Yo what’s crackin’? This week I watched some movies and worked out at the gym and played Gameboy. None of these activities really warrant being written about at any length, so instead you can look at some awesome artwork I did while riding the subway a couple months ago. Ah what the hell…as a bonus I’ll give you one paragraph reviews of the films I saw this week.
누가 그녀와 잤을까?
I was kind of nervous when my wife rented this one, as Korean comedy movies often tends to be well…not particularly funny, but this one was. The story was kind of similar to the film 몽정기 2 in that the central plot revolved around a group of students that lust after a student teacher. Only in this case the students were male and the teacher female…which I guess would make this film more like 몽정기 1, but I digress. The movie was decently funny, and managed to avoid the random serious turn that most Korean comedy films seem to take in the third act (ala the pregnancy and abortion at the end of 색즉시공). If I were to give it a grade I’d say B+ if only due to the fact that the one dude got unwanted boners much like Spinner in that episode of Degrassi: The Next Generation. And as we all know, boners are funny!
The DaVinci Code
Oh my god…was the book this bad too? Seriously this movie was crap. It was like a Hardy Boys mystery with some sort of dumb ass conspiracy theory. It was terrible, boring, and long. Again, was the book this bad? And if it was, why did so many people read it?
Troy
When I was in third grade my friends and I did a moderization of the story of the Trojan War as a school project. This being the mid-1980s, our quest was to get a video game back from a rival elementary school. This film did not feature a copy of Zelda 2, but was none the less entertaining. Lots of good epic battles. Lots of Brad Pitt as Achilles being an ass and roughing up fools. Trojans a plenty! What wasn’t there to like?! Also, unlike the similarly lengthy DaVinci Code, this film didn’t seem like it was two and a half hours long.
Anyhow that’s it. I’ve got junk to do tomorrow and Sunday, so I might not be back until the New Year. If that’s the case, have a good one, and keep it safe.
멍정기2.. now that was a piece of shit movie.. They may not be alone in this (hello adam sandler and rob schneider) but Koreans sure do make some unfunny comedies.
Comment by dust bunny — December 29, 2006 @ 17:12 pm
I hope I didn’t imply that Korea has a monoply on crappy comedy movies. You were quite right about Adam Sandler and Rob Schneider movies. Films such as anything based on a Saturday Night Live skit, anything with Tom Green(e), and any comedy movie that ends with a number greater than 1 would also fall into this category.
Comment by Wyatt — December 30, 2006 @ 10:33 am
i didn’t see the movie, but the book was shit-terrible. the language and the plot read like it was written by a particularly delusional (”i’m going to be a writer when i grow up”) highschool freshman (no offense to cool highschool freshmen everywhere!), but it was about jesus, so people in america devoured it. because we all love jesus.
Comment by Andy — January 2, 2007 @ 18:53 pm