Movies! Movies! Movies! (Non-Japanese)

Folks,
Just caught the last 10 seconds of the TV commercial for the upcoming Keanu Reeves & Sandra Bullock movie The Lake House.

Is it just my impression, or is it a remake of the Korean film Il Mare?

If it is a remake, am I the only one that thinks Keanu and Sandra are both too old for these roles (both are ~42 years)?




Cheers, :drink:
PCM

pcmodem wrote:Folks,
Just caught the last 10 seconds of the TV commercial for the upcoming Keanu Reeves & Sandra Bullock movie The Lake House.

Is it just my impression, or is it a remake of the Korean film Il Mare?

If it is a remake, am I the only one that thinks Keanu and Sandra are both too old for these roles (both are ~42 years)?

Cheers, :drink:
PCM

Yes, it is. Whether they are too old for those roles is subject to personal preference. I'd say Sandra is pushing a bit playing the role of Kim Eun-Ju, but Keanu Reeves is not too bad.

K.T.Tran wrote:

Don't get your hopes up. You'll most likely see them Import Tuner models :sweat:

their not too bad... :mrgreen: :naughty:

krim wrote:and the Hollywood invasion of Japan continues...

The Ramen Girl

A young American woman finds her calling in Japan in the comedy The Ramen Girl. Brittany Murphy is stranded in Tokyo after breaking up with her boyfriend. With a lack of direction in her life, she decides to trains as a ramen noodle chef, only to find her Japanese master is a tyrant. Toshiyuki Nishida plays the chef. Robert Allan Ackerman directs with a script from Becca Topol.

sounds almost like a Tampopo remake... :sweat: :sweat:

soundsl like a biter ass flick...is it currently playing...interested nonetheless

It'll be a while, should start filming early next year.

krim wrote:It'll be a while, should start filming early next year.

what it don't take a mutha that long to cook up a bowl of ramen. :hehe:

i think they're growing the wheat, corn and stuff for the ramen. the pig for the chashu pork was barely born so it'll be a while.

krim wrote:i think they're growing the wheat, corn and stuff for the ramen. the pig for the chashu pork was barely born so it'll be a while.

f*ck those fools..i demand non-GMO grown crops....bud included.

uh oh.. that'll delay production...

krim wrote:uh oh.. that'll delay production...

hehe...it's worth waiting if the product is hydro-chronic. :twisted:

Tu_triky wrote:

what it don't take a mutha that long to cook up a bowl of ramen. :hehe:

ramen girl eh? sounds lame...

but it's in Japan eh? and got some j-girls in it?
maybe worth watching then...
who cares about B. Murphy... :bleh: :hehe:

qilver wrote:

ramen girl eh? sounds lame...

but it's in Japan eh? and got some j-girls in it?
maybe worth watching then...
who cares about B. Murphy... :bleh: :hehe:

I remember when she was in Clueless. She looked waaaayyy different then than how she is now.

MissMonika wrote:

I remember when she was in Clueless. She looked waaaayyy different then than how she is now.

she was in Clueless?.....

i guess since Alicia was the main, she was in the spotlight the most..

qilver wrote:


she was in Clueless?.....

i guess since Alicia was the main, she was in the spotlight the most..

Yea, she was the girl they were trying to make over. She was still chunky back then.

MissMonika wrote:

Yea, she was the girl they were trying to make over. She was still chunky back then.

she was also in that movie with ashton, the honeymoon one.....not sure how well that comedy did...

The current consensus seems to be "not very" - like 90% was filmed in the US with mostly non-Japanese native actors playing Nihonjin. This was OK with a period piece like Memoirs of a Geisha (Chinese playing Japanese), but its really obvious when you watch TRENDS of how people REALLY look in current J-Dramas and fashions in Japan now.

Summary:

OK, I'll admit I haven't seen the movie yet. But from the clips I've seen so far, it just looks...well...BAD.

Before you blast me for taking this seriously, imagine how you might react to a film where "America" is the backdrop, but its all done in Croatia with non-American "White" actors (Sci-Fi Channel Originals, anyone?) speaking in forced American accents. It's like "yeah...right".

Why should I care? Well, after living nearly 10 years in Japan, and having lived in Hawaii before that, I think I know what a Japanese person looks like, and what the atmosphere of Japan is. I've been away for 5 years, and fashions change, but I still watch Japanese dramas, and people just...don't look like they do in F&F3.

In fact, I may be ultra-sensitive, because when I used to work for Duty Free in Hawaii during my Senior Year of HS, I had to be able to tell the difference between Korean, Japanese and Chinese tourists from a distance of about 50 yards so I could get the proper guides ready for them and pass them out at the entryway with the appropriate greeting. May sound tough for someone who thinks "all Asians look alike", but you can see the subtle and not so subtle differences if you're looking for them, and eventually it becomes very obvious. And it was ALWAYS easy to tell the Japanese tourists in Hawaii from the "Local" Japanese Hawaiians.

Some of the scenes look like genuine streets of Tokyo, not sure how much of that is CG.

My main problem is that this looks like a BAD stereotype of Japan.

1. The music in the background of the preview clips sounds like some horrid attempt at imitating Japanese music with unintelligible (could be real, I can't make it out at low levels) Japanese girls "rapping". Why not use something real from, say, Utada Hikaru?

2. Most of the people in the movie clips I've seen so far look like Asian American actors. And not even Japanese American at that. More like Chinese and Korean. Maybe a token Japanese in there somewhere.

I could be wrong, and the "Garage Scene" photo below, could actually be in California, because some of the movie is supposed to take place in the States.

Pearl Harbor (the movie) was bad enough...now this?

It just hurts to watch the previews on TV, its just so...wrong. Hope I'm wrong! Japan has an extensive movie and TV studio setup, it would be a shame if they pulled an Austin Powers and did "Tokyo" all in Hollywood.

Maybe they didn't like the non-Californian accents that real Japanese actors have. Maybe they were pressured by the Asian American Actors Guild or something. I dunno...it just feels wrong from the previews.

Actors from FF3 (look like my classmates from Hawaii) vs. Japanese actors,

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"Real" thing:

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From the cast (looks like some Japanese mixed in):

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i saw it. it was lame. somehow all of these random japanese people speak perfect english and talk to each other in english. would they send someone who doesnt speak japanese to a japanese school? i didnt get that. dont they have some english schools for like army kids and stuff? Tsumabuki Satoshi was there as a token japanese actor, and he was lovely. but he was only there for like 30 seconds. haha, he's listed in the end credits as Exceedingly Handsome Guy. but there was just so much wrong with it. ive never been to japan, but i could tell that everything was horribly incorrect. also, you would assume that someone from japan would be able to pronounce words in japanese correctly.

but if you look past the apparent wrongness, bad acting, lame plot, and boring cars, its kinda hilarious. i know my friends and i laughed throughout the entire movie cuz it was just so very bad (the people around us were not happy. apparently we werent suppose to laugh at the dramatic parts. but the acting was just so BAD that we couldnt help it.)

so if you go see if, youd have to see it with an its-so-lame-its-funny kind of mindset.

jolly_hat wrote:i saw it. it was lame. somehow all of these random japanese people speak perfect english and talk to each other in english. would they send someone who doesnt speak japanese to a japanese school? i didnt get that. dont they have some english schools for like army kids and stuff? Tsumabuki Satoshi was there as a token japanese actor, and he was lovely. but he was only there for like 30 seconds. haha, he's listed in the end credits as Exceedingly Handsome Guy. but there was just so much wrong with it. ive never been to japan, but i could tell that everything was horribly incorrect. also, you would assume that someone from japan would be able to pronounce words in japanese correctly.

but if you look past the apparent wrongness, bad acting, lame plot, and boring cars, its kinda hilarious. i know my friends and i laughed throughout the entire movie cuz it was just so very bad (the people around us were not happy. apparently we werent suppose to laugh at the dramatic parts. but the acting was just so BAD that we couldnt help it.)

so if you go see if, youd have to see it with an its-so-lame-its-funny kind of mindset.

i agree with much of what you said...of course, it's gonna be lame it was made in HOLLYWOOD....no way an American movie is going to show japanese life accurately...look what the hell happpened with Memoirs of a Geisha....

Tu_triky wrote:

i agree with much of what you said...of course, it's gonna be lame it was made in HOLLYWOOD....no way an American movie is going to show japanese life accurately...look what the hell happpened with Memoirs of a Geisha....

I didn't see Memoirs of a Geisha. Had not interest to see it once i saw the commerical :bleh:

lol. made in Hollywood :mrgreen: Budget would be too high to film this whole movie in Japan :sweat:

K.T.Tran wrote:

I didn't see Memoirs of a Geisha. Had not interest to see it once i saw the commerical :bleh:

lol. made in Hollywood :mrgreen: Budget would be too high to film this whole movie in Japan :sweat:

if you watch it...watch it for the cars, and the racing...don't have any expectations of realism or accuracy with regard to japanese life.