Jim B. over at Elephant Talk has a preview posted of the South Korean summer blockbuster, "Haeundae." Looks to be a beach side title wave thriller. Will be cool to see spots I know become one huge Busan Aquarium. The premise is nothing new, but Koreans consistently seem to make great movies, regardless.Alas, not all that glitters in summer is gold. Come June 15th we will be treated to a brand new entrant on the K-Pop puke parade: The girl group, "4minute."
Here is their "teaser" clip:
Wow. I am so excited. This "teaser" is best followed with a "taser." And, as the site allkpop points out, that 35 seconds of 4minute is one helluva a rip off of the Mary J. Blige ad for iPod.
And now for something completely different:
Dude, taser me.
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damn. We used to screw around doing human beat box in high school. looks like yet another yank invention made better by the japanese
The Koreans do make great movies. Even the horribly bad ones (Miss Gold Digger) still have cool cinematography and are visually creative.
no one agrees with you more bobby than i, the endless stream of insufferable crap that is k(rap)-hop.
for over a decade now, the producers, musicians and lyricists have not improved. just watch as the words of mismatched english appear on screen to some doofus who cant speak let alone lipsync to english.
and a further distaste i have with it. and a question all teachers, and koreans students of english should ask...
why present yourself to the world using words so elequent to those who 'spit' them. this is the music of the inner city, the lower class. is it art, i concede, yes.
but again, ask yourself why would you allow yourself(a korean student of english) to learn english that is seen as unsuccessful, unsophisticated and just plain fucking retarded (yes, i'm guilty, i've cast stones on myself, so get off my back)
listen to your students as they throw back hey man,. whassup and all that other bs. this is the future we are teaching. its time to stop.
and SM ENTERTAINMENT, if you are reading this, you are the shittiest producer of shit i have ever heard, time for you to retire.
oh and bobby, cancel your internet, cable, and get some earplugs if you don't want to hear it anymore. this addiction you have is unhealthy.
lol
Only four minutes...I want more!
Just admit it Bobby, you hum along to the Wonder Girls --you are only human. Unless of course you are that monkey on your blog header.
I was at school and had to take off my headphones to talk to a teacher. Then I watched the japanese kid without sound. Trippy.
"Koreans consistently seem to make great movies, regardless."
I want to know what movies you're watching...or more accurately, what drugs you're taking. Koreans consistently make SHIT movies, and manage to create a few gems every now and then (Oldboy/Vegeance Trilogy, Memories of Murder, The Host, Secret Sunshine, A Bittersweet Life, The Host, Thirst). 75% of Korean cinema is utter garbage. "Haeundae" looks to be no different. The "everything AND the kitchen sink" approach Korean film makers tend to take to script writing has gotten quite old. This is, of course, assuming one knows something about movies.
I like the cinematography and even the shit moves I saw were still put together well. Perhaps "great" was a stretch. And you can chill out with the smack talk. Make your point and don't get personal with me. Whether you think it "accurate" or not "anonymous."
this kid's beatbox is pretty average... or less. People are doing amazing stuff these days, there is even a guy who plays the flute while beatboxing, there is a chick who sings at the same time and it just keeps getting better!
As for great korean movies...well? They have alot of good elements but just don't seem to pull it all together in the end. They are really good for evoking depression.Either way, this Haeundae movie is gonna be a blast, I'm gonna try to put together a huge group of foreigners to go and see it together so we can run up the aisles when the people in the movie run from the wave... real 3D!
I was reading this interview with a movie critic and he was saying one of the big slams against Korean movies is there use of coincidence way too often. It is a sign of weak writing when the screenwriter has a loose end with two characters and rather than cleaning it up, just has them randomly meet again to restart the plot line.
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