Parasite (new Bong Joon Ho movie)

Don't forget Logan Noir in terms of B/W versions.

One Eye Open otm, it seems to work against so many of the the most gorgeous shots in the movie.

Incorporating morse code into the cover art is one of those "better in concept than execution" things, imo. Too subtle I guess.

This was about architecture, right

m/l

Kang-ho song's portrayal of various extremes of injured shame and hopeless optimism are what will stay with me, jesus he is a wonder

the flooding scene in this movie made me wanna die

― american bradass (BradNelson), Sunday, 10 November 2019 00:31 (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

otm

As always, after reading through a movie thread after catching that movie, i have to question just how bad loads of ppl are at following movies, rly

No offence to anyone above who missed loads of stuff, like, x

i also watched this last night!

this was the last movie i saw in a theatre before pandemic :(

Mine was memories of murder!

this was the last movie i saw in a theatre before pandemic :(

omg same! I think? I did go to the ballet the day before lockdown

also same. had just seen uncut gems around the same time.

Invisible Man was mine. well, I did make it to Tenet in the theater (as it was a low period of transmission and it was limited seating), but I haven't been since.

considering going to the movies was a 2x/week hobby for me, it's incredibly sad to have lost that. I used to pick showings at times that would be less attended, and just enjoy the peaceful evening alone in the theater vibing to the movies while drinking comically large sodas.

uncut gems was my second to last

Parasite and The Lighthouse were my last 2, on my last trip to Atlanta, Dec 2019.

Our local film festival was right before the first UK lockdown and I saw lots Inc Parasite, Lighthouse and JoJo Rabbit but the last thing I actually saw on the big screen was Black Narcissus in a church.

We went to a few things at GFF last year as well and it's strange thinking back now. The last things I saw were Bacurau, which was utterly packed out in a hot cinema 2, and Children Of Men.

My last was Portrait of a Lady On Fire which, bizarrely, was mentioned in Coronation Street last night using both the French and English titles.

I've been making Jjapaguri (a combination of Chapagetti and Neoguri), consisting of two different types of ramen and flavored with black bean sauce and shrimp broth. It is not made into a soup but eaten with less liquid as a savory noodle dish.

It was featured in that scene where Jang Hye-jin as Chung Sook the replacement housekeeper/cook was frantically making up a dish to satisfy the lady owner who was coming home. She made it by adding big sauteed chunks of sirloin

Just watched this over the weekend with my 19 year old son, at his recommendation. The entire cast is a treasure.

After seeing this a little while ago, I watched Memories of Murder and the short film Influenza last week. They're all powerful and feats of impressive control; maybe he's yet to make (or I've yet to see) the film that really connects in a deeper way.

So guys

This film is pretty good fyi

Well done.

I got there in the end!

But have you seen The Host?

I've scheduled that one for 2034

you should also check out Memories of Murder before the end of the century

otm

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.

the tension is masterfully delivered

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?

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.

I’ve been wanting to watch MoM for so long but my wife is incredibly squeamish so might need to find a solo night

its such a tonally rich and strange and playful movie but when it wants to hit you, oof