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-South Park

-Gravity Falls (now I was surprise that this was from Disney)

-Rick and Morty (Love the humor, very few cartoons like this these days)

Of ended cartoons:

-Futurama (Enjoyed it as long as it lasted)

-Ren and Stimpy (Now the first seasons was just crazy, and I very enjoyed it, still some times go back to watch)
 
I loved a lot of cartoons. Currently, I am watching Jackie Chan Adventure on Netflix! Very good show.
 
Avatar: The Last Airbender is my favorite cartoon over the last 10 years. I do watch Korra when it's on, it's pretty good too. I was into the Thundercats reboot and I really REALLY like Star Wars The Clone Wars, especially the last two seasons which were epic beyond the human capacity for thought.
 
What is it about most of the Korean films I watch and the acting? I've talked with Team about this before and I guess I just pick movies with pretty solid casts. New World was no different.

I wouldn't have really thought that New World was familiar if I didn't read it here. There are some similarities but not enough to make me feel that I watched it before.

I really enjoyed the photography in New World. The staging is awesome. How action is covered is how I would wish more action films would shoot, a stationary camera. The big bat and knife war scene was wonderful to look at. The cinematography helped make the scene epic all the way until the elevator door opened.

I left the film wanting more. Along the lines of rankandfile, I felt something was missing. It's almost as if the film could have been longer. I would liked to have seen more of a backstory but I think to really flesh that out it couldn't have been done in a single feature but there wouldn't be enough for another film. It's a conundrum.

I wanted to have more of a backstory because I would liked to have seen how the friendship of Lee and Jeong came to be and how that influenced Jeong's decision to keep the file of Lee hidden and protect him. The epilogue scene showing them buddying around was a nice touch and almost hints a a prequel. I wouldn't mind seeing one. The film just came out and it's received positive feedback. Maybe a prequel will eventually come?
 
One question I have to everyone. Well last time it seemed like my claims on the form of Upstream Color spiked the difficulty bar too much, which makes me a little careful this time, but let's just go ahead. Anybody felt distracted by heavy use of close-up? This was something that many reviewers pointed out in a carefully positive note. Usually the good dialogue scene moves back and forth to grab the whole space and objects, catching certain details with effective close-ups from time to time. But lots of films just heavily rely on close-ups when they shoot and edit dialogue scenes, to a level that the sequence turns into a whole bunch of talking head.

Now, New World uses A LOT of close-ups, and it rarely moves back. Most of the shots in this film are big ones (extreme long/long shots) or small ones (close-up on actors' face), and there are very few mid-sized shots that give us the whole picture in certain sequences. It should be negative, but it doesn't. It induces slight headache combined with 150 minutes of running time, but I felt that somehow it worked without in-between sized shots. So, did you guys notice the high count of close-ups? If so, what do you feel about it?

The camera work was another character on the film as well as the staging of the character. I echo the sentiment that the close and wide shots worked because they had a purpose, like the staging. When the camera was close it was done to draw you further into the dialogue and to show the connection and importance of what was being said or the relationship between character.

There was one scene where I believe Lee was on one side and Jeong was the other side of a table and a senior member walked behind them creating a divide between Lee and Jeong. I need to rewatch the scene because I want to look at every aspect of it now that I know now the ending turned out. It's too long of a movie to watch again but the camera work and staging almost begs for it.
 
What is it about most of the Korean films I watch and the acting? I've talked with Team about this before and I guess I just pick movies with pretty solid casts. New World was no different.

I wouldn't have really thought that New World was familiar if I didn't read it here. There are some similarities but not enough to make me feel that I watched it before.

I really enjoyed the photography in New World. The staging is awesome. How action is covered is how I would wish more action films would shoot, a stationary camera. The big bat and knife war scene was wonderful to look at. The cinematography helped make the scene epic all the way until the elevator door opened.

I left the film wanting more. Along the lines of rankandfile, I felt something was missing. It's almost as if the film could have been longer. I would liked to have seen more of a backstory but I think to really flesh that out it couldn't have been done in a single feature but there wouldn't be enough for another film. It's a conundrum.

I wanted to have more of a backstory because I would liked to have seen how the friendship of Lee and Jeong came to be and how that influenced Jeong's decision to keep the file of Lee hidden and protect him. The epilogue scene showing them buddying around was a nice touch and almost hints a a prequel. I wouldn't mind seeing one. The film just came out and it's received positive feedback. Maybe a prequel will eventually come?

There is a talk to turn this movie into a trilogy, but I haven't followed, not sure.

This movie clearly benefits from great casts. All the three actors are some of the biggest names here. Since I talked enough about the other two lead, Hwang Jeong-min(who played Jeong Chung) has a truly wide range and has played a variety of characters, all with a good success. I consider a ruthless, corrupt detective in The Unjust as his best work yet, but while Chung is a little too over-the-top for my taste, he pulled a pretty good job here as well.

Hence the excessive use of close-up works IMO. Close-ups are used to convey emotions from the slightest change in the face of actors, and all the actors that worked on New World are capable of utilizing it. The quality of mid-sized shots, while few and far between, are also quite effective as far as I remember. I remember some of the bigger and mid-sized shots all bathed in blue, especially ones in the port where the gangs cement their victims in a drum and throw them down into the sea. That was quite a chilling moment.

The cinematographer here is Jeong Jeong-hoon, who is (unsurprisingly) a staple of Park Chan-wook. Yes, he shot the action scenes in Oldboy, and the trace of it is definitely there in climatic action scene of New World. Word is he had this very little spare time when he was shooting Stoker with Park in US, and the director just begged Jeong to shoot some scenes for his film, so he came back to Korea, shot the action scenes and some others for about a week, and then went back to US to continue on Stoker.

Oh, and did I or the synopsis mention, the director is the writer of I Saw The Devil and The Unjust? Guess that would sound interesting to menace-uk-.
 
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In Jonathan Glazer's first new feature since 2004, Scarlet Johansson plays alien seductress that abducts humans in rural Scotland.

I have been following this film with a mixed anticipation. On one hand, bad reviews indicate things I really hate about pretentiously artsy films, but on the other hand the synopsis, style, great reviews in general, clear similarity to The Man Who Fell to Earth screams I gotta watch this.

RT meter is sitting at 88%. Panned at Telluride debut, praised everywhere else so far. Comes out in April in US.
 
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Might see this with my dad. We both have the day off on Monday and it'll be fun to have a little father/son movie day. It's been a while since we've done that.
 
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Kotaku thought they got the 80's balance of smart/dumb movie right, and likened it to the Rise of the Planet of the Apes.
Seems kind of polarizing.
 
i thought the epilogue scene was silly. when it came up i was excited because i thought it would show some dramatic moment from the past that showed that the 2 guys (forget their names) had a strong, underlying bond within their relationship and how that blurred the lines between the simple "cop vs bad guy" premise. but nope, the scene was just them getting into a fight. it was so underwhelming that i feel like i had to have missed something?
 
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