We are at the half-point of the year so we're already seeing people make lists of their best movies of 2025.5 -- I'm not doing that, at least not right this second. But I have been thinking about what's left for the second half of the year that I'm most looking forward to, and while there are several examples the number one might just be Bugonia from Yorgos Lanthimos. He hasn't done me wrong yet. So what a coincidence that they dropped the teaser trailer for Bugonia today! Watch:
The film reunites the director with Emma Stone because of course, as well as Jesse Plemons who was so terrific in Kinds of Kindness last year. When this movie was announced and I posted about it EXACTLY ONE YEAR AGO TODAY (how weird is that?) I mentioned it's a remake of a South Korean movie from 2003 called Save the Green Planet! which is about... well exactly the plot laid forth in that teaser. Looks like the only change is the businessman getting kidnapped is now a businesswoman. Feminism! Woke! Anyway this tease made me even more excited -- Bugonia's out on October 24th. I bet it's playing NYFF then! Whee!
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I don't like this Yorgos guy.
I'll pass on this one.
Alert the media
have you seen save the planet? is it worth a watch?
A long long long time ago. I remember it being extremely wacky in the way of wacky Japanese comedy of that time. I don't remember much else. Def due a re-watch but I might wait til after Bugonia
Yes but to see it only once in your life and very high. It would have been better in the hands of a director like Edgar Wright, Yorgos is very pretentious and Emma Stone every time she farts she gets nominated for an academy award IMAO.
Why does Emma look like Björk in the trailer ?
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