i was reading that like, only 2 or so of them had actual acting experience, he found a bunch of dancers to just go wild for a cool 90 minutes while a lightshow told a story
and yeah the stuff about nationalism and the flag conversations devolving into backstabbing and solitude was neat, youre totally right
apparently the dude who plays daddy IS an actual dj and an instrumental version of one of his song is the one that plays in that amazing top down dance scene
Iāll preface what Iām going to say with this: I think parasite is a perfect movie and I wonāt hear anything about how itās not!
the thing that really struck nika and I about parasite is that it feels like a fable or like a fairy tale or something - we came out of the movie trying to talk about what āitā āmeantā but what it means is super obvious and the movie itself pokes fun at its own symbolism (āitās so metaphorical!ā). like, there isnāt that much to take away in terms of character motivation or growth or anything because the movie feels to us like itās one of those fables and the characters in it, moreso than any movie Iāve seen in the last few years, are literally just vessels for the story to be told through
from that I feel like the movie is entirely about what the architecture of capitalism is so Iād slightly amend the posted articleās line about placing actors within capitalism on a āsteep and narrow escalatorā and say that the architecture and space of capitalism is like, literally the house. so everyoneās character motivations are based on wanting to live in the house and how much they want it, and who they feel like they owe when they do live in it, and what people will do to live inside it. and it turns out theyād do a lot according to the movie
part of me feels like the movie is responding to the ousting of the former south korean president and showing that just getting rid of the people who currently live in the house doesnāt mean that youāve torn the house down - as far as I know (and I donāt know much about it so forgive me) south korea is still as super-capitalist as it ever was, and so I think given that context depicting a revolt would basically mean burning the house down, which isnāt what bong seems interested in (yet)
parasite feels like an evolution of tatiās playtime in that itās more interested in exploring the spaces that people navigate around and through and outlining how those spaces dictate what behaviors we perform within them
this isnāt super well organized sorry
loved the constant mentions of the architect Namgoong speaking of which
ah crap forgot to mention
because the movie is so obsessed with space and how people navigate through i feel like it does a better job of indicting the people who are watching it that live in the nice house than basically any other movie iāve seen
like i donāt feel like iām super rich and neither does nika but both of us walked out feeling really horrible about our āstationā in a visceral way because weāre familiar with how navigating through the upstairs of the house works and it just feels so fucking slimy
YES. I love when movies do this and this was my favorite aspect of the movie. The sequence where they go through the city back to their own apartment was incredible.
So I finally watched The Legend of Drunken Master from start to finish and I liked it. Itās a little all over the place though? It works, but Jesus itās a ride. Also it ends so abruptly, like an episode of Adventure Time, lolād.
Also finally watched Mandy which, conversely, was way more straight-forward than I expected. I think my favorite thing was the typography lol
Itās like a classic kung fu movie thing to end as soon as the villain is defeated. I think itās Crippled Masters that doesnāt even let him hit the ground before it freeze frames on āThe End.ā
I tried to watch Tekken 2, the live action movie from a couple years ago. Kazuya loses his memory and ends up living in a oppressive hobo camp, fighting random dudes and walking around through extremely slow paced scenes. Shang Tsung plays Heihachi in flashbacks. Bryan Fury shows up but heās boring live action Kenshiro guy as some kind of commando, and not Roy Batty. Thereās no other Tekken characters or aliens or bears or dinosaurs or bowling or any of the stuff I would put in a Tekken movie. The head hobo has these two assassins ladies who should be Anne and Nina but instead they just hang around and occasionally kill people in a simulated bar room training room. The whole thing is set in Tekken City. It sucksss.
I also finally saw all of Driller Killer. That pizza they eat might be the worst pizza on film. It looks like itās all green beans and Kraft parmesan flakes.
I heard thereās an article out there about how they built the set for Parasite. Apparently they put a ton of design work into itās layout so it could work with the narrative.
I remember the thing that struck me the most when I watched the movie was that it as a packed theater, which was very surprising, and just how much people were laughing at everything. Itās got humor, but I felt that when you see whatās in the basement then the laughs go away for a while. Thereās the whole ensuing sequence of them fighting afterwards and everyone was just roaring with laughs. Iām not sure if I was misreading it, since it felt to me like everything just got kind of grim at that point. The old helper getting kicked down the stairs and hitting her head on the wall even got a huge response, though the laughter died down several seconds after that when people realized she was actually dead. So I donāt know if I was misreading the movie or if the audience was being kind of callous there.
Le Mans 1966 a.k.a. Ford vs Fiat 
sports the 20th century fox logo - maybe for the last time? Only time/the mouse will tell. Anyway, itās a good movie for normal people, and a great one for car people.
Great sound design, worth it.
I admit I laughed a lot during the fight scene when the daughter leaves and runs for the fridge to unload a bag of peaches on the former maid
I watched terminator dark fate and it was pretty good. Not great but good. Which is good for it because if it sucked I would have called it terminator dork fart and no one deserves a burn that spicy
No idea why it flopped other than the fact that the last two were horrible. I still like t3 though, maybe even better than this one. It manages to be weirdly reminiscent of all the post t2 sequels even though it ignores them plot wise. Like it borrows certain elements, including a weird cameo of a vaguely familiar looking aussie (?) dude as a badass future soldier
I havenātā seen it but I wish hollywood would get away from fighting on aircraft.
Yea that entire sequence felt like it should have been cool but was just OK. The car chase in the beginning is much better
do you ever just stop and think about how incredible an undertaking the highway chase in terminator 2 was?
Yes! I watched it this weekend prior to seeing dark fate. T2 is ridiculously good
I was gonna watch T2 a couple of days ago, but I couldnāt find my Skynet edition Blu-ray. So I watched Die Hard 3.
I didnāt like Die Hard 3 as much as the last time I watched it, probably 6 years ago.
on the commentary for one or more of the 3 trillion home media releases of T2 Cameron explicitly calls out my favorite stunt of the picture (Arnoldās stuntman getting into the bed of the pickup and then walking its length to climb up on the hood of the big rig and empty his rifle into the t1000) as the sort of thing you just wouldnāt do anymore, itās too dangerous, youād fake most or all of it with computers
it was just made at the perfect time
that stunt is the peak of human achievement imo
Iām glad we can all independently agree on the greatest stunt of all time
I heard next week, Netflix will now have The Movies That Made Us.