FrothyMix

Could you share with the class what you know about my life please? We'll wait...do have something? Anything? No, all you know is I wrote a comment you don't like so you're lashing out randomly with stupid insults totally not based on...anything. lol BTW...what is "mlm?" Male like male? Man likes man? "Fetishize," a classic SJW term. I love it. People have been "fetishizing" all aspects of sexuality since time began and we started porking each other. Sexual fantasies are healthy. I'm a gay man. I like other gay men and I like to think about porking them from time to time, like we're meant by nature to do. Why does that scare you and make you so angry?

It's always funny to me when commenters make clear they are near-morons who consider a five-paragraph post to be an "essay." I hope English isn't your major and that you didn't pull an eyeball while reading my endless comment.

First of all, I'm sorry that you think of yourself as "garbage." I hope that's not an accurate reflection of the condition of your self-esteem. Now to your silly post: Please quote where I said I was "right" and everyone else is "wrong." Thanks, I'll wait. When a person writes or says that something is "this," it is clear that is what they think, or that is their opinion, else why would they be expressing it? It's not necessary to always be saying "I think..." or "just my opinion..." Yes, we get that it's a person's opinion because that is what they wrote. Do you understand this concept? To me, the show is terrible. That's why I wrote, you know, that it's...terrible. And who on earth did I attack or insult or malign or call names? There is a LOT of silly projection and hyper-sensitivity in your reaction. Did I touch a nerve?

Bored. Dropped.

Your loss.

Sigh. Beautiful and happy, as well as sad. Maybe the best kind of movie there is.

I just can't imagine the pain of having a little one snatched away from you. I am not at all surprised that some parents are driven to madness and suicide. Just horrible.

8.5/10

Exactly. I wanted to her to hit the ship too. :)

Wonderful.

Another Korean film comes out of nowhere on my watch-list and knocks me flat. Just a beautiful story, regardless of how much is fact, who cares? I loved it. I wanted the Queen to sneak away and leave with him too. :)

I NEVER thought I'd be getting into Korean/Japanese/Chinese historical dramas, and yet here I am doing just that and loving every moment. Every damn one moves me to tears at some point, and this one made me laugh too. Everything from WW II centuries back to god knows when is on my to-watch list and I'm excited to see them all over time.

Lee Byung Hun is magnificent in these roles. Oscar! :D Now to go look up other films he's in so I can add them to my list!

9/10

MAGNIFICENT.

Someone below said the movie has its flaws...I suppose, as nothing human can be perfect. But right now, after watching yet ANOTHER Korean movie blow me out of my seat, I can't think of any. Le Je Hoon is just a remarkable actor, a treasure, the kind of soulful actor possessing some kind of magical relationship with the camera that is extremely rare. It is difficult to believe this is the same actor who I watched just a few weeks ago in an equally wonderful film, "My Paparotti." His co-star here, Choi Hee Seo is a worthy match. Their interplay is a joy to behold.

I had no inkling whatsoever of this earthquake in Japan followed by the massacre of Koreans, but it doesn't surprise me. As my exploration of Asian cinema has continued over the last 18 months I am learning all kinds of fascinating historical information. Before, WW II was basically the extent of my knowledge.

Wow again. Why are Asian movies so much better than Hollywood stuff? I am moved by them in general to an extent I have not known before, and I have loved movies all my life.

I'm about 2/3 of the way through and am taking a break. Bored. And if you can make the Battle of Iwo Jima boring, that's quite a feat. But leave it to Clint Eastwood to do so. I had to chuckle at the two reviews above, raving about this movie, which I find dull. Lots of down time, people sitting around talking. No sense of the chaos of war, just little groups of Japanese soldiers sitting around in very fake-looking caves talking in soap opera-style conversations. Yawn.

The acclaim Eastwood has received as a director has always mystified me. Boring movies. But then, he was a boring actor too. Always the same personae, no matter what character he was playing.

THAT is some crazy-ass shit. Wow. I am off to IMDB to try to figure out what the hell I just saw and what the fuck was its message, if it had one. I don't know which of the characters I disliked the most. I find it extremely improbable that such a thing would happen and no one would say "what the fuck just happened?" Lack of honest communication in Korean society? Is that the message. Maybe there is no message, I don't know. Wow.

I don't care that you don't value my opinion. I certainly do not value yours. lol Let's see...traumatic events that have been depicted in visual art, plays, books, poems, movies, music, everything, and which you believe are not art, include the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, the Trojan Wars, the Roman Empire and everything related to it, the Holocaust, every serial killer there ever was, floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, the U.S. Civil War, the murders of Sharon Tate and her friends in the 60s, online bullying and resulting suicides, etc., etc., etc., etc.,..your position is so stupid as to beggar belief. If your position were somehow enforced, there would BE very little art because someone's feelings are hurt...lol The more I think about this, the more laughable it becomes. There would be no historical record; people's feelings get hurt by being reminded of them. lol

How old are you...? 12?

I just noticed that off to the left on this page is a list of KDramas based on true events, containing 138 productions. I guess all 138 shows should be banned, right? omg...lol

Last night I watched a Korean flick about the Korean War. At least half a million people died in that war, along with hundreds of thousands injured and maimed, hundreds of thousands made refugees who lost everything, millions of peoples' families cut in half by the 38th Parallel, and on and on and on. The painful repurcussions of that war continue to this day along with WW2, Vietnam, WW1, etc., yet thousands of movies have been made about those events and they've made many millions/billions of dollars for individuals and corporations. Is that OK because they're wars?

Thousands of movies have been made based on actual stories of kidnappings, rapes and murders. Did someone always check with any living/remaining friends or family members who might be traumatized by the knowledge that movies were made off the events that killed their loved ones? I will answer that for you: NO, someone did not always check. Once these events occur they are in the public record and fair game for anything anyone wants to make based on them, including movies, documentaries, books, plays, visual art, music, whatever.

Your stated position above is naive and silly. A movie can't hurt anyone who doesn't see it. So family/friends who object can just not watch, see, hear, look at or otherwise observe the art based on the incident that caused them pain. It's funny that you capitalized ART and put it in parenthesis. Are you implying work produced on painful/traumatic events are not art?

One of the most powerful war movies I have ever seen. At its conclusion, about 15 minutes ago, I put my hands over my face and sobbed for everyone, everywhere, who has suffered the madness of war. Wow. Speechless right now. A few different choices I would have made as a director, a few too many unlikely scenarios, but whatever. The battle scenes took my breath away with their unrelenting realism and length. I applaud the film's unflinching look at what happens to human bodies hit by bullets, grenades, mines, bayonettes, bombs, as well as the invisible destruction
of the human soul.

9/10

Why should the creation of art depend on who happens to be around to object to it? Would it be OK to release it after they're all dead? What about their grandchildren and their grandchildren...? Why don't they just not watch it?

Great acting, especially from the young lead. Depressing, repetitive cycles...and so it goes.
His mom, more like a really immature older sister, needed to be smacked a few times for sure. That airhead giggle and psycho mood swings would send me back out into the street too.
Mom: "Sure, go ahead, you can tell Mom anything..."
Son: tells her
Mom: Goes nuts and starts swinging at his head and crying and yelling. Yeah, that'll help.

Finally: I've asked before but haven't gotten an answer yet. What is it with Koreans that they are constantly swatting each other on and about the face and head, sometimes with great force, other times in playful slaps, or like the mother, just annoying flailing around? If someone is annoyed, you can be sure they're going to hit someone on the head. WTF is up with that?

Holy shit, I choked up just from reading the synopsis and the beginnings of the above reviews. lol Maybe I'd best be careful about when I decide to watch this flick.

Where was all the sex I was promised in this movie? And how does that boring actress keep getting lead parts in Korean movies? She is as dull as can be.

I agree, vigorously. And about 45 minutes too long.

WTF with that getting into bed naked with your step-daughter thing to heal her trauma from having been...raped, I guess? The male lead raped the young girl? That's one WTF, but the step-mother "think of my naked body when you remember being raped and it will all be cool," is the greatest WTF of a fairly dull movie full of WTFs.