Sh. Don't remember that people kinda sorta did this consensus in the Thirst anticipation thread. It's Park Chan-wook week. Let them ratings fly, before Park loses his contemplative pose.
Filmography:
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Sh. Don't remember that people kinda sorta did this consensus in the Thirst anticipation thread. It's Park Chan-wook week. Let them ratings fly, before Park loses his contemplative pose.
Filmography:
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The Boat People - 9
The Power of the Dog - 7.5
The King of Pigs - 7
Joint Security Area (2000) - 6.5
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002) - 7.5
Oldboy (2003) - 10
Lady Vengeance (2005) - 7.0
I’m a Cyborg, But That’s OK (2006) - 9.0
Thirst (2009) - 6.5
Oldboy - 8.5
Thirst - 7.5
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance - 5
Oldboy - 9
Cut - 7
Sympathy for Lady Vengeance -6
Thirst - 8.5
Oldboy (2003) 6.0
Recently Viewed:
Thor: The Dark World (2013) **½
The Counselor (2013) *½
Walden (1969) ***
A Hijacking (2012) ***½
Before Midnight (2013) ***
Films By Year
Joint Security Area (2000) - 5.5
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002) - 7.5
Oldboy (2003) - 9.5
Lady Vengeance (2005) - 6.5
I’m a Cyborg, But That’s OK (2006) - 3.5
Thirst (2009) - 7.5
Last 10 Movies Seen
(90+ = canonical, 80-89 = brilliant, 70-79 = strongly recommended, 60-69 = good, 50-59 = mixed, 40-49 = below average with some good points, 30-39 = poor, 20-29 = bad, 10-19 = terrible, 0-9 = soul-crushingly inept in every way)
Run (2020) 64
The Whistlers (2019) 55
Pawn (2020) 62
Matilda (1996) 37
The Town that Dreaded Sundown (1976) 61
Moby Dick (2011) 50
Soul (2020) 64
Heroic Duo (2003) 55
A Moment of Romance (1990) 61
As Tears Go By (1988) 65
Stuff at Letterboxd
Listening Habits at LastFM
Joint Security Area - 8
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance - 10
Oldboy - 10
Cut - 8.5
Lady Vengeance - 9
I’m a Cyborg, But That’s OK - 8
Thirst - 9
TV Recently Finished:
Catastrophe: Season 1 (2015) A
Rectify: Season 3 (2015) A-
Bojack Horseman: Season 2 (2015) A
True Detective: Season 2 (2015) A-
Wayward Pines: Season 1 (2015) B
Currently Playing: Viva Pinata: Trouble in Paradise (replay) (XB1) / Contradiction (PC)
Recently Finished: Everybody's Gone to the Rapture (PS4) A+ / Life is Strange: Ep 4 (PS4) A / Bastion (replay) (PS4) B+
Joint Security Area - 8
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance - 9
Oldboy - 10
Sympathy for Lady Vengeance - 6
I'm a Cyborg but That's OK - 9
Oldboy - 7.5
Lady Vengeance - 7.0
Thirst - 6.5
Lady Vengeance - 10
I’m a Cyborg, But That’s OK - 9
Thirst - 5.5
I need to see Oldboy again.
JSA - 7.0
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance - 8.5
Oldboy - 8.0
Cut - 4.5
Sympathy for Lady Vengeance - 6.0
Thirst - 6.0
Letterboxd rating scale:
The Long Riders (Hill) ***
Furious 7 (Wan) **½
Hard Times (Hill) ****½
Another 48 Hrs. (Hill) ***
/48 Hrs./ (Hill) ***½
The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec (Besson) ***
/Unknown/ (Collet-Serra) ***½
Animal (Simmons) **
Oldboy - 7
Coming to America (Landis, 1988) **
The Beach Bum (Korine, 2019) *1/2
Us (Peele, 2019) ***1/2
Fugue (Smoczynska, 2018) ***1/2
Prisoners (Villeneuve, 2013) ***1/2
Shadow (Zhang, 2018) ***
Oslo, August 31st (J. Trier, 2011) ****
Climax (Noé, 2018) **1/2
Fighting With My Family (Merchant, 2019) **
Upstream Color (Carruth, 2013) ***
Old Boy (2003) [6]
Three... Extremes [segment "Cut"] (2004) [6]
Lady Vengence (2005) [5]
There's still a couple I want to see, but so far he's no Bong Joon-ho.
Just because...
The Fabelmans (Steven Spielberg, 2022) mild
Petite maman (Céline Sciamma, 2021) mild
The Banshees of Inisherin (Martin McDonagh, 2022) mild
The last book I read was...
The Complete Short Stories by Mark Twain
The (New) World
Dug his first 3 films, didn't understand Sympathy for Lady Vengeance, got Thirst sitting at home waiting to be watched.
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance - 7.5
Oldboy - 7
Cut - 3.5
Sympathy for Lady Vengeance - 4
Thirst - 5
Oldboy - 7.5
Sympathy for Lady Vengeance - 5
I am impatient of all misery in others that is not mad. Thou should'st go mad, blacksmith; say, why dost thou not go mad? How can'st thou endure without being mad? Do the heavens yet hate thee, that thou can'st not go mad?
lists and reviews
Joint Security Area - 6.5
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance - 8
Oldboy - 7
Lady Vengeance - 4.5
Thirst - 6.5
Barring the first film, Park doesn't seem to engage with the sociological aspects of South Korean culture as much as other of his countrymen. He's a good, versatile showman, but he's not especially challenging.
The Boat People - 9
The Power of the Dog - 7.5
The King of Pigs - 7
What a silly thing to fault a filmmaker for.
Bah, I hate that line of thinking. So because he's not interested in what you want him to be interested in you simply assume he's not deep or not challenging enough.Quoting dreamdead (view post)
I do lean toward dramas more in my appreciation, yes, but tonally and dramatically I haven't found much of value in Park's recent ventures, which have become bloated without saying nearly as much as his first films. There's nothing wrong with a "well-made" genre film--hell, South Korea film criticism has instituted a whole practice of criticism based on this notion where the film style elevates the material--but after the first in the revenge trilogy his interest in Korean culture has become dulled by nonuse or glib use. Thirst is elevated by the portrayal of its leading lady, not because of its script.Quoting Grouchy (view post)
Though baby doll is similarly glib in dismissing Park in favor of Bong, I simply wish to see Park return to the restraint and intrigue that elevated his first films.
The Boat People - 9
The Power of the Dog - 7.5
The King of Pigs - 7
I understand what you're saying. I disagree because I like "universal" movies like I'm a Cyborg but That's OK and I don't think it suffers because it has little to say about Korean culture, but I do.Quoting dreamdead (view post)
Oldboy (2003) - 8
I’m a Cyborg, But That’s OK (2006) - 8
Last 5 Viewed
Riddick (David Twohy | 2013 | USA/UK)
Night Across the Street (Raoul Ruiz | 2012 | Chile/France)*
Pain & Gain (Michael Bay | 2013 | USA)*
You're Next (Adam Wingard | 2011 | USA)
Little Odessa (James Gray | 1994 | USA)*
*recommended *highly recommended
“It isn't easy to accept that suffering can also be beautiful... it's difficult. It's something you can only understand if you dig deeply into yourself.” -- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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