This man always finds a way to surprise me. By the way the idea of him crying is really funny to me for some reason. Perhaps it’s because the internet has raised me to see him as a almighty god who is beyond us. I kind of forget that he’s human.
See, I'm somewhat opposite? Hideo's mortality and humanity is so prevalent in his body of work, the feeling of death and of fragile connection prevalent throughout.
So I've always seen him as a man, one who loves and cares and knows what anguish is like so intimately. Yet, he also finds ways to surprise me over and over.
Oh, no I knew it was ripping off MGSV, I’m just surprised he named his inspiration that he was ripping off from. Especially in a game with such iconic lines like:
“C’mon, let’s go save your friends from spiders with vaginas.”
“My daughter, my Sasha… She is in the resistance. As a SPY!” ; “Let me ask you something, Boris. You said you have spies inside the resistance, right?”
And my personal favorite: “You fucked up my face!”
“My fellow Americans, as your President and Commander in Chief, it is with a… Heavy heart, that I’m informing you that we have made a STRATEGIC decision… To surrender to the alien invaders known as the Combine.” - President Keemstar
Having Snake say that love can bloom anywhere, even on a battlefield really makes the difference for me. I would have been so easy to make Snake or the entire franchise cynical but you can see the love of humanity and her problems put into his games. His monologue at the end of 2 is basically Kojimas personal philosophy.
I just finished Death Stranding 2 last night and, despite the absolute insanity of the game's climax, I was deeply moved by the emotional beats. The message that something that we've lost may not be truly gone and can in fact be a pathway to growth or become a whole new vision entirely is powerful. Kojima may have mostly been processing his separation from Konami and the loss of control over the Metal Gear series but holy shit does it hit.
Growing as a creator myself and finding my voice, it’s cool going from “wow these people are untouchable gods I want to live up to” to, “holy shit… this dude is just like me… and I’m just doing my own thing”
I literally just watched it yesterday because I’m like “well I’m animating music videos”, just to get emotional, and can’t stop repeating “I’m done hiding, now I’m shining, like I want to be!”
Starting over after a suicide plan, it’s like the world is telling me constantly there’s shit to live for and I’m not alone being who I am. Sure I’m probably never chatting it up casually with people like Kojima about KPDH, but there’s like this spiritual connection there knowing that he is probably emotional about the same thing, feeling like a sack of shit that hates a large part of who they are and hides it, just to understand that it isn’t your fault and it’s best to be yourself and use your strength to make a world where even you can fit in.
It made me realize, I probably shouldn’t be hiding the fact that I’m getting popular from art from people around me, the attention and questions sucked when I openly drew irl and now there’s shit I posted made around my trauma, but I also can’t talk about shit with anyone. I can’t talk about how scared I am watching my dreams come true because of how hard I worked and now there’s people looking up to me. Sure it was cheesy, but I can’t really make friends if I’m hiding most of myself, and why am I crying again?!
I love movies and stories like these that are well written, how you walk away from it is completely dependent on the parts of the movie based around your similar experience. A fan that loves seeing their idols fight for them, or a creative screaming who they are at the top of their lungs and suffers doing the opposite
You should check out his insta. Dude loves music, cinema, games, traveling. Just seems like hes living his best life whenever he isnt making masterpieces.
Is this some sort of joke I'm too old to understand? All of his games are about emotional vulnerability and suffering and giving a shit. The entire MGS series stems partly from his fear of nuclear weapons and the Fukushima disaster also had a big impact on his work. Go read The Creative Gene. Like, he's the one game director I know is okay with feeling vulnerable and expressing his fears.
Bold of you to assume people actually played and understood the mgs games lmao there’s also this weird worship of Kojima that leads to stuff like this. Just weird in general since he’s not exactly known for subtlety and there’s so much elevated drama in his games
I'm not surprised by this. He put his favourite vTuber in Death Stranding 2. He's clearly a big fan of this kind of stuff, and isn't afraid to express it.
I think of him as less of an amighty god, and more a weird eldritch emotion blob. Like tom bombadil, but making weird games instead of frolicking with his wife. He is not bound by the normal rules, but also, he's not gonna even really acknowledge when he's violating them. He's just gonna do stuff because he feels that's what he should be doing.
This is me. Watched it with my wife as a laugh and now I got the whole album in my workout playlist, there's nothing better than hearing about how I'm going to become golden when hitting the heavy squats, Kanye West can burn in hell.
I saw a short documentary about ejae who sings and wrote the songs and started crying, it has to be one of the greatest comeback stories out there. I have listened to the songs so much in the last two weeks since I saw it. I am a 37 year old dad who put of looking at it due to the name but now i understand
I have it on my driving playlist, and i have definitely gotten some great reactions from people when they look over to see my santa/viking looking ass singing along at a stoplight.
one minivan full of kids was screaming along with me, and i think the mom wanted to shoot me haha
Good song but a little too on-the-nose for me. But I do appreciate that it's the same message as Soda Pop, but because they've got everyone hooked, they don't have to hide their motivation behind catchy euphemisms.
Soda Pop: Hey, wouldn't it be cute if I just drank you up?
Your Idol: You are now mine and I am literally going to eat your soul.
Honestly, even How It's Done brought a tear to my eye, mostly because until it started, I had pretty low expectations for the movie. The music and animations in that song massively surprised and impressed me.
I'm a huge sucker for a triumphant acceptance of flaws, both internal and external, and a coming-together of imperfect people to make a stronger whole.
Same, especially when it's done well. The build up to the finale felt rushed to me but the finale itself was perfect in my eyes. The scene, the song, the song it succeeded after. It was perfect.
Golden: Beginning of the movie, it was about the three girls coming into fame.
End of the movie, it is about specifically the one girl's glowing marks and acceptance of her demon identity.
Takedown: Beginning of the movie, it was about the girls taking down the demons.
Near the end of the movie, it is about the demons calling out the one girl for being a demon, and threatening to take her down.
In both cases, the songs themselves didn't change, just the context and, for Takedown, the people singing it. The change of context and perspective completely changes the meaning of the words.
For some people, definitely not me, sometimes the combination of animation and music with a very simple message as to be yourself, and accept all of you, brings one to tears if they have learned from a young age onwards that their emotions are ammunition to be hurt by and therefore need to be shunned and locked away. As a means to endure the abuse of daily life.
People have different takes, it's all subjective. "The worst of what I came from / patterns I'm ashamed of/ things that even I don't / understand" hits pretty hard as a survivor of a shitty adolescence that sparked a 3-decade battle with substances that I'm still trying to win. Or during the rooftop scene "We can't fix it if we never face it / let the past be the past 'til it's weightless . . . we could be--freeeeeee..." also hits pretty goddamn hard as I mourn the overdose death of my sister and all the others I've lost. Watched it with my kids, who are my inspiration for trying to be better so they don't have to live through what I did, thinking "Oh good, a silly musical kids movie that's NOT disney." Ended up having to leave the room and cry through a huge bout of catharsis.
But it's a movie! Love it or hate it or call it "meh." It's all fair. It sure hit me hard though.
Yeah, that's "animating on twos". Originally a thing old cartoons did to save money, you essentially only animate a new pose every second frame. Most people agree that it looks more "punchy" and stylised, but as with all art that's subjective.
Wired just put up one of their "Celeb answers Internet questions" with Kojima recently. He basically said he tries to take in as much art as humanly possible everyday. I would not be surprised if he cries a lot because he loves being emotionally in touch with the world around him. Just more Kojima awesome.
Hell, James Cameron is out promoting his latest Avatar movie but he keeps praising Kpop Demon Hunters in his interviews lol. Simply put, KPDH is a good movie.
Growing myself as a creative, I honestly feel like the people viewed as super creative are really emotional or driven people under the surface. If the art is good, I cry, if the story is good, I cry, if both is good, I’m depressed for a few days and need to think some stuff over even if it is a wholesome movie/work
To express those emotions right in a work though, even if it only speaks to you, takes a ton. From my experience, especially animating, I have to take in a ton of media so that I can know how to properly express my emotions for the given subject/plot. I don’t just do one thing and find sticking to a format boring, so the more I take in, the easier it is to think back to the different things I consumed and snip what I need out, and the thing that makes me stand out is how I glue them together.
The more I did this, the more I found myself crying easily. The more I cry, the more I can understand why and put it on paper. The more I did that, the more I related to eccentric artists over the average artist because they’re on the same emotional wavelength.
That interview is so awesome. He compared game development to a hospitality business where you provide users with worlds to escape to and I think that's neat.
His name is Film MovieMan. His mother gave birth to him at a showing of Citizen Kane. He lived off movie theatre popcorn for the first decade of his life.
But the fact is that it's this generations Frozen. It is not just "a good movie that did great", it's going to define a generation. It's by FAR the most successful movie ever done by a streaming service and the music is constantly at the top of the billboards.
Additionally, while kpop did exist in the US, it was reserved for a particular subset of people, with most not even knowing what kpop is. That is no longer the case, as now kpop might as well be an entirely new genre of music to people here in the West. Which is HUGE
The IP will only continue to gain in popularity for the foreseeable future.
My 9 year old watched it multiple times, and finally one day, I was able to just sit back and we'd watch it together.
As a middle-aged parent with absolutely no kpop knowledge... I started dancing along with it, and added some of the songs to my favorites to listen to.
Given that it's a "kids" movie:
Music is GREAT. Not just the music in of itself but the singers are great. I do my best to sing along but they hit notes I can't even dream of.
Animation is REALLY good. reminded me of the "Into the Spider-Verse" movies that have a comic book stylization, but in KPDH case it has some manga stylization.
Story is probably the weakest thing about it, not because it's bad but because the story feels rushed. Personally, the underlying story hits kind of hard ("demons" vs demons, watch the movie and I think you'll understand), so I have a bit of an emotional connection to the movie as well. But I think the movie could have used maybe another 30 to 45 minutes to let some things breath and to flesh out some other things.
After watching the movie and ADHDing down the youtube rabbit hole, tons of people are praising the movie for various different reasons. I've seen music artists from so many different genres (classic, metal, rap, country, etc.) praise the music and singing and making their own covers, animation expects going into depth about it, Korean culturalists and linguists commending it, and so on.
I have some Korean friends (some are immigrants, some are descendants) that have praised it, and enjoyed seeing so many kids in costumes this last Halloween.
Now don't get me wrong, I'm not saying this is Shawshank/Citizen Cane/The Godfather level of movie, it's just that everything about the movie is so much better than expected, ESPECIALLY for a "kids movie."
I went in expecting another kids movie but now the majority of the songs have been regularly on my playlist for months now. Way longer than other new songs I find.
My only differentiating opinion that goes against the grain is that the song "What it sounds like" is way better than "Golden".
I watched it with my niece a few days ago and thought What It Sounds Like was the best one.
I've played on Spotify afterwards - as a standalone track it's kinda annoying when the reprieve of Golden comes in. It works in the movie but is otherwise a little clumsy musically.
I've really been taken back by how little merch there is available this Christmas. I was expecting plushies of the Tiger and Magpie to be everywhere.
Yeah the merch is a little disappointing. The most I've found was some posters. I've heard they're going to have a sequel. Hopefully it doesn't suffer from sequelitis so we can get some better options next year.
I loved it, the singer that does rumi has writen most of the songs herself, and they are total bangers. I lobe that she wrote golden thinking that it would be someone elses problem hitting the notes but then she ended up getting the part
I only know because I used to be a toe walker and noticed that she was walking incorrectly immediately.
However, she was also probably trained to walk on the balls of her feet to walk silently while not sacrificing speed, two things shown in the movie that she's good at.
There's a part of the internet that I have not seen, I have not encountered, or even heard of. But I know it exists, and I know it lost its shit when that moment came out (assuming that's the first foot reveal of a char from it.) And it makes me sad.
It's like knowing the Balrog is down there somewhere. Somewhere deep and dark, but on the same world as me. Somewhere on the same internet as me are those people. You might even be one of them, but I think you've just been... exposed to them.
you don’t need to know a strangers opinion to recognize good. crazy how warped peoples perception are because they HAVE to agree with online persona’s. fucking sad that people have no original thought anymore.
kojima is cool but we are 2 different people. i don’t need his consent to decide whether i like something or not.
Nobody. It's personal opinion. I just severely dislike Kojima's style and writing and think it is always convoluted and lazy, but interpreted by fans as being high art that is better than it actually is. His writing always feels like a stream of consciousness with no coherence because he just wants to show some cool visual, custscene, or 4th wall break. Everything is always explained away by some stupid plot point. Like "nanomachines" or "she breathes through her skin" for a few examples. I just think he gets way too much praise and attention for stories and themes that every edgy 12 year old thought was cool 20 years ago. Clearly there is a market for that. I just hate it.
he predicted modernity with frightening clarity over 24 years ago in a game where the primary character's name is "solid snake" (it's not meant to be taken so seriously, my dude). he's an auteur in every sense of the word, which means some people are going to bounce hard off the material. a lot of the reasons why people love his stuff though is the collaborative effort it took to translate and code and perform it into existence which definitely gets lost in the rush to attribute every good thing about his games directly to him.
also, it is high art because you have to be high to understand it.
He's like a little kid wanting to show his totally awesome imaginary world but with the budget and support of a huge corpo and important ppl behind. Love it or hate it I'm glad we have whimsical ppl like him exists
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This man always finds a way to surprise me. By the way the idea of him crying is really funny to me for some reason. Perhaps it’s because the internet has raised me to see him as a almighty god who is beyond us. I kind of forget that he’s human.
See, I'm somewhat opposite? Hideo's mortality and humanity is so prevalent in his body of work, the feeling of death and of fragile connection prevalent throughout.
So I've always seen him as a man, one who loves and cares and knows what anguish is like so intimately. Yet, he also finds ways to surprise me over and over.
I’ll never get over the fact that the guy who did Hunt Down the Freeman listed Hideo Kojima in the special thanks.
Why would that surprise you? Half of the game is ripped off from MGSV. To the point that Konami probably could have sued that guy.
Oh, no I knew it was ripping off MGSV, I’m just surprised he named his inspiration that he was ripping off from. Especially in a game with such iconic lines like:
“C’mon, let’s go save your friends from spiders with vaginas.”
“My daughter, my Sasha… She is in the resistance. As a SPY!” ; “Let me ask you something, Boris. You said you have spies inside the resistance, right?”
And my personal favorite: “You fucked up my face!”
Oh Colonel... we are so fucked
hunt down the hairline
“My fellow Americans, as your President and Commander in Chief, it is with a… Heavy heart, that I’m informing you that we have made a STRATEGIC decision… To surrender to the alien invaders known as the Combine.” - President Keemstar
I can hear this GIF
Having Snake say that love can bloom anywhere, even on a battlefield really makes the difference for me. I would have been so easy to make Snake or the entire franchise cynical but you can see the love of humanity and her problems put into his games. His monologue at the end of 2 is basically Kojimas personal philosophy.
Because he is fragile...but not that fragile
I just finished Death Stranding 2 last night and, despite the absolute insanity of the game's climax, I was deeply moved by the emotional beats. The message that something that we've lost may not be truly gone and can in fact be a pathway to growth or become a whole new vision entirely is powerful. Kojima may have mostly been processing his separation from Konami and the loss of control over the Metal Gear series but holy shit does it hit.
Precisely, Metal Gear is born out of fear of a nuclear holocaust, and wishing there was a way of stopping it.
Growing as a creator myself and finding my voice, it’s cool going from “wow these people are untouchable gods I want to live up to” to, “holy shit… this dude is just like me… and I’m just doing my own thing”
I literally just watched it yesterday because I’m like “well I’m animating music videos”, just to get emotional, and can’t stop repeating “I’m done hiding, now I’m shining, like I want to be!”
Starting over after a suicide plan, it’s like the world is telling me constantly there’s shit to live for and I’m not alone being who I am. Sure I’m probably never chatting it up casually with people like Kojima about KPDH, but there’s like this spiritual connection there knowing that he is probably emotional about the same thing, feeling like a sack of shit that hates a large part of who they are and hides it, just to understand that it isn’t your fault and it’s best to be yourself and use your strength to make a world where even you can fit in.
It made me realize, I probably shouldn’t be hiding the fact that I’m getting popular from art from people around me, the attention and questions sucked when I openly drew irl and now there’s shit I posted made around my trauma, but I also can’t talk about shit with anyone. I can’t talk about how scared I am watching my dreams come true because of how hard I worked and now there’s people looking up to me. Sure it was cheesy, but I can’t really make friends if I’m hiding most of myself, and why am I crying again?!
I love movies and stories like these that are well written, how you walk away from it is completely dependent on the parts of the movie based around your similar experience. A fan that loves seeing their idols fight for them, or a creative screaming who they are at the top of their lungs and suffers doing the opposite
I know that hideo kojima made the game with the guy from fortnite.
Do you have any idea how little that narrows it down
technically, two guys from fortnite
I think it might not be that deep
HOWARD THE COWARD??!!
Elite ball knowledge
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Maybe he’s human and its us who have left our humanity behind.
You should check out his insta. Dude loves music, cinema, games, traveling. Just seems like hes living his best life whenever he isnt making masterpieces.
For me it’s funny because in every picture of him he’s making the exact same face so I can’t imagine him showing any sort of emotion what so ever
Is this some sort of joke I'm too old to understand? All of his games are about emotional vulnerability and suffering and giving a shit. The entire MGS series stems partly from his fear of nuclear weapons and the Fukushima disaster also had a big impact on his work. Go read The Creative Gene. Like, he's the one game director I know is okay with feeling vulnerable and expressing his fears.
Bold of you to assume people actually played and understood the mgs games lmao there’s also this weird worship of Kojima that leads to stuff like this. Just weird in general since he’s not exactly known for subtlety and there’s so much elevated drama in his games
r/THEMONUMENTMYTHOS holy shit James Dean profile picture
r/FoundFreeOrbs holy shit Zubin Sedghi profile picture
I'm not surprised by this. He put his favourite vTuber in Death Stranding 2. He's clearly a big fan of this kind of stuff, and isn't afraid to express it.
I think of him as less of an amighty god, and more a weird eldritch emotion blob. Like tom bombadil, but making weird games instead of frolicking with his wife. He is not bound by the normal rules, but also, he's not gonna even really acknowledge when he's violating them. He's just gonna do stuff because he feels that's what he should be doing.
Comparing Kojima to Tom Bombadil is oddly appropriate.
Yes, he's just a guy. But most gaeymers are too terminally online and too obsessed with staring at some pixels to realize that.
He's uncanny.
I’m unfamiliar with him, what did he do?
He's uncanny.
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Oh he's hooked alright
This is me. Watched it with my wife as a laugh and now I got the whole album in my workout playlist, there's nothing better than hearing about how I'm going to become golden when hitting the heavy squats, Kanye West can burn in hell.
Huntr/x girls to the world 🔥🔥🔥 it’s a takedown ! 🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥‼️❗️
I saw a short documentary about ejae who sings and wrote the songs and started crying, it has to be one of the greatest comeback stories out there. I have listened to the songs so much in the last two weeks since I saw it. I am a 37 year old dad who put of looking at it due to the name but now i understand
I have it on my driving playlist, and i have definitely gotten some great reactions from people when they look over to see my santa/viking looking ass singing along at a stoplight.
one minivan full of kids was screaming along with me, and i think the mom wanted to shoot me haha
We can all agree about Kanye West, even without knowing the bangers that came out of K-Pop Demon Hunters.
Fr I have like 6 songs on my playlist
Honestly i understand him
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The man who... who... idk help a kojimer out here
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Oh hell yeah another one to the collection
now i wanna see the collection
also I hate Polpiorno
I love Polpiorno
Oh, long review, he liked it
He's been posting the soundtrack on his Instagram lol
"I have seen Madame Web"
It's a good movie.
We're definitely hearing soda pop in the next game he makes I swear
Hmm, now I am curious, maybe I am going to watch it.
It's so good and I'm a fat slob old man
I'm a medium slob middle man and can say it's good as well
Good for slob all slob
If I catch you I will add you to my slob like a katamari
You won't regret it. It's truly awesome.
imma get downvoted. it's mid, but very entertaining
People went back to applauding his reviews after knives out 3 lol.
Isn't Kojima also the guy who accidentally watched Lycoris Recoil instead of Licorice Pizza and ended up liking it? Or was that somebody else?
Fair. I saw it on Netflix and watched because I was bored; ended up loving it and had chills and misty eyes at the end.
Watched it a few more times since then. Good stuff.
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Sad Cryman
I mean, the movie was really good, but it wasn't that good.
Disagree it's really that serious and Kojima is based
I know Golden is the big hit song but I still can't get through What It Sounds Like without crying.
I’m standing by Your Idol
Good song but a little too on-the-nose for me. But I do appreciate that it's the same message as Soda Pop, but because they've got everyone hooked, they don't have to hide their motivation behind catchy euphemisms.
Soda Pop: Hey, wouldn't it be cute if I just drank you up?
Your Idol: You are now mine and I am literally going to eat your soul.
Honestly, even How It's Done brought a tear to my eye, mostly because until it started, I had pretty low expectations for the movie. The music and animations in that song massively surprised and impressed me.
I don't even listen to Kpop but I enjoyed the music
I broke into a million pieces, and I can't go back
But now I'm seeing all the beauty in the broken glass 🥹
On its own, What it Sounds Like is great. But when you watch that whole final scene and appreciate it in context of the movie? I bawled. Goosebumps.
Source: 37 year old man.
I'm still debating whether the final cut or one of the demos for What It Sounds Like is better.
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What it sounds like is my fav song from the movie. And on the contrary I don't care about golden even a tiny bit.
I'm a huge sucker for a triumphant acceptance of flaws, both internal and external, and a coming-together of imperfect people to make a stronger whole.
Same, especially when it's done well. The build up to the finale felt rushed to me but the finale itself was perfect in my eyes. The scene, the song, the song it succeeded after. It was perfect.
I didn't appreciate Golden until it got the double-meaning at the end. I loved how they used it and Takedown that way.
Can you explain for those of us that are pretty stupid, like me?
Golden: Beginning of the movie, it was about the three girls coming into fame.
End of the movie, it is about specifically the one girl's glowing marks and acceptance of her demon identity.
Takedown: Beginning of the movie, it was about the girls taking down the demons.
Near the end of the movie, it is about the demons calling out the one girl for being a demon, and threatening to take her down.
In both cases, the songs themselves didn't change, just the context and, for Takedown, the people singing it. The change of context and perspective completely changes the meaning of the words.
that one and Free get me every time
unfortunately i'm not fast enough to sing Jinu's parts, but my girlfriend is an amazing Rumi when we're in the car together
I went in ready to hate but it was great. The songs are fun too.
I thought the movie was good, but I'm definitely not the target audience
Guess we found the target audience
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Depends on person, I suppose, for me, it is one of the good movies of this year, tho I wonder which part of the movie that makes Kojima cry.
For some people, definitely not me, sometimes the combination of animation and music with a very simple message as to be yourself, and accept all of you, brings one to tears if they have learned from a young age onwards that their emotions are ammunition to be hurt by and therefore need to be shunned and locked away. As a means to endure the abuse of daily life.
Or so I have heard.
People have different takes, it's all subjective. "The worst of what I came from / patterns I'm ashamed of/ things that even I don't / understand" hits pretty hard as a survivor of a shitty adolescence that sparked a 3-decade battle with substances that I'm still trying to win. Or during the rooftop scene "We can't fix it if we never face it / let the past be the past 'til it's weightless . . . we could be--freeeeeee..." also hits pretty goddamn hard as I mourn the overdose death of my sister and all the others I've lost. Watched it with my kids, who are my inspiration for trying to be better so they don't have to live through what I did, thinking "Oh good, a silly musical kids movie that's NOT disney." Ended up having to leave the room and cry through a huge bout of catharsis.
But it's a movie! Love it or hate it or call it "meh." It's all fair. It sure hit me hard though.
☝️🤓
I tried watching but I really dislike the almost laggy animation style.
Yeah, that's "animating on twos". Originally a thing old cartoons did to save money, you essentially only animate a new pose every second frame. Most people agree that it looks more "punchy" and stylised, but as with all art that's subjective.
Casually watching kpdh implies the existence of ranked competitive kpdh watching
NEW GAME???
Hideo Kojima is such a phenomenon, I love this guy
I honestly thought this was about the name being literal
Real.
I mean, it was a very good film but no part of it made me emotional.
Come back when you have Up or Coco levels of sadness.
Coco was my favorite animation and I cried through it.
KPDH is my new favorite and I was dancing along and cheering for the girls when it ended.
Both felt cathartic
If the moment with Rumi and Celine didn't make you shed a tear, you're well hard
Maybe he was just being sarcastic?
Wired just put up one of their "Celeb answers Internet questions" with Kojima recently. He basically said he tries to take in as much art as humanly possible everyday. I would not be surprised if he cries a lot because he loves being emotionally in touch with the world around him. Just more Kojima awesome.
I love how it's titled "Hideo Kojima answers Hideo Kojima questions" like being him is a profession. Never change
when i was young i wanted to grow up to be a hideo kojima, however I ended up becoming a sam lake, that hack (affectionate).
"It wasn't enough for you to jump the shark, you had to do kickflips over it!"
"Hideo Kojima, from Hideo Kojima Support"
He's the first strand-type person after all.
Hell, James Cameron is out promoting his latest Avatar movie but he keeps praising Kpop Demon Hunters in his interviews lol. Simply put, KPDH is a good movie.
I'm expecting Tarantino to be the next glazer of it at this point lol
I want kojima to make a game with Studio Ghibli. I want to weirdly float through and exist in a Ghibli world.
I know his games don't normally have that spirit exactly, but if anyone could capture it in game form, I think it's him.
Sakurai does the same. Bro optimizes his art-consumption schedule like he's an art-consumption machine.
Growing myself as a creative, I honestly feel like the people viewed as super creative are really emotional or driven people under the surface. If the art is good, I cry, if the story is good, I cry, if both is good, I’m depressed for a few days and need to think some stuff over even if it is a wholesome movie/work
To express those emotions right in a work though, even if it only speaks to you, takes a ton. From my experience, especially animating, I have to take in a ton of media so that I can know how to properly express my emotions for the given subject/plot. I don’t just do one thing and find sticking to a format boring, so the more I take in, the easier it is to think back to the different things I consumed and snip what I need out, and the thing that makes me stand out is how I glue them together.
The more I did this, the more I found myself crying easily. The more I cry, the more I can understand why and put it on paper. The more I did that, the more I related to eccentric artists over the average artist because they’re on the same emotional wavelength.
That interview is so awesome. He compared game development to a hospitality business where you provide users with worlds to escape to and I think that's neat.
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Generational screenshot
kinda hated that interview.
"what do you think your masterpiece is?"
Hideo "death stranding 2"
BOOOOOOOO
Derpy hat for ds3 anyone?
Considering who would be the MC…
Fuck it. Jinu DLC. With no explanation.
I thought you meant Dark Souls 3 for a second and I was very confused because I forgot that Death Stranding also initializes to DS
the man understands cinema
His name literally rhymes with cinema
Hidenima Kojinema
That name is ridiculous, did Kojima write this?
His name is Film MovieMan. His mother gave birth to him at a showing of Citizen Kane. He lived off movie theatre popcorn for the first decade of his life.
I'm pretty sure this is an actual character in Death Stranding.
😆
…video?
No...it doesnt
Probably not but we love him anyways
I wonder if they remind him of the baddies he had in MGS4.
I assure you players Snake taking damage from being touched by a woman is critical for plot development.
hideo game recognizes
Hideo Hideo Game Kojima is the epitome of randomness at this point
Hideo "game" kojima continuing to be the most based human on earth as always
Those actresses are gonna be in DS3 watch.
Dark souls 3?
Duck Shooter 3 m8
Korean Pop demon hunters? is it actually that good?
It's not the be all, end all of movies but it is pretty enjoyable. They didn't expect it to hit it as big as it did.
It's pretty good in my personal opinion.
But the fact is that it's this generations Frozen. It is not just "a good movie that did great", it's going to define a generation. It's by FAR the most successful movie ever done by a streaming service and the music is constantly at the top of the billboards.
Additionally, while kpop did exist in the US, it was reserved for a particular subset of people, with most not even knowing what kpop is. That is no longer the case, as now kpop might as well be an entirely new genre of music to people here in the West. Which is HUGE
The IP will only continue to gain in popularity for the foreseeable future.
And what it means to the Asian community....woof. a lot of Asian Americans have been very vocal about how the representation has affected them.
Good or bad?
Good
Its pretty good and the songs are banger
My 9 year old watched it multiple times, and finally one day, I was able to just sit back and we'd watch it together.
As a middle-aged parent with absolutely no kpop knowledge... I started dancing along with it, and added some of the songs to my favorites to listen to.
Given that it's a "kids" movie:
After watching the movie and ADHDing down the youtube rabbit hole, tons of people are praising the movie for various different reasons. I've seen music artists from so many different genres (classic, metal, rap, country, etc.) praise the music and singing and making their own covers, animation expects going into depth about it, Korean culturalists and linguists commending it, and so on.
I have some Korean friends (some are immigrants, some are descendants) that have praised it, and enjoyed seeing so many kids in costumes this last Halloween.
Now don't get me wrong, I'm not saying this is Shawshank/Citizen Cane/The Godfather level of movie, it's just that everything about the movie is so much better than expected, ESPECIALLY for a "kids movie."
if the movie is not really your sort of thing, you will simply find it an enjoyable watch.
If it is your sort of thing, the movie and the music will own your soul.
I went in expecting another kids movie but now the majority of the songs have been regularly on my playlist for months now. Way longer than other new songs I find.
My only differentiating opinion that goes against the grain is that the song "What it sounds like" is way better than "Golden".
I watched it with my niece a few days ago and thought What It Sounds Like was the best one.
I've played on Spotify afterwards - as a standalone track it's kinda annoying when the reprieve of Golden comes in. It works in the movie but is otherwise a little clumsy musically.
I've really been taken back by how little merch there is available this Christmas. I was expecting plushies of the Tiger and Magpie to be everywhere.
Yeah the merch is a little disappointing. The most I've found was some posters. I've heard they're going to have a sequel. Hopefully it doesn't suffer from sequelitis so we can get some better options next year.
Just watched it last week. It's captivating, but I don't think it's worth the hype. That said, I also don't think I'm the target audience.
I think it's pretty safe to say the target audience isn't on Reddit.
r/Kpopdemonhunters is rather decently sized and is quite passionate
I don't think adults are the target audience but I know that KDH is very popular across all ages. Im old af and I loved it.
I loved it, the singer that does rumi has writen most of the songs herself, and they are total bangers. I lobe that she wrote golden thinking that it would be someone elses problem hitting the notes but then she ended up getting the part
it's neh, just DON'T interact with the fanbase at all
u/savevideo
When the KPOP demon hunter, hunts demons and do KPOP.
Well... it's a good movie...
Feet?
There is no feet in kdh
khm
BEHOLD
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RUMI FEET
Bruh i never noticed it lmao but you're quite attentive...
I noticed it too.
I only know because I used to be a toe walker and noticed that she was walking incorrectly immediately. However, she was also probably trained to walk on the balls of her feet to walk silently while not sacrificing speed, two things shown in the movie that she's good at.
Live Kojima reaction:
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There's a part of the internet that I have not seen, I have not encountered, or even heard of. But I know it exists, and I know it lost its shit when that moment came out (assuming that's the first foot reveal of a char from it.) And it makes me sad.
It's like knowing the Balrog is down there somewhere. Somewhere deep and dark, but on the same world as me. Somewhere on the same internet as me are those people. You might even be one of them, but I think you've just been... exposed to them.
yeah ok PmMeUrTinyAsianTits
Usually I call people out when they use my username as a counter point but uhh...
Yea okay, fair point.
Kojima is a huge foot fan this is definitely what he meant
It’s still good though
Yeah its peak
Can’t wait for the sequel, synth pop demons hunter
That's cool to know.
you don’t need to know a strangers opinion to recognize good. crazy how warped peoples perception are because they HAVE to agree with online persona’s. fucking sad that people have no original thought anymore.
kojima is cool but we are 2 different people. i don’t need his consent to decide whether i like something or not.
Meanwhile, nobody brings up Kojima's review of "Joker: Folie à Deux". Curious, isn't it?
I know why
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Huntrix will be added to Death Stranding 3
Me when the chainsaw man movie was peak
Honestly it is pretty good
K-pop Demon Hunters The Video Game!
Does this mean we can get Zoey’s feet in Death Stranding 3 asking for a friend
And you look really familiar rn.
Kpop Demon Hunters DLC for Death Stranding when?
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Every day I gain another infinity stone in my "Kojima is an Overrated Hack Fraud" gauntlet.
Who hurt you?
Nobody. It's personal opinion. I just severely dislike Kojima's style and writing and think it is always convoluted and lazy, but interpreted by fans as being high art that is better than it actually is. His writing always feels like a stream of consciousness with no coherence because he just wants to show some cool visual, custscene, or 4th wall break. Everything is always explained away by some stupid plot point. Like "nanomachines" or "she breathes through her skin" for a few examples. I just think he gets way too much praise and attention for stories and themes that every edgy 12 year old thought was cool 20 years ago. Clearly there is a market for that. I just hate it.
he predicted modernity with frightening clarity over 24 years ago in a game where the primary character's name is "solid snake" (it's not meant to be taken so seriously, my dude). he's an auteur in every sense of the word, which means some people are going to bounce hard off the material. a lot of the reasons why people love his stuff though is the collaborative effort it took to translate and code and perform it into existence which definitely gets lost in the rush to attribute every good thing about his games directly to him.
also, it is high art because you have to be high to understand it.
He's like a little kid wanting to show his totally awesome imaginary world but with the budget and support of a huge corpo and important ppl behind. Love it or hate it I'm glad we have whimsical ppl like him exists
What's wrong
every day i gain another infinity stone in my "kpdh is overrated as fuck" gauntlet
Don't worry. Ive got one of those gauntlets too.