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The Host (2007)
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TOKYO! Review
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"The producers of Tokyo!, three short films by two Frenchmen and a South Korean, aim to do for Japan’s metropolis what New York Stories did for the Big Apple or Paris Je T’Aime for the City of Lights. That the two Frenchmen are indie darling Michel Gondry and former film critic/Pola X director Leos Carax, and the South Korean Bong Joon-Ho, who made an international splash with The Host, would seem to lend these three very different takes on a single subject some serious cache. Unfortunately, only two directors rise to the occasion, leaving a gaping hole in an otherwise thoughtful trilogy. Not surprisingly, of the three directors it’s the warped Gondry, whose specialty is visualizing that fine (often non "
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More funny than frightening
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"Monster movies have often provided a way of talking about the concerns of the day and The Host, with it's industrial pollutuion and givernment conspiracies is no exception. Where The Host does break with tradition is that the monster makes its appearance pretty much as soon as we're past the opening credits. But what a monster it is! If spectacular special effects are the bag that you're into, then this really is a film that you need to see. The plot itself, however, prefers to focus on the family of one of the monster's (still living) victim and, here, it does a great job of finding a balance between comedy and tension. Although the characters are often slapstick in their behaviour, you do find yourself starting to care about them and it's this that keeps you hooked on the film. And the ending is one of the best I've seen in a long time "
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"Ever since the great Italian director Sergio Leone rode into town, it’s been clear that the Western is not solely the domain of American filmmakers. Leone’s Spaghetti Westerns boosted Clint Eastwood’s career and forever changed the genre. A new film from Korea, what many are calling a Kimchi Western, may change the genre once again. Kim Ji-Woon’s The Good, the Bad, and the Weird is in many ways an homage to Leone’s The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, but is also an excellent example of the energy and originality emerging in Korean cinema. The Good, the Bad, and the Weird, set in Manchuria in the 1930’s, follows the story of three bandits, all in pursuit of map that leads to an untold amount of treasure. Woo-sung Jung (the Good),
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"One of most obnoxious things that can happen to a filmgoer is to a see a movie that begins great, but gradually tails off. Even if the movie ends up being good, you always think of the movie as a bit of a letdown that never lived up to its promise. The Host is a movie like that. It starts out as a truly hilarious Cronenberg-like parody of horror movies, with characters I really liked and cared about it. Then it tries to get serious and become a real horror movie, and on that level, it's merely OK. I admire director Bong Joon-ho for trying to do something difficult and change tone in the middle of the film, but I regret he didn't succeed. I regretted that t "
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"We picked The Host in the cinema Riff Raff. This is a creature horror movie made in South Korea, which doesn't hesitate to dish out a good deal of criticism directed towards the US's take on world policies.Some years after a huge amount of toxic waste was dropped in Han river a mutated creature appeared to get its revenge. The military is soon called in to evacuate the area, however, when an American soldier who was in contact with the beast dies from a mysterious virus, the situation starts to get drastic. Everyone present during the beast's first appearance is quarantined and the US government announces the use of Agent Yellow, a new weapon against biological warfare which should terminate any virus within a 12 mile radius.The story focuses on 12 year-old Hyun-seo, who was abducted by the monster and deposited in the city's sewer system. Meanwhile her remaining family make an attempt to escape government observation and rescue her.Even though there is quite a bit ... "
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Not as good as other Korean movies
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"The premise is very interesting. D-War is a Korean production (director, producer and production company are all Korean) but the movie is set in the US and most of the cast are Americans.The story is based on an ancient Korean legend where two snake battle each other to find Yeouijoo to get into heaven.The action scenes are pretty good, but after seeing Oldboy and The Host I was expecting more depth to the story than D-War had to show for. All in all it was just another action movie with some interesting scenes (a huge snake climbing up a high-rise and an army of fire-breathing dragons (?) battling helicopters) and not much more. "
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"Rented this one on the basis of a few interesting trailers and a couple conflicting reviews. The movie started out pretty good, and had some interesting camera work and special effects throughout, but it was too long, and meanders around aimlessly in the middle and then by the time the movie picks up steam at the end, it feels less like a satisfactory conclusion, and more like a video game hero who just beat the 'big boss' at the end of the level. Rather disappointing overall. "
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"A few years back, in one of his earliest columns for Entertainment Weekly, Stephen King compared horror fans to drug addicts; forever chasing that next high, and finding it harder and harder to accomplish each time. This is a notion that I agree wholeheartedly with, and find it so perfectly phrased. Indeed, for me this has held distressingly true. I don't believe this means that the quality of horror movies has gone down; the ratio of good movies to crap movies seems to remain fairly stable, it's only what's popular that skews the results. It may be more fair to say that I've become just the teensiest bit jaded, and maybe I expect more, or different things from horror these days. I don't for one minute think I'm alone in this. The desire for new and more extreme thrills speaks to the current trend towards torture porn, and explains the still ongoing(although not AS popular) fad for Asian horror films.It may be waning these days, but Asian cinema turned out t ... "
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"American horror movies have been in a sorry state in the last decade. They've either been sado-masochistic such as the remakes of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and The Hills Have Eyes, or they've been expensive rehashes of Asian horror films such as The Grudge and The Ring. Now comes the second great film from Korea (the first was the incredibly poetic and violent Oldboy), The Host (Gwoemul). The host brings back a bygone age of horror movies that has been missing for a long time, the monster movie. Not only is the best monster movie in about twenty years, but it has one of the coolest monsters to hit celluloid since The Predator. The opening five minutes are by far the silliest in the movie. On an American military base, an American doctor orders his Korean subordinate to dump tons of "dirty formaldihyde" down the drain and into the Han River. Now I don't think for one second that this would create the monster that is to come, nor do I think the filmmakers do e ... "
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The Host is a good movie.
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"This movie is really great. Saw it at the UICA in Grand Rapids. if this movie comes to your town, check it out for sure. I liked it because the characters were very strong. They each had their own identities and unique abilities.Also, i love it when monster movies make the government and the authority figures seem like the real enemy instead of the monster. One more thing. This movie has the ability to be very funny and very dramatic at the same time. "
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