Riverbank Legends: It's Stylish Teen Violence, Korean Style

Wow. I didn't think you would have liked VH that much..
Volcano High was perhaps the absolute worst overstylized pieces of pompous twaddle I have ever seen. Perfect example of style over content gone absolutely mad. ala Storm Riders, another CGi indulgence.
Maybe computer game kids liked it, but it was soooo over stylized as to be extremely dull & rather tiring to watch.

This film looks a bit better than that. And there seems to be a wry sense of humour mixed in. And hopefully a more coherently involving plot.

Which version of VH did you see, Jason? The international cut is absolutely an unwatchable mess with what story there is to it completely gutted. The longer Korean cut is much, much better.

Volcano High just has this goofy sense of energy to it that I love ... I break it out on a fairly regular basis.

This looks awesome. Korea puts out the best "action movie" trailers in the world. It does remind me of VOLCANO HIGH, and also how nice VOLCANO HIGH would have looked in scope.

VOLCANO HIGH was a great comic book movie, one of the best of the recent glut of them. Only version that matters is the original Korean cut. Avoid all other versions, particularly the US version. Just one of those movies where everything just seemed to click right into place. But the US version - poison, as bad as the US version of STORM RIDERS, which is the worst butchery of an Asian film for US release that I have ever seen.

Probably saw the US version with bad R&B music (torrent style, don't worry, I ALWAYS buy all those beautiful S.K. DVD packages), because I didn't know what the heck was going on.

Will SPL be butchered as Killzone. Why do they do this? Do the US distributors think their own people are stupid?

Anyway, I look forward to this one.

Seeing The Host tommorrow. Yippeee!!!

THE HOST? You lucky bastard.

KILLZONE is supposedly "untouched", their words - but it seems it would have to be a little touched because of the name change, unless the print still has the SPL title on it. What the subtitles will end up looking like is anyone's guess.

Korean DVD is the only way to go for VOLCANO HIGH. That original cut is on the B-Side of the US DVD, but apparently with closed-captions only, no real subtitles, and the Korean audio downmixed from 6.1 to stereo.

Re: The US Distributors - KILLZONE. That title tells you everything you need to know about what the US distributors tend to think about their audience - that we're not just stupid, we're pretty much retarded.

Looks like fun but it actually reminded me more of the "City Of Violence" Trailer and not so much of Volcano High.