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La Femme Nikita meets Mr. & Mrs. Smith (in Korean)
posted by MongoLloydSTAFFMOD on November 3, 2017 at 5:03 PM
Annnnnd, no idea what's going on.
Reply by ultraviolet
on November 5, 2017 at 5:17 PM
I thought that as well, great action though
Reply by 40w2000
on December 25, 2017 at 10:24 AM
Yeah. The whole thing made zero sense. It was awful. Like some Korean TV drama writer watched The Assassin, had a weird fever dream about it and then decided to make film about it but was lobotomized before he picked up his camera.
Reply by MongoLloyd
on December 25, 2017 at 11:43 AM
And people rave about Oldboy which to my mind is probably just as nonsensical.
Reply by 40w2000
on December 26, 2017 at 1:34 AM
I remember watching Oldboy based on the great reviews it was getting when it was released. It had one of the dumbest endings of any movie I've seen, even today. I'm sure they have decent movies in Korea but the ones that seem to get international attention are awful. I wonder if it's a cultural thing I just don't get.
Reply by MongoLloyd
on December 26, 2017 at 2:32 PM
THAT ending is the standby ending for unoriginal writers. It's what they pull out of their as5es when they write-as-they-go and want to shock an audience out of their stupor. THAT ending is little more than an attempt to "wow them in the end" without putting the work in and crafting a screenplay that IS compelling while also making sense.
I tend to avoid Asian movies in general because they often feature infuriating logic violations and I think it's a very hipster thing to call Oldboy a "masterpiece."