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Aw I really liked it. I liked how slow it was. I thought it was gorgeous.
If you showed me the complete plot synopsis and then had me watch the first act, I would have been like, "shit yes, I am going to love this." But in practice, it just never clicked for me.
You just wish it had been A Dog Walks Home Alone at Night.
Jai Courtney was my favorite part of the movie. And I never drank enough that I can chalk it up to the alcohol. Truly, this is the darkest timeline.
Small town near Busan has a nuclear power plant that basically employs the town for the past 30 years. Some people don't like it because it drove off all the fishing and tourism industries, the protagonist, a failed business owner, doesn't want to work there anymore because he wants to work overseas to save up money for his family and tough headstrong girlfriend who also works at the plant. But OMG the nuclear plant has been skirting safety protocol because evil government stooges and young pretty boy president not knowing what to do. Then OMG again an earthquake strikes and sends one of the towers into meltdown and everyone goes into overacting asian cinema panic.
They start the meltdown pretty early for these types of films (it's 2.5 hours) and the result is following people who you are supposed to root for doing stupid, dangerous things that aren't even the right things to do because the director thinks these types of things are mandatory for a disaster film. Hijack a bus, drive on the wrong side of the road and cause wrecks, whatever, makes no sense but it looks kewl. The protagonist does something so stupid that it makes you lose any reason to root for him. The government people are so over the top evil it loses any punch this film has in trying to be anti-nuclear power (which it will hit you over the head with more and more as the film progresses).
And that's what makes me have a sad about the movie, korean films are usually good at recognizing they don't have to copy western blockbuster films exactly because those films already exist, they just pick a little here and there to tinker with and try something different when they aren't making top shelf noir movies. Shitty knockoffs are a mainland china thing. Here it's just so Roland Emmerich-y that the big rallying moments are just whatever, shut up trying to be inspiring for the third act, there's only one likable guy here who is the wise old engineer who cliched republican senator doesn't listen to until two days before the day after tomorrow.
Thumbs down, watch New World instead. Everyone should watch New World. New World.
That tends to happen when you decide "Fuck it, let's just actually rotate an entire motherfucking hallway".
It's one of the reasons I love Nolan.
Have you seen Spartacus: Blood and Sand? That's his best role, by far. His appearance and acting ability are so different in the films I didn't realize it was him. That's why his failure in Hollywood is so sad, he has the talent but it's never shown in the movies.
I did but not the stuff he was in. I petered out when the first guy died and never caught up on the later seasons. Is it on Netflix?
He had blond curly hair and was Spartacus' best friend.
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
Yes, it's on Netflix. Courtney's only in the first season, he's Varro.
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Exactly.
He was awesome as Varro in Spartacus: Blood & Sand.
I am never not amazed by this entire thing
I can't imagine how many suits thought Nolan was crazy to try this
When I heard about this I thought it was crazy and wasn't going to work. Then it worked! Nolan's track record with practical stunts is amazing.
"How are you going to make it look like this truck flips?"
"We're going to flip the truck."
He takes it too far sometimes though. Like the house in Interstellar. There's no reason that couldn't have been a set. But to get real sunlight in through the windows he planted corn and built an actual house in an actual field... Then decided he didn't like the result, covered the windows and just used big lights instead.
That sounds so Kubrick.
...oh whatever.
Would not be surprised if Kubrick was a huge influence on Nolan. The rotating hallways sequence reminded me of 2001.
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
But the desire to get the lighting "just right" is totally Kubrick, Barry Lyndon and it's use of natural light being the biggest example.
~ Buckaroo Banzai
Kubrick had new lenses fucking invented to get Barry Lyndon shot
Had to be him, someone else would've gotten it wrong.
EDIT: And not going to lie, the candlelit scenes in Lyndon give me aesthetic wood.
~ Buckaroo Banzai
It might be the best crafted movie ever made. No one watches it anymore since it's so damn long but its a masterwork
Yeah, it's not made for modern attention spans, which is sad for them.
I can't say I always watch it in 1 setting, but I've seen it more than 10 times from beginning to end since I found out about it in my early 20's working at a Hollywood Video (so, circa 2002).
~ Buckaroo Banzai
I can certainly understand this.
Strangelove and Spartacus (just watched this today in fact) are my overall favorites, although 2001 is a close third. Of course I can find brightspots in pretty much any Kubrick work, I even like parts of Eyes Wide Shut, besides the nakedness and sex.
~ Buckaroo Banzai
My friend managed to sneak in Bone Alone into my DVDs and I didn't notice for 8 months.
I knew it was him as soon as I saw the title but I was impressed he'd managed to not cave in and tell me what he'd done.
If theaters want to get me away from my home screens, putting up older films is a sure fire way to do it.
Get Out was good.
I, uh...
I'm a smoker and a black man with the same name as the main character, and I've only ever dated white women.
I have some things to unpack.
Yeah but once the corn crop came in they harvested and sold it turning a profit.