Comments on: As Japanese as kimchi

By: quotidia

quotidia — Sat, 17 Jun 2006 01:06:52 +0000

http://aolradio.podcast.aol.co.....1150499132
The Lake House, bad; Il-Mare, not bad.

By: slim

slim — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 14:23:45 +0000

The Washington Post gave it a thumbs down, mainly for the concept. Other than the Jeon Ji-hyun ogling opportunties, was the original any good?

By: michael

michael — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 11:26:00 +0000

Also off topic…funny story about Kim Jong-il’s son, he rub Elic Crapton velly much:
http://times.hankooki.com/lpag.....010510.htm

To think in a few years this guy will be ordering entire families to be sent to the N.K. gulag…while he’s grooving to “Tears in Heaven.”

By: cm

cm — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 11:22:37 +0000

The choosing of the cast is all wrong. Keeanu Reeves in a romantic movie? Sandra Bullock? This ain’t no Speed 3.

By: Haisan

Haisan — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 11:15:21 +0000

New York Times quite liked it.

Metacritic is giving it a 52 at the moment, same as NACHO LIBRE and one point better than FAST AND THE FURIOUS 3.

http://www.metacritic.com/film/titles/lakehouse

And check out who reviewed the film for VARIETY magazine:
http://www.variety.com/review/.....1&cs=1

By: Dirtydingus

Dirtydingus — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 09:59:42 +0000

Somewhat OT it has always surprised me how popular kimchi is in Japan.

By: Shenzhen Whitey

Shenzhen Whitey — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 09:48:13 +0000

The caption for the photo in the review on “The Onion” is pretty good.
http://www.avclub.com/content/node/49457

When I saw ‘Il Mare’ it took me a while to get clued in to the time difference because I could not read the dvd teaser on the pirated copy I saw. Still it was a good, not great movie.

For some reason, most pirated Korean movies in China will also have English subtitles, but its rare for the pirated Japanese movies to have them. (And a good percentage of American movies have English subtitling in bad Chinglish. weird.)