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I don’t have the energy to review it right now but here’s one I quickly found that sums up some of my feelings.

https://letterboxd.com/swampwench/film/monster-2023/

This must have been cool for kids in wheelchairs to see.

I happened to have watched Gokusen (2002) just before this and didn't even recognise Namase Katsuhisa as an old man without a mullet lol

Thank you! I agree. If you need a Shin Hae Sun thriller palate cleanser I thought Innocence (2020) was decent.

Why do K and Manami refuse to kill each other? They’ve never even had a chance to bond.

This sucked. Started off kind of interesting but quickly went nowhere. The main character just runs around screaming all the time and it’s annoying af. Dropped halfway through episode 7 and it was already a slog by that point. I’m glad I caught the Oldboy hallway homage before I turned it off though. What was with the fugly-ass hippie Dracula? I’d love it if someone counted how many people were in the hotel at the start and compared it to the death count and how many people there are in later scenes. It seems like hundreds of people are killed but there’s always a huge crowd of people remaining lol.

I have a headache from crying so much. I didn’t know who to feel worse for or who I wanted to slap the most.
8.5/10

This was not it. 6/10

Absolute ass.
2/10

I think I would end it all if I had a sex doll and it left me for someone else lmao

A beautiful, haunting portrayal of loneliness. Bae Doona was brilliant.
8.5/10

She's meant to be an intelligent, professional, ruthless lawyer that doesn't let emotional, yet she totally freaks out when she wakes up in the temporary life that she just agreed to live. Then she continues to go against all of the agreements she made beforehand. Surely a lawyer would be better at keeping agreements?
The heaven transit guy being her dad was so lame. They had no emotional connection or positive interactions throughout the whole movie, what was the point of that??
What was the moral of the story? That all women yearn to be housewives and can't truly be happy if they're single and childfree? I'm not surprised it was written by a man.
Since that's what they went for though, I wish one of them had have said something at the end like they recognised the other from somewhere before it cut to black (they did go to college together).

This was fun, funny, and there were some emotional parts. I didn't totally buy the main character's actions though and I thought the ending could have been better. The main cast were all great.
7/10

Dropped at 00:40. Visually stunning but lacklustre everything else. Couldn't suspend my disbelief any longer. Don't watch this if you have any knowledge of space or science or military.

It's been so long since I've seen Tucker & Dale vs Evil that I could barely remember anything. This was really funny on its own and all of the main cast were great. Kang Gi Doong was good too.
I hope Nam Dong Hyeop makes more films.
8.5/10

How do the scores support your point? I included them because they directly refute it.
You say scores here are lower than other platforms but the MDL score is higher than IMDb and TMDB.
You mention auteur films and Letterboxd several times but there's only a 3% difference between the Letterboxd and MDL scores.
I'm not here to argue over ratings either but logically what you said about scores specifically doesn't make sense.

I wasn't necessarily saying your comment was elitist but a lot of the other ones here in a similar vein are.
I agree with your other points and having watched only Japanese and Korean films/series I do think there's a bias towards Korean media here. I usually adjust Japanese ratings by +0.5-1 in my head to compare to Korean scores. I'm not sure how other countries compare.

There's a scene where where Aya says she can't imagine loving a girl and Michi says she can't imagine loving a guy.

The other girl was straight though lol

Who was the medium and how did their powers work? What were they doing there when they found the girl?
Who was the woman that ran the photo studio? If she wasn't actually an alumnus why did she lie about it?
If the teacher and her brother didn't kill the girl, why was she killing everyone to hide the body?
Why did the headmistress decide to kill a twin?

Edit: Okay apparently the medium is a cameo from a manga called Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service, which is by the same author as the novel this was based on.

I've never played the Fatal Frame games so I'm just reviewing this is as a film.
It was well-shot and Morikawa Aoi was pretty good, but the story sucked. I'm not sure if the source novel was bad or if it's just a bad adaptation. The explanation for the curse barely made sense and there were a lot of unanswered questions by the end. I didn't find it scary at all either.
5.5/10