First date idea "I will not be answering any questions about my past, my personal appearances, or any not physically present at the venue", or my preferences.
I rented a room from a Pakistani guy long ago. Dude was in his 20's, going to college, and basically bought a house and rented out the rooms to pay for it. Super smart and super cool guy. He was dating a white chick during the week. Then on the weekends he'd be with some different non-white chick. I asked him about it. He said his parents were match-making him with other pakistani girls in the US, but he was secretly in love with his white gf. The struggle was real.
Not sure. I moved out after 3 months, b/c upstairs roomie of mine was creepy af. Dude kept making the upstairs thermostat set to 80F, and I was in sun-facing room. So, I was sweating my balls off. Landlord kept setting it back down to 72F, and told dude not to touch it, but dude kept messing w/ it. I'd come home, and the guy would just stare at me from upstairs w/o saying anything. I got tired of sweating my ass off, and feeling like a potential murder victim, so moved.
And that stereo-type is based upon a social situation enforcing itself- at least in china. If you have one-child families, the new couple has to support 4 old timers financially when pension age hits - and china has a mostly private pension system. So they have to become high earners, to keep that going.. no pressure.
I watched it and was mostly bored. It's extremely pretty and overall great production. But the story is for kids and at least I found no depth to it. I'm willing to be convinced otherwise though.
It's a very mixed bag imo. Fun and expressive animation and visuals, nice to see an asian-centric movie from a big American studio, decently catchy music. Underdeveloped characters, predictable plot, various moral implications regarding the joyful killing of demons who may or may not be sentient and involuntarily serving the big bad.
It's a very fun comedic movie about friendship and acceptance and a tiny bit of romance. It's an action musical, and I find musicals very boring and exhausting, but K-pop actually has some bangers. There's a reason it was top of Spotify streaming for months and they brought it to theaters once its Netflix popularity skyrocketed. The animation, voice acting, and music are all top-tier. Is it perfect? No, but if you enjoy animation, it's better than what Disney has produced in years.
34m I can see how it's so popular, great production, well written, fun creative ideas. Personally not my vibe, but still a great piece of media nonetheless. Song are freaking earworms too those melodies live rent free whether I want them too or not
If you haven’t, yeah. It’s good. It’s still a kids movie - so don’t go in expecting “absolute cinema”. But it’s a well executed kids movie with good characters, solid animation, and an excellent soundtrack.
If you like that kind of thing it's great. Basically Romeo and Juliet with songs and a sprinkling of whatever is popular fresh out of SCAD right now. You can always tell SCAD has a thing going because suddenly you'll see bean mouths everywere or stylized low-frame fight scenes or, like in K-Pop, hyperbolic reaction faces.
I think I disagree. The title was what made me say "yeah, I need to watch that at some point". I'm not (or at least didn't think I was) a fan of K-Pop, but the title was just cheesy enough to draw me in even without a trailer.
Its fine, its not amazing, the animation is ok, the plot is mediocre, the songs are above average.
It ranks a solid B- its on par with a good Barbie Direct to DVD movie or a bad Disney movie. with three kids living half a mile away from a family video we watched... A LOT of bad disney movies and barbie movies.
Probably watch it just because its a cultural touchpoint right now but don't expect much, its less than 90 minutes.
If you watch it again you’ll see the foreshadowing, the subtle nods to other movies, and the shrewd fact that they left out ANY background on the parents so they can include it in the sequel. It’s genius.
I am a 53 year old man and I am definitely never going to watch this. I waited so long to break these walls down, to wake up and feel like me. I'm done hiding, now I'm shining, like I'm born to be.
The "good messages" being to lie until everything blows up, then when it all works out in the end, fundamentally change nothing about who you are as a person? I really dont get stans for that movie.
It isn't though. They literally could have had none of the adversity from the movie, and the end wouldn't change even a little. "Demons aren't all bad! But... we are still going to lock all of them with the big bad for all time." They completely ignore anything that would lead to personal growth.
BLASPHEMY!!! /s (I liked the movie much more than I feel I should, lol. XD Especially the derpy tiger). The music is so fun, and I greatly enjoyed watching YouTube videos about it, such as “ScreenRant,” “How It Should Have Ended,” and even one explaining the Korean lines in the songs. It was educational and enjoyable! ^_^
After that, watch Nimona. You'll probably cry your eyes out if you have any empathy at all, and will sit for days after wondering how our world could be as cruel as it is.
There is a lot of combat, hitting the bad guys with swords and stuff, so that can influence kids behavior. My 4.5 year old has watched it a couple times and loves it, and is constantly requesting to listen to the soundtrack in the car
I mean it's your call, I would recommend you watch it first and see what you think. My youngest is 7 so I'm in a different boat, but my only concern would be maybe a little scary in a couple spots if they're sensitive to that sort of thing.
They are, ty. Avoiding signing up for Netflix lol, all of my 5yr old friends have seen it. But I do have hesitation, not religiously so, just worried too intense. We listen to the songs.
I was hesitant to let my 7yo see it. But her friends were all up in it and had showings at birthday parties. We watched it together. She liked it. I’m making my 5yo wait. The demons were potentially scary and there’s romantic relationships that I assume are uninteresting to kids. As a 41 year old cis white dude, I thought the movie was great.
It was dreamworks quality. Not Disney quality. But catchy as hell and I’m a metal head post punk snob. 8 yr old nephew already has a costume for Halloween based on the characters. Just put it on while you do laundry for the bops.
It didn’t get the AAA team writing. It could have been just a tiny bit more fleshed out imo. Don’t get me wrong it wasn’t bad, but it it wasn’t like watching the golden age of Pixar where I went in ambivalent and came out thinking I’d seen something that changed me into a kid, just for a minute. WALL·E. Ratatouille. Toy Story. Those all changed who I was, if just for a minute. That’s great animation. But it was really good. Not hating. Also wasn’t on par with spider verse!
tibris
that's hardly fair, I'm watching K-Pop Demon Hunters and I'm white
sadurdaynight
4.3 doctor... Oh man.. Stephen He's dad would have some words about that
ilikeriker
They are funny
CafeNervosa
The real treat are their resumes, comedy gold!
xizar
"wonderfo"
aoshistark
"Are you carrying a bottle of red rooster siracha and do you plan on drinking it later?"
moserconnie
I follow them on FB
euphoricopportunity
First date idea "I will not be answering any questions about my past, my personal appearances, or any not physically present at the venue", or my preferences.
Snooj
It's impossible to be an expert Costco navigator because they change shit around so much.
ReverseSyzygy
wonderfo
SubsyServy
What happened to his face?
ScrippyChan
800 credit score my ass.
Blackfinity
"You wrote here two dogs." ... "They're pets." ... "Just making sure." lmao
sadurdaynight
there's a "rancher" joke in there somewhere, but they didn't go that far.
PurifiedInTheWatersOfLakeMinnetonka
housev1l
Their kids are going to have an interesting take on english.
svga
"what accent?"
(I see you subtitle)
SacrificialClam
Oh wonderfo!
THECosmosTerror
I'm watching K-POP Demon Hunters right now. I have a thing for Rumi.
GreatWiseBob
She's not my type.
Efreeti
Valid
nero4ty2
As a middle aged white guy im all about Mira, totally reminds me of my wife, she’s Thai not Korean but same vibes
dataengineer
I ain't seened it.
TsubakiTragic
I suggest, yes.
trythebleucheese
I love that Jay & Sharon reels are popping up here so much lately. They are the best
gluttonygreedpridewrathslothlustenvy
I'm married to an Asian and so much of this tracks
Megadestructo
Hey, we're not all THAT type of Asian...
AntennaDibb
the lobster price skit was extremely funny.
trythebleucheese
That's one of my favorites
TakuanSoho
I just discovered them here recently with the "sprained ankle" sketch, I was in tears XD
DragothMP5
You have a name or link? I haven’t seen them before but seem fun
TakuanSoho
Sure, they're named Jay and Sharon and they've got a big youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/@JaySharon
DragothMP5
Thanks!
bourbonandbaddecisions
This is fake because the parents would have already done all this legwork before they even met.
malbec
No no no. They aren’t “THAT” type of Asian. They’re more A-sian
TheSimpleDude
and parents would be planning the wedding before they met
sadurdaynight
I rented a room from a Pakistani guy long ago. Dude was in his 20's, going to college, and basically bought a house and rented out the rooms to pay for it. Super smart and super cool guy. He was dating a white chick during the week. Then on the weekends he'd be with some different non-white chick. I asked him about it. He said his parents were match-making him with other pakistani girls in the US, but he was secretly in love with his white gf. The struggle was real.
nopenopittynope2806
I want to know what happened! Do you know who he ended up with?
PrincessWasabi
I get it, but ultimately he’s an asshole whos two timing the weekend girls. He should be upfront and not play with people’s hearts
sadurdaynight
Not sure. I moved out after 3 months, b/c upstairs roomie of mine was creepy af. Dude kept making the upstairs thermostat set to 80F, and I was in sun-facing room. So, I was sweating my balls off. Landlord kept setting it back down to 72F, and told dude not to touch it, but dude kept messing w/ it. I'd come home, and the guy would just stare at me from upstairs w/o saying anything. I got tired of sweating my ass off, and feeling like a potential murder victim, so moved.
nopenopittynope2806
Good call. Yikes.
Fendeezy
What kind of Asian are they alluding to?
L1ttl3J1m
Georgians?
etherbunny41
The punchline is "if it were a white guy describing it you'd be disgusted, but it's okay because they're Asians".
StellarJay77
Think of every racist stereotype that exists for Asians in North America and that is the type of Asian they are alluding to not being.
Wikipedo
People from Istanbul, I suppose
johnblood616
THAT kind of Asian.
titoitoi
Not Asian, but I think racist Asian stereotypes .. crap driving skills, eats dog, over-educated (as in, living only for grades, not life?) etc etc
PicassoCT
And that stereo-type is based upon a social situation enforcing itself- at least in china. If you have one-child families, the new couple has to support 4 old timers financially when pension age hits - and china has a mostly private pension system. So they have to become high earners, to keep that going.. no pressure.
SJBSavageInk
Shit. We trying to marry Asians to get out of this country right now, not into it. 😂
skycrimes
https://media3.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1aDJ1emgzZnR5dTk3c2JwdzI5Mm43dHlqNGxjaXhibjljNWFsNzhvMSZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/3JCaaiE2gcTbq/200w.webp
cgcit019
I didn't know, thanks for clarifying
DarkwingDuc
Yeah, but the person whom they replied to specifically asked what the joke was. It’s a valid explanation. Context matters.
CitrusyGarlic
Should...should I be watching K-Pop Demon Hunters?
SacrificialClam
YES
michiyl
iktome99
It's worth a watch if you have kids, ya.
Chilly21
Bruh, yes.
valkrez
Nephew knows the entire boy-band dance, A+ entertainment
Einbrecher
It's fun. K-Pop Frozen.
PicassoCT
First hit song is on the house: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDSEGkT6J-0
Mumalot
my personal favorite is the song: "SodaPop"
graehall
It is that good. It's one of the few things with massive hype behind it that turns out to be that good
Emuc64
It would benefit you to know who the Saja Boys are.
bitemark
It was alright. Not my thing but I didn't feel like I wasted my time either
TheSimpleDude
you guys are not watching K-Pop Demon Hunters
CitrusyGarlic
I'm a 44 year old man with no kids. I had to look it up to see what it was, I hadn't even heard of it.
DaveSamsonite
sphericalworld
Go into it knowing it’s a little over the top and you’ll be fine. Good music.
ChazzK
Honey, Freddy Mercury was a little over the top, THIS MOVIE...
Goldensands
The f u on about
sphericalworld
Depending on what kinds of animated movies they watch, the character emotions can be a little over the top.
Qrader
I watched it and was mostly bored. It's extremely pretty and overall great production. But the story is for kids and at least I found no depth to it. I'm willing to be convinced otherwise though.
FailureFactory
It's a very mixed bag imo. Fun and expressive animation and visuals, nice to see an asian-centric movie from a big American studio, decently catchy music. Underdeveloped characters, predictable plot, various moral implications regarding the joyful killing of demons who may or may not be sentient and involuntarily serving the big bad.
Imademyselfsquirtle
Soda Pop
Kanneb
It's a very fun comedic movie about friendship and acceptance and a tiny bit of romance. It's an action musical, and I find musicals very boring and exhausting, but K-pop actually has some bangers. There's a reason it was top of Spotify streaming for months and they brought it to theaters once its Netflix popularity skyrocketed. The animation, voice acting, and music are all top-tier. Is it perfect? No, but if you enjoy animation, it's better than what Disney has produced in years.
LazerSpacePirate
They put some sort of crack in it I swear. It was okay but not in the obsessive way I've seen people rave over it lol
ByteeBandit
34m I can see how it's so popular, great production, well written, fun creative ideas. Personally not my vibe, but still a great piece of media nonetheless. Song are freaking earworms too those melodies live rent free whether I want them too or not
Ricdesan
Yes yes you shoulld
DarkwingDuc
If you haven’t, yeah. It’s good. It’s still a kids movie - so don’t go in expecting “absolute cinema”. But it’s a well executed kids movie with good characters, solid animation, and an excellent soundtrack.
Racealistic
I love watching all type of animations usually but i couldn't get into it personally. You should give it a fair chance if you're interested.
dyc3r
Yes. Its very good at what it sets out to be, and the music is catchy as hell.
CitizenPrime
Absolutely, unironically a good and fun movie
Jimmah1
My kid made me watch it. Ended up not being bad, really.
redsmerf
Depends, are you THAT kind of Asian?
SirSage
NO! No, never. How dare you. Mostly because I'm not any type of Asian
AfterTheRainComesTheRainbow
Yes
Snooj
If you like that kind of thing it's great. Basically Romeo and Juliet with songs and a sprinkling of whatever is popular fresh out of SCAD right now. You can always tell SCAD has a thing going because suddenly you'll see bean mouths everywere or stylized low-frame fight scenes or, like in K-Pop, hyperbolic reaction faces.
SirSage
SCAD?
Snooj
Savannah College of Art and Design. The grads are responsible for a *lot* of good animated stuff nowadays.
SJBSavageInk
Title sounds lame but it is so very very good
DarkwingDuc
What? The title is great! The surprising part is the movie doing justice to such a hype name.
mikeatike
I just wanna know what a K-Pop demon is, and why someone would hunt them.
DarkwingDuc
Watch the movie. Those questions are clearly answered.
UprootedGrunt
I think I disagree. The title was what made me say "yeah, I need to watch that at some point". I'm not (or at least didn't think I was) a fan of K-Pop, but the title was just cheesy enough to draw me in even without a trailer.
SJBSavageInk
You literally just simultaneously admitted how cheesy the title is. 😂 It sounds cringe even if you want to watch it and see what it is.
UprootedGrunt
Never said it wasn't. Just said it drew me in.
vurcease
Agree completely: the title can be a turn off but the movie is excellent!
BurnieCinders
I love the title. I don't need to explain the movie to anyone. Maybe let them know it's a musical.
anonymkonto
I find to it feeling a bit rushed, as it it's 1h30m runtime is a bit short at many story beats could have been fleshed out more
TheMostModestMouse
It's ok.
LordHosk
Its fine, its not amazing, the animation is ok, the plot is mediocre, the songs are above average.
It ranks a solid B- its on par with a good Barbie Direct to DVD movie or a bad Disney movie. with three kids living half a mile away from a family video we watched... A LOT of bad disney movies and barbie movies.
Probably watch it just because its a cultural touchpoint right now but don't expect much, its less than 90 minutes.
OffTheGrid99
If you watch it again you’ll see the foreshadowing, the subtle nods to other movies, and the shrewd fact that they left out ANY background on the parents so they can include it in the sequel. It’s genius.
LordHosk
Thats just standard scriptwriting.
OffTheGrid99
I’m curious what your example of a good animated movie is, then, since you reject everything as pedestrian.
ReverseSyzygy
Are you that certain type of Asian?
TanithRosenbaum
Definitely. It's absolutely worth the watch.
MmmmmSoup
Its ok
PorneliusHubertII
Yes
Efreeti
Yea, it's good
UprootedGrunt
I think it's a pretty good movie. Not "watched it 30 times in the last 45 days" good like my youngest thinks it is, but pretty good.
secondgoaround
Soundtrack is awesome! Story, cutesy but sweet and a touch sad. I don’t regret watching it.
arumunus
It's great. I'm not a big movie-watcher and I legit watched it multiple times. Played the music nonstop for a hot minute too.
Less so now, but the music still bops.
Madringo
I am a 53 year old man and I am definitely never going to watch this. I waited so long to break these walls down, to wake up and feel like me. I'm done hiding, now I'm shining, like I'm born to be.
MisterValiant
It's a fun, catchy movie with some good messages behind it. Give it a whirl, especially if you have or know any kids.
neospor1n
Or if you want to know any kids….wait
BadPunsAplenty
Second this. Old guy with kids who doesn't much like pop music. It's a solid movie and the songs are catchy with some poignancy.
dmcdo8918
The "good messages" being to lie until everything blows up, then when it all works out in the end, fundamentally change nothing about who you are as a person? I really dont get stans for that movie.
DarkZalgo
That's kinda the opposite of what the message is, my dude.
dmcdo8918
It isn't though. They literally could have had none of the adversity from the movie, and the end wouldn't change even a little. "Demons aren't all bad! But... we are still going to lock all of them with the big bad for all time." They completely ignore anything that would lead to personal growth.
stonecw
Not my jam, but the kiddo loves it.
KellyCrazyCatLadyinTraining
BLASPHEMY!!! /s (I liked the movie much more than I feel I should, lol. XD Especially the derpy tiger). The music is so fun, and I greatly enjoyed watching YouTube videos about it, such as “ScreenRant,” “How It Should Have Ended,” and even one explaining the Korean lines in the songs. It was educational and enjoyable! ^_^
darthinebriated
The bird and tiger are one of the best parts. Especially when the bird gets tired of the tigers shit.
CallMeCourierSix
After that, watch Nimona. You'll probably cry your eyes out if you have any empathy at all, and will sit for days after wondering how our world could be as cruel as it is.
So good!
wherewehavebeen
Nimona was really good.
CitrusyGarlic
Thanks but I've already been filled to the brim with tales of how incredibly cruel the world can be, no room for more
CallMeCourierSix
But, in the end, Nimona is hopeful, about how our world can change. It'll likely make you cry, but you should still watch it.
MotherOfSmoosh
My young ones are dying to watch, 3&5 too young right? They're doing a theater showing Halloween.
Callipygius
There is a lot of combat, hitting the bad guys with swords and stuff, so that can influence kids behavior. My 4.5 year old has watched it a couple times and loves it, and is constantly requesting to listen to the soundtrack in the car
vigilante397
I mean it's your call, I would recommend you watch it first and see what you think. My youngest is 7 so I'm in a different boat, but my only concern would be maybe a little scary in a couple spots if they're sensitive to that sort of thing.
MotherOfSmoosh
They are, ty. Avoiding signing up for Netflix lol, all of my 5yr old friends have seen it. But I do have hesitation, not religiously so, just worried too intense. We listen to the songs.
RabidNutria
I was hesitant to let my 7yo see it. But her friends were all up in it and had showings at birthday parties. We watched it together. She liked it. I’m making my 5yo wait. The demons were potentially scary and there’s romantic relationships that I assume are uninteresting to kids. As a 41 year old cis white dude, I thought the movie was great.
DanielAsparagus
It was dreamworks quality. Not Disney quality. But catchy as hell and I’m a metal head post punk snob. 8 yr old nephew already has a costume for Halloween based on the characters. Just put it on while you do laundry for the bops.
DragothMP5
Dreamworks has been crushing Disney lately imo. Puss in boots 2??
CitizenPrime
It's Sony Animation, same guys behind Spiderverse
DanielAsparagus
So not trying to be a hater. Just trying to say be open to enjoying a kids movie. It’s not a movie that’s also geared towards adults.
DanielAsparagus
It didn’t get the AAA team writing. It could have been just a tiny bit more fleshed out imo. Don’t get me wrong it wasn’t bad, but it it wasn’t like watching the golden age of Pixar where I went in ambivalent and came out thinking I’d seen something that changed me into a kid, just for a minute. WALL·E. Ratatouille. Toy Story. Those all changed who I was, if just for a minute. That’s great animation. But it was really good. Not hating. Also wasn’t on par with spider verse!
CitizenPrime
I don't think it was trying to be that and all I did was to say it was Sony, not DreamWorks
DanielAsparagus
I agree. I’m just saying we’ve come to expect a lot from animation.