Comments on: NYT on violence of Park Chan-wook’s films http://www.rjkoehler.com/2005/03/06/nyt-on-violence-of-park-chan-wooks-films/ Korea... in Blog Format Sun, 7 Sep 2008 10:22:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Chris http://www.rjkoehler.com/2005/03/06/nyt-on-violence-of-park-chan-wooks-films/#comment-10787 Chris Mon, 07 Mar 2005 11:54:28 +0000 http://rjkoehler.com/?p=1450#comment-10787 Yes, well, Manohla Dargis is something else. I live in Los Angeles, where she wrote for the LA Weekly and then the Times. I observed that she lacks very basic competence as a reviewer, making gross errors of simple description and the like. How she gets her positions is beyond me, it obviously isn't on account of her ability. Yes, well, Manohla Dargis is something else. I live in Los Angeles, where she wrote for the LA Weekly and then the Times. I observed that she lacks very basic competence as a reviewer, making gross errors of simple description and the like. How she gets her positions is beyond me, it obviously isn’t on account of her ability.

]]> By: anonymous http://www.rjkoehler.com/2005/03/06/nyt-on-violence-of-park-chan-wooks-films/#comment-10786 anonymous Mon, 07 Mar 2005 06:26:13 +0000 http://rjkoehler.com/?p=1450#comment-10786 Isn't Manohla Dargis a guy? Anyhow, I basically agree with what Sperwer said. Park uses good art designers, but his stories are basically pretty-looking exploitation films, with little inside of them. Isn’t Manohla Dargis a guy?

Anyhow, I basically agree with what Sperwer said. Park uses good art designers, but his stories are basically pretty-looking exploitation films, with little inside of them.

]]> By: Sperwer http://www.rjkoehler.com/2005/03/06/nyt-on-violence-of-park-chan-wooks-films/#comment-10785 Sperwer Mon, 07 Mar 2005 03:04:54 +0000 http://rjkoehler.com/?p=1450#comment-10785 You guys need to take a deep breath and reread Dargis' piece. She doesn't comment unfavorably on Park vis-a-vis "mainstream" films, at all; instead she seems to think his work is of a piece with e.g.,Trantino's, insofar as it introduces what she believes to be gratuitous, exploitative violence to the mainstream of the auteur driven film festival world just as Tarantino's does in the mainstream of commercial Hollywood productions. (Wasn't Tarantino the chairman of the panel of jusdges at Cannes who chose to honor Old Boy? ) (BTW: my vote at Cannes would have been for the other Korean entry, "Woman is the Future of Man", by Hong Seong-su. Both he and Park try to work very much in the auteur mode, but Hong, I believe, does so with infinitely more imagination and originality than Park, who is very derivative, in fact, pretentiously imitative, of the French of thirty years ago.) You guys need to take a deep breath and reread Dargis’ piece. She doesn’t comment unfavorably on Park vis-a-vis “mainstream” films, at all; instead she seems to think his work is of a piece with e.g.,Trantino’s, insofar as it introduces what she believes to be gratuitous, exploitative violence to the mainstream of the auteur driven film festival world just as Tarantino’s does in the mainstream of commercial Hollywood productions. (Wasn’t Tarantino the chairman of the panel of jusdges at Cannes who chose to honor Old Boy? ) (BTW: my vote at Cannes would have been for the other Korean entry, “Woman is the Future of Man”, by Hong Seong-su. Both he and Park try to work very much in the auteur mode, but Hong, I believe, does so with infinitely more imagination and originality than Park, who is very derivative, in fact, pretentiously imitative, of the French of thirty years ago.)

]]> By: Bernard Moon http://www.rjkoehler.com/2005/03/06/nyt-on-violence-of-park-chan-wooks-films/#comment-10784 Bernard Moon Sun, 06 Mar 2005 23:24:03 +0000 http://rjkoehler.com/?p=1450#comment-10784 agree. and definitely "kill bill" was more violent as were other similar hollywood films. i wasn't a fan of "oldboy" since i thought the storyline was so-so, but his direction and cinematography was excellent. agree. and definitely “kill bill” was more violent as were other similar hollywood films. i wasn’t a fan of “oldboy” since i thought the storyline was so-so, but his direction and cinematography was excellent.

]]> By: Scott-in-Japan http://www.rjkoehler.com/2005/03/06/nyt-on-violence-of-park-chan-wooks-films/#comment-10783 Scott-in-Japan Sun, 06 Mar 2005 16:15:23 +0000 http://rjkoehler.com/?p=1450#comment-10783 "the mainstreaming of exploitation", wtf does that even mean? Does the writer just have sand in her shorts? I haven't seen Park's movies, but they don't sound any worse than Tarantino's. “the mainstreaming of exploitation”, wtf does that even mean? Does the writer just have sand in her shorts? I haven’t seen Park’s movies, but they don’t sound any worse than Tarantino’s.

]]> By: Tarion http://www.rjkoehler.com/2005/03/06/nyt-on-violence-of-park-chan-wooks-films/#comment-10782 Tarion Sun, 06 Mar 2005 15:36:09 +0000 http://rjkoehler.com/?p=1450#comment-10782 heh, you have a point heh, you have a point

]]> By: Nomad http://www.rjkoehler.com/2005/03/06/nyt-on-violence-of-park-chan-wooks-films/#comment-10781 Nomad Sun, 06 Mar 2005 14:47:05 +0000 http://rjkoehler.com/?p=1450#comment-10781 Like some of the crap coming out of Hollywood is any better? Yeah, I'll stick to family entertainment like Kill Bill Vol 1. Like some of the crap coming out of Hollywood is any better?

Yeah, I’ll stick to family entertainment like Kill Bill Vol 1.

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