My attitude to feng shui is that it's technically bs, yes, but also that it works as a post-factual rationalisation of some solid underlying rules which make spaces feel better or worse to be in. As someone who usually dreams about buildings and spaces rather than people or images, I feel like feng shui generally makes places feel better for whatever reason. I am fascinated by films which use trick architecture - The Shining and Rosemary's Baby of course, but also some otherwise bad films like Dream Demon and various mediocre Agatha Christie adaptations.
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 29 April 2020 22:20 (four years ago) link
Heading to Criterion with extra stuff, including a B&W version of the film
https://www.criterion.com/films/30619-parasite
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 15 July 2020 17:01 (four years ago) link
still love this movie but this mini trend of "B&W versions" as supplements (see also Fury Road) is awful
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Wednesday, 15 July 2020 17:25 (four years ago) link
unfortunately boring cover art as well
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Wednesday, 15 July 2020 17:26 (four years ago) link
Agreed, especially considering just how many striking images there are in the film.
Only just finally caught up with the film, btw. Unsurprisingly for me, I thought it worked far better in terms of craftsmanship than message. I do think the final ten minutes (everything post-birthday party) could have been summed up in one or two poignant shots, but whatever--I'm glad this was the hit that it was and that Bong Joon-Ho can probably do whatever he wants to do next.
― A White, White Gay (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 15 July 2020 18:08 (four years ago) link
The cover art for their new Pierrot Le Fou is boring af as well.
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Wednesday, 15 July 2020 18:19 (four years ago) link
The Fury Road was IIRC Miller working specifically to create something detailed rather than going "LOL run it through a filter" but who knows.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 15 July 2020 18:25 (four years ago) link
the b&w Fury Road was discussed in advance as Miller wanting to do a new cut that also removed as much dialogue as possible, but afaict from a cinema viewing, was just a conversion - but it's definitely a sensitive and careful conversion, not just "turning the colour down"
― bat ain't Thad (sic), Wednesday, 15 July 2020 19:51 (four years ago) link
Fury Road is also a pretty explicit tribute to Buster Keaton and the visual language of the silent era. Parasite otoh has so many specific detailed lighting & color choices that carry so much thematic weight, the idea of intentionally taking that stuff out is almost perverse.
― turn the jawhatthefuckever on (One Eye Open), Wednesday, 15 July 2020 21:11 (four years ago) link
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.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 15 July 2020 21:18 (four years ago) link
Incorporating morse code into the cover art is one of those "better in concept than execution" things, imo. Too subtle I guess.
― Irritable Baal (WmC), Wednesday, 15 July 2020 22:43 (four years ago) link
This was about architecture, right
― e-skate to the chapeau (darraghmac), Saturday, 27 February 2021 00:10 (three years ago) link
m/l
― Canon in Deez (silby), Saturday, 27 February 2021 00:11 (three years ago) link
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
― e-skate to the chapeau (darraghmac), Saturday, 27 February 2021 00:39 (three years ago) link
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
― e-skate to the chapeau (darraghmac), Saturday, 27 February 2021 01:18 (three years ago) link
No offence to anyone above who missed loads of stuff, like, x
― e-skate to the chapeau (darraghmac), Saturday, 27 February 2021 01:20 (three years ago) link
i also watched this last night!
― kinder, Saturday, 27 February 2021 09:57 (three years ago) link
this was the last movie i saw in a theatre before pandemic :(
― superdeep borehole (harbl), Saturday, 27 February 2021 14:09 (three years ago) link
Mine was memories of murder!
― e-skate to the chapeau (darraghmac), Saturday, 27 February 2021 14:24 (three years ago) link
omg same! I think? I did go to the ballet the day before lockdown
― flamboyant goon tie included, Saturday, 27 February 2021 14:31 (three years ago) link
also same. had just seen uncut gems around the same time.
― class project pat (m bison), Saturday, 27 February 2021 15:18 (three years ago) link
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.
― Red Nerussi (Neanderthal), Saturday, 27 February 2021 17:01 (three years ago) link
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.
― Red Nerussi (Neanderthal), Saturday, 27 February 2021 17:03 (three years ago) link
uncut gems was my second to last
― superdeep borehole (harbl), Saturday, 27 February 2021 18:19 (three years ago) link
Parasite and The Lighthouse were my last 2, on my last trip to Atlanta, Dec 2019.
― Motoroller Scampotron (WmC), Saturday, 27 February 2021 18:20 (three years ago) link
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.
― Well *I* know who he is (aldo), Saturday, 27 February 2021 20:52 (three years ago) link
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.
― brain (krakow), Saturday, 27 February 2021 22:21 (three years ago) link
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.
― Cocteau Twinks (jed_), Saturday, 27 February 2021 23:01 (three years ago) link
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
― Dan S, Monday, 26 September 2022 02:13 (one year ago) link
Just watched this over the weekend with my 19 year old son, at his recommendation. The entire cast is a treasure.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 19 December 2022 23:34 (one year ago) link
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.
― Halfway there but for you, Monday, 19 December 2022 23:51 (one year ago) link
So guys
This film is pretty good fyi
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 10 April 2023 22:12 (one year ago) link
Well done.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 10 April 2023 22:45 (one year ago) link
I got there in the end!
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 10 April 2023 22:45 (one year ago) link
But have you seen The Host?
― Beatles in My Passway (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 11 April 2023 00:17 (one year ago) link
I've scheduled that one for 2034
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 11 April 2023 06:51 (one year 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
― 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