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rgfdxm
United States239 Posts
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ZeeTemplar
United States557 Posts
some parts are NSFW so be careful  and enjoy | ||
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SK.Testie
Canada11084 Posts
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skronch
United States2717 Posts
On September 06 2009 19:49 jello_biafra wrote: Mainly that fight scene, the octopus scene, the music and the fact that you can hear someone playing BW at one point. Ip Man was awesome and I also recommend the good, the bad and the weird. what part of the movie is this? i must have completely missed this. | ||
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A3iL3r0n
United States2196 Posts
The main problem I have with this movie is that at times it adheres to realism (besides the plot, which is fine), at others it is not. For example, in the hallway fight scene, he starts wrecking house but he gets swarmed, realistic... but then they let him up, not realistic... and stab a fucking knife into his back but he continues to be able to fight somehow... not realistic. The best part of the movie is where he takes the cigarette from that street punk, and his interior dialogue goes, "can 10 years of training actually work in real life?" and then he beats all of them up, and the interior dialogue says, "apparently, it can." I mean that's fucking great stuff, and its a shame the movie didn't continue along that line. Also, at the very beginning when Dae-Su is totally drunk and in detox, that's great stuff too. | ||
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ManBearPig
Belgium207 Posts
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Crisis_
United States165 Posts
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7mk
Germany10157 Posts
On September 07 2009 01:56 Crisis_ wrote: I love movies like this. I'm not sure how to classify them, though. Can anyone recommend a few good ones in the same "genre"? really obvious but just in case you havent watched em: the other two movies of the vengeance trilogy The director Chan Wook Park also just released a new movie: http://uk.rottentomatoes.com/m/10011304-thirst/# seems to be a bit different though as it's a vampire movie :p cool idea though with the vampire being a priest, I'm definitely gonna watch this one. Has a pretty badass trailer at that: + Show Spoiler + CJ!!!!  | ||
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udgnim
United States8024 Posts
+ Show Spoiler + http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZY48hhpo-gI | ||
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CoOl]1st[
United States243 Posts
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Spike
United States1392 Posts
Seriously, Ip Man is like a carbon copy of countless martial arts movies. Man has been wronged, must take revenge; wasn't anything original or creative about it. You could say that it was "done well", but really, there was no meat to the story and the action wasn't nearly good enough to overcome the lack of substance. | ||
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VarmVaffel
Norway378 Posts
Conclude: Overall a good movie, but nothing spectacular. The plot was better than most movies though. | ||
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koreasilver
9109 Posts
On September 07 2009 06:29 CoOl]1st[ wrote: because its a satyr on how fucked up asians are. We're Greek? | ||
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Shauni
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TabyLing
Australia69 Posts
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AzureEye
United States1360 Posts
I might be a little biased because I love War films but who doesn't love war films? And it beats the shit out of Saving Private Ryan | ||
DivinO
United States4796 Posts
Haven't seen Oldboy yet. But I'll probably take Day[9]'s seal of disapproval to heart. | ||
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SaveYourSavior
United States1071 Posts
On September 07 2009 08:22 Shauni wrote: I didn't like Oldboy much either. I might not have been as disappointed as you but it was certainly not a great movie. Watch 'Seom' instead if you want a good korean movie! that movie will make you cry it's also very good for a war movie | ||
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ero
United States66 Posts
Since my friends recommended the movie to me, I thought I'd ask them to explain the movie. They couldn't, which led me to the conclusion that it's just good psuedo-intellectual bait (ooh it has subtitles and some weird artsy feel to it!). Dunno, maybe the movie really is good. My Lady Vengeance was pretty cool though. | ||
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igotmyown
United States4291 Posts
Maybe I've seen enough brutal movies since then that I would feel differently. It reminds me of Ebert's review of Aliens. I don't know how else to describe this: The movie made me feel bad. It filled me with feelings of unease and disquiet and anxiety. I walked outside and I didn't want to talk to anyone. I was drained. I'm not sure "Aliens" is what we mean by entertainment. Yet I have to be accurate about this movie: It is a superb example of filmmaking craft. By now it probably would not be considered a huge shocker of a movie, and people might also feel that its plot was predictable. Saving Private Ryan's opening scene is enough to make it a better movie than Tae guk ki, though that says more about the former than the latter. The elite north korean team meleeing the south koreans in battle broke my suspension of disbelief. | ||
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