WTF was this movie?>first 30 minutes of the cop not being able to even glimpse the monster>beginning to wonder if the monster is a Boon Joon ho-esque metaphor for capitalism, fear and distrust of North Korea, or some other abstract shit>the monster can't keep its balance for some reason and keeps tripping over itself and tackling buildings like the berserker titan>the squid game girl shows up like a commando who's used to this shit when she's seeing it for the first time>the alien runs at 300mph but takes like 5 minutes to reach her>she starts shooting at it from a mile away>koreans can't fucking brake they just keep swerving and totalling their cars for no reason>monster sheds a single tear and somehow that the cop realizes something and doesnt' kill it, leading the audience to believe the monster is the cop's son transformed (it's not, it literally just cried out of sadness, that's it)>when you think the movie is over you're actually only 1/4th through>an old man tells a story about shitting in the woods in a bad attempt at the Pulp Fiction watch-in-ass dialogue>the doctor can't tell that this is an unknown species without opening it up and examining its organs
>switch to five hunters in the woods>literal Carls Jr commercial in the woods with them just munching loudly on burgers and fries and slurping on coke and the microphone held up to their mouths>There's a weird ugly motherfucker who leads the cop to his house like that high tension basement scene from fincher's Zodiac, but nothing comes of it>There's like 5 different species of aliens and it's not explained>first monster looks more like a j-horror ghost and compeltely different from the other aliens>never explained why the aliens have intergalactic travel but acts like troglodytes>never explained if that's just an indigenous monster to earth and separate from aliens>later another team of four, more "elite" hunters go in, looking like they have experience with aliens, oozing aura, has shades on>they take out the first alien easily but jobs badly later for no reason >turns out they're not actually special ops guys but just more hunters>endless reused scenes of the alien running at 300mph looking like it's about to catch up, but then in the next shot it's all the way behind again, rinse and repeat>entire highway sequence with a horse and car like the director watched too many fast and furious films>turns into a melodramatic intergalactic soap opera about the alien royal family near the end>absolutely no editing, they used every footage they shot
>>224045146You just know this shit would get lambasted if it came from any other country than current darling South Korea.
>>224045405western critics have this incredibly patronizing view where they see anything different made by "POC" as being "authentic" and not polluted by the norms of hollywood
Dude on horse didn't go as far as I thought he would lol
>>224046021Wait, he popped up in the end, nvm. Still funny though.
>that alien is catching up fast!>next scene the alien is teleported back 100 feet
That first monster reminded me of the Hulk and how wild he can be running around. The Fassbender one looked like a resident evil licker that can transform.
>retarded slop, Hollywood:(>retarded slop, Korea:O
>>224046201fassbender's alien doesn't even make sense>Let me go into armored mode, by exposing all my inner flesh and sinews
This was an awful movie.The first movie looked like something out of bloodborne. Complete with ridiculous limb flailing animation and the ability to go at any speed it wants to.
>>224047871>The first movieI meant *the first monster
What is with koreans acting unnecessarily aggressive in their films?They're constantly threatening to kill each other.Persona 1:>you fucking punk>do you want to die?>AEHGOOOO, AIISSSSSHHHH>come any closer and i'll fucking kill youPersona 2:>.... Sir, this is a mcdonalds, i just want to know if you would like grape soda with your order?
>>224045146>koreans can't fucking brake they just keep swerving and totalling their cars for no reasonAccurate.
>guy is invincible, gets thrown against trees about 5 times that would have killed him the first time but he just gets straight back up>about 90 mins of the movie is focused on him fighting monsters and getting into poorly edited chase scenes>he then dies in a "wacky comedic mishap" when the car swerves and he explodes in a pile of blood which goes all over everyone's facesWhat a fucking waste of time this movie is.
>>224047918I wondered about the same thing. The cop was just scolding everyone. At first I thought it was a small town where everybody knew each other but he was doing it to strangers too, so maybe they just have too much respect for authority. And the Korean language makes it sound like you’re whiny half the time with the shhh sounds and the upward lilt at the end
>>224047998He’s actually alive and limping along the high way in the post credits scene
>>224048144A lot of Asian comedy comes from how they emphasize and pronounce things when they speak. Kinda hard to understand as a westerner but you kinda get the hang of it when you watch enough movies even if you don't understand the language. This one sucks though.
>>224045146This was awful
It was incredibly adhd, the director just introduces quirky new characters and focuses on them for five minutes like he’s setting things up for his cinematic universe spinoffs.The entire scene with the female doctor getting annoyed from not being able to cut through the exoskeleton so she revs up a chainsaw like a mad man was unnecessary.
>>224048356Pretty sure the man has gone off the rails in some ways, The Wailing was not this retarded, though there were some sings there as well.
>>224045146It's a gag she went through so many tools to say the obvious, it's a new species! The car action is like an epic version of I the Mouth of Madness omg. John Carpenter bow down.
>>224048462I’ve only seen the chaser and I remember liking it >>224048520The gag fell flat because these things have human faces, and earlier the cop recognized something in the creature’s face. Then there’s the fact that it’s vaguely humanoid, and the organs look sort of like heart and lungs from a distance. I thought for sure the cop would say that they looked like human organs.
>>224047918There's no straight-edge good guy in Korean movies. All the characters have to be assholes for some reason.
>>224048161Yep, which is actually even stupider than if he just died in the car.
>>224048144I've seen it in a lot of their films.They absolutely love these 2 phrases: - you fucking punk - do you want to die?
>>224048356>The entire scene with the female doctorYou could tell he was trying to do a bit there, but it wasn't working. It was just awkward.Korean directors are all trying to be bong joon ho, coz he's the only director of theirs who can successfully marry suspense with black comedy.Park Chan Wook tried to do it in his last movie as well, even copying a scene from parasite almost verbatim, but it just didn't work because the timing and editing were all completely off.
>>224048462Some of the stuff with the father in the wailing was a bit stupid. He was a complete buffoon in some scenes, and that part with the zombie and all the guys falling over because they're over-acting is going to be difficult to re-watch now that i've seen Hope completely fail to land any of its jokes.
>>224050541Was it me or was the director wearing all his influences on his sleeve. opening scene with the bull = Fargo1st monster sequence = The Hostthe monster crying face = grendel crying in beowufl poop story = christopher walken's watch storyugly guy taking them to see the alien = Zodiacinside of space ship = HR giger/Alien finding the Engineer's cockpot
>>224050804Oh and the forest scene with the guy hiding under the log was straight from The PredatorI haven't seen 'homages' this blatant since tarantino
>>224045146the ayylmaos in the forest reminded me of Gantz for some reason
>>224045168You just explained why the movie is great.
>>22404514610/10 film.
Everything made in Korea is like this. They are retarded people. Korean movies suck ass. Korean shows suck ass.
>>224045405>>224046267This is all there's to it.
>>224045146korean movies rarely make sense unless maybe you're korean.
>>224051008EXPLAIN THIS SHIT
WHY THE FUCK IS THERE A JUMP CUT HERE FOR NO REASON? IS THIS A MUSIC VIDEO? WHO APPROVED OF THIS EDITING
>>224045146>leading the audience to believe the monster is the cop's son transformedYou're so fucking retarded. It should be illegal for retards to spill paragraphs of garbage where I can see it.
>>224045146Movie for kids (unironically) Director probably had his grandchildren in mind while making it.
>>224050804>>224050827If you're going to do the postmodern pastiche bullshit, you better have it be fucking great.
There is no sense of space or continuity. I swear none of the cuts are in order.
>>224052192Just get that slop to the gaijin, who gives a fuck
it's the best gantz adaptation we'll ever get
>>224045146>never explained why the aliens have intergalactic travel but acts like troglodytesThis was dumb. The monsters are pretty much invincible and intelligent, yet are running around naked chucking spears and eating people alive. I thought it was going to be something like they came to Earth on a hunting trip and maybe their kid got sniped on vacation so they're going crazy but no, apparently they're the envoys of some star empire searching for the prophesied star baby that will save their race. I have zero sympathy with them since they're immune to bullets and can even take multiple explosives to the face no issue. The same way Superman would be performing an evil act if he treated being threatened with a gun as grounds for justified homicide, I have no idea why they expect me to hear these freaky retard monsters lament their dead star baby and think anything else but I'm glad they gunned one down before they became invincible murder machines. They could have walked into town under a hail of gunfire checking every home one by one and been fine if they wanted revenge on the one who killed the ayy lmao bby, there's zero purpose in randomly attacking any human they cone across unless the goal is attacking every human they come across, which it isn't. First third is monster kino, rest is absolute tepid runny dogshit served with a glass of frothy old man piss.
>>224052192The editing was atrocious. It was shown multiple times how fast the aliens could move/run, orders of magnitude faster than any human could move.Cue the chase scenes - aliens are running after the humans, they are going to take about 3 seconds to catch up with the humans and fuck them up. But somehow, there's a cut/edit and magically, the alien isn't catching up to them at all.... it happens over and over and over again.You've only gotta be paying the slightest bit of attention before the whole movie falls apart.. It's infuriating.
The fact that all the aliens were completely different, some of them could communicate (telepathically apparently, as seen in the forest), but then some of them were more like monsters/trolls, only capable of grunting and smashing things and eating peoples bones.It was like 15 different people worked on the movie.There was absolutely no fucking consistency at all.
>>224045146This is exactly what I imagined an AI scripted movie would look like. Not current AI, but a few years ago AI. It just kinda picks a few characters, settings and ideas and just slaps them together without any sense of a traditional, overarching, interconnected narrative. There's no character development whatsoever. No real motives, backstory, perspectives, reasoning... it's truly bizarre. It was a hollow shell of a movie with a nice wrapper.
Why can't korea and japan make good fun movies anymore? it's all gritty dramaslop
