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8.1/10

posted 15 years ago by chiliwaterboy
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What the hell. In no way is this film of that caliber. Sure, the action was decent and entertaining, but it's so contrived and corny that it's more deserving of a 5.5/10. My assumption on why this film is 8.1/10 is because it's a foreign film. While that argument sounds bogus, if the same film was released in Hollywood by someone like Michael Bay most people would not find it any good. Now, I'm not anti-foreign movies or Korean movies either. Oldboy happens to be my favourite movie, but this is just very sub-par as far as war movies go. An example of a good war movie would be Paths of Glory.

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[–] CoSMiGoNoN 13 years ago

It was incredibly cheesie, and the Rambo-like lead characters made this even worse. 3/10

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[–] jinmay77 13 years ago

this movie is 10 out of 10, enough said.

[–] joekinplaya 13 years ago

You must be out of your mind. Because it's made in Hollywood and made by Michael Bay, people will rate it 9/10 because they are dumb enough to think "I loved Transformers so I love whatever movie he makes."

You realize how many BAD TERRIBLE movie gets produced in America? And how many of them make more money than movies like Tae Guk Gi and get better ratings? At least currently, there are barely any good films being produced in America. Foreign films usually get unfair treatment when it comes to rating because of the sole reason that you can't translate words into English in the best way.

Tae Guk Gi was a story about brotherhood throughout the war. If you think this is cheesy, than what is every other American war film? It's practically the same thing every film. Blood, soldiers cry, they talk about how they do it for some vague reason they never touch on but everyone understands what it is. You see Act of Valor? With Eminem singing "I'm not afraid." THAT is cheesy. And I heard that film was just terrible. The only significant war film that came out recently from America was the Pacific, and that was amazing... but a lot of people said it was boring and it sucked. Please, real war is not fun or amazing. Real war is gruesome a brutal... something Tae Guk Gi tried very hard to portray. It is more of an anti-war film than a war movie.

Traditional Korean families are closer than your typical Americans who act so disrespectful to each other and to their own family. Family is more important than independence and individualism in most Asian culture. Just because you fail to see what IS realistic and what is cheesy...

And it's a known fact that Korean films typically have overly melodramatic scenes because they love that type of thing. Tae Guk Gi was put in perfectly parallel to the dramatic scenes and worked well. You have to understand, this wasn't your war where the enemies are strangers you have never met. The Korean War exposed you to fight against people you knew, some were even relatives and family members.

[–] superlollipop 12 years ago

what's up with the cheesie *beep* you guys are talking about? If saving private ryan is at #39 on this site, then this movie's rating at 8.1/10 is nothing sort of too much to ask on here. Not all people think the same just so you know.

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[–] whatsthisnow 10 years ago

"if the same film was released in Hollywood"

You've never seen Saving Private Ryan? Don't think I've ever seen two war movies that were closer in style to each other, and SPR (which is also very contrived and corny) is extremely popular.

[–] maxconran 10 years ago

i'd be inclined to say it's a 7/10 because really that's what it is. It isn't grotesquely terrible which is normally a 5/10 but it wont clarify as one of my favourite movies which would be 8.3+/10 I think it deserves a 7.4/10 as it is ok but by no means something that could be my favourite story.

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