuclear bunker.

lol xp

ok fair play, the bits about the stinky poors were OTT

I enjoyed this much more than Burning, which I didnt like very much tbh. Both heavy-handed allegories that arent really as deep or challenging as they first appear, but Parasite was at least more entertaining.

I don't think it's an allegory -- they're poor and they're smelly and they have no wifi!

also we're gonna burn down their greenhouses

Every once in a while a movie comes along I just know I'm going to love, so I somehow manage to avoid 100% of spoilers and reviews. This was one of those movies, which I've kept away from since its premiere. What a movie. I haven't seen "Joker" and likely won't ever, but this is the radical call to arms that movie (possibly) pretends to be.

Alternatively, this is the Korean "The People Under the Stairs."

watched Mother because of the favorable comments by Ulysses and others above. I liked it a lot and was surprised by the turn it takes in the last half hour. I still haven’t seen Memories of Murder and Parasite, but this is my favorite of the four Bong films I’ve seen

glad to hear!

damn this was extremely entertaining

can’t wait to see it again

can’t quite believe that house was a set - what an incredible piece of production design

Wow, it was? The basement part, that I can believe, but the yard and exteriors and stuff?

haven't seen most of those, but Snowpiercer is at least 7.5/10 for me, so many memorable scenes

I seem to remember enjoying Snowpiercer. Okja was maybe a bit precious. I enjoyed at least the first half of Parasite but it slowly comes undone in the second

Finally saw "Mickey 17." I enjoyed (much of) it more than I thought I would, but man, for all the talk of Bong's final cut, the movie is absolutely rife with all the red flags of a studio recut. Non-stop voiceover, characters and subplots that sort of fall by the wayside for long stretches, foreshadowing that doesn't pay off ... it's not a total mess, but it's messy. At its best, though, it reminded me a bit of the broader parts of "Brazil," or Gilliam in general.

I enjoyed at least the first half of Parasite but it slowly comes undone in the second

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Slop opinion

parasite can be a 10/10 if you like but then memories of murder cannot be a 9