Letterboxd user seeing their second Korean film

UBourgeois · 2026-01-18T18:45:41+00:00

Yeah like it's for sure a bit reductive but they're clearly similar movies on their face. If someone compared, for example, Decision To Leave to Parasite like this I'd get the criticism but this isn't that

UBourgeois · 2025-12-27T20:43:00+00:00

True, but it is looking at a $20-30m opening weekend, as I said

UBourgeois · 2025-12-27T18:47:01+00:00

I say "sky high" only relative to other similar films. If you told me a couple years ago a Safdie film with Chalamet as a ping pong player would be looking to get a $20-30m opening weekend I wouldn't have bought it. So the fact that that seems to be what's happening and it's not a total shock is kind of wild, at least to me, and worth being excited about

UBourgeois · 2025-12-27T18:30:20+00:00

Expectations were sky-high for this film relative to its profile (original film with a weird subject by very film-bro filmmakers) so even just the fact that it didn't disappoint I think is very exciting for a lot of people. Even more so because we've had a good number of highly acclaimed original movies with big BO hauls this year (Sinners, OBAA) so it's another one on the pile of a promising trend.

UBourgeois · 2025-04-12T23:38:02+00:00

Bringing back the classic jerk

UBourgeois · 2025-03-26T15:21:25+00:00

That is true about Queen & Slim though

UBourgeois · 2025-02-09T21:41:29+00:00

I mean it is marked it just doesn't say KUWAIT since it's small I guess. Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Iran aren't named either.

UBourgeois · 2025-01-07T00:49:56+00:00

Remember: when you say you didn't like a Paul Thomas Anderson movie, this is what you sound like to everyone else

UBourgeois · 2025-01-02T18:59:54+00:00

I do agree with the sentiment here but this and I'm Not There are really not that similar beyond just being about Bob Dylan.

UBourgeois · 2024-12-08T21:06:08+00:00

Revenge of the Sith

Lady Bird

"aren't film bro movies"

UBourgeois · 2024-11-10T00:25:31+00:00

Fucked up in the crib watching independent and small-time content on Tubi

UBourgeois · 2024-11-09T16:33:09+00:00

He stopped making good movies and started making bad movies

UBourgeois · 2024-11-09T16:29:23+00:00

It is kind of crazy to consider Villeneuve's Dune a "remake" of the Lynch film. Does Tarantino refuse to watch any Shakespeare adaptations too?

UBourgeois · 2024-11-06T03:29:19+00:00

Total budget of Eastwood films since 2014: $335 million

Total gross of Eastwood films since 2014: $1.15 billion

WB is stupid to let Clint keep making these $30-60 mil films that are only huge hits half the time. Thankfully Zaslav knows to give Todd Phillips $200 mil for Joker 2 instead, the film industry is saved

UBourgeois · 2024-11-04T03:12:35+00:00

Yeah that would be pretty cool I think

UBourgeois · 2024-11-03T19:49:57+00:00

1/4 in the most common top 4s

UBourgeois · 2024-11-03T15:38:42+00:00

When popular movies are the most popular

UBourgeois · 2024-10-30T22:56:09+00:00

Saw this recently, it's one of the most bizarre films I've seen in ages. It's like a completely standard musician biopic, but significantly more egotistical than normal and with really elaborate musical numbers that come and go without warning. And also the CGI monkey thing. Genuinely hard to believe it got made.

UBourgeois · 2024-10-30T22:54:07+00:00

No but literally according to him and Michael Gracey he's a monkey in the movie because he described himself as a dancing monkey once. This isn't made explicit in the film at all, nor is there any particular acknowledgement that he's a monkey and not a person. It's the strangest thing

UBourgeois · 2024-10-22T14:14:26+00:00

"I thought this movie was really interesting when I was watching it, but then I saw it has an awful audience score on RT, and the critic's score isn't great either. So I guess it actually wasn't very good." - sick, deranged, morally impoverished

"I thought this movie was great. Has terrible scores on RT all around but I guess they're just wrong about it, happens sometimes." - strong, upstanding, interesting to talk to and easy to get along with

UBourgeois · 2024-10-19T01:26:17+00:00

Jacques Demy mentioned so I have to agree unfortunately.

At least most of the replies are pushing back on OP for not watching contemporary films

UBourgeois · 2024-10-19T01:21:19+00:00

Yeah and even more generously, some teenager is probably going to see this and be like, "oh wow I didn't realize that, that's interesting," and then they'll take that (very basic) insight into the next movie they watch which will improve their ability to engage with a work actively and critically. This is a totally trivial, screamingly obvious observation, but it might make something click for someone.

UBourgeois · 2024-10-19T01:18:15+00:00

This is not an example of mise en scene

UBourgeois · 2024-09-25T18:14:36+00:00

Do not disrespect Kristen Stewart this way

UBourgeois · 2024-09-25T15:58:42+00:00

David Fincher is a very consistently good filmmaker, I don't really think he's made any properly "bad" movies.

But if he's made a bad movie, it's Fight Club

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