KPop Demon Hunters (2025) - Full Reaction
Added 2025-08-26 01:41:04 +0000 UTCI did this one for my kids... honestly though, I think you should give it a shot!
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I liked it. Good message. Heartfelt. Rumi has a good voice. I am a sucker for a good voice. I like how South Korea and the West have become more integrated culturally, at least in some respects. One of these days, I will visit Seoul. See "Past Livesβ (2023) - bilingual film (English, Korean) that has some exploration of Korean culture/themes. Directed by Korean-Canadian Celine Song. AFI Top 10 Movie of the Year. Nominated for Best Picture Oscar. RT 95%. RT Audience 96%.
Clay F
2025-10-08 09:08:47 +0000 UTCLoves all the songs, the full playlist has been playing nonstop on my drive to work everyday since I seen this. IF I had to pick one Takedown, my favorite character is Zoey! There's 2 versions of Takedown, one sang by the singers for the movie and one sang by three members of TWICE (Jeongyeon, Jihyo and Chaeyoung). In the movie, it's the singers, Twice's version is only used in the end credits. And this video https://youtu.be/l8Dr7vzMSVE?si=H8hCowFIH568R3lo Plus as a fan of mythology was cool seeing some Korean folklore. And there were alot of nods to Korean folklore. Some historical context for Jinu's betrayal of his family, 400 years ago, commoners weren't allowed in the palace courts, however musicians were. So when he was invited to join the palace you can see him leading his family into it, but they are stopped by the guards. They weren't allowed in and if Jinu tried to leave he would be defying the king's choice at the time and would have been charged for treason and would have gotten his family killed or imprisoned. It's why you see the mom holding back the sister because she understands that Jinu was forced to leave them. Jinu is a victim of Gwi'ma. He got tricked into a faustian deal, and then for 400 years was gaslit into believing that he abandoned his family when in reality he was manipulated into a situation where he was forced into losing them. I don't even blame him for betraying Rumi. He knew her for about 2 weeks and only really interacted with her for a few hours and as much as he wanted to believe her that he could be better and regardless of how much he had grown to care about her, he has CENTURIES of Gwi'ma in his head weaponizing his own self-hatred against him. He briefly felt hope with Rumi and then was instantly reminded that he is Gwi'ma's prisoner and has nothing but pain to look forward to FORVER unless he does as he's told. Several things I would love to share: 1. The shaman women you see in the more ancient times are called Moodang, and serve as spiritual mediums for contacting spirits and warding off evil. 2. Rumi's sword is a Sa-in Geom (Four Tiger Sword), a ritualistic sword forged in the Hour of the tiger, in the day of the tiger, in the month of the tiger, on the year of the tiger. Tigers were seen as divine beasts, and was thought to channel the energy of the Tiger into a sword used in rituals to ward off evil. 3. Mira's Glaive is called a Gaya Gokdo (Gaya Curved Blade). Gaya was a Kingdom that was in the South western area of the Korean Peninsula. 4. Zoey's blades are called Shin-kal (Divine knives). These blades the size of kitchen knives are used in Shaman rituals for various uses. 5. Saja boys is a Korean pun, as the word Saja is a homonym of both Lion and a psychopomp like the grim reaper in Korean. The black traditional outfit the Saja wear are the same outfit Juhsung Saja are described to be in. 6. While not explicitly named, a lot of the demons shown are those that appear in Korean folklore, like the Dokkaebi wielding clubs, the water dwelling Mulguishin (souls of drowned victims that become ghosts determined to share their fate by drowning others with them), and Mongdal Guishin (The faceless guishin). 7. The tiger and magpie are an homage to a popular Korean art motif called a Hojakdo, which showcase a derpy looking tiger and a magpie. Tigers as I said are regarded as divine beasts, and magpies are regarded as omens of good news and welcome guests. As such, the art are used as wards against evil and a magnet for good luck in a household.
Vexkun
2025-09-04 14:26:52 +0000 UTCAnd here is Evil and Neuro doing a cover of it- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHfe3nT5-jk
Mike Lemon
2025-08-30 00:33:11 +0000 UTCThere's a top-tier music reaction channel with a vocal coach, 'The Charismatic Voice' who breaks down a song from the movie, Golden: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsTQQ42UhvU
Milton Reduxed
2025-08-29 21:19:11 +0000 UTCIt's a sweet thing to do this for your kids. Hopefully your daughter picks "Rumi" for Halloween, so you to have a bash at the long purple hair. Hadn't heard of this at until about a month ago when my best mate mentioned it as his teen girls are all over it, much like Cassie's kids. His eldest daughter is a massive k-popular fan. I wasn't planning on watching this, but I will give a cracking if for nothing else but to blow my mate's daughters' minds the next time I see them. I got to do that a little bit of that last time as a video game I play had a cross-over with "Le Sserafim", so I was forced to list to at least one k-pop song, and they are also all over the Google ads I see at the moment. My sister who is a bit older than me( and I'm no spring chicken), is a fan of "BTS" so I have heard some of their stuff, and I no they kind of break the internet ever now and then as their members have to cycle through Korea's mandatory military service. I thought it was interesting that "Han" the tonic guy and "Rumi's" mentor/mum(?) "Celine" were voiced by "Jin" and " Sun" the marriage Korean couple in "Lost" so they kind of worked "together" again. The villain was not voiced by Jon Voight, but by Lee Byung-hun who has appeared on the channel as "Billy Rocks" in the 2016 Denzel remake of "The Magnificent Seven". Can't say I'm a huge fan of k-pop, seems too over produced and too heavy on the auto-tune for me, but I get why it's catchy. To be fair the last song did work okay for me as it didn't seem to have as much production on the vocals.
Mojo One Thousand
2025-08-27 12:53:52 +0000 UTCTaking bets- will it be like Thewebshark or not?
Mike Lemon
2025-08-27 11:59:09 +0000 UTCsome of these old dudes in your comments need more whimsy in their life and to embrace cringe :) they'd be a lot happier. enjoyed this sm cassie!!
GillyBean
2025-08-27 08:48:47 +0000 UTCThis one is so cute! Can't wait to re-watch it with you.
Jenny_M
2025-08-26 11:54:07 +0000 UTCSo to be honest my nieces just saw this. We will give it a shot. Out of respect for you and the channel. I have heard a lot of people talk about this. So will give it a go. At least my gf Eva is excited about it. π€
Zachary K.
2025-08-26 11:46:43 +0000 UTC
