This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Another excellent movie from Bong Joon-ho. I don't know in terms of adaptation cause I have yet to read the book, but on its own it was solid. Rob Patterson seemed like he was having the time of his life and so did the rest of the cast.
You'll dig the humor if you like something hammy but meaningful. Story was satirical and had a touch of Starship Troopers. There's the whole "we are the invaders idiotically trying to expand…
This was a very intense ride. It's a sad story dressed in a grotesque costume of gore and blood and it seems it made a lot of people squirm, myself included.
I really enjoyed the way all the different aspects tie in together, the aesthetics, the music, the few dialogues, the close ups, etc. It's like a distorted window on our own reality. Everything seems to have a thick layer of superficiality and hollowness (on purpose), like real connection is…
I have very mixed feelings about this movie. On one hand, you got a badass trans woman character who kicks ass while still yearning for her feminine side to be accepted. On the other hand, the tagline for this movie is literally "I killed her in me" and, effectively, the movie presents transgenderism as some sort of defect someone has to live with and as a tragedy of sort.
I will not lie, I felt uneasy and grossed out on…
I immediately understood why this one is a cult classic. I mean, the story made little sense to me and I had to pay very attention to the movie because so much non-sense was going on, but as a wild story about rescueing one's fiance and uncovering shady underground evils going on? This was so much fun.
Big Trouble in Little China doesn't pretend to be anything more or less than it really is, and what it is is an…
