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[Boss Mog]

These days I keep my Netflix sub mainly for foreign content, mostly Korean, and so Netflix alerted me to this movie and it looks pretty cool. Thought I'd share with GAF.

 

[INC]

These days I keep my Netflix sub mainly for foreign content, mostly Korean, and so Netflix alerted me to this movie and it looks pretty cool. Thought I'd share with GAF.

Awesome

I'm the same, most of netflix is foreign TV and cinema

 

[Virt McPolygon]

Thought this was gonna be a Korean spin on Planetes like what they did to Swing Kids and Jin Roh, but nah. This looks pretty different.

 

[Kenpachii]

Looks really good, will watch.

 

[Stilton Disco]

Looks good, will check out

 

[GymWolf]

Looks very nice.

 

[Robot Carnival]

looks nice! reminds me a little of the manga/anime Planetes.

 

[ManofOne]

Man , literally just thought about a man with a broom before I clicked that video

 

[GeorgPrime]

Not enough black people inside there lol

 

[Boss Mog]

New US trailer:

Not enough black people inside there lol

Yeah the one thing I love about kdramas is that you won't see any identity politics being shoved down your throat or so I thought. I remember last year there was a drama called Itaewon Class that had a lot of buzz and I liked 2 of the actors so I watched it and the first episode was really good and seem to set up this awesome revenge story but as the episodes went on it got less and less interesting and then they had black and trans characters that got discriminated against and championed, and granted Korea probably could use a little of those kinds of lectures, but as somebody that gets it beaten into my skull almost 24/7 in Western media I wasn't a fan, but I mean the drama could've still been good even with it but ultimately it devolved into something not that interesting and the main guy ends up with the wrong girl to boot, so i felt like I wasted my time a bit. Hopefully this won't become a trend but it probably will as Kpop and Kdramas are becoming increasingly popular in the West and Netflix is funding a lot of Kdramas these days so...

 

[Puncheur]

The lack of forced diversity in Korean shows is a breath of fresh air.

 

[EviLore]

Not the Planetes I remember.

 

[West Texas CEO]

Not enough black people inside there lol

 

[Deleted member 17706]

This looks surprisingly good. Going to check it out for sure.

The lack of forced diversity in Korean shows is a breath of fresh air.

What are you talking about? It looks 100% diverse going by the trailer.

 

[dispensergoinup]

Has a little Cowboy Bebop feel, will watch this one.

 

[Redneckerz]

I am a sucker for Asian sci-fi flicks, so on the to-watch list this one goes. In recent years these ones (outside of the 3D CGI movies like Space Pirate) have become really impressive and quality wise its not that far succinct from Western based movies.

 

[Liljagare]

Holy crap this movie was a excellent ride.

I rate it up there with any scifi, excellent story, good action, good actors, good and satisfying end. I really liked the clever use of languages.

Whoop whoop! Haven't felt this good about a scifi since Ready player one.

Warning, spoilers in this, but one fine scene.



Star Wars of recent years, eat my shorts.

 

[AmuroChan]

Space Sweepers as a title sounds cheesy AF. Why not just keep the title as Victory which is what the Korean title translates to?

 

[jason10mm]

It was pretty good. There is a fair bit of diversity in the side characters but it is organic to the story IMHO. It has great effects and set design. The power armor is amazing.

There are a LOT of random or dropped plot threads though, or shit that just makes no sense. It feels like there should have been another hour or more of show.

Still, its a lot of fun in a Luc Besson sort of way.

 

[dr_octagon]

good film, recommended

 

[sol_bad]

Terrible film. So many pointless scenes, the main character was an asshole and the final set piece was boring and made no sense.

 

[AJUMP23]

This film is dumb, but watchable.

 

[Fbh]

It was ok. Pretty average but entertaining enough to watch once.

The tone and writing was weird. Best way I can describe it is that it felt like a movie that was written as a cartoon/animated movie but then shot with real actors.

 

[Atrus]

I tried to watch it Thursday night and accidentally slept off when they flashbacked into one of the characters origin stories.

I got back into it tonight to finish it off.

Its an okay-ish story that reminds me of Cowboy Bebop or Serenity but isn’t as good or concise. It’s got the plot of a 60-90 min film with filler that stretches it over 2hrs.

The characters are all simplistic archetypes that don’t develop beyond that and you might have already seen variations of the plot multiple times.

I didn’t hate it but it’s nothing special.

 

[NahaNago]

Like others have said the movie was okay. Like I could see where they were going with the characters but they just failed. The actors just failed to be convincing in who they were suppose to be playing as. Now someone mentioned that this was like a cartoon movie but shot with real actors and that honestly pretty much was it. I couldn't tell if the movie was trying to be goofy or serious and the colors ,environment, and sets of the movie really makes it seems like they were going for goofy but the acting was mostly serious. A movie that pretty much didn't know what it wanted to be. I did enjoy the movie and would watch a sequel since I'm a fan of the main character because of running man. I'd give it the movie a B- rating that borders more toward C+ if not for the enjoyable cg.




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[Xisiqomelir]

I can actually see both the audience's and the critic's viewpoints as worthwhile here for the first time in years. 7/10 myself because I was really not happy with the ending.

Spoiler: DO NOT READ BEFORE WATCHING

If you're going to "pay a noble price" you have to actually pay it! Would have been much better and more powerful to have the crew die and stay dead after the bomb/Kot-nim bait and switch. Also the whiteroom seance was just too absurd.

I'm really hoping it was Netflix/Hollywood BS that forced the happy ending and Jo Sunghee and the other writer didn't actually vomit that out on their own.