Korean Films To Avoid?

[monkeyboy]

French cinema is only ever good at ice cold, bourgeois dramas - that kind of alienates people like me who don't stare aimlessly into the middle-distance thoughtfully (or should that be superficially)

You calling the French superficial? Well observed (I jest mon ami).

[monkeyboy]

My only problem, as a fan of Lee Evans, is I can't help but picture you (monkeyboy) looking like him, subconsciously.


You don't.......do you?

Well that is the first time I have been likened to Lee Evans . I am afraid that I neither look like him, nor am I as amusing as him, nor do I sweat as profusley on stage as him!

In fact I am not even vaguley simian. Charlton Heston would not be saying "Take your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty monkeyboy!". Nothing like Masaaki Sakai either!

Just a regular late thirties, slighly myopic, slightly prematurely grey bloke.

Now was this Thread "Korean Films To Avoid" or "People Who Have Badly Thought Out Screen Names"?

[ASaroch]

You calling the French superficial? Well observed (I jest mon ami).

Not the French in general (my wife is from Paris and she's lovely ) but French cinema has a habit of advancing down that route a bit too readily.

[Drunken Master]

Well that is the first time I have been likened to Lee Evans . I am afraid that I neither look like him, nor am I as amusing as him, nor do I sweat as profusley on stage as him!

Nothing personal MB. It's just the name he uses when he talks about himself on stage.

I, on the other hand, have the perfect name. I am a master of being drunk........... or at least I was until I became a father and got a bit sensible.

It would be interesting to know why members picked their on line names. If the name is not their own that is.

[Charlie Parker]

Mine came from a P.I. in some book

[Jubilee]

Ah, not the Jazz great then.

[martin]

French cinema is only ever good at ice cold, bourgeois dramas

Unless Luc Besson is involved...

I'd echo the thoughts of Jubilee regarding Natural City, although it is an interesting watch as one of those 'missed opportunity' films.

It's quite hard to think of 'films to avoid' as alot of korean flicks can be quite lousy but still annoyingly enjoyable - I'm thinking of about 1000 different melodramas and rom-coms here...

I really enjoy alot of korean horror, but then sometimes its easy to dismiss alot of these films (e.g. Phone or Into The Mirror as recognisable ones) as just j-horror remakes. Okay so EVERYONE copied the big j-horror films, but there's alot of recycling which might be seen as a bad thing, but personally I enjoy those naff aspects of it too.

I'll tell you a film to avoid - Sympathy For Mr Vengeance. I think it's one of the best films I've ever seen, but its still an exhausting experience... it's like having the sh*t kicked out of you...

Um, I haven't really added much to this conversation have I?

[TheBaron]

He Was Cool

I watched half of this film. So charmless it made me want to drop-kick my telly out of the window.

[martin]

Watched Our Town a couple of days ago - give this crappy serial killer / investigation flick a miss. It's pants...

[Chris Static]

ReCycle. Terrible movie that actually started off promising and sunk into a huge preaching anti-abortion message.