'Mother' Nominated for 6 Asian Film Awards

[teukiie.livejournal.com]

The film "Mother" by Director Bong Joon-ho has been nominated for awards in six categories at the fourth Asian Film Awards.

A representative from the Pusan International Film Festival said Friday that the film was nominated for best picture, best director, best actress, best supporting actor and two other awards.

With six each, "Mother" and the Hong Kong blockbuster "Bodyguards and Assassins” have received the most nominations.

"Thirst" by Park Chan-wook was nominated in four categories, while Kim Sae-ron from "A Brand New Life" has been nominated for best newcomer.

The awards ceremony, organized by the Hong Kong International Film Festival Society, will take place on March 22nd in Hong Kong.

Source: KBS World
I haven't watched Mother & Thirst yet. Are they good? :S

Comments

[dareka.livejournal.com]

mother was sosososo good. i loved it.

[heerika.livejournal.com]

cool!

[linzer-jello.livejournal.com]

In my opinion, Thirst was really. Hmm.. How do I explain it? It was good, but I wasn't feeling all of the sex scenes. It was really an A movie with unnecessary sexual stuff. That's what I thought anyway.

[dominique-franc.livejournal.com]

well deserved. it was so good.

[dominique-franc.livejournal.com]

I should clarify. Mother was so good. I haven't seen Thirst yet.

[speakoslow.livejournal.com]

Mother was really good. The storyline was good and twisted I tell you. It's pretty slow but it's still really good.

Thirst on the other hand, I did not like. I say if you LOVE movies then watch it, if not, make sure you like this genre of films; such as Quentin Tarantino type. The genre reminds me a lot of films such as "Oldboy" and "Let the Right One In"...both which I did not like, but if you liked Oldboy and most of the directors' films than you'd probably love Thirst.

[dominique-franc.livejournal.com]

I just realized what your icon was XD oh Raj

[crystalheng.livejournal.com]

I really want to watch this film but it's rated R21 in Singapore and I'm only turning 18 this year.
I've been waiting for months for it to show in Singapore! I don't watch movies on the computer or TV unless I really have no other options.
I want to watch it so badly that it bothered me for almost the whole day when I found out (T_T)

[crystalheng.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm talking about Mother by the way.

[splendidlure.livejournal.com]

deng. singapore. you have to wait until you're 21 to watch rated r movies?

[crystalheng.livejournal.com]

Yeah :/

We have G, PG, NC16, M18 and R21. I have no idea how they rate the movies. Somebody told me that the most Mother have restricted to in other countries was 18 years old. D:< I was sooooooooooooooooo upset. I really, REALLY want to watch this movie. It's still showing but it's hard for me or any friends of mine to pass of as 21.

[splendidlure.livejournal.com]

Do you know anyone who's 21 and over?

I remember going to rated r movies with my cousin growing up.

[crystalheng.livejournal.com]

Are you telling me to ride an airplane just to watch a movie? Lol xD

[stelf.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow, I didn't know it's rated R21.

[scrambledtoast.livejournal.com]

I wanna watch this so baaaadly. :(

[rikayla.livejournal.com]

Mother was pretty good. I think it was a little too polished, now that I think back on it, but it was good. Slow-moving at some parts though. If anything, don't watch it for Won Bin, but for the mother-actress. She did an amazing job.

[youngbinkoo.livejournal.com]

I don't think 'Mother' screens where I live. Is the DVD out yet?

[misnomeko.livejournal.com]

probably in the minority, but I can't even finish Mother...

[auxelle.livejournal.com]

Mother > Thirst.

[pat-ology.livejournal.com]

for me mother was too boring..
I finished watching after 30 minutes..

thirst?
sex, sex and sex..
but it's a quite good movie

[-ochre.livejournal.com]

Mother was so good. Echoing all the other comments here.

[shadowfax.livejournal.com]

Only the fact that there's Kim Hye-ja or Song Kang-ho is a reason enough to make a movie worth watching. So I'd def recommend both of the films. I liked them. C:

[zumbie-kitten.livejournal.com]

MOHTER, was okay... honestly one of the main reason I watched it cuz of Won-bin, plus people recommended it. If I knew more about that movie, I would not have watched it. Thirst? I'm not planning to watch it.

[cinis.livejournal.com]

I haven't watched mother yet but I loved Thirst.

[absentspectator.livejournal.com]

Thirst was nucking futs but I really liked it. I mean for once when someone became a vampire they didn't go into broody emo mode. It was definitely a park chan wook film because some parts were really crazy.

I still need to see mother but that's next on my list of things to watch.

[taken-all.livejournal.com]

I wanted to say that I thought Thirst was a great movie. And to kind of counter comment the one that said all the sex wasn't necessary... I mean he's a priest and a virgin at first, it's the beginning of his downfall, a degredation of his faith and I think it shows the pervase ability his vampirism has to subvert all of his previous beliefs... in other words I thought the movie was awesome and you should totally watch it, lol.

[gdlovesbee.livejournal.com]

congrats, Mother. WON BIN ♥

[mdd-mercedes.livejournal.com]

Mother was really good!

[she-devil666.livejournal.com]

I could get through mother but thrist I could not finish :/ overall, both were just ok to watch if you got nothing else to do for me.

[honeebs.livejournal.com]

I really enjoyed this and i had a bad english translation. I still knew what was being said

Thirst was so long and it felt liked it wasn't going anyway. *shurgs.
Still congrats to all
going to write all of these down i should be able to get copies now.

[funkatronik.livejournal.com]

WONBIN <3

can't go wrong with him ;)

[helloshamone.livejournal.com]

i wanna see mother where can i find it?? :O and thirst was kinda good :/