This Week’s Korean Box Office
This weekend the Daniel Henney drama, My Father, came in at number one at the Box Office in Korea, in front of Hollywood flick, Disturbia, and the historical drama, May 18. At Number 6 was Quentin Tarantino’s awesome and extended grindhouse movie, Death Proof. If you haven’t seen Death Proof, I strongly suggest you do…if you like movies about homicidal maniacs behind the wheel of a death proof car and if you like car chases. I swear this movie has the best car chase I have ever seen.
Moving on…
My Father opened on the sixth. From the trailers it looks as if someone finally taught sexy Daniel Henney how to act. That makes me very happy because I had lost hope in Henney after seeing him in the silly mediocrity that was Seducing Mr. Robinson (also starring Uhm Jung Hwa). Regardless, I’m happy that a Korean movie is beating out the Hollywood so far.
The movie D-War which opened on the first of October is still in the top ten at number eight. My friend, who saw it in Korea this summer said that, besides the movie sucking, she was also rather offended by the director who, at the end of the film, started talking about how great he was because he got this movie made in Hollywood and how the movie was going to be an international success. Well… we’ll see. It’s the number two grossing movie of all time in Korea following The Host which was AMAZING. If D-War takes the number one spot I, among many, will be very saddened because The Host is so great.
