Attack the Gas Station.

MGP · Post by **MGP** » Tue Aug 21, 2007 8:47 am

It's stupid nice. A very fine export from South Korea.

Go rent it.

YouTube · Post by **Philaflava** » Tue Aug 21, 2007 8:58 am

Nothing to do with the topic, but Rivi has an unbelievable likeable factor considering he was a cold-blooded killer. A soft spoken man who never harmed children or woman, you gotta respect that!

MGP · Post by **MGP** » Tue Aug 21, 2007 9:10 am

Philaflava wrote:Nothing to do with the topic, but Rivi has an unbelievable likeable factor considering he was a cold-blooded killer. A soft spoken man who never harmed children or woman, you gotta respect that!

Well, he did murk that guy's young son by accident. Otherwise, you're right.

Anyway, Attack The Gas Station is a wonderful critique of South Korea's social heirarchy that plays on the arbitrary compulsions of the previous generation/establishment: customs which now resemble emotional torture to the "enlightened" Western mind. What might come off as abusurd to the untrained eye is actually a carefully crafted reversal of roles, as four renegade 20-somethings hold a microcosm of their unreasonable world at the power of their whims.

YouTube · Post by **Philaflava** » Tue Aug 21, 2007 9:17 am

MGP wrote:
Philaflava wrote:Nothing to do with the topic, but Rivi has an unbelievable likeable factor considering he was a cold-blooded killer. A soft spoken man who never harmed children or woman, you gotta respect that!
Well, he did murk that guy's young son by accident. Otherwise, you're right.

Sorry to derail, but yeah that accident changed his life if you recall in the doc. He's still fucked up over that shooting.

MGP · Post by **MGP** » Tue Aug 21, 2007 9:25 am

Philaflava wrote:
MGP wrote:
Philaflava wrote:Nothing to do with the topic, but Rivi has an unbelievable likeable factor considering he was a cold-blooded killer. A soft spoken man who never harmed children or woman, you gotta respect that!
Well, he did murk that guy's young son by accident. Otherwise, you're right.
Sorry to derail, but yeah that accident changed his life if you recall in the doc. He's still fucked up over that shooting.

Yeah, it's the only time he really shows remorse for anything. Every other violent acts he's responsible for he is clearly proud of.

Andvil · Post by **Andvil** » Tue Aug 21, 2007 9:28 am

I enjoyed it

been a while since I've seen it though

Trademark · Post by **Trademark** » Tue Aug 21, 2007 10:15 am

who is this rivi guy, never heard of him?

drizzle · Post by **drizzle** » Tue Aug 21, 2007 10:36 am

didn't like the movie too much when i saw it, it was a while ago though. maybe i should give it another try

aresem · Post by **aresem** » Tue Aug 21, 2007 2:16 pm

it was alright, i guess... i havent watched it since a few years back. i can definitely think of better south korean movies tho.

Trademark · Post by **Trademark** » Tue Aug 21, 2007 7:23 pm

Trademark wrote:who is this rivi guy, never heard of him?

The Drunken Poet · Post by **The Drunken Poet** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 12:56 pm

Some Korean broad showed me this film awhile back, I thought it was alright. I'm sure I missed some of the Korean humor. But this does remind me of Guns & Talks, anyone ever see that? Fun little Korean hitman comedy.

drizzle · Post by **drizzle** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 1:05 pm

Guns and talks wasn't bad. I hate this newish asian trend of casting nsync looking dudes in the badass roles (you can thank the inexplicable success of the Young and Dangerous series for that shit), so I certainly appreciated the fact that this movie self-referentially poked fun at it.

The Drunken Poet · Post by **The Drunken Poet** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 1:13 pm

drizzle wrote:Guns and talks wasn't bad. I hate this newish asian trend of casting nsync looking dudes in the badass roles (you can thank the inexplicable success of the Young and Dangerous series for that shit), so I certainly appreciated the fact that this movie self-referentially poked fun at it.

That trend has been happening for awhile now. Especially in Korea. They like their lady-boy actors there. Annoying, I agree.

Seiko Flossberg · Post by **Seiko Flossberg** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 5:47 pm

Trademark wrote:
Trademark wrote:who is this rivi guy, never heard of him?

Go rent Cocaine Cowboys immediately.