Kaylee ,'Jaynestown'
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Bambi made the list, and the #1 movie is Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat
Actually, Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat is #25. Shaun of the Dead is #1. It's a fairly conventional list, with just La Ciotat and Bambi out of 25 for "shock" value. Freaks, Audition, Frankenstein, Jaws, Carrie, Psycho, etc.
They snookered Tommyrot. Suckah! Link whore!
But if we make fun of their list, that makes up for it.
Right?
Right?
Totes! We are not facebook!
I don't think they did enough work to make their list mockworthy. Though they did include something-- The Men Behind The Sun-- that I have no interest whatsoever in grossing myself out with.
Still, no Oldboy. What's that pic gotta do to get some play?
I think of Oldboy as in the realm of Kill Bill. Imma go see what we have it as.
Looks like keywords are mystery [enigma), revenge, imprisonment, Korean ,torture
Descriptors are Graphic Violence, Psychological Drama, and Thriller.
I would categorise it as psychological horror. Drama doesn't do it justice, and thriller gives the wrong idea to me. Graphic violence is spot on. It has no surreal elements to it, like Audition does. But I think Misery is horror too.
Oldboy is considered an action/revenge movie rather than a horror movie.
Yeah, it's Misery horror to me. Perhaps I mean sickening instead of horror.
Anyone seen Park Chan-Wook's newest, Thirst? You know, the vampire-priest film? I've read vastly mixed reviews.
I've tried and bounced off Park's work in the past. Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance tops my list of "films I wish I'd never seen." I acknowledged it was well-acted and well-made, but it sent me to a really bad place emotionally -- sort of like, "life is a neverending pit of despair and we all die horribly and there will never be any joy or happiness for anyone ever again, so HAHAHA SUCKERS." I didn't even get intellectual pleasure one might get from bleak, existential horror, and I got no thrills or catharsis out of it. It was just mean. And ugly and violent. It didn't even have the trappings of the supernatural to soften the blow. After that, I didn't want to touch Oldboy with a ten-foot pole.
At least Thirst has the vampire-factor. And the priest factor (damn my Catholic education for warping me for life!). And Song Kang-Ho, who I loved in Memories of Murder and Host. (Well, he was in Sympathy, too, but I try not to think about it.)
Cereal:
I saw An Education over the weekend and I adored it to bits. Probably the most pleasure I got out of movies in the last few months. Carey Mulligan (Sally Sparrow from the DW episode, "Blink") is fantastic in it, and the Audrey Hepburn comparison I've been hearing about isn't completely absurd (I went more to the Leslie Caron place, although that was probably due to the older man/young girl aspect of it.)