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permetaform ([personal profile] permetaform) wrote2005-04-16 03:20 am

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Saw Old Boy. OMG SO COOL. It is like---NOTHING. Like NOTHING I HAVE EVER SEEN BEFORE.

so.

cool.

Like you know where Sin City was innovative stylistically but took it's roots and themes from Film Noir? Old Boy was innovative EVERYWHERE.

And! was psychologically *perfect*. WHOA.

And! From the movie:

Smile and the world smiles with you. Weep and you weep alone.

aheh, which was actually the gist of the conclusion of that massively babbly post made yesterday nite.

OH! [livejournal.com profile] hannahrorlove! email me at kanzeyori@yahoo.com, I need to talk to you about Prophesy vid, over which I have simultaneously a breakthrough and a serious question about continuity...
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[personal profile] winter 2005-04-16 03:51 am (UTC)(link)
Old Boy rocked, but it was in places a bit too twisted even for me ;)

I loved the way the movie feels like manga - the camera angles, the narration, the flashbacks, especially the fight scene in the corridor. It had this emotional intensity taken to extremes. I haven't read the manga it was based on, but I've read things like MPD Psycho, which are in the same vein. It was a major case of deja-vu.

But, well, there's a reason I stopped reading MPD Psycho. After a while, the towering-on of horrible things just got too much. I call it my Kill Bill syndrome, since it's the same thing I felt about the Crazy 88 fight in Kill Bill vol.1 :S

[identity profile] fatuorum.livejournal.com 2005-04-16 04:29 am (UTC)(link)
Hey, sorry for poking my nose in like that, but is the Old Boy you're talking about the korean movie? I deliberately stayed away from that because of the violence, but find myself reading MPD Psycho now and tolerating it better. Odd.

But ah, that was random ^^;
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[personal profile] winter 2005-04-16 06:38 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, same movie. It's about on a par with MPD Psycho in violence and weirdness terms, only without the plants growing on people's uncovered brains ;)
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[personal profile] winter 2005-04-18 01:00 am (UTC)(link)
Yep, Minegishi Nobuaki and Tsuchiya Garon. I should poke my scanlations provider and see if he has it.

[identity profile] queen-yokozuna.livejournal.com 2005-04-16 08:43 am (UTC)(link)
And! From the movie:
Smile and the world smiles with you. Weep and you weep alone.


I've heard this line before from some other movie, but can't remember which. hmm. So true, tho. *nod nod*

/poke

[identity profile] insertcliche.livejournal.com 2005-04-16 03:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Hey! You, me, and Adora need to get together! She has this new anime, Loveless, on hold. Apparently it has cat BOYS on it. Apparently the shounen ai is rampant. Apparently it will make the PERFECT pants game anime. >3

Re: /poke

[identity profile] insertcliche.livejournal.com 2005-04-20 01:49 pm (UTC)(link)
xD /joy =3 so so so so ...call me or something and lets figure out a time frame when we are all free...

oh btw...KKM....WTF....angst just manifested 100% pain/angst/bitchiness!! >< Adora and I are >O YOU MUST SEE IT!

[identity profile] bionic.livejournal.com 2005-04-17 01:31 am (UTC)(link)
I saw Old Boy not too long ago. That movie sinks into you...