Change Your Image
Annie_Mah
Reviews
Gosa 2 (2010)
Horrible waste of an afternoon. Bad, boring, boring
Give me back the wasted 2 hours of my life. Genius??? Really??? Another batch of reviews I can only guess was slanted by the makers of the film. I had high hopes for the film in the first ten minutes which were dashed to pieces 20 minutes into the film. YAY! I'm a genius filmmaker I'M SO INNOVATIVE!! Story goes nowhere and is about nothing. ZERO conflict. It was absolutely painful to watch. I am embarrassed to say I watched this movie to the end, but in my defense I was reading a book at the time. I kept waiting for something relevant to happen, but nothing ever did. Nothing made any sense. I get that he died. I get that when his buddy gets his sister pregnant at the end he is reborn. Everything in between is a useless waste of time. By the end of the movie 6 people in the theater were seizing, 1 was in a coma, 3 were masturbating, and 14 died of boredom. Greenpeace should project this movie at whaling ships, as the whalers would get so disgusted they would go home and leave the whales alone. I think watching this movie may spontaneously give you colon cancer. Leaving this movie playing in your kitchen would probably kill all the roaches in your house. Looking at a picture of this movie will probably give you a brain tumor. Reading about this movie on the internet will probably make you sterile. That is how BAD this movie actually is.
Mùa hè chieu thang dung (2000)
2 hours of boredom
This film goes no where. once we actually get to everyones dilemma its like the film doesn't know what to do and just ends.
This film goes no where. once we actually get to everyones dilemma its like the film doesn't know what to do and just ends.
This film goes no where. once we actually get to everyones dilemma its like the film doesn't know what to do and just ends.
This film goes no where. once we actually get to everyones dilemma its like the film doesn't know what to do and just ends.
This isn't a wonderful film even if you happen to have some imagination and patience.
This film goes no where. once we actually get to everyones dilemma its like the film doesn't know what to do and just ends.
2 Points through because the scenery is quite nice! If you have 2 hours of boredom to spare, spend it elsewhere.
I'm a big movie buff who loves Thai movies.
Vertical-Ray of the Sun is a one-time watch.
Shou xing nan xun (2001)
Sexy people, funny plot and cheesy as ever. Plus a good rip off of Species
The movie is funny in many ways, and the sex scenes are good, so I cannot complain. I liked it. You can't take this kind of movie too seriously.
This movie is so freakishly funny I don't know how anyone couldn't like it. The movie doesn't go for the humor factor at all. The movie is simply so tacky it makes fun of itself. I am very impressed at the stupidity that goes on here.
The movie starts out at some secret army lab where some evil creature who can morph from a snake into a very attractive woman with ample chest features, or in leymans terms, big, big boobs. This evil woman also has a tendency to enjoy not wearing anything. For some reason there is an assault or something (It isn't at all very clear as to what happens) and this evil snake vixen escapes into the outside world that is some major city in the US. I think it is LA due to the fact that the city is filled with really emotional and stupid people. The morons with feelings really don't know what the hell this woman is and just take her to be some naked woman until she kills a lady for her clothing. She then meets a man named Charles whom is very upset because his wife has recently passed away. She comes into his life very quickly and he decides she is more incompetent than he is and that he must take care for her. He nurtures her and does all these kind good Samaritan things, and she develops into a nice gal. She is no longer evil (Did I mention she was evil?) but she has a lust for sex. It seems she now has a friary passion to get knocked up and multiply her kinds population. However, Charles, due to the recent loss of his wife, can't muster it in him to get down and have a baby with her. She then becomes annoyed and then enraged at his inability to impregnate her. She leaves him even though they are still friends. Then she meets some "dude" who is a walking erection named Mike. She easily convinces him to sleep with her and she uses that to make Charles upset and even more tortured. She eventually gets pregnant and for some reason after the impregnation her belly grows like a balloon and she gives birth about 5 minutes later. This movie is messed up. Charles and Mike then tell her what she is doing and evil and they suddenly decide to kill the rapidly maturing baby who is about 5 years old after one hour. After they have ended the baby's life, Mike goes on with his sexually rampant life and the big breasted snake woman and Charles become a real couple. The end.
I forgot to mention there are about a dozen sex scenes in this two hour movie. The big breasted snake woman is the main character but there are 2 other short sex scenes with two women who are irrelevant to the plot. You see bare breasts and a lot of them and they usually come in pairs as they often do and should. You also will see the man and woman's bottoms but there is no full frontal nudity and you don't see the actual penetration even though it is very heavily implied that that is going along and that both people making love at the minute are loving every thrust of it. The sex scenes prove to be very funny, more so than erotic. The faces they put on are golden. Thank goodness they don't lull down the movie with cheesy music. No, they put in action music. You'd almost think that the men in the movie has to use their member to diffuse a bomb inside of the woman's vagina. All the people in this movie are very attractive and could be said that most anyone would want to copulate with them as well.
Gosa (2008)
to much stupidity.
Death Bell annoyingly combines prettified, slick visual filmmaking (but with no real depth) it's simultaneously tepid and lackluster on the one hand and gross and offensive on the other. Recommended only for the fans of Lee Beom-SO and very undiscerning fans of the horror film genre.
"Death Bell" may be able to deliver decent thrills, but the stupidity of the students alone makes the film become a frustrating experience, not to mention the crude script. Only for hardcore horror fans.
"Death Bell" may be able to deliver decent thrills, but the stupidity of the students alone makes the film become a frustrating experience, not to mention the crude script. Only for hardcore horror fans.
Ggotip (1996)
How sick is this film?
Look, I neither need nor want to see a child raped in this film.
Moreover, that aforementioned rape scene is completely useless, because it definitely does not contribute to the story, and is totally OUT OF CONTEXT for what affects the SUBJECT MATTER of the film. Those scenes should have been deleted!!
The Gwangju Massacre, in which hundreds (up to thousands in some accounts) of the citizens were brutalized and killed by the paratroopers sent down by the military dictator Chun Doo Hwan, finally became the subject of a mainstream commercial , but has haunted the Korean cinema for close to 30 years in a variety of forms, constituting an essential background for understanding such diverse group of works as Jang Seon-woo's A Petal, Director Park, instead of depicting the events themselves or telling the stories of those who have experienced the massacre at first hand, decided to construct a love-triangle story around 2007's Gwangju-city-organized ceremony in commemoration of the Massacre, a re-enactment performance, a street demonstration and a shamanistic ritual rolled into one. In the film, however, the historical "reality" of 1980, which the viewers only access through highly symbolic performance art during the ceremony, the "fictional" reality of the movie's characters, and the documentary "reality" of the 2007 ceremony participated by the actors are allowed to overlap with one another, reaching for the violent climax in which key characters must literally re-live the gut-wrenching horror of the May 18th. As a Brechtian device to call attention to the essentially un-notable nature of the Massacre, this layered approach is at least intriguing. Alas, the actual outcome is likely to induce boredom and confusion rather than shock and understanding on the part of the viewers.
Director intents appear to be honorable, but the movie itself simply does not communicate them in a legible way, generating a heartburn-like sense of frustration instead of emotional resonance. Still, even though the viewing experience is not altogether satisfactory, A Petal deserves a place in Korean cinematic history as a local production that delves into one of the worst political tragedies in postwar Korean history, along with its impressive documentary-like footage.
The main set-piece of A Petal is an astounding sequence involving the incineration of thousands of dead bodies lining on the outskirts.
A grueling experience right to the end, as we again witness an innocent Korean family slaughtered in a frenzied attack by Korean soldiers. The lone survivor - a young girl - walks the darkened, empty streets of Gwangju. In a silent, backwards glance her eyes ask the question - why?
Chekeraccho!! (2006)
Check It Out
Toru (Hayato Ichihara), Akira (Tasuku Emoto) and Tetsuo (Yuta Hiraoka) are senior high school students in Okinawa. Yui (Mao Inoue) is considered a tomboy but is close to them. The four of them find their life boring and wish to do something different.
Andy Clarence (Konishiki) marries Mina (Sayaka Yamaguchi) much to the annoyance of Tetsuo's father Katsuji (Yutaka Matsushige)and Ichi (Gori).She is their first love and they don't think Andy deserves her. The boys are forced to wear kimonos and apply white makeup to perform an item, much to the amusement of the guests. Both men even fight at the wedding dinner and the usually demure Mina has to shout through the microphone in a fiery voice to stop them from ruining her wedding. Toru works part-time at an aquarium as a cleaner. He meets Nagisa (Ayumi Ito) and gets infatuated after she saves him from drowning. She is a waitress but enjoys music too. Yui has trouble selling some concert tickets and coaxes the guys to buy them by claiming that hot chicks also go to watch it. They end up hiring a cab the whole day and becomes friends with Shigeo (Kawada).
They see a concert of Workaholic, an up-and-coming hip-hop band that is famous recently. One member, Ryota (Tetsuji Tamayama) shows a lively performance with nice tunes and daring poses. Toru sees Nagisa again but he doesn't know that she is Ryota's girlfriend. Toru and his buddies get thrilled to see female fans at the concert. They start their own band "098," the area phone code for Okinawa Prefecture. They try introducing their music to the old folks but they hardly know what they want to present. The band gets a chance to perform an opening act in Workaholic's concert. Toru is chosen to do the MC. They are no good at instruments and go through the instruction manual frantically. They secretly borrow instruments from the school when their teacher, Chisa (Hiroki Kawata) attends to phone calls in arranging blind dates.
Yui helps them out as she has a crush on Toru but never has the courage to tell him. She ends up kicking him into the sea instead when Toru challenges her to tell her loved one as he himself doesn't dare to tell Nagisa about his feelings. Toru yells as he doesn't know why this happens to him.
They try Japan's traditional instrument, shamisen to hone their music skills. The boys also find help from Yui's elder sister, Mina. She sews their costumes while Andy teaches the guys how to move to the beat of rap music. Even though they try their best, their performance on the day ends up a complete flop as their music sound terrible. They have lied that they have won awards before but their ability do not fit it.
Fans throw paper cups on stage. Ryota even chides them for playing hollow music when his band replaces them in performing. The two band members break into a fight and Toru injures his palm. Chisa reprimands them and they give up their dream. Toru hears about Nagisa and Ryota going out together. But Nagisa cites that she feels insecure as she is 2 years older than him and he is very unsettled.
She plans to return to Tokyo. Toru tries to tell Ryota about her intention and later bursts into tears in Yui's arms after being a loser in love. Toru's father, Kazuko (Satoko Oshima) is very supportive while Akira's father, Shuichiro (Shingo Yanagisawa) chides him for wasting time. He only ponders over his act under Kazuko's persuasion.
Tetsuo says he is thinking about going to a university in Tokyo. He has a crush on Yui but knowing that she likes Toru, he steps out. The boys decide to hit the stage just one more time - for Nagisa (Toru's way of showing his affection for her) and for themselves. Seeing how Chisa still harbors hopes to get his future wife after countless failures, they decide not to give up.
They paint the stage with Andy's and Mina's help. On the day of their performance, they do the gig in the heavy rain. Their classmates, teacher, parents, Nagisa and Ryota turn up. Ryota has seen the flayer on the concert and comes to tell Nagisa to return to him. Shigeo happens to be the driver for Nagisa and puts the luggage back in Ryota's car. Although sad, Toru wish them well and put the matter behind his head. He playfully thrusts Yui into the water. Their two other friends join them and have fun.
Conclusion: You won't be disappointed And yes, the scenery is breathtaking. The sea water is crystal clear and you will have the urge to swim in it. ^_-
Ssa-i-bo-geu-ji-man-gwen-chan-a (2006)
Crap!!!!!! It's absolutely sickening.
An unusual film Chan-Wook Park has turned into fact, its unusually slow, and - yes, unfortunately - in parts rather boring film. My sense is that the primary culprit here is lack of context. Too often we see sequences of bizarre events and behavior. A development of the (love) story is not happening at all. Defame the mentally ill Go Too Far Making Fun of Mental Illness. Both uplifting and disheartening, sometimes both at once
What kind of person laughs at, or criticizes, a fellow human being's symptoms of distress?
Conclusion: Rather heartless string of clichés
Samâ taimu mashin burûsu (2005)
A Perfect Tale of Adventure and Devotion
This is such a fun film! I admit I'm a bit fan of time travel movies, and comedy movies, and this is both.
The movie starts out with some strange things, some of which I'm like "ah yes, this will get sorted out later" and other times I was like "did I really just see that?" Of course as the movie goes along everything gets explained.
I think this movie has it all to make it five stars in my books: comedy, fun storyline, likable characters, a bit of mystery that all comes together with no loose ties, and a little bit of romance. I highly recommend this film!
Shonen merikensakku (2008)
This movie will charm it's way into your heart,
In "The Shonen Merikensack," young record company talent scout Kanna Kurita (Aoi Miyazaki) finds a video clip of an abrasive punk rock band on the Internet. Although she knows nothing about punk music or even likes punk music, she feels the band could be the next big thing and bursts into Tokita's (Yusuke Santamaria) office to tell him so. Tokita watches the video clip and orders Kanna to find the band and sign them to a contract. This starts Kanna's quest to find the band known as "The Shonen Merikensack" (which translates into English as "The Brass Knuckle Boys"). What Kanna doesn't know, but will find out soon enough, is that the video clip was filmed 25 years ago and the band members are now all washed up middle aged men.
"The Shonen Merikensack" starts off firing on all cylinders, with Aoi Miyazaki dominating the screen with her precocious screen presence. Once Kanna finds the members of "The Shonen Merikensack" the movie shifts into its second act of its three part tale. Koichi Sato does a fine job as bassist Akio – a Sid Vicious like middle aged man, Yuichi Kimura plays the stoic guitarist Haruo – brother of Akio and often bickering opponent, Tomorowo Taguchi is nearly unidentifiable as the Johnny Rotten like vocalist, and finally Hiroki Miyake plays the recovering from hemorrhoids surgery drummer for "The Shonen Merikensack." During the movie's second act, the film turns into a road movie of sorts as Kanna drives the band around in her father's mini van. The final act consists of all the major problems between Kanna and her boyfriend, as well as the quibbles between brothers Akio and Haruo being resolved.
By now this review may seem like an ode to Aoi Miyazaki, but she's deserving of it and its hard to quantify how charming she is in "The Shonen Merikensack." She'll often perform with exaggerated expressions, which for some performers may come off as annoying, but with Aoi Miyazaki you'll likely find yourself laughing for no real reason. The movie itself has only one non deal breaker drawback – which is the gradual shift away from Aoi Miyazaki to the band members of "The Shonen Merikensack." The band members can't maintain the same amount of interest that Aoi Miyzaki is able to elicit. Also, the goofy comedy vibe found in the early portions of the film becomes more muted because of this shift. In a perfect scenario the movie would have stayed with Aoi Miyazaki as the central point of the film and continue its non-stop slapstick moments to the end.
With that said, "The Shonen Merikensack" offers plenty of laugh out loud moments and you do get Aoi Miyazaki in her goofiest performance to date. Compared to other recent music inspired Japanese films, "The Shonen Merikensack" is on the same level with "Detroit Metal City" and easily trumps "GS Wonderland." A double bill of "Detroit Metal City" and "The Shonen Merikensack" would surely make a whole lot of people happy. Aoi Miyazaki is punk!
Haebaragi (2006)
Rent it first
Tae-sik, who cleansed up the neighborhood back alley with his bare knuckle after dropping out of high school, is released on parole.
The once sacrificial sheep of Tae-sik's friend Min-seok has become a detective and Tae-sik's henchmen friends have turned on each other's back.
As if have forgotten the old days he shared with them, Tae-sik only does what he wishes to do, which was written down on his crumpling small scrapbook.
Tae-sik finds a warm shelter in the small neighborhood food joint 'Sunflower'.
Tae-sik tries to live a quiet new life with the lady who runs the restaurant and her daughter, Hee-ju.
from the second half onwards the movie becomes more and more melodramatic and bursts of violence is thrown in every now and then.
A little bit more common sense would have been desirable.
"Haebaragi, Sunflower" can't evoke the tears that it was actually expected to deliver.
Chuen sing yit luen - yit lat lat (2010)
Waste of time
I advise that this movie should be watched in somewhere freezing, if not you sure will feel the heat of the movie. This movie felt damn hot, i can see that most of the actor and actress are not wearing make up since their face is most of the time sweating.
Since there are 6 different stories in this movie, i can tell you that there will be no time for you to feel bored.
This movie has a quite number of a big all stars cast.
The first Chinese film produced by 20th Century Fox
Is also very dependable, likable. As long as you can accept the film's flaws.
Shinboru (2009)
been there done that
When is a sub genre born? Does it simply derive from a formula or certain elements that are reused often enough? Or can it be a set of expectations you bring into the theater with you? I ask because Symbol seems to be deliberately riffing on all of these things, trying to find the line where familiar tropes become, well, symbols. It plays both with a familiar sub genre and a less-familiar setup that's on the verge of becoming a sub genre at this point; you could even argue that this is the movie that pushes it over.
For most of its running time, Symbol seems to be two completely unrelated movies running parallel to each other. One is a Mexican Lucha Libre movie (or maybe "short film" is more appropriate, given the relatively small amount of running time it involves). It's perfectly conventionally shot and with a simple narrative; the wrestler Escargot Man prepares for a tag team match, while a kid in the audience cheers him on.
The other storyline is deliberately, seemingly perversely different. A nameless Japanese man (comedian Hitoshi Matsumoto, who also wrote and directed) wakes up in a featureless white room about the size of a bachelor apartment, wearing a set of candy-colored pajamas and a ridiculous bowl cut. He has no idea how he got there. Exploring the room, he finds exactly one notable feature: a button on the wall shaped like, uh, male genitalia. Pressing it triggers an explosion of cherubs from the wall, who leave behind...more penis-shaped buttons. Pressing those buttons, in turn, triggers a bizarre and seemingly useless array of objects that come shooting out of the walls, along with other, generally disagreeable effects (like one which turns into a butt and farts toxic fumes at him). Eventually, though, some of the buttons start to reveal their potential usefulness in mounting an escape...except that whoever trapped him in this room seems determined to screw with his head.
Believe it or not, all this weirdness turns out to be headed somewhere relatively straightforward. I mean, it's still a weird movie that I'm sure even Matsumoto wouldn't be able to explain completely, employing as it does Lynchian dream logic and a love of the absurd for the absurd's sake. But the two threads do end up coming together in a way that...well, "makes sense" might not be the way to put it, but they do come together to make a point. The movie makes an attempt at profundity near the end which is a lot more palatable for being weird and slightly inexplicable.
Up until then, aside from the slight and seemingly straightforward Luchadore subplot, the movie is a one-man show. Matsumoto unfortunately depends a little too much on mugging and acting zanily idiotic--the character he's playing makes a number of choices that reveal him to be a dimbulb--but the situation is a natural one for humor, especially as the faceless forces that control the room seem to enjoy tormenting him. There's also a hilarious recurring sequence in which comic book panels narrate Pajamas Guy's various plans for escape while Matsumoto grooves out in the foreground. (And the narration is in English for some reason!) I'm not sure if "Shinboru" has some other shading of meaning that doesn't translate well into English--I'm assuming that the Symbol of the title refers to the little penis-buttons (yeah, I knew writing this review was going to be awkward), but it also seems to relate to the various motifs and elements we expect in a genre story, and the storyteller's attempt to break free of them. In that sense, this is an extremely meta movie. One thing's for sure, if the movie's about helping to define genres, than its clearly staking out a patch of ground under "bizarre Japanese mindfu**".