Films I watched this week (NO SPOILERS) (Vol 3)
Discussion
Esceptico said:
The director seems to have a thing about octopuses - one of the (many) disturbing scenes in Oldboy was the lead character eating a live octopus.
There is a Japanese thing about octopus sex (ie tentacle / woman action). Some famous art/drawings has it. I think it even has a name (although I’ve forgotten it). You get references to it in manga/anime (probably more than references in Hentai manga). Not sure why there is such a fascination with cephalopods.
Eating squids and octopus is a delicacy in Korea & Japan. It's the way it was filmed that makes it disturbing, how the tentacles wriggles around the mouth. IIRC from the director's commentary the lead actor is a Buddhist (dominant religion in S.Korea is Christianity). I don't think the scene is there to strictly to shock audiences rather showing the protagonist's primordial instincts for revenge perhaps in Western idioms literally wants to extract his pound of flesh.There is a Japanese thing about octopus sex (ie tentacle / woman action). Some famous art/drawings has it. I think it even has a name (although I’ve forgotten it). You get references to it in manga/anime (probably more than references in Hentai manga). Not sure why there is such a fascination with cephalopods.
Going further OT out of curiosity I did venture into sex shops when I was backpacking in Japan to check out the local scene - just browsing, honestly! Quite an eye opener, they have a thing for rope tying and of course horror manga/anime can involve demons raping humans with proboscises. Octopuses and so forth join the dots somewhere.
renmure said:
We watched Yesterday on Netflix last night.
A struggling musician wakes up after an accident and discovers he is the only person on earth who has heard of The Beatles and their music.
An enjoyable 2 hrs of TV.
The song arangements were far better than The Beatles ever managed. It turns out some of their songs weren't too bad, but The Beatles just murdered them all first time around.A struggling musician wakes up after an accident and discovers he is the only person on earth who has heard of The Beatles and their music.
An enjoyable 2 hrs of TV.
Doofus said:
renmure said:
We watched Yesterday on Netflix last night.
A struggling musician wakes up after an accident and discovers he is the only person on earth who has heard of The Beatles and their music.
An enjoyable 2 hrs of TV.
The song arangements were far better than The Beatles ever managed. It turns out some of their songs weren't too bad, but The Beatles just murdered them all first time around.A struggling musician wakes up after an accident and discovers he is the only person on earth who has heard of The Beatles and their music.
An enjoyable 2 hrs of TV.
Doofus said:
renmure said:
We watched Yesterday on Netflix last night.
A struggling musician wakes up after an accident and discovers he is the only person on earth who has heard of The Beatles and their music.
An enjoyable 2 hrs of TV.
The song arangements were far better than The Beatles ever managed. It turns out some of their songs weren't too bad, but The Beatles just murdered them all first time around.A struggling musician wakes up after an accident and discovers he is the only person on earth who has heard of The Beatles and their music.
An enjoyable 2 hrs of TV.
Ozone said:
Doofus said:
renmure said:
We watched Yesterday on Netflix last night.
A struggling musician wakes up after an accident and discovers he is the only person on earth who has heard of The Beatles and their music.
An enjoyable 2 hrs of TV.
The song arangements were far better than The Beatles ever managed. It turns out some of their songs weren't too bad, but The Beatles just murdered them all first time around.A struggling musician wakes up after an accident and discovers he is the only person on earth who has heard of The Beatles and their music.
An enjoyable 2 hrs of TV.
As for arrangements, George Martin seemed to get by...
heisthegaffer said:
Started watching Once upon a time in Hollywood and got to the bit where Damien Lewis was at a party talking about who married who etc and gave up. Very dull.
Does it get better?
Started watching Lochdown after and found that boring too.
Maybe it's me!!
better just watch last 10 minutes.Does it get better?
Started watching Lochdown after and found that boring too.
Maybe it's me!!
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