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Cake day: October 6th, 2023

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  • It’s a messy movie. I think a lot of the more current jokes/references are going to age badly like when Futurama came back and made iphone jokes to be topical.

    That said, I really enjoyed 60% of it so gave it 3 stars on letterboxed. At least it tried something new in its genre mashups. My personal theory is that big Bong struggles to direct English language films like this and Snowpiercer because he misses a sense of how the script sounds to a native speaker.


  • Watching some Bong-joon Ho in prep for Mickey 17 at the weekend: Mother and Snowpiercer.

    Mother was sensational! Maybe better that Parasite. Similar gritty drama motifs.

    Snowpiercer was pretty good but not great. I like his fantastical work and The Host is probably still my favourite film of his. (Okja also great but did not watch it this week.)

    I also re-watched True Grit and LA Confidential this week. Both solid, True Grit better.