i was SO taken with those two movies and then host was such a great oddball genre film that i was psyched to go wherever this guy wanted to go and then, well, snowpiercer.with parasite, i think i've come to the conclusion that Bong is an immense and great stylist but that he's not going to likely level up into something more highbrow and affecting now that he has more money and fame a'la Park Chan Wook or Lynch. Maybe you could make a comparison to Miike? Dunno.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 4 November 2019 20:24 (four years ago) link
Yeah he's definitely more of a populist/popcorn director than e.g. Lee Chang-dong. But he's an interesting and talented one, I think. I agree that Mother is probably his best movie, and it is surprising in a lot of ways — stylistically and narratively — that Parasite isn't.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Monday, 4 November 2019 20:32 (four years ago) link
i really like him! i'm just in the unpleasant indie fuck position of being unable to avoid saying "his earlier films are much better"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCqjR1gHyIQin any case your post made me realize i should see more Chang-dong, so thanks for that! recommendation for the best one to jump into?
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 4 November 2019 20:36 (four years ago) link
Besides Burning I only know Secret Sunshine and Poetry, both good.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Monday, 4 November 2019 20:38 (four years ago) link
will try poetry and report back
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 4 November 2019 20:40 (four years ago) link
mother was the one for me too
― cheese canopy (map), Monday, 4 November 2019 21:19 (four years ago) link
it's been a while but i remember thinking it was on par with great hitchcock
― cheese canopy (map), Monday, 4 November 2019 21:20 (four years ago) link
I liked this a lot more than Burning but I would never think to compare them.
― Simon H., Monday, 4 November 2019 21:24 (four years ago) link
I enjoyed the hell out of this movie.
― JRN, Tuesday, 5 November 2019 04:19 (four years ago) link
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.
― Pauline Male (Eric H.), Tuesday, 5 November 2019 04:35 (four years ago) link
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'
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 5 November 2019 04:36 (four years ago) link
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.
― JRN, Tuesday, 5 November 2019 04:46 (four years ago) link
that's the spirit!
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 5 November 2019 04:59 (four years ago) link
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 Warhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2v3_jHrvBQ
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 5 November 2019 05:25 (four years ago) link
https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/drqrii/im_bong_joon_ho_director_of_parasite_ama/
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 7 November 2019 16:18 (four years ago) link
Parasite is the best move ive seen this year
Snowpiercer was also great craic
― The World According To.... (Michael B), Thursday, 7 November 2019 17:36 (four years ago) link
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.
― kanye kendrick frank kendrick frank kanye (voodoo chili), Thursday, 7 November 2019 17:58 (four years ago) link
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
― american bradass (BradNelson), Sunday, 10 November 2019 00:23 (four years ago) link
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
― american bradass (BradNelson), Sunday, 10 November 2019 00:28 (four years ago) link
the flooding scene in this movie made me wanna die
― american bradass (BradNelson), Sunday, 10 November 2019 00:31 (four years ago) link
okja is really bad imho but this is incredible, best dark comedy since get out
― flopson, Sunday, 10 November 2019 00:39 (four years ago) link
“Fundamentally similar” is close enough for me thanks
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 10 November 2019 00:49 (four years ago) link
i did not enjoy okja but i'm glad i got to see that jake gyllenhaal performance anyway
― american bradass (BradNelson), Sunday, 10 November 2019 00:57 (four years ago) link
Sister sitting on top of the toilet smoking in the flooding bathroom was an incredible shot, imo
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Sunday, 10 November 2019 03:12 (four years ago) link
is there a thread for the lighthouse yet?
― flopson, Sunday, 10 November 2019 03:45 (four years ago) link
arr it be The Lighthouse (Eggers, 2019) - Pattinson, Dafoe, sea shanties
― Simon H., Sunday, 10 November 2019 03:51 (four years ago) link
saw this in the theater tonight. really really amazing movie
― esempio (crüt), Sunday, 10 November 2019 05:10 (four years ago) link
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
― esempio (crüt), Sunday, 10 November 2019 05:35 (four years ago) link
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Saturday, November 9, 2019 10:12 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
Very otm
― kanye kendrick frank kendrick frank kanye (voodoo chili), Sunday, 10 November 2019 13:32 (four years ago) link
jeez i can't stop thinking about this movie lol
― american bradass (BradNelson), Sunday, 10 November 2019 14:52 (four years ago) link
Watching The Host just cause of this movie. Loved it.
― nathom, Sunday, 10 November 2019 17:20 (four years ago) link
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
― flopson, Sunday, 10 November 2019 17:26 (four years ago) link
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.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 10 November 2019 18:16 (four years ago) link
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 :)
― davey, Wednesday, 13 November 2019 12:37 (four years ago) link
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?
― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Wednesday, 13 November 2019 16:05 (four years ago) link
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.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 13 November 2019 18:22 (four years ago) link
they should have included odorama scratch-n-sniff cards.
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 13 November 2019 19:45 (four years ago) link
dude's been living in a basement with no shower or sunlight for like 10 years, he probably smells pretty awful
― na (NA), Wednesday, 13 November 2019 19:51 (four years ago) link
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.
― JRN, Wednesday, 13 November 2019 19:58 (four years ago) link
you guys may be focussing on the wrong point there
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 13 November 2019 20:06 (four years ago) link
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.
― “Hakuna Matata,” a nihilist philosophy (One Eye Open), Wednesday, 13 November 2019 20:15 (four years ago) link
lol xp
ok fair play, the bits about the stinky poors were OTT
― davey, Wednesday, 13 November 2019 20:20 (four years ago) link
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.
― “Hakuna Matata,” a nihilist philosophy (One Eye Open), Wednesday, 13 November 2019 20:22 (four years ago) link
I don't think it's an allegory -- they're poor and they're smelly and they have no wifi!
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 13 November 2019 20:39 (four years ago) link
also we're gonna burn down their greenhouses
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 13 November 2019 20:44 (four years ago) link
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."
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 13 November 2019 21:21 (four years ago) link
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
― Dan S, Saturday, 16 November 2019 01:00 (four years ago) link
glad to hear!
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 16 November 2019 05:27 (four years ago) link
you should also check out Memories of Murder before the end of the century
― calzino, Tuesday, 11 April 2023 07:50 (one year ago) link
otm
― Ár an broc a mhic (darraghmac), Tuesday, 11 April 2023 09:23 (one year ago) link
I tried watching this recently and for whatever reason, it gets way too suspenseful for me. There's a certain kind of suspense that has always caused me enormous levels of stress - that in which the protagonist is about to get caught doing something they shouldn't be. That scene seems like a masterful take on that, but unfortunately, fight or flight kicks in for me and my response is to turn the TV off and run out of the room. The first part where I shut it off was...
...when the Park family is coming home when their camping trip gets rained out and everybody is hurrying to hide. Ki-jung sliding under the coffee table as the family came walking up the stairs was just nightmarish levels of suspense for me and I noped out.
Then I left the movie off for about a month. I had allowed myself to come to terms with action of the movie and it had mellowed a little in my mind. I had thought that the suspense probably couldn't get any higher and it would taper off quickly, so I made another attempt at finishing it in the last week or so. And I got just a few minutes until...
...Mrs. Kim kicks the old housekeeper down the stairs (and might have broken her neck???).
I kinda would like to finish the movie (and last time I watched it, Hulu said it was on it's way out, so I might have missed my chance), but it also might just not be for me.
...at which point I couldn't deal with it and had to shut it off again.
― peace, man, Tuesday, 11 April 2023 11:28 (one year ago) link
the tension is masterfully delivered
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 11 April 2023 12:16 (one year ago) link
yeah, scenes like that are tough for me also! i remember an INCREDIBLE feeling of tension in the theater in those parts; the coffee-table scene is what my brain goes to when i picture this movie. i also remember a really vivid sense that i was sharing this same nightmare with a couple hundred other people. i think that made it easier to bear, in a way?
― got it in the blood, the kid's a pelican (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 11 April 2023 13:03 (one year ago) link
i rewatched the host recently for the first time since i saw it in theaters and i did not love it as much as i remembered loving it. but i also saw memories of murder for the first time and that one is amazing. anyone who loves zodiac should also watch memories of murder, they are very similar conceptually in a lot of ways.
― na (NA), Tuesday, 11 April 2023 13:12 (one year ago) link
I’ve been wanting to watch MoM for so long but my wife is incredibly squeamish so might need to find a solo night
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 11 April 2023 16:03 (one year ago) link
its such a tonally rich and strange and playful movie but when it wants to hit you, oof
― Ár an broc a mhic (darraghmac), Tuesday, 11 April 2023 18:39 (one year ago) link