Woman is the Future of Man

This Korean film centers around two friends who each had his own relationship with the same woman years before.  They meet up after not having seen each other in awhile, and awkwardly decide to look her up.  Then they awkwardly fumble through the rest of the movie.

It's good.  All the characters seem kind of clueless, except the woman mentioned above, who seems to have become kind of numb after all the crap she's been through.

But if you like relationship dramas or guys hanging out remembering old times although they kind of don't like each other anymore, this is definitely one to consider.

Availability: DVD and Streaming
Released: 2004
Added to my queue: 2/11/2008
Reason added to my queue: I was obviously on an Asian rampage.

Holiday

This movie is essentially a shot-for-shot remake of the movie Dirty Dancing.  In Hindi.  With Indian music.

Stop and think.  Even if you are the biggest fan in the world of Dirty Dancing, or of Bollywood, would you want to see an Indian remake?  Having done so, I will venture to say "No."  Sadly, the best character in Dirty Dancing is the music.  I can't speak for Indian people - maybe they used the perfect music and I just miss the American songs - but the storyline and characters, while compelling, just can't carry the movie, in my opinion.

I love me some Bollywood though, and am looking forward to Crimes, which should be coming to me soon and starring the same leading man, Dino Morea.  Quite the dancer, that one.

Availability: DVD only
Released: 2006
Added to my queue: 9/5/2007
Reason added to my queue: unknown

71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance

This movie shows a mass shooting at a bank, and then shows the victims' lives in the leadup to the shooting, along with real news footage from around the world at the time (1991).

I found the premise and the characters interesting.  It's in German, which might be why I felt sort of disconnected to it.  But it was decent.

Availability: DVD only
Released: 1994
Added to my queue: 5/13/2008
Reason added to my queue: Not sure.  I also added Funny Games that day, so maybe I was on a German kick?  Who knows.

The Power of Kangwon Province

I apologize in advance for this review, I'm pretty sure it's going to suck.

This is the blurb about this movie on Netflix:

"After a painful breakup with her married professor, Jisook joins two of her girlfriends for a holiday. But in an eerie twist of fate, her former lover plans a getaway for the same destination, where tragedy brings them together once again."

I watched the movie.  I gave it the vast majority of my attention.  Now, it was in Korean, so that is one area where I may have missed something.  I did see Jisook go on holiday.  I even saw her go back to visit a dude she met on holiday.  Then, I saw her former lover go to the same place she had gone.  But I missed any eerie  twists of fate and if I saw a tragedy, it didn't move me much.

So I mean.  Skip it.  Or watch it and let me know what I missed.