achtungbaby
04-17-2003, 09:49 PM
WARNING: SPOILERS... Tho most of you probably don’t want to watch this movie anyway, so who cares.
Okay, hearing about why some Korean people hate this movie, I thought that I too would end up utterly hating it also. But I think it is safe to say that the Korean response to this movie is a ripple in the wave of Anti-Americanism that followed the tank accident which killed 2 schoolgirls and won Roh Moo Hyun the presidential election; that combined with a bad portrayal of Rick Yune in the Korean press (The press twisted his words to make it sound like Rick was bad mouthing a South Korean actor who was originally supposed to play Yune’s role. What he said was, had the South Korean actor taken the role, the character would have been totally different. They made it sound like he said that he was better for the role.).
This is a little better than your typical Bond movie. As one of the few people who have seen each and every one of them, I’d rank this one somewhere near the top 1/3. As for Peirce Brosnan Bond movies, I’d put this one second, behind Goldeneye and just a little bit ahead of Tomorrow Never Dies. Although the outcome is rather predictable, it was not as boring and run of the mill as The World is Not Enough was.
full review (http://yellowworld.org/comments.php?id=10616_0_1_0_C)
Okay, hearing about why some Korean people hate this movie, I thought that I too would end up utterly hating it also. But I think it is safe to say that the Korean response to this movie is a ripple in the wave of Anti-Americanism that followed the tank accident which killed 2 schoolgirls and won Roh Moo Hyun the presidential election; that combined with a bad portrayal of Rick Yune in the Korean press (The press twisted his words to make it sound like Rick was bad mouthing a South Korean actor who was originally supposed to play Yune’s role. What he said was, had the South Korean actor taken the role, the character would have been totally different. They made it sound like he said that he was better for the role.).
This is a little better than your typical Bond movie. As one of the few people who have seen each and every one of them, I’d rank this one somewhere near the top 1/3. As for Peirce Brosnan Bond movies, I’d put this one second, behind Goldeneye and just a little bit ahead of Tomorrow Never Dies. Although the outcome is rather predictable, it was not as boring and run of the mill as The World is Not Enough was.
full review (http://yellowworld.org/comments.php?id=10616_0_1_0_C)