So I think it's kinda silly to knock a film for being too long.
I've seen the complete Chan-wook Park oeuvre, and a few of Bong Joon-ho's other films (Memories of Murder, as well as Snowpiercer, of course). A couple of other films with Choi Min-sik, I Saw the Devil and Nameless Gangster. But not any of the ones you mention, altho I did hear wonderful things about Mother.Also re: Parasite.. yes it's a very good movie, I don't doubt it,.. but I wonder if you guys have seen Korean movies before? The likes of The Chaser, Mother, Hide and Seek, etc..
Korean movies have been hitting it out of the park for a while now...
How'd you like the Handmaiden?I've seen the complete Chan-wook Park oeuvre, and a few of Bong Joon-ho's other films (Memories of Murder, as well as Snowpiercer, of course). A couple of other films with Choi Min-sik, I Saw the Devil and Nameless Gangster. But not any of the ones you mention, altho I did hear wonderful things about Mother.
Yeah, SK directors have been amazing the last couple of decades. I thought it was going to be Russia that exploded, after Timur Bekmambetov came to Hollywood, but nope. He's really the only Russian director of note that I know of, and, frankly, nothing he's done in the US has been nearly as good as Night Watch and Day Watch.
Also re: Parasite.. yes it's a very good movie, I don't doubt it,.. but I wonder if you guys have seen Korean movies before? The likes of The Chaser, Mother, Hide and Seek, etc..
Korean movies have been hitting it out of the park for a while now...
My main reason for not watching Hollywood movies is because it is damn near impossible to tell a good story in 90min.The Irishman was an hour too long
My main reason for not watching Hollywood movies is because it is damn near impossible to tell a good story in 90min.
I've liked the majority of 3hr movies I've watched. I think the default length for a movie should be 3hrs. You got some cute little **** you want to show based on like a short story or something? Sure, do a 90min movie. But if you're trying to tell an actual ****ing story, 90min is the best way to turn a good story into garbage.
Hollywood sucks. The 90min movie format sucks.
Oh so like 105 min?Very, very few movies are 90 minutes.
My main reason for not watching Hollywood movies is because it is damn near impossible to tell a good story in 90min.
I've liked the majority of 3hr movies I've watched. I think the default length for a movie should be 3hrs. You got some cute little **** you want to show based on like a short story or something? Sure, do a 90min movie. But if you're trying to tell an actual ****ing story, 90min is the best way to turn a good story into garbage.
Hollywood sucks. The 90min movie format sucks.
The 90min movie format has been increased to almost 120min. Almost.
Like I said, I have not watched a single movie produced in 2019. I haven't. And I'd have to really think If I've watched a movie produced in 2018. If I have that number is lower than 5.
In the meantime I have read 10 or so books (kind of a low for me) since 2018 but I have started listening to audiobooks since I can do that at work, when I'm cooking and when I'm driving. I have listened to about 50 audiobooks over the last year. An audiobook is usually 15 hours on the low end and sometimes 80+ hours at the high end, but I'd say most I listen to are 18-24 hours. A few of the books I've listened to have been made into a television series. They take ~20 hours of audiobook and make ~10 hours of TV series, and they have to cut important parts of the stories to do so.
Yet many 120min movies are based on books.
I'm just not a fan.
If short movies were 3hrs and long movies were 5hrs+, I could see being a fan.
You want to bust my balls over the 90min movie format (which is now often a 110min movie) because I called the 90min movie format what it is even though they are a bit longer nowadays? Okay.
They suck either way.
And people complaining because a movie was "slow" or "boring" because it actually tried to do this stupid thing called character development and have a coherent plot? Yeah, well, good thing you have Hollywood to make **** movies for you to eat up like jolly ranchers while you think you're eating a ****ing porterhouse.
Oh so like 105 min?
LOL .. mind expounding on that?!?!Parasite
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