No shirts or anything at Hot Topic or FYE. FUNKO has gone off the radar and Diamond Select has floundered. Well then what is the deal here in America? Why is it all the sudden so incredibly hard to get anything Godzilla merchandise related from any company? Any of the things that we do get seem to be randomly here and there.nothing consistent.īandai America has disappeared completely. Everything seems to be going great right? Looks like Godzilla merchandise is picking up steam in Japan as the Shin Godzilla toy line seems to be selling out consistently. Outside of that IDW's Godzilla comics seem to be still holding strong and consistent. We also now have an upcoming animated Godzilla movie coming out next year.a first for the franchise. We have the new Japanese film "Shin Godzilla" breaking all kinds of records in Japan and is currently sitting at $60 million. But it's totally engaging in its steady slowness, so if you like films partly for being well shot, give this a try.Alright so we just had a successful American reboot of Godzilla that made over half a billion WW and is not only getting us 2 more sequels but the start of an American Godzilla Cinematic Universe also. It's a film that could have been something much more than it ended up being, in terms of content at least. Here, though, you'll definitely find a coolness and a lack of true emotional involvement that runs counter to the high production values. And it is based, loosely, on one of the truly great Korean classic movies, a 1960 movie with the same name. (This is Do-Yeon Jeon, a Korean actress with little exposure in Western cinema.) You do get the sense that this is a "knowing" film throughout-it has the intentions of being a serious new Korean film. The leading character-the housemaid-is absolutely sympathetic and well done. And this movie really has at its core the problem of being understood rather than felt. A mother-in-law takes on an evil role, but with such cool and prettified distance it's hard to quite feel. ![]() The beautiful young maid is disruptive, even without trying, eventually drawing the father into the inevitable, and the mother, too, in her own way. It's an old story-and better developed, narratively, in several other movies. It doesn't help to analyze the plot in particular. I suppose the very last scene, which (in its ultra-wide angle shooting) is unlike anything else in the movie, takes us to intentional absurdity, making what we've seen surreal, and in that sense we might revisit the movie and its intentions differently. I know this second-to-last scene is not meant to be preposterous, but like the key turning point on the ladder halfway through, there is a detachment from the family members that defies and upsets the apparent human intensity implied elsewhere. By the truly astonishing and almost preposterous end you'll be giddy with the slow, careful, deliberate prettiness of it all. You have to decide whether that's a good thing or not. ![]() But it is dressed in such elegant, beautiful, truly beautiful visuals, the story takes on an elevation that makes it what it is, something beyond. This is a dramatic, personal story about rich people abusing a good-hearted young woman who becomes their maid. It has become so customary to film-shoot cinematographically-at the highest technical and aesthetic level, you sometimes wonder about how a story would subsist without all the visual excess. ![]() And the new, young, naturally beautiful "housemaid" which is what makes this movie what it is. The Housemaid (2010) In all, this is an enchanting, disturbing, slightly above-the-fray look at a highly elite family and the interactions of mother, father, young daughter, and slightly sinister servant.
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