Movie rec: The Host
I nearly didn’t go into Film Studies today, due to a) tiredness and b) not bothering to read the timetable properly…but eventually I decided to go. After the lecture they showed a subtitled Korean monster movie, and to my surprise (since I don’t do horror very much) I loved it. The first half is something along the lines of Little Miss Sunshine meets Godzilla and is brilliant; the second half is a bit more patchy (but is sure as hell geniunely scary.)
As bizzare as it sounds for a monster movie, I think I liked it for its sense of realism. The leads look and behave like normal people (and are likeable, too, I geniunely didn’t want any of them to die); the first monster attack is very sudden, in broad daylight, and freaked me out like woah; and the survivors of said attack spend at least ten minutes of the film, and probably a good few days in movie-time, being simply shifted around from place to place by ‘authorities’, before finally making a break for it. Just like it would probably be in real life- no-one would have a sodding clue what to do.
Did I mention it’s very funny in places, too?
So yes. Go track it down! It’s on DVD over here…has it just come out in the US?
April 25, 2007 @ 7:03 pm
It’s in theatres here, or was a few weeks ago – I guess I saw it about a month ago, maybe. I thought it was pretty good but not exceptional, though maybe there was too much hype. I liked the humour especially.
April 26, 2007 @ 4:59 pm
Heya, sorry to post on your journal, but I wanted to ask… Do you think you could help me post my layout competition entry on Time&Chips? As I think I mentioned in a comment on your lovely entry, I’m not very technically minded and, although I’ve completed a header, icon and colour scheme for my layout, I’m having trouble posting it. I’m a bit of a newbie when it comes to posting but I’d love to enter, purely because I had such a lot of fun creating the header! I’ve tried to post my entry but I can’t seem to get the header to appear the correct size and when I copy and paste the colour scheme it appears as a huge jumble of code in the final post. Since your header was so beautiful and your post so clear (I’m not much competition, honest!) I thought I’d ask you if you could possibly advise me as to what I’m doing wrong. This may be a bit much to ask, but I’d hugely appreciate your help. My email is: faery_fluff2@hotmail.com. Thanks loads. – Zoe
April 26, 2007 @ 11:09 pm
Sure thing! :D For the header not appearing as the right size- if you uploaded it to Photobucket then it’s probably them. They have a nasty habit of shrinking images down. :p If it’s not that, then try inserting your image like so: :) For the colour scheme, I actually just went to the colour scheme page and pressed print-screen. ;) Then I just cropped off the rest of the window in Paintshop, and uploaded it. Hope that helps! Feel free to ask anything else. :D And thank you for the compliment on my header. :D