Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Monster?

I ripped those sina video links this morning if you are having problems with the buffering times I added some Megaupload and Yousendit links here
http://www.kfccinema.com/xtemplex/index.php?showtopic=10670

Joshua also made an downloadable link inside too.

picked up for US DISTRO by magnolia!

hell yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

X the link you used is the low quality video
Here is the high res version I used to make downloadable links this morning.
mms://nv.sina.com.cn/ent/2006/05/25053436.wmv

god bless em.

a flat out daylight monster attack!

pretty brave filmmaking!

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You know what this site needs? More coverage of The Host.

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Thank you guys for sharing this! :D

Argh, I wanna see this film soooo much...

Man i hate it that all these mms:// links never work on my browsers neither Opera nor Firefox. That's why i often skip all the trailers on twitchfilm. Anybody knows how to solve it? (btw i had never problems on other sites with windows media or QT clips) It's those "mms://" links...

download the edit up there.

Problems with Mms is usually down to Firewall conflicts. Allow the sites you visit to access those ports, and it should be fine. Roll back a version or two of Windows Media.

Or better, get a Net-Transport type software and download the stream, like I do.

Should have sent a poet...

I can't wait!!!!!
It should be very remarkable movie in Korea's monster movie history.

Here is a little report from EMPIRE ONLINE about "The Host".

While the red carpet awaited Hugh, Halle and all their X-friends for X-Men: The Last Stand's Cannes premiere yesterday, Empire discovered a very different mutation – a rather unexpected little treat, in fact – just down the Croisette, away from the Palais. Screening as part of the Director's Fortnight, Korean helmer Bong Joon-ho's The Host is a wonderfully idiosyncratic creature feature, concerning the rampage of a giant, tadpole-thing in Seoul's Han River.

Yet it's about so much more than that – as Bong explained before the screening's start, the star of the show isn't the monster so much as the dysfunctional family (including an aloholic ex-student, a narcoleptic drop-out and a bronze-medallist Olympic archer) who rather chaotically set out to try and vanquish it. Working as a slapstick black comedy, a touching family drama and a horror – while making political jabs at American interventionism along the way – it's certainly the most interesting and entertaining film we've seen here so far.

Earlier today, Empire caught up with Bong, whose last movie – the excellent Memories Of Murder – similarly toyed with the serial killer genre. "I've always been a fan of creature films," he told us, "especially Godzilla. But what inspired me to make it was imagining what it would be like if the Loch Ness monster lived in the Han River."

Source: http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=18839

thx x for the advice.

Wow. I watched the highlights reel the D-WAR board peeps threw together. VERY nice, even in low quality. I have a feeling this will make more than Magnolia paid for it in its first weekend of release.

ohhh now thats gonna be a sweet kickass movie. Can't wait

[QUOTE Freewell] Man i hate it that all these mms:// links never work on my browsers neither Opera nor Firefox. That's why i often skip all the trailers on twitchfilm. Anybody knows how to solve it?[/QUOTE]

If you're having trouble watching mms videos, another way to get them to load is to copy the link (Hover the mouse over the link and press the Right mouse button and then choose Copy Shortcut. The actual command may be different in another browser, but there should be something comparible.) then paste it into Windows Media Player (Manually open up Windows Media Player from the Start menu, then inside Windows Media Player choose the File menu option, then choose Open URL, then paste the text in to the URL textbox by pressing the Right mouse button, then choose Paste, and finally click the OK button.)

An easier way to try to watch some mms links is to copy the link like above, then replace "mms" with "http" and try using that in the address bar of your browser. This method doesn't always work. In this case, it works for the 350k link, but not the 128k link.

Hope that this was helpful.

Niiiice. Look forward to see this.

OH sweet mother ... it grabbed her by the face ...

WOW.. haven't seen a monster movie looking this fun in ages...and from Korea. Awesome! Hey Todd is this playing the fest circuit?

Ouch!!! Sonuva!!! You know how much it hurts to have your jaw drop and hit the floor.
It hurts.
A lot.
Sweet merciful crap that looks awesome!

man, let's i hope he cgi is better than these clips.
does anyone have this higher than 300k?

I'm looking forward to seeing this movie as much as anyone, and the brief synopsis by JEDIYUTH sounds like a great premise. But can anyone please tell me why all the fuss over this ridiculous clip? For months we've seen trailers of hordes of frightened people running away from a VW-sized monster-- isn't there anyone here who would prefer to see some of the interaction between the members of this wacked-out dysfunctional family we've heard so much about? I assume the film is in post-production if it's already been shown at Cannes, so there must (?) be some better footage available.

Tampa, I read what some guy on the DC Inside Movie Gallery who watched the film wrote.

Basically what you're seeing in the trailer might feel a little 'off', but watching the film you'll quickly forget about it. He said it has the same balance that worked in Memories of Murder (it's often very silly and comic, then it turns really dramatic, then even a little scary). You know... Bong Joon-Ho style. The key then is, if you start looking around to see if it's CGI it means you're not caring about the story, which certainly doesn't happen here. He concluded say something like 'I laughed, I was surprised, scared, I cried, and then some. But I want to watch it again, enough that when it hits theaters I'll watch it ten times'.

And, oh, why only Monster shots and little else? Because Bong is smart and knows what people want to see now. Give them the Monster and push problem number 1 (that they're not scared of a little f'n dragon messing around, but of losing a family member). Then the rest comes later, and you get it in the film.

It's Bong Joon-Ho. Have some faith.

GoldLeader you're my man! I copied the URL and put it in my WindowsMediaPlayer 10 and it worked. (Didn't work in my favourite Media Classic version but that doesn't matter) I'm so stupid that i didn't thought about this by myself. Thx GoldLeader.
Will memorize the URL & http methods in my brain now. ^^

If you download the YTN Report, it's essentially the same footage (the reporter talks over the initial scenes around the banks, and strangely the last scene has familiar music, but I don't know if that's from the film or not). Anyway, more or less same quality as the high res Sina report, and you can download it.

word. of couse this film will still kick ass it's a bong joon-ho film! that's the reason why the cgi seems like a letdown so far.
i'm not expecting much coming from the company that did a rush job on king kong.

this movie has the potential to be the next jaws.

memories of murder was nice. but don't forget about barking dogs never bite.

*thumbs up*

Jaws?

Oh boy, that looks incredible!!! Cant wait!

You know, when you have a movie that protrays a monster that steals girls born of waste poured into the han river by the US military, what you have is evidence once again that Korean men are intensely and deeply insecure and afraid of anything western that threatens their "manhood." Against this fear they are amazingly desperate to demonize everything American and snuff out everything that is good about the United States.

Noone would argue George Bush is a lobotomy case; noone is saying we don't have problems. But, really, I am deeply tired of how Korean male culture is determined to demonize western, white men.

I guarantee you this: foreign white men will never, ever be defined by the sad, desperate attempt of an entire culture of men who, deep inside, have never believed they are actually men at all.

Honestly, it is deeply sad. And I mourn for the hearts of Korean men who only feel good about themselves when they demonize foreign white men.

As for me, I'm thankful to God for who I am. And that, my friend, will NEVER change.

Peace.

To 'The Desperate Korean Male'. Mate, i think you're the one thats insecure. You keep implementing on white men and korean men and such, but really, you're not getting the directers intentions at all. Youre the kind of people that piss off the hard workers who's made great films by totally misinterpretting their efforts. Sure the story had a very tiny portion of American Military (not specific to white men you're trying to implicate, unless you're white facist who thinks only white men diserves to serve armerican army). This film is really about the poor and the powerless minorities tring to make a living. I.e, this portrays the poor monster whos trying to live its cursed life despites its misfortunes. Also this implies to the family who has gotten their girl stolen by the monster, the family is poor, and does not prone any financial or economical power in the society so they're ignored by the majarity and the powerful, but despite they little they posess, they solve the problem on their own and live on. This movie does not end up like some cheap hollywood flick where the so alledge korean men (as you've put it) take revenge on the american army. This movie is about the struggle of life of the minorities, not some cheap anti-american shit you wish it to be mate.
Cheers.

http://www.uboard.co.kr/play1.asp?PB46555.asf

above is the japanese trailer. It is more revealing than Korean trailers.

Thomas....while The Desperate Korean Male took it a bit too far, he was closer to the truth than you seem to be. Have you ever lived in Korea? Do you know much about the issues troubling Korean society and men in particular?

He's right, this movie played to the Korean grudge against the U.S. military in order to sell tickets. Korea's last president was elected because he was spouting the most vocally anti-american attitude. The politicians play to the public's prejudice and this is just an example of a Korean movie maker seeing how lucrative it could be.

I live in Korea and because I'm a white american every taxi driver that can put two words of english together usually tells me how much they hate America and western men that come 'steal' their women (a.k.a. "marry"). The fact that they had to rely on the American military for the liberation of Korea from (1) Japan during WWII and then (2) North Korea has smoldered in the Korean psyche for too long....generally, Koreans don't like to admit they even had American help with these things. On the recent Liberation Day (from Japan) Anniversary the South Korean President made no mention of the fact that it was America that Liberated it.

True, the movie did not end with the citizens taking revenge on the U.S. military. That would detract from the Korean mindframe of "we are the victims! It's not our fault! We didn't deserve this...." If you've lived in Korea, among Koreans, you've heard these same things over and over and over....

It was no coincidence the U.S. military was used in this movie to stir up the resentment and draw on it (in ticket sales).

I would like to point out, however, that the american soldier in the movie who was at the scene of the monster attack was portrayed sympathetically, staying behind to rescue people and try to (unsuccessfully) kill the monster even when most people at the scene (koreans, I might add) were simply fleeing for their lives and when his girlfriend was begging him to just leave. If any of you have seen the Korean film "Welcome to Dongmakgol" (a far more controversial movie in political terms), it seems that americans are portrayed in much the same manner: the soldier is a nice decent guy, his officials and political leaders are either crass or manipulative and either way do not care about the people of the country where they are stationed.
I will agree with Geronimo that this movie plays to anti-American sentiments in S. Korea. And I'm very sorry that you've had to put up with that kind of thing in Korea. However, I will say that there are reasons why many koreans, especially of the younger generation, believe that their grievances against the US military are legitimate. There have been several incidents involving the American military in Korea, the two that I know about being one in which a couple of soldiers were driving drunk and hit and killed two middle-school girls, and one that the actual movie was based on, involving a US army official who ordered toxic waste poured into the Han river. In both cases, the United States military refused to hand over the men to be tried on Korean soil. That, and the fact that the US uses its military and weapons supply as diplomatic leverage over the Korean government only contributes to the sense that Koreans have lost control over their own country. Of course, even among Koreans opinion is divided. Much of the older generation are indeed grateful to America for liberating them and harbor strong anti-communist, anti-North-Korean sentiments, and frequently clash with those who subscribe to anti-Americanism.
I would also like to point out that the movie does not just criticize the American military. The korean media's sensationalism and lack of respect for their subjects, the korean government's indifference towards the wants and needs of their subjects, individuals' attempts to seek out the limelight, heavy-handed and tyrannical quarantine regulations, and the "car-crash" spectator mentality. In short, nothing escapes attack in this movie. At this point, I would be inclined to agree with Thomas, in that the anti-American message was not the main focus of the movie; rather, it was simply included as an extra to "scratch where it itches," to use a Korean phrase.
As for Desperate Korean Male's comments, I would say that Koreans tend to be well aware of and comfortable with the physical differences between Caucasians and themselves, frequently making fun of their own short limbs and hairlessness, as well as the Americans' comparative hairiness and stronger body odors. I would also like to point out that Freud, a Caucasian, was the guy who articulated penis envy as a subject worthy of academic attention.

please sent another story about the host to me i like it so much

For any of you guys that are in new york, the host will have it's US premiere at the new york film festival (sept 29-oct 15) and bong is attending. here's a link to the site: http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff/program/films/thehost.html