Korean thriller from 2008. I find myself mildly disappointed as I had really high hopes. Comes from the director of the much better “The Wailing”, which is downright insane.
Premise: A former cop, who is now a pimp, begins to suspect someone is trafficking out his girls. It’s worse. Someone is serial killing girls and the former cop’s girls are the ones he is killing. Killer uses a chisel to split their head’s open.
He and the police try to catch the bad guy. It’s much more in depth than this, but that is the gist.
I agree. I found most of it boring, which isn’t what I expected from a movie based on WB characters. It’s like they didn’t put much effort into the story or the pacing. And I laughed at only a few of the gags.
It’s hard to believe the studio execs tried to suppress the movie because it’s anti-corporate. There are lots of movies that get released about little guys being oppressed by evil corporations. Why would they be afraid of this one?
Is that the belief? I’m not sure why they wanted to delete it. Certainly a release would make more money than a tax-break. Streaming, DVD, all that stuff. Shove it straight to Netflix and they could have made a little money.
It’s not bad enough to wipe. I’m not sure about Batgirl, which was deleted. I’ve heard it, well, was bad enough to not want to finish.
I would say no more than Seven. I can’t make a one-to-one comparison, but I did not find I Saw the Devil to be overly gory, but it is about a pretty bad murderer.
I watched The Room yesterday (Tubi, free). I had read the Sestero book last year, and enjoyed his account, and I should have been prepared.
it’s bad. Not Plan 9 From Outer Space bad, where you can laugh at lawn chairs used as cockpit pilot seats, or the ridiculous plot.
It’s like 12 year-olds writing a script and directing, and starring one of their foreign-born semi-sober dads. It’s “I feel bad for every seasoned professional associated with this film” bad.
When the sex scenes are the most boring parts of the movie, well…that’s bad.
That said, I’m glad I watched it and have that on my résumé. I appreciated the disaster much more having read the Sestero book, and I imagine that someone who has seen that making-of movie might also appreciate the experience, in a surviving torture sort of way.
I watched The Ten Commandments yesterday. All 3 hours and 40 minutes of it - which was spread out to about 4 1/2 hours on PlutoTV. Impressive film-making, but I gotta say … that God of Abraham is kind of a dick.
Apple TV has Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World available so I watched it today. It’s such a great movie. And I was paying attention to some of the less well-known characters to see who I can recognize from later work. Like Hollom, the older midshipman who was considered unlucky, was played by Lee Ingleby, from the Inspector George Gently series.
We subscribe to Britbox and Acorn, and Lee Ingleby (like practically every British TV actor) does one-offs on a bunch of different police/crime shows. And usually when that happens, odds are pretty good he’s the killer.
Just got back from watching LOTR: Fellowship on the big screen at my local movie with pub service. I’ve watched it many times since the original run at my home, generally on smaller screens, or on the bigger TV in the background.
I forgot how impactful it is with full theater sound and screenage. Wonderful. Sure, some of the CGI looks less amazing after twenty something years, but the acting, music, and costuming is just as wonderful.
Two Towers is a week from today, and Return of the King the week after that, so no Monday ‘blehs’ for a few weeks at least!
Do yourself a favor (if these sort of movies are your thing) and sit down and watch them again while minimizing the distractions of at home watching: phones, mini-chores, the buzzers of everything little thing you really think you need to do. It’s still magic if you immerse yourself.
We watched Autumn Leaves (1956) on Tubi a couple of nights ago. It stars Joan Crawford and Cliff Robertson in a May/December romance. It was good, although I was a bit surprised at some of the language used in a film from the 50s. When we heard one word in particular fly out of Robertson’s mouth, my husband and I both gasped! That word, heard in a movie nowadays, wouldn’t even make you blink, but we were both quite surprised to hear it in this movie. The only complaint I had was that I never thought Joan Crawford was a pretty woman. So I had a hard time believing a young guy would fall for her. I Googled her and found a few pictures of her from very early in her career where she was beautiful. It didn’t look like the same person.
Very funny and honestly, how little things have changed since 1999. While our cell phones look different and computers are flat-screen now, not much other stuff seemed aged.
Great movie and a great example of how movies were able to be under-seen in theaters and discovered on cable television. Comedy Central re-runs of this film boosted awareness of it.
“Remember, they’ll only make you just hard enough to not be fired.”
This is an old favorite from college, but I’ll tell you I got the shock of my life when my grandfather and I came across it years later and he found it hysterical. My grandfather is a very straight-laced no-nonsense kind of guy. I’ve never seen him enjoy anything as much as that movie. He worked in management at a power company. I guess some things are just universal.
Boy, I had the opposite reaction. I watched it last night. I’d give it a 4/10 if I were feeling generous, just because I like zombie movies. I do agree that the scenery was great.
That word, heard in a movie nowadays, wouldn’t even make you blink, but we were both quite surprised to hear it in this movie. The only complaint I had was that I never thought Joan Crawford was a pretty woman. So I had a hard time believing a young guy would fall for her. I Googled her and found a few pictures of her from very early in her career where she was beautiful. It didn’t look like the same person.