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Aug. 14th, 2007 06:23 pmIn which I review The Host, a Korean monster movie. Read it here!
Also, my brother posted a gag panel that appeals to those who love npr and ectoparasites--in other words, me.
The story behind my review:
The Host is a monster movie, about a giant animal mutated by toxic waste, that lives in the Han River in the heart of Seoul Korea. It's got the giant animal angle, the urban nature angle... how could I not love it? I was sure I was going to love this movie. But it strayed from its true cause, and spent way too much time on a red herring subplot about disease and government mismanagement. It didn't even get the government mismanagement part right (it was essentially the same as the UFO cover-up in Close Encounters, but more poorly thought out), and instead of building the tension (will the government's incompetence cause more lives to be lost??) it just dragged out the least interesting part of the movie.
On this day in 365 Urban Species: California poppy.
Also, my brother posted a gag panel that appeals to those who love npr and ectoparasites--in other words, me.
The story behind my review:
The Host is a monster movie, about a giant animal mutated by toxic waste, that lives in the Han River in the heart of Seoul Korea. It's got the giant animal angle, the urban nature angle... how could I not love it? I was sure I was going to love this movie. But it strayed from its true cause, and spent way too much time on a red herring subplot about disease and government mismanagement. It didn't even get the government mismanagement part right (it was essentially the same as the UFO cover-up in Close Encounters, but more poorly thought out), and instead of building the tension (will the government's incompetence cause more lives to be lost??) it just dragged out the least interesting part of the movie.
On this day in 365 Urban Species: California poppy.
