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I legit am about to take the bait and watch K-Pop: Demon Hunters later this week. It turns out the soundtrack is back in the top five of the Billboard charts, and I found out that they’re making two sequels to the movie.
 
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I legit am about to take the bait and watch K-Pop: Demon Hunters later this week. It turns out the soundtrack is back in the top five of the Billboard charts, and I found out that they’re making two sequels to the movie.
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The plot is a little cliche but the show is entertaining to watch and the music is good and the setting is unique
 
Watched memories of murder and it was as great as it was unpleasant. Plot is a simple murder investigation but in 1980s South Korea which if this movie is be believed was a complete shit hole. Kang-ho song, who legally has to be in every bong Joon jo movie, is fantasic as the farcicaly incompetent piece of shit detective that literally tortures false confessions out of retards but somehow comes off still kinda likable. He's join by a competent cop from seoul, played greatly by Kim Sang-kyung, who gets the plot moving by doing more investigating then just kicking the shit out of people who look guilty.
The movie can be kinda hard to watch in the facts it is intentionally frustrating and the crimes, including the one by the police, are of the very real and upsetting varity, but if you can stomach that it's fantasic. Still for as dark is it gets its has some great humor too, lots of dark comedy and farce to accent the horror. More disturbing murder movies need comedic drop kicks
Highly recommend probably bong joon hos best work. Rest is very spoilery film analysis shit.
the thing that i think really elevates it to truly great is the way the movie puts you in the same decline as the seoul detective. At first he just like the audience find songs method retarded and despicable, just thinking a guy had to be the murder because a tiny peace of evidence that could easily be a coincidence and literally just vaguely "looking like he did it". Then as shit gets more dire and he's more exhausted and more frustrated he and the audience become absolutely sure the suspect did it based entirely on him requesting a song to a radio regularly and looking like a bad guy. Once the girl is murdered your all in on wanting the cop to kill him because "he has to be the guy" completely losing any perspective on the actual evidence, unknowingly doing the same as song.
 
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Films I want to keep an eye on, out of festivals like the Toronto International Film Fest and well as the indie and international action film focused Big Bad Film Festival, include these promising ones.

The most recent film helmed by veteran action director Koichi Sakamoto, Tatsujin Warriors. An ex-con just out after five years for manslaughter returns to her peaceful hometown, only to find it's been taken over by a violent gang, she forms a band of martial artists take her town back.


Another film, which features Sakamoto on action choreography is Isolated, directed Hiroyuki Tsuji, who has helmed films in the popular Nihon Toitsu franchise, a collection of films, dramas, etc. set in the Japanese criminal underworld. In this film a Yakuza lieutenant is on a countdown to rescue his kidnapped captain, and keeps running into various opponents from hooded punks to men with considerable martial skills, while being watched by the mystery man behind the kidnapping who seeks to take over the underworld.

And in The Furious, set in Southeast Asia, a humble tradesman (and martial artist) played by Xie Miao sees his daughter abducted off the street. He goes off an a tear, taking on corrupt police and criminals, joined by a reporter with martial arts skills played by Joe Taslim (of The Raid, etc.) who believes the same crime ring is behind his wife's disappearance. The film is the directorial debut of Kenji Tanigaki, long time fight coordinator and stunt-choreographer for various Chinese and Japanese action films, a long time collaborator with Donnie Yen, etc. The action choreography is by Kensuke Sonomura, another veteran who has branched out into directing in recent years.

 
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Enjoyed Code 3 last night. Dark comedy with Rainn Wilson about paramedics. One scene goes a bit over the top with suggesting cops just want to shoot misunderstood black dudes, but otherwise was very enjoyable. Explored the frustrations of a job that prompts lots of outside opinions about how it ought to be done. As a teacher, I could relate.

It suggests paramedics are not well respected in the US which was interesting. In Australia it is a decently high paying job, with a fairly hard to enter uni degree required.
 
ive been watching only dark and depressing movies lately and while they are my favorite im getting depressed anyone have good movies that are the opposite
 
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ive been watching only dark and depressing movies lately and while they are my favorite im getting depressed anyone have good movies that are the opposite
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Raising Arizona. If this movie doesn't make you laugh your ass off you do not have laughter in you.
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Blazing Saddles
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Also this. Funniest fucking movie ever plus they say nigger a lot.
 
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Raising Arizona. If this movie doesn't make you laugh your ass off you do not have laughter in you.

Also this. Funniest fucking movie ever plus they say nigger a lot.
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blazing saddles kicks ass i like the chase scene through film studio

edit: thank you @Pedophobe for reminding me of my horrible crime of spoiling a movie i am truly sorry
 
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What are your takes on the 2014 TV series? I still haven't watched either the film or series but they're both high on my to watch-list.
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Unsolicited opinion, but season one is the best of the lot, by far. It adapts some story beats from the film, but it has its own identity. The cast is outstanding, too. I know I saw s02 and 03 but I don't remember anything about them. S01 is must-watch though, preferably after you see the film. All the seasons of the show are self-contained storylines with only the occasional reference to events or characters in other seasons, so it's not like you have to go through all of them, or even watch them chronologically.

Just watched He Died With A Falafel In His Hand and enjoyed it a lot. It reminded me of Withnail & I, mostly because of the directionless existence the self-loathing protagonist finds himself in. The dialogue stuffed with all of the pseudo-intellectual posturing also has a lot in common. I've heard people say that you've got to be Australian in order to truly appreciate the film but I didn't find that to be the case at all.

As a synopsis for the uninitiated, a freshly single (and completely destitute) writer flits between several share-homes and deals with neopagan feminists, violent neonazis, delusional amateur actresses, and everybody in-between. All the while nursing his alcoholism and unwarranted sense of superiority. It's a grand time, and there's a lot of great cinematography.
 
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Pedophobe said:
Blazing Saddles
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Also this. Funniest fucking movie ever plus they say nigger a lot.
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I own a blu-ray copy of blazing saddles, I 100% agree with your guys recommendation, granted almost all of Mel Brooks movies are good. However the tv pilot for blazing saddles, black bart sucks massive dick, as blazing saddles was intended to be made into a tv show for CBS, as a way to get Mel Brooks to make a sequel to blazing saddles. An actual blazing saddles sequel (with exceptions to the god awful paws of fury, aka babies first blazing saddles with animals in a samurai era japan) and subsequently a show about black bart never came to an existence.
 
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spoilers111!!!11
my favorite mel brooks movie is actually the producers i love the nazi play fucking hilarious
 
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