KPOP Demon Hunters - My duty as a millenial parent is unfortunately to take my kids to this

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The Ultimate Ramotith said:
If you do not mind some spoilers...
There is no queer coding. The closest would be a demon half-breed getting acceptance angst over her demon-hunting family's philosophy that every demon is bad, unfeeling, and must be killed, bu there is no actual queerness in this film.
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I FORGOT SOMETHING IMPORTANT.

There is a quick scene in which some KPop stans hip one of the female demon hunters with tw of the male demons: Miromabby. However, the film is a little ambiguous on whether the ship is a polycule ship or a ‘Betty and Veronica’ situation.
 
gata said:
Palestine doesn't have any proper cultural media just virtue signaling, and muslim culture ain't kawaiiaeygo
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I wouldn't mind a French craze revival tho

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if i had kids id make em watch good films like jaws or goodfellas not jap/chink shit (hong kong action would be allowed though)
actually im also gunna have em watch bridge on the river kwai and make em play cod waw to teach them about jap war crimes fucking hate them
 
mindlessobserver said:
I do have to disagree here from a technical perspective. The Style of the music will definitely turn alot of people off, especially on this forum. Its also not a style I routinely listen too either. I much prefer metal and synth rock from the 70's and 80's and the new stuff in that style. However as a practical observation the songs are incredibly high level and are probably the peak of Pop music capability. Especially when you consider the vocal range of the Voice Actress for Rumi and the symphony orchestral accompaniment to the songs.

I actually vibe checked my own "Did I just hear that", and yes, the singing voice for Rumi really did hit an open A5, which is absolutely nuts to hear in a pop song. That is usually something reserved for Opera. In autistic music circles there is now a demand for her to do the feat live, because when it comes to singing this is like climbing to the top of Mount Everest without an oxygen tank. She didn't just do an A5 at the climax of the chorus. The Chorus is in the Key of A Major, at the 5th octave. Which is. Just. Not. Done. Ever. Its incredibly difficult. The amount of technique and natural biological skill is a huge barrier to entry. Then there is the demand to actually be able to perform it outside a studio. Its just not done. Because it is very easy to fuck up, and anyone trying to force their voice to do it will actually cause physical damage over time.

I think the lady who wrote and ultimately sang Golden slipped this past credulous show runners who were just writing a slop movie. They had no idea what she was actually asking them to put into their pop musical. There is a story here for sure. Without question, the song "Golden" will become an achievement medal for any vocalist for the next few centuries at least if they can flawlessly land it live without assistance. Assuming of course the singer in the movie is actually able to perform the song live. Especially since for the reprise it drops to D Major in the 3rd octave for the "No more hiding" lines. You can't just have a freakishly high voice for this song. You have to also be able to go deep too. I think there is a revenge story behind this song, since the songwriter and singer of "Golden" was rejected from KPOP for being "too old". There is no way any child can sing this song, nor can someone trained in simple pop music.

For those curious as too why this is such a big deal, here is a compilation of female vocalists, all very highly paid and regarded attempting the A5 live, and virtually all of them but for Mariah Cary suck fucking ass.
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I get what you're saying here, and I can appreciate the autistic technical explanations of "why A5 is such a big deal" but it still doesn't move me. I checked out that "A5 Battle" and decided I don't want to listen to a human voice do that. It's unpleasant. Maybe it's extremely difficult and requires a ton of work and is something reserved for a small segment of the female population with the right sort of anatomy to make it viable but all I'm hearing is a bunch of fuss about the note in a vacuum. Why is that note in that specific place in that specific song? So far it sounds to me like some woman with a chip on her shoulder wanted to sing that note just to show she can, and that's a very boring reason to do it.

Now if A5 were there to serve some purpose besides being loud and high, e.g. to set up a modulation or something like that, then I'd probably care quite a bit more about it. All we've established so far is that this lady can AAAAA in a particularly rare way. Saying this song will be an achievement medal on a timeline like "a few centuries" is way overdoing it. We need to hold our media to a higher standard than "I clapped for the really loud and high-pitched AAAAA."
 
Bob's Fuckass Head said:
I get what you're saying here, and I can appreciate the autistic technical explanations of "why A5 is such a big deal" but it still doesn't move me. I checked out that "A5 Battle" and decided I don't want to listen to a human voice do that. It's unpleasant.
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Which is fair. You still dont have to like it, am just pointing out why so many other people seem too. I think what annoyed me more about the reaction around here is less that people didnt like it. It was that they didnt like it even exists and were mad about being told about it.

Which is not a very healthy mindset too have about anything IMHO. Especially since this one made film and music history.
 
Yamma Damma said:
Sweet teriyaki titties this thread is bad.

Half of the posts are spergs unfunnily memeing about hating kooks or how it's another example of how the west has fallen. The other half are users saying their brief opinion and moving along. There's nothing here! And I wouldn't have minded if the thread OP was just "A thing to watch. Discuss." as usual and not "I didn't watch this thing and have collywobbles about seeing it with my crotch goblins. Discuss????" This is Multimedia, not Mass Debates.

@mindlessobserver take a note from your namesake and ACTUALLY mindlessly observe this thing now so you can bond with your kids for a while. But if you're so adamant on keeping your viewer virginity for this flick, my advice is to load up your jacket with your numbing vice of choice (flasks, editables, etc.) and have it ready when "Sound of Silence" starts playing in your head. I don't care what you wind up doing just make better threads.
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Then sack up and contribute something yourself you faggot.
 
mindlessobserver said:
Incidentally, anyone with the rose tinted glasses off can see Star Wars: A New Hope is also a mid movie at best as well.
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Star Wars also pioneered special effects techniques, the special effects were groundbreaking for the time and that pioneering spirit followed through to the prequels and their use of CGI and digital cameras. Jar Jar really was the key to all of it.
 
An inoffensive movie for children, in my opinion. No tranny or homosexual shit, so the bar is extremely low. It's cute and fine for kids to watch (for the most part, the weird thirsting after the male idols bit was more teenage aimed). Adults on the other hand, I have no clue why thirty-somethings are obsessed with it. It was very childish and zoomer brained.

Even if I wanted to nitpick the inaccurate portrayal of kpop and idol culture, like how the demon hunters eat a fucking lot which... lol. I'm sure everyone knows by now that idols starve themselves. also no mentions of netizens (haters), and the toxic way fans refuse to accept their idols being in relationships, (one of the fans in the movie shipped a female idol with a male idol when irl they would be getting death threats for that shit because kpop fans are loveless freaks), it's just a work of fiction and meant to be fun and flashy colors and catchy tunes.

I think the better nitpick I have is the abrupt ending. I felt like there could have been more done with the demons or the relationship the main character had with her caretaker, but I wasn't invested in the characters enough to care.
 
It's at least showing girl power in a more positive light; instead of "I am a womyn, HEAR ME ROAR" it's just something relatable to modern girls, with a slice of action and drama on the top.

Asia as a whole is not receptive to woke slop; even the countries with full-on trannies walking around still recognize a natural order to things, and that boys and girls have differing interests. KPop Demon Hunters focusing on personal drama shows that the filmmakers know how the female mind works, since it values personal relationships over power-flexing, as opposed to boys liking something like the DBZ movies or Man of Steel due to the power-flexing the characters show in those works.
 
Finally got around to watching it. I'd say it was a good movie. Not amazing as some people make it out to be. I just find it amusing that this straight-to-streaming movie (which is the modern version of straight-to-VHS/DVD) is outperforming Disney's/Pixar's beanmouth slop.
 
Blacks don't match the aesthetics, and even if there was more deliberate marketing towards them they'd still be underrepresented overall. I've seen nearly every complexion but black among fans, and the only group I can recall that has even a token "darkie" is KATSEYE (one Indian). I think it's just not a black thing.
 
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