As Japanese as kimchi

It’s bad enough that Hollywood had to go out and remake Lee Hyun-seung’s 2000 flick “Siworae,” starring uber-hottie Jun Ji-hyun (as director Kim Ki-duk said, if Hollywood likes the films so damn much, they should just release ‘em there).  Even worse is that said remake seems to be getting trashed by critics.  Topping it off, at least one film critic said “The Lake House” was a remake of a Japanese film.  Or course, seeing how the remake is being bashed, this is one time Koreans might wish to encourage the confusion.

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7 Comments

  1. Shenzhen Whitey your flag
    Posted June 16, 2006 at 6:48 pm | Permalink

    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.)

  2. Dirtydingus your flag
    Posted June 16, 2006 at 6:59 pm | Permalink

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

  3. Haisan your flag
    Posted June 16, 2006 at 8:15 pm | Permalink

    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

  4. cm your flag
    Posted June 16, 2006 at 8:22 pm | Permalink

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

  5. michael your flag
    Posted June 16, 2006 at 8:26 pm | Permalink

    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.”

  6. slim your flag
    Posted June 16, 2006 at 11:23 pm | Permalink

    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?

  7. quotidia your flag
    Posted June 17, 2006 at 10:06 am | Permalink

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

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