Calling fellow foreign bodies! Wanna see Quentin Tarantino’s new movie? For free? And you don’t even have to do anything, like give blood or register for a credit card.
Just show up and be ready to rumble – they want eager Americans and others who might “get” this film better than perhaps Korean crowds might, so they want to be sure to invite as many people who might “get” this film as possible for the official press screening, hoping that a bit more diverse crowd will boost the energy that a film like this needs. I saw the film and thought it rocked – but jaded film reviewers and the like don’t do much whooping and hollering, which a film consciously made in the “grindhouse” genre, on old film stock and with purposely bad edits and sound problems, is supposed to elicit.
So, for those who missed our event at the screening last week, you’ve got another chance to see this movie, and for free!
Time: Monday, August 20th at 2:00 p.m.
Place: Theaters 5 and 6 of the Daehan Theater, which is just out of Gate #1 of Chungmuro Station, which is on the number 3 and 4 lines.
When you get there, seek out “Hana” from Sponge. She’s cute and nice and has YOUR ticket.
Oh, and leave a comment to this post on my site to just give her an idea of the number of tickets needed. Otherwise, just go – you’re on your own! And have fun!
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This post is lame on so many levels.
ditto to that.
two in the afternoon on a monday is not what i’d call prime viewing time.
“they want eager Americans and others who might “get” this film better than perhaps Korean crowds might”
(((( puke ))))
Intentionally making a movie bad doesn’t change the fact that it is indeed Bad.
But it is worth a watch, especially for free; particularly since they’ve decided to rob international audiences and NOT release the two Grindhouse films as a double feature outside the US (that’s a cheap trick even lam-er than Big Bill 2).
Still, I don’t see anyone but flashbackin’ fifty-somethings boosting the clearly-lacking energy of this film. Not that I understand a film’s need for “energy” from the audience. It’s not a rock concert. I thought all they required was our attention…
Damn, 2pm? Pity I have a job… they’re hoping for the unemployed foreign community to come?
Well, I guess it’s true what they say about the Korean blogosphere’s committment to negativity.
Sorry for the “lame” post on “so many levels” that simply announced FREE movie tickets for a major Hollywood release. I thought Tarantino was a director some might like, and some might like to see for free. I guess that was indeed offensive, somehow.
And as for the movie itself, some might say that the 20 mins added to make this a standalone feature was actually a plus; many Tarantino fans were crying foul that Asia was getting a different, more “complete” edition, with the decision to release Grindhouse as two, separate films here.
And yes, there was a previous screening in the evening, but this is not that screening – most PRESS screenings are at 2 PM, actually. I guess that’s another reason I should have held back from posting; I guess there are really no hagwon teachers on split shifts, and anyone who might be able to show up is indeed an unemployed, “lame” person with nothing better to do.
Don’t worry, though. I won’t offend anyone else here with such offensive announcements in the future.
I guess the idea of getting the word out to those who might be interested was somehow a bad one.
Didn’t know that so many people were going to feel “robbed” by an offer to see something for completely free.
Sorry ’bout that.
Won’t happen again.
Yeowch. If it weren’t another 50 bucks for travel to see a free movie I’d see it again.
I appreciated the news.
Holy passive-aggression, Batman!
Don’t punish everyone just because a bunch of us are assholes… think of poor old pixel!
And while wallowing in your sense of injury, you may have missed that I wasn’t calling you either “lame”, “offensive” or a “robber” - I was in fact reserving those discriptions for Tarintino & Co. Yours was a fine gesture (and I even said it would be well worth going if one could). I think the indignation’s a bit much though.
the post was lame and the followup by the poster was worse.
how old are you that you can’t take a bit of criticism?
…and how old are you that you can’t capitalize or say something positive?
Wow, this thread is bitchier than a sorority house where the residents all get their monthly visitor at the same time.
Congratulations, ladies.
Yes, I was a bit miffed, and perhaps somewhat bitchy.
But I wasn’t being passive-aggressive, since I’m not going to do one thing while saying another. Seriously – I didn’t expect posting about some free tix to a Tarantino flick to immediately elicit such nasty responses, nor the vague but vehement criticism of how “lame” the post was. Seriously – that, I just don’t get.
I can understand getting flamed for posting about something controversial or discussion-worthy, but some free tix? Those, one can either take or leave, depending on whether the time’s good or not, as fate would have it.
That’s why I find those responses – by Marmot’s Hole regulars – especially irritating. Therefore, I’m just simply not going to make announcements like this again, if I’m going to get shit for it. Would you? I’ll just stick to making such announcements on my site.
Pretty simple, not passive-aggressive.
Looks like somebody has packed up his toys and went home.
Metro, if you’re purpose was to tell us all about some free tix, then just do that and save us the artistry of your hype and excess verbiage. Our bitching is reminiscent of what went on here when shelton used to post. The complaints then were of two basic varieties: one, this guy can’t fucking write worth shit and, two, his posts were incredibly inane. You’re no shelton. But the “come out and join the foreign crowd that ‘gets it’” post was way over the top. And, in any event, you already had a great post on your OWN site with its own great response. Why not just link to it here or briefly mention it without all the editorializing?
One final note: if you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. This is an open online community and, especially given that Marmot has set it up with ads, I would say that we’re even more entitled to express our opinion about what goes up here. The only problem with saying “this post was lame on so many levels” was that it did you the injustice of not identifying what those levels are. I hope I’ve made it a bit clearer to you.
Careful, Ut. It’s almost that time of the month for me.
Well, I get it more, now.
I still think there are cultural aspects of American films that North Americans are more familiar with, and that press screenings are absolutely dead, from my experience.
As for the posting style, I didn’t think it was excessively verbose, and it was actually more sparse on my page because I felt the need to describe even more fully why I was even making this post on the Hole.
The reason I didn’t just make a simple link to my site was because I feel it’s cheap to do that. If I’m going to double-post content, I make sure it is something that is something worth seeing and that it’s more convenient to see here on the Hole directly; hence, I’ve only ever posted the occasional SeoulGlow episode, and have never engaged in simply double-posting content from my site.
Since this wasn’t video, I decided to make it more than the simple announcement that it was on my site (since we’d already had an event) and explain a bit the motives of even wanting to target some foreigners to these press screenings.
Viewers of press screenings are jaded and even more non-interactive than Korean audiences tend to be. I saw Transformers in the first press screening, and it was like a funeral; on the general opening day, even the Korean audience was pretty expressive and getting into the movie. At one general screening of Ratatouille, the audience here clapped as the credits rolled; this would be gauche to do at a press screening.
Sponge Entertainment distributes some pretty good films here in Korea and was simply reaching out to the foreign community. Both their rep, not to mention myself, were pretty surprised to see this offer taken so negatively. That’s all.
I talked up the Marmot’s Hole and its readers and the community here a lot, especially as the #1 place to reach out to some pretty interested foreigners, since we’re a smart and tight community, no matter what our political differences.
And frankly, yeah, I was a bit surprised for teh first initial responses to slam the post. Perhaps, like Shelton, I just don’t “get” how lame a given piece of content is, perhaps not.
See, I know about the blog being more monetized and more professional and all, and I thought more connections and offline events like this could be cool.
So, I’m not kvetching just because of the slight to my tender ego, since I’m not the only one feels slighted here, and it’s a shame, since I think this could have set a cool precedent, and really didn’t deserve the nasty response, since the offer was made as a gesture of good will.
Whatever - the more I explain, the more I open myself for more criticism, in the end. I guess I am like Shelton in that I’m perhaps not cut out for the Hole, and I’m not being facetious here. I truly don’t see any problem with what I posted, and if I can’t see it, even as Hole readers do, then maybe I just better keep such postings to my own site. Not “taking my ball and going home” but just being practical, and I don’t want to become a REAL Shelton, in that the mismatch of individual poster to the community in which he was posting became bigger than the content itself.
So, with that, I’ll just stick to me own site with stuff like this; one consolation is that one difference between me and the Shelt is that at least people make some comments on my home blog.
Knowing that, don’t take this as me having hard feelings or being passive-aggressive – I think it’d be better for both sites if I kept my footprint as spare as possible.
Sorry to take up unnecessary bandwidth with this, Robert.
This whole episode is embarrassing. Metropolitician is a great writer and a deep thinker, and I would think that, even if someone thought that this particular post were a mistake in some way, then perhaps out of respect they might just overlook it and click to the next post.
Metropolitician:
My remarks about bitchiness weren’t directed at you. They were directed at all the people who did nothing but fling turds in response to your announcement. I agree with Linkd’s remarks in #17 one hundred percent.
#15 - Sonagi,
Thanks for the warning.
Metro is trying to manipulate the media in order to mold public opinion, which makes him no better than the Rohistas in my book.
But don’t take your free offers elsewhere, Metro, since there are thousands of people who read the Marmot’s Hole I guess, and this was just a few who responded negatively. Unbunch your panties, everyone, and move on to the next subject.
ditto on 17 and 18.
the first couple of posters come across as people who have something personal against the Metro. I haven’t seen that kind of response here before (I wasn’t around here during the “Shelton Days”).
Metro - Thanks for the heads up on the free movie. And thanks for blogging. Please keep posting wherever you see fit. If the flamers here with burs up their asses don’t like it, they can either get over it or die unhappy. Their choice.
Marmot,
Please play Survivor with your sub-bloggers. Then the silly “Metropolitician” can keep his/her inane pontifications to its own blog.
Matt, relax man. The offer of tickets was a nice thought. Thanks.
I honestly think some of these guys would show up just to run nakid through the lobby in their D-war dragon masks.
Metro, you are no Shelton. Whatever you decide to do, you don’t have to waste brain matter fretting over that.
If, however, you decide to start “dj-ing” at a Sinchon bar, then that will reopen the whole debate.
i don’t think the post is embarrassing at all. free expression. i tried to post a question about guest bloggers in the marmot’s free-for-all weekend post but no one picked up the thread, which is fine. if you write and post publicly you open yourself to criticism. i think Metro knows and understands that and i wish he wouldn’t take it personally. ad hominem is not what i’m about.
some might recall that metro’s seoulglow initially got panned by people who thought it didn’t belong on Marmot. i was one of the first to defend his work as belonging on this site. go back and check it out, if you’d like. speaking of which, isn’t it time for a followup to the astro-girl story? i thought it was agreed that marmot’s hole had officially endorsed her in the race for space…
Micheal (Metro),
Although I could not attend the free showing, I did appreciate the offer. I enjoy your home blog and I enjoy your guest posts over here.
As for the top 5 responses, there are all kinds of malcontents, from outright assholes, to trolls, to inconsiderate jerks, and plenty of other s with varying shades of unsavory behavior. I’m hoping the first 5 posters are more on the side of the benign part of the spectrum than the harmful side.
Not everyone like to piss on someone’s corn flakes. Rather, I like to believe the (silent) majority of the readers of Marmot’s Hole are positive more than negative. It’s just unfortunate the frequency of pisser posts is higher than appreciative (if somewhat uncontraversial and hence - boring) posts.
I’ll read your stuff wherever you decide to post.
-MN
Mark’s gone? But…But…who is going to remind us that Korean women are all whores?