This is all the worse with how they're all like: for the fans! When irl Kpop is probably the one entertainment industry that cares the least about its fans lol.
Does it get better later in the movie or is it going to remain more or less the same throughout?
If that's what bothers you then I wouldn't watch the rest actually lmao. "Saving the fans" is the main motivator and climax of the movie aside from a romance sideplot.
Granted I don't blame them for this, it's still a musical kids movie. I don't expect them to be honest about how fucked up the actual IRL Kpop industry is any more than I expect Aladdin to accurately depict 10th century Baghdad where Princess Jasmine would've actually been married off at 9 instead of 19 and Jafar would've raped her when she refused him.
I was in the same situation but most of the official merch is cloths for adults. dafuq were they thinking with this? Selling merch is the most profitable aspect of making kids movies and Netflix managed to botch that.
I was in the same situation but most of the official merch is cloths for adults. dafuq were they thinking with this? Selling merch is the most profitable aspect of making kids movies and Netflix managed to botch that.
They didn't expect it too do anything. Much like how the major studios gave George Lucas the merchandising rights for his shitty Space Western.
Ironically, the fact that there was no top down control from corporate meant the creatives could actually do something, from the animators too the singers. Yeah, its generic pop slop, but its GENUINE generic pop slop. Which is unique in this gay era where everything is gay, safe, pop slop by committee.
I watched this today. I heard it was pretty good, so I torrented a rip with 5.1, HDR, 1080p.
I will say it was entertaining. I'm not a huge musical person. I only like a handful (Avenue Q, Moulin Rouge, Book of Mormon, ...) I think the music is this was fun and catchy. It fits well. The singers were really good.
I had heard a lot of good things about it. I was entertained and it held me to the end, but I also feel really let down. I know it's a kids movie and there's only so much time on screen, but I feel like there was so much lost potential. There was so much built up that just never went anywhere.
There was so much potential here. Rumi has some dark past involving being the half daughter of a demon. I thought for sure the reveals would lead towards some hidden past of her mother falling in love with a demon and that being a part of the reason the world was as it is.
I thought for sure her and the boy would end up revealing something that would free both their worlds. Rumi even tries talking to the demons during the fights, asking if they're trapped.
The trouble is the movie ends and nothing makes any sense. There aren't even any hints or allusions that would make the audience ask for a sequel. Her boy makes his sacrifice and is just .. forgotten. Maybe that works as an allegory of how men are just expendable? Maybe it says something about the writers and the current state of Korean culture? Maybe there was more to it and it just got cut for runtime? Maybe there was nothing mpre and none of the writers cared? Ultimately, it just feels lost.
Early on, I thought for sure we'd see some hidden truth about the demon world's true place. But at the end I realized none of the other 4 boy band members have any story. They don't even have personalities like the two other girls. Really, Rumi is the only real character. Everyone else is just a bolt-on for her story. Once again, I know there isn't a lot of time in a movie format, but I feel like they could have rearranged this to make the boys have a role; to have some actual parts about redemption, good and evil. Maybe it should have been a 3 episode series? It can be done. We saw it in Avatar the Last Airbender and The Legend of Kora.
Sidenote, final fight scene really sucked. They should have cut some from the middle fight scenes and made the ending one better.
Maybe Rumi's backstory is left for some sequel, but I have no idea where it could possibly go. The movie follows basic moral absolution: there is good and there is bad and the sides are clear. All of the moral questions Rumi asks basically go nowhere. Her sidekicks accept her, but don't ask any questions about why or if they should be fighting the demons. There is no ying/yang like you'd see in a Japanese movie. There is no balance to restore. They see her as a half demon, but then it goes back to the original goal of forming the seal. Nothing has changed. In some ways ... no one has really even learned anything.
It's a fun movie but ... it's ultimately hollow. I feel like the emotions it got and heartstrings it pulled were totally unearned, like The Arcane''s second season. Even the main character name just makes me think of RWBY .. and sadly .. that piece of shit has better story!
Is there more I'm not seeing? Am I expecting too much from this?
@mindlessobserver be like: >KIWIS! LE HEKIN' GOYSLOP KOREAN SHIT WHEN PLATIUM! PLEASE BE UPSET AND POST IN MUH SHITTY THREAD ABOUT MUH HEKIN' WHOLESOME 100 K-POP SHOW! View attachment 8019085
It absolutely is. I am not a fan of KPOP culture at all. The methods they use to cultivate talent are increadibly abusive and predatory. Leagues beyond what Disney does with their talent manufacturing line of child stars to pop idols.
In many respects, I blame the autistic insistence that the talent cannot have romantic involvement for this. This is not the case in the USA and even with the manufactured talent that is similar to how KPOP works they dont discourage romantic involvement among their talent. They do however monetize it, which is another issue, but the important thing however is western talents arent expected to be married to their fans like they are in Asia.
For young girls, not developing a romantic bond with someone their age can be especially dangerous. People really underestimate how important it is for a teenage girl to have a teenaged boyfriend. For one thing his mere presence is an immediate threat that can ward off potential predators and for another it allows for someone to be in the girls life without the rose tinted glasses on that actually cares for her. Then of course there is the benefit of practicing sharing your life with someone who is as young and dumb as you are.
The flat denial of such a relationship I feel is what pushes KPOPs industry into the nightmare zone.
It appears that K-pop Demon Hunters has become the latest target for Elsagate content. Sad that kids can't have anything without being preyed on by EPI fetish content farms.
Can I just say the title is just one of the irritating details about this movie for me - "KPop Demon Hunters" sounds like the title of some knock-off animated film you'd find in a dollar store's bargain DVD movie bin. Though I can almost appreciate it's blunt directness, like titling one of the Lethal Weapon films "Police Detectives Who Shoot A Lot Of People".
It absolutely is. I am not a fan of KPOP culture at all. The methods they use to cultivate talent are increadibly abusive and predatory. Leagues beyond what Disney does with their talent manufacturing line of child stars to pop idols.
In many respects, I blame the autistic insistence that the talent cannot have romantic involvement for this. This is not the case in the USA and even with the manufactured talent that is similar to how KPOP works they dont discourage romantic involvement among their talent. They do however monetize it, which is another issue, but the important thing however is western talents arent expected to be married to their fans like they are in Asia.
For young girls, not developing a romantic bond with someone their age can be especially dangerous. People really underestimate how important it is for a teenage girl to have a teenaged boyfriend. For one thing his mere presence is an immediate threat that can ward off potential predators and for another it allows for someone to be in the girls life without the rose tinted glasses on that actually cares for her. Then of course there is the benefit of practicing sharing your life with someone who is as young and dumb as you are.
The flat denial of such a relationship I feel is what pushes KPOPs industry into the nightmare zone.
It's a kids movie that's
1) entertaining
2) has memorable, well-made songs
3) doesn't have shitty gay messages like Turning Red or most other Disney/Pixar garbage
Hey I was quite surprised by Turning Red. I remember the sloptubers (fucking Hambplanet was the worst) making like 5 vids a day about the movie.
Finally saw it last year, yeah those lying faggots never watched it.
- art style is awful, yes
- diversity squad
+ no faggotry, the plot is sent forward by the girls very much indeed thirsting for boys, irl and/or their stupid boy band
+ zero tranny shit
+ the girls actually behave like friends, so used to wokeslop with "great deep female characters", look inside, they're all miserable cunts to each other
+ core story point is about family, REAL blood family and tradition, not modern gay "found family" bullshit, clearly tugging at retards who cutoff their real family because they're a tranny or something.
Dad was a bit of a pathetic, pudgy stay at home dad, yeah, but at the climax he was the only character to actually tell Mai she can choose what she wants to do with her life. They surprisingly went in pretty mercilessly on the "overbearing asian mother + aunties" bit LOL
Not amazing, but hand over fist better than Inside Out 2, that shit was so bad.
Hey I was quite surprised by Turning Red. I remember the sloptubers (fucking Hambplanet was the worst) making like 5 vids a day about the movie.
Finally saw it last year, yeah those lying faggots never watched it.
- art style is awful, yes
- diversity squad
+ no faggotry, the plot is sent forward by the girls very much indeed thirsting for boys, irl and/or their stupid boy band
+ zero tranny shit
+ the girls actually behave like friends, so used to wokeslop with "great deep female characters", look inside, they're all miserable cunts to each other
+ core story point is about family, REAL blood family and tradition, not modern gay "found family" bullshit, clearly tugging at retards who cutoff their real family because they're a tranny or something.
Dad was a bit of a pathetic, pudgy stay at home dad, yeah, but at the climax he was the only character to actually tell Mai she can choose what she wants to do with her life. They surprisingly went in pretty mercilessly on the "overbearing asian mother + aunties" bit LOL
Not amazing, but hand over fist better than Inside Out 2, that shit was so bad.
To me it just felt like the author's barely disguised self-insert bitch-fest about how overbearing her tigermom was.
That and the puberty-allegory creature being sold to her classmates to look at in the school bathroom felt like they didn't really think it through as much as they should've.
I haven't seen Inside Out 2 so I can't really compare, but if it's below Turning Red then that's not a great sign lmao
