You can add Best International Film, Best Director, and Best Picture to that. All well deserved.

It's best to know as little about this film as possible before you see it. It would probably have an R rating in the USA.

@rudely_murray said:

So far, Parasite has won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay, the first writing win for a non-English film since Pedro Almodovar won for Talk to Her 17 years ago, and the first ever, in any category, for South Korean cinema. So well deserved! A true original.

Hopefully not the last time Bong Joon Ho is called to the stage...

And it wasn't. I haven't seen it yet but I have read great things & have seen some clips. I am happy that it won it all. I thought for sure that 1917 would win best picture it being a 'war movie'. It seems at times that some movies (& actors) win if it fits in a category even if it/they don't deserve it (IMHO).

@Mon-Star said:

It's best to know as little about this film as possible before you see it. It would probably have an R rating in the USA.

Yes, even some of the trailers give away too much and I urge anyone to avoid reviews.

I’d add that it’s best, if you have the chance, to see it with an audience. It is the most memorable experience I have had in a cinema in many years, this film plays like gangbusters with a crowd. The laughs and gasps come often within the same scene.

I am shaken and overwhelmed by Parasite’s Oscar triumph. I was literally in tears. One of the most emotional moments in my many years of watching the Oscars, and a historic evening for South Korea and for Asian cinema.

@rudely_murray said:

@Mon-Star said:

It's best to know as little about this film as possible before you see it. It would probably have an R rating in the USA.

Yes, even some of the trailers give away too much and I urge anyone to avoid reviews.

I’d add that it’s best, if you have the chance, to see it with an audience. It is the most memorable experience I have had in a cinema in many years, this film plays like gangbusters with a crowd. The laughs and gasps come often within the same scene.

I am shaken and overwhelmed by Parasite’s Oscar triumph. I was literally in tears. One of the most emotional moments in my many years of watching the Oscars, and a historic evening for South Korea and for Asian cinema.

How long did the show go? I've tried googling but nothing comes up.

@bratface said:

@rudely_murray said:

@Mon-Star said:

It's best to know as little about this film as possible before you see it. It would probably have an R rating in the USA.

Yes, even some of the trailers give away too much and I urge anyone to avoid reviews.

I’d add that it’s best, if you have the chance, to see it with an audience. It is the most memorable experience I have had in a cinema in many years, this film plays like gangbusters with a crowd. The laughs and gasps come often within the same scene.

I am shaken and overwhelmed by Parasite’s Oscar triumph. I was literally in tears. One of the most emotional moments in my many years of watching the Oscars, and a historic evening for South Korea and for Asian cinema.

How long did the show go? I've tried googling but nothing comes up.

About 3 hours 30 I think... it dragged at times, largely during the mostly poor song performances, but otherwise moved reasonably briskly.

This is the first Best Picture winner to be a non-English language film.

I watched only parts of last night's show, but caught all the parts when this movie won an award. I liked the various acceptance speeches for this movie.

@rudely_murray said:

@Mon-Star said:

It's best to know as little about this film as possible before you see it. It would probably have an R rating in the USA.

Yes, even some of the trailers give away too much and I urge anyone to avoid reviews.

I’d add that it’s best, if you have the chance, to see it with an audience. It is the most memorable experience I have had in a cinema in many years, this film plays like gangbusters with a crowd. The laughs and gasps come often within the same scene.

I am shaken and overwhelmed by Parasite’s Oscar triumph. I was literally in tears. One of the most emotional moments in my many years of watching the Oscars, and a historic evening for South Korea and for Asian cinema.

@rudely_murray bro im so happy for you that Parasite won. It was shocking because of all the racism and white centric, white washing that Hollywood is notorious for. I was even more shocked how many people were rooting for this film. Even when it looked like they were about to cut their acceptance speech short, Tom Hanks was raising arms saying let them speak! WOW props to Tom Hanks for doing that!

What specifically does Parasite winning mean to you? I assumed you were from Singapore since you gave me so much help on the Singapore visiting questions. Are you part Korean or did you live in Korea for some time too?

I remember going on social media last night and see how big the director's fanbase is. They call themselves the BongHive I guess its a play on words similar to Beyonce's fans? This direct Bong has a ton of really good movies from what I can see? Hopefully Hollywood gives me some huge movies to direct and produce next with the biggest A-listers out there. Would be amazing if they landed Tom Hanks in one seeing that he was so supportive of them during their speech.

I haven't seen Parasite yet but I have seen two & a quarter of his films (haven't been able to get past the first 30 minutes of Snowpiercer) but the other two ('Mother' & 'Memories of Murder') are very good but a bit disturbing. I will have to wait to see 'Parasite' if/when it comes to one of my streaming channels.

I'm a huge fan of Korean films & most Asian films in general.

Saw Parasite theatrically a few weeks ago...and not in any way a KNOCK on the film, its GOOD, UNIQUE...is it the "Best Picture" of 2019? Mmmmm....I would've been happier with either 1917, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood or even Joker taking that honor...not sure about these Academy voters.

The film has the highest score - 99%/92% - on Rotten Tomatoes. Better than the other films.

@bratface said:

I haven't seen Parasite yet but I have seen two & a quarter of his films (haven't been able to get past the first 30 minutes of Snowpiercer) but the other two ('Mother' & 'Memories of Murder') are very good but a bit disturbing. I will have to wait to see 'Parasite' if/when it comes to one of my streaming channels.

I'm a huge fan of Korean films & most Asian films in general.

Whats so hard to get past the first 30min of Snowpiercer? I have not seen it nor any of his other films yet? Just Parasite.

You mentioned disturbing and I noticed many Korean films are like that, very disturbing, which I'm honestly not a fan of it just bothers to feel disturbed by a movie. I don't mind feeling moved or being made to think or even moved to tears but Korean films tend to take the disturbing factor to the max! LOL.

Heads up on SPOILERS

But a bunch of my friends told me to watch Old Boy saying it was the GOAT film. I saw it and was disturbed from the first opening scene on. Any movie that focuses on INCEST being their major theme really bothers the F out of me and a lot of Korean flicks all have INCEST as a central theme so I tend not to like Korean films for this reason and even avoid them to be honest.

I actually thought Parasite was going down this path when it looked like the brother/sister dynamic was about to go down that road I was like F here we go again! LOL. Thank god it did not have INCEST as one of their themes.

Hey @bratface what happened to the Singapore pics did you ever get them? I emailed you a while back?

Hope all is well!

@wonder2wonder said:

The film has the highest score - 99%/92% - on Rotten Tomatoes. Better than the other films.

Well if learned anything from the Star Wars/Trek boards it is that RT, Metacritic, and other like sites have no validity, can be and are manipulated, can't be trusted, and such. So there 😛

Also with the Oscar voting rules, how votes are counted and ordered who knows what film got how many votes from who as well as do they even watch these nominees. Add to that the push for more "diversity and inclusivity" among the voters. Call me old fashioned or Hollywood-centric but this another time where the winner is completly out of line with the general film going public.

I haven't seen all the nominees but the ones I have were to me just passable. As for Parasite I haven't seen it but feel like I have already.

End of Oscar rant. More later if I feel like it.