Sympathy for Mr. VengeanceI had stuff to say about this movie but all I could think about was how insanely hot the main girl was
I mean I'm not really into the whole asian girl thing, but goddddaaaaaamn if that wasn't the hottest asian girl I've ever seen. Wow
Oh yeah...about the movie. I liked it, but it's fairly grim. I would call JSA sad and depressing, I would call Oldboy and Mr. Vengeance...mean. The difference being that the characters in JSA were good likable humane characters that you really cared about so the tragedy was just that, tragic. With the Vengeance trilogy the characters are more Tarantino-esque good people who do bad things and get what's due to them and it sucks for everyone involved but it's not really something to cry about. I'm just glad the
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father got owned at the end, because he really felt the most "evil' of them all. Even before his search for revenge, when he lets his dedicated worker slice himself up and kill his own family. Plus he killed the hot girl and that is a huge
in my book so I wanted him brought to justice. The victim was definitely the main guy. He was against the kidnapping and he tried everything he could to help people and be good and instead bad stuff happens to him the entire film and he dies :\
I thought Mr. Vengeance was the funniest of the trilogy. There were a lot of lol bits throughout. The directing was stylish and the pacing was pretty good. I dunno. Good movie and best of the three in actually dealing with the theme of revenge. But wasn't exactly the most "fun". The first 30 mins were pretty fun! But after the deaths start it's >_< mixed with some lols.
So far I really liked JSA and Thirst more than the Vengeance trilogy. In terms of the trilogy I think Oldboy & Mr. Vengeance are around the same quality level of good movie, with Oldboy being a bit better for the creative premise and the hallway action scene which is super awesome, and Lady Vengeance is was just kind of dull.
Will watch I'm a Cyborg and Three Extremes next.
Oh and QUESTIONS because there was a bit in Mr. Vengeance I was confused about:
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The girl who is his sister and needs the kidney. Is that the short haired girl living with him? Or was that the girl who committed suicide in the tub?
Basically I was confused about who the girl who died in the tub was, since she was only introduced into the story a scene or two before. If that was his sister, then why was the girl he was living with so dedicated to getting the money? Enough to kidnap the little girl?
