Why is that even the good to great Asian movies have such cartoonish elements? It wasn’t enough to ruin my enjoyment...

Bike Tomahawk? No Country for Old Men? There Will Be Blood?

You have to understand that in non-western countries, police beat the shit out of suspects with impunity. Not to mention, that particular movie is set in rural SK in the 1980s.

cartoonishness = humoristically satirical

Why do people like this film? Actually the worst Korean movie I've watched. Why make films based on true stories when there's barely any closure.

Eh, the milkshake scene in TWWB can be seen as cartoonish. I think the real problem is the language differences. Some scenes to me translate better when actors speak English and vice versa

Why does it need closure?

babby can't handle it. needs closure.

It just had nothing good about it. Was very boring pretty much the whole way through.
I was hoping for something like the Vengeance trilogy but it was dull as fuck.

Please give me more Korean kino to watch though.

>Why make films based on true stories when there's barely any closure.
reddit opinion

You btfo

>I was hoping for something like the Vengeance trilogy
Yikes.

they switch up the tone to throw you off is my guess and they do it a lot better than americans

It's a detective/crime drama film, why would you expect revenge stuff like Vengeance? I guess you could watch Man from Nowhere if you like revenge stuff.

What do you mean "you people"?

I watched the Host and the autistic over the top breakdown of the family in the middle of a giant room full of people took me out of the movie for a good while.

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There is a lot of that goofy overacted stuff in Asian cinema in general. Especially when it comes during emotional scenes but I feel as if that's not the case for Memories of Murder. It's utterly serious and maintains the same sort of atmosphere throughout the entire film. No clue what OP is on about.

On the same note, I think the Chinks are better at making films in that regard. They seem to not force their actors to react in the most dramatic, clown-tier fashion.

Chigurgh is one big cartoon character.

I’m only talking about the sidekick detective that got his leg amputated. Just take the scene where he flips his shit in the restaurant and starts beating everyone up

Have you seen modern mainstream Japan films? Their pedophilic idol industry killed cinema.

please quit discussing films here and just shitpost or something you're stinking up the place

If that's your definition my argument is still the same.
All movies use satire, humor, hyperbole, mime, clowning etc. but we only notice it when we are not used to the style or the culture or the race.

Haven't seen Bone Tomhawk. But in No Country for Old Man the killer killed so many people, it became laughable.

People like to overgeneralize Asian cinema as they share specific elements.

But I fond Korean cinea is very different from Japanese cinema.And massive tonal shift is unique Korean thing.Other Asian dont do that.Korean cinema has their own unique thing.
A lot of people can be put off by their style

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I am ok with the overacting. After I got used to it I know it's like their music. They want rhythm and formula. All characters are probably symbols for something else. They can speak something very didactic that realistic acting cannot allow them to.

I didn't actually know it was based on a true story until I looked it up after I saw the most disappointing ending I ever saw.

Korean people watched it with knowing that ending

Zodiac was similarly shit.

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>not having a best Korean porn section

>All movies use satire
Not true.

Excellent. Downloading a few now. Thanks.

Why is the korean police and government officials always shown as incompetent in korean movies?

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Their movies might not be the best but Korea still brings the best bants

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Watch The Yellow Sea. It wasn't remotely funny. The Man From Nowhere is a close second, what with all the kids being chopped up for their organs.

Neither was The Berlin File, now that I think about it.

>wakes up
>still no PARASITE subtitle
what the fuck!!!!!!!!

I love the 'suicide comedy'by lady hideko and all the lewd joke in The Handmaiden.

>someone says thing
He said asians can't into comedy. It was a dig at a specific people from a specific place. Retaliating with a dig at what can reasonably be assumed to be his people makes perfect sense.

sometimes I think of that scene where the father is talking about how his retard son couldn't get nourishment as a child because they only had cup noodles or something and it's just melodramatic
for people who are supposed to be subtle philosophers, asians sure do play a lot of things very broad

Hong Kong cinema prior to China stealing it was great. It did comedy well too. But I have noticed this. Look up Moon Child. It's suppose to be a horror drama but it's full of comedy.

>what can reasonably be assumed to be his people
Why can it reasonably be assumed he's from America?

Ok. Do you accept this compromise then?
Let's say that Unforgiven and TWBB are serious movies. They mean what they say. No satire or clowning. They account for maybe one in 100 of movies from the country of their origin.
Personally I haven't seen 100 Korean movies. And I don't think there are 100 of them that achieved the fame of op's movie.

So I would say Maybe there really is a cultural or racial difference that make Koreans unable to make serious movie. But there aren't enough samples to say that. All serious movies are rare.

I always thought Chan Wook Park's movies were full of funny deadpan moments, like the guy who made Lobster & Favourite.

>All serious movies are rare.
then why do recommendation lists for Western movies always include the most serious ones while the lists for Asian movies include plenty with all the over-the-top nonsense many of us don't care for?
I mean I'd love "the good list" because those are the kinds of films I like regardless of country but nobody's ever shown me that list

Wtf? Korean cinema is literally full of serious movies.

It can’t. Typical obsession.

>All serious movies are rare.
Yes, I agree.

Asian films are never full serious because it would be seen as vulgar in their cultures. Naturalism (which is an evolution of humanism) is a western creation and doesn't appeal to asian people as an art form.

Are we talking about Korean cinema where is filled with serious movies?

Shut the fuck up.
Japan imported naturalism during mid Meiji and nobody batted an eye. The most famous Japanese novelist in Japan (Natsume Soseki) started with some light comedy fiction then switched to full realism and he became the greatest.

>He suddenly switch from seriousness to naturalism
Okay.I get you are freshman student who want to show off his study out of nowhere.But your insight about Asian cinema and naturalism is literally joke

Litreral

Japan is not part of Asia (according to Asia), japaneses are just monkeys imitating the West.

We never define what seriousness was, my take is better than no take at all. Also remember Cinema is a modernist art form.

Honestly some goofier elements made me like this movie more
detectives spontaniously dropkicking everyone they see was amazing
i also liked the pretty shots in fields or forests or rain, it's a very pretty movie
i liked this movie a lot, just finished it. It was very in tone with the vengence trilogy which i like a lot as well. if you know movies like this give me some recs, am downloading ichi the killer atm

This

Every time that detective drop kicked some dude I died