Comments on: Top Korean Director Coming To America With Clive Owen?

By: shadowman

shadowman — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 16:12:05 +0000

It's a toss up between John Woo, (who's spelling of his family name has been changed from Wu to Woo, to better fit into the American culture I suppose,) and Luc Besson. His films are always well conceived, executed very stylistically with perfect casting, generally speaking.

By: shadowman

shadowman — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 11:12:05 +0000

By: brianrodden

brianrodden — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 03:55:33 +0000

Awesome. I'm just gonna go through this guy's whole filmography this week then.

By: RobHunter

RobHunter — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 02:33:12 +0000

I love Lady Vengeance… I actually think it rivals Old Boy in a lot of ways. Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance is also really good, but it's incredibly bleak and devoid of any humor so beware when you get around to catching that one. JSA is fantastic and the first of his films I had seen… more emotional and mysterious than his later work too.

By: brianrodden

brianrodden — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 02:25:19 +0000

Did he? That's funny I must have missed it. I just saw Oldboy and thought it was great so I got Lady Vengeance to watch tonight and now I have to see JSA.

By: RobHunter

RobHunter — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 02:13:53 +0000

Same person. JSA was his first feature to get him noticed and an excellent movie to boot. Unless you're questioning the name structure I used (ie Park before Chan-wook)… I do that because proper Korean format is to put surname first. Saying Chan-wook Park is fine but it's also Americanizing it.

Of course you may just be giving me shit seeing as this is the same conversation I had with Cole on the latest Reject Radio…

By: brianrodden

brianrodden — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 02:06:32 +0000

Did you mean Chan-wook Park (Oldboy, Thirst)?

By: jstockton858

jstockton858 — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 19:41:00 +0000

this makes me a bit sad actually