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Kimssi pyoryugi (2009)
Very well done movie, fully recommend.
This movie could be classified as a "romantic comedy", if that term wouldn't be associated with so many cheap, artificial and silly movies. "Castay on the Moon", while both funny and romantic (and sometimes very sad), is amazingly well done, with an fine balance between its elements.
The plot is solid, the images and camera work are top notch, and the story, containing some rather delicate situations and characters, is very sensibly and honestly and told.
I have not found any weakness with this movie, no part that i would have done differently, or where i felt that the characters did something just for the sake of the plot. They are very real people, sometimes confused, sometimes weak, and they make no apology for it, do not try to explain themselves. Both main (only) characters are some of the most interesting, real people i have seen on a screen.
I fully recommend it, and i believe it is a good example that any genre (even one that combines romantic and comedy situations together) has amazing achievements.
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Watch for the scene with the guy making fire, the whole theatre laughed for 20 seconds straight. It is brilliant.
Death Race (2008)
Not bad, but could have learned a lot from Mad Max
Quick description:
Entertaining movie...for an action movie with cars and sexy girls, it does a decent job... as others state, first half is awesome, until the second car race, which is REALLY awesome...but then we get to the third chase...
ANALYSIS AND SPOILERS:::
the Horrible third chase...come on ppl, that is all you can come up with for the final, to-the-death chase?? they just blow up a wall and go free? I mean, what was the use of the fuel tank drop at the end? the police cars could never dent their cars! the choppers were also useless...
anyway, learn from Mad Max II...do NOT introduce the big giant awesome tank-trailer until the final chase, have more and more cars in each subsequent chase ( a championship race system would have been so cool...each race against TOUGHER opponents, instead of the same and fewer ones). For F Sake, the last DEATH-RACE-CLIMAX-OF-THE-MOVIE was 2 cars against each other...with one malfunctioning. That is not exciting. The heroic escape of the island was them blowing up a wall and going over a bridge...come on...is that really all you can come up with? ( sorry i am repeating myself, i cant get over that...)
It was cool they got free, but the movie would have been better if the obnoxious boss of the prison would not even care about it, since she made her money. She took it way to personal to be truly evil. Why was she so annoyed with Frankenstein?! he drove her popularity up, did exactly what he was supposed to, but she acted as a teenage girl who was just dumped by her bf, with no logic. An evil, calculated boss who doesn't really give a damn about common people and only about the money is much more scary, and realistic. Also she should have never been killed. End line could have been : " What? They escaped? Oh I am sorry, i was too busy watching myself become rich to notice...oh well, are the new drivers i ordered here yet? "
It was weird, but the ACTING was the best part of the movie! Coach(Ian McShane)and Frankenstein (Jason Statham) were really cool, the crew was funny, the evil guys were evil and comic-book like (which is how this movie should be) and everyone spoke very little. The characters were exactly what one would expect from a movie called " Death Race ".
Overall, interesting movie, had some smart ideas and good images, really cool characters, sexy girls, awesome cars...etc. However, the racing sequences were not properly handled and that was the downfall of this movie, making the ending rather trivial and idiotic..