If my boyfriend isn't like one (or all) of the Hosplay men, I don't want him.
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Yoo Ji-tae, muscle 20kg augmentation...Lee Joon-hyuk "self-destructive Fijical" (A Vigilante)
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Decision To Leave
Movies watched in 2023
Decision To Leave (2022, South Korea)
Director: Park Chan Wook
Writers: Chung Seo Kyung & Park Chan Wook
Mini-review:
Park Chan Wook is probably my favorite director, so you can imagine how excited I was about Decision To Leave, with it being his first movie in 6 years. And, of course, he doesn't disappoint. Sure, it's definitely not at the level of his best movies, but it's still a great film in pretty much every way. It may take its time when setting up the story and the characters, but it's never boring because the acting, the directing and the writing are masterful. Tang Wei and Park Hae Il give spectacular performances, and it's obvious that Park Chan Wook had a lot of fun making this movie. I admit the storyline was much more simple and straightforward than I expected, but maybe that's what allowed the director to experiment and play around with the cinematography, the editing and the structure of the scenes. All this results in a visually fascinating movie.
I seriously hope it doesn't take 6 more years for Park Chan Wook to release another movie.
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Save the Green Planet! (2003)
Movie #1,116 • TRUE RANDOM, VOL. LII
I don’t think there’s ever been a bigger tonal discrepancy between what a movie poster looks like and what the actually movie looks like.
And these other ones are even worse!...
This one (French DVD release) is probably the ‘best’ though I feel like it’s not a good design and is still off…
This is a damn good movie though. The color-grading and some of the editing choices reminded me that it was in 2003 in South Korea too, but I am gonna make a point moving forward not to keep harping on about my hatred of the mid-00s film aesthetic. I'm a broken record.
Writer-director Jang Joon-hwan has a fascinating though limited feature-length filmography. He's only made three pictures in the last 20 years and they all seem vastly different (although he's allegedly been tapped to helm the English-language remake of this, his debut). But he clearly has a sense of style...
As previously mentioned, this is way more gritty and gruesome than one would ever expect given the initial goofy hats and movie poster and title. The unveiling of this dark world is done with patience and I loved how more and more of the torture chamber is slowly revealed and the movie just keeps getting darker and darker, making you wonder why this green planet deserves to me saved at all. And while, sure, that point is made explicit by the film's ultra-convoluted batshit, 2001-aping, expo dump of an ending, it didn't dilute the experience for me. It's all too weird and unique to pick nits. It's an impactful and memorable movie. One that legitimately earns its cult status. A big win for TRUE RANDOM!
SCORE: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️½
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Decision To Leave
★★★☆☆
Sobresaliente en lo visual, pero bastante más convencional en lo argumental; este intrincado noir que deriva en romance tempestuoso supone una más que digna obra en la soberbia filmografía del surcoreano Park Chan-wook. Sin embargo, para el espectador curtido, la historia que aborda Decision To Leave (Heojil kyolshim), a lo largo de casi dos horas y veinte minutos está repleta de lugares…
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Why did Kim Soo-mi pack a Lunch box for 22 years? ⁇ Ae-ran Jeong Awakens to Disappointment ⁇
Source: k-star-holic.blogspot.com
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