#umma (2022)

[fanofspooky]

Scream King - Dermot Mulroney

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[lesbianmaxevans]

31 DAYS OF HALLOWEEN 2024 ⤷ Day 22: Umma (2022)

[feelingsofaithless]

The moment I got pregnant, I made myself a promise. I made you a promise. I will never become my mother. Umma (2022)

[corin-tuckers-left-one]

I watched "Umma" tonight and I hope Sandra Oh and Fivel Stewart have good physiotherapists because they had to carry that entire film

[swagging-back-to]

ok so i watched umma and i really honestly hate the ending message it portrays. the whole "you and your parents are one in the same" "children are obligated to their parents and not the other way around" and especially the "abused children should respect and honor their parents regardless of the abuse they endured." and ESPECIALLY "your abusers had a hard life >:( show them forgiveness >:("

like it genuinely made me fuxking nauseous. as someone who is no contact with both their biological parents and the people who adopted and abused me it genuinely felt like i was being targeted.

know what wouldve made the movie better and more groundbreaking? if they dug up and dumped ummas ashes into a landfill. instead, they just repeated the regular narrative that abused people do not get a say. that abused people have to show respect and sympathy to their abusers. seriously get out.

[whatmediaiveconsumedas]

I watched Umma a 2022 American supernatural horror film starring Sandra Oh and Fivel Stewart as her daughter. I liked this as a fan of Sandra Oh and bee keeping and being a recluse. I didnt find it very scary but I was still interested in the story. When it first started and I saw she had a daughter, my mind immediately went aww I didn't know her, and Villanelle had a baby!? 🤣🤦🏻‍♀️

[haveyouseenthishorrormovie]

SUMMARY: A woman's quiet life on an American farm takes a terrifying turn when the remains of her estranged mother arrive from Korea.

[myhahnestopinion]

THE 2022 AARONS - Worst Film

I could make a long, elaborate joke here about needlessly bad movies, but I’d rather get right to the category than Babylon. Here are The Aarons for Worst Film:

#10. Texas Chainsaw Massacre 

A Final Girl spends decades preparing for a rematch with the masked killer who murdered all her friends? You’d be forgiven for thinking you saw this film before. Billed (once again) as the one-true sequel to the seminal 1974 horror film, 2022’s Texas Chainsaw Massacre (once again) butchers the franchise. Linking a lazy approximation of the ‘legacy-quel’ format popularized by 2018’s Halloween to generational trauma, gun culture, and gentrification, the film’s skin-deep themes are even more meaningless than the original’s nihilism. No amount of gore can mask the fact that this franchise has clearly run out of gas.

#9. Firestarter

With Stephen King setting movie-goers on fire in the wake of It, there was every reason to think returning to his other early works would yield similar results. The problem is that the 2022 adaptation of his 1980 novel doesn’t know where to start with updating the story to present day. Following a pyrokinetic girl and her father on the run from government forces, the movie makes no mention of modern expansions to the surveillance state, and its simplistic tale of gifted individuals feels helplessly quaint in a culture dominated by superhero cinema. The music, composed by the legendary John Carpenter, is admittedly straight fire, but the movie’s murky cinematography snuffs out any other remaining appeal.

#8. Choose or Die

Choose or Die has a clear survival instinct, opting to throw anything and everything at the screen to keep its thin premise alive. The only real winner in the film about a cursed 1980s video-game contest is horror icon Robert Englund, cashing in on his clout with a few minutes of voiceover work. Everyone else struggles to jump through the hoops of its inconsistent rule-set and inadequate budget (The on-the-fly filmmaking has all the visual-flair of the text-based adventures it’s inspired by). The prize for powering-through is the offer of a prospective franchise; Netflix browsers would be better off choosing any number of the streamer’s other options.

#7. Halloween Ends

Heavily promoted as the final confrontation between Michael Myers and Laurie Strode, the thirteenth Halloween ends not with a bang but with a wimp named Corey Cunningham oddly hogging the spotlight. Spending the majority of its runtime on a coming-of-age Romeo-and-Juliet romance, the film’s shake-up of franchise formula is a smug trick on the audience that never turns into a treat. Hypothesizing on why evil endures, Ends is undone by an inability to express its ideas intelligibly, and by robbing agency from its most important character. Despite its definitive title, the latest installment will almost certainly not be the last, but it does leave the franchise in bad shape yet again.

#6. Margaux

Margaux is a smart house; Margaux is a dumb film. To be fair, even a regular brick-and-mortar building would seem intelligent compared to the group of college students lured into the titular deathtrap. Not even self-aware jokes at their expense can turn the characters, played by a collection of CW stars, into tolerable company. The only other expense not spared by Margaux is the budget for its nauseating white goo, the sickly sustenance of a house-wide 3-D printer, that swamps every frame of the film. The oozing substance is reflective of Margaux’s unsound foundation: an utterly illogical series of events is what brings down the house. 

#5. Mr. Harrigan’s Phone

It was always going to take an inspired touch to bring Mr. Harrigan’s Phone to life, and John Lee Hancock couldn’t answer the call. The Blind Side director delivers a dreadfully faithful adaptation of Steven King’s short story, a hodgepodge of the author’s familiar hang-ups including a decade-late technophobia around iPhone applications. The script does no service to stars Donald Sutherland and Jaeden Martell, both doing their best to sell an undying connection between a rich, cranky old man and the young boy who reads to him. In a clear-cut generational divide, King’s son undisputedly took the crown for phone-based horror last year; curious parties should just call up Joe Hill’s Black Phone instead.

#4. Umma

Umma isn’t the mother of all bad films but is highly-derivative of far better ones. The horror film manages to be only the third-best film from 2022 about an Asian-Immigrant mother overcoming generation trauma to become less overbearing to her daughter (The others being Aarons-Winner Everything Everywhere All at Once and Pixar’s Turning Red). This familiarity doesn’t stop at just one medium either: the mother’s self-induced electro-phobia also invites unfavorable comparisons to the TV show Better Call Saul. This all might be more forgivable if Umma wasn’t so neglectful of its jump scares, putting in only the minimal effort needed to raise the film up to feature length. 

#3. Grimcutty

The Hulu-Original horror film starts off looking especially grim but is ultimately a cut above those worse fears: the meme-based movie is merely incompetent, rather than incompetent and ignorant. Writer/director John Ross is well-aware that the bygone Momo Challenge his concept is based on was a hoax but that seems to be the extent of his comprehension, especially when it comes to the basics of filmmaking. His laughable script and languid pacing spread thin the legend of the Grimcutty, a lopsided monstrosity that’s meme-material for all the wrong reasons. The film is successful in at least one regard: it will unquestionably convince viewers that cutting back on screen-time isn’t always a bad thing.

#2. Morbius 

Yes, it’s Morbin’ time. The maladroit movie Morbius turns The Living Vampire into a lifeless vestigial entry in Sony’s speciously-named Spider-Man Universe. Despite decades of comic history to draw from and even more years of tragic movie monsters, the anti-hero’s origin offers viewers absolutely nothing to sink their teeth into. The dramatic tension is as hollow as the character’s bones, as the story constantly shies away from any moral complexities to receive a wide-appeal PG-13 rating (which didn’t stop the movie from bombing… twice). If there was any remaining doubt, the desperate post-credits scene makes it obvious: this is the work of vultures scavenging their IP for everything they can get.

AND THE WORST FILM OF 2022 IS...

#1. After Ever Happy

One after another, the adaptations of Anna Todd’s Wattpad novels have lowered the bar for romantic movies and romantic partners everywhere; the fourth film doesn’t break that cycle. Encompassing everything from arson to overdoses, After Ever Happy untethers the unceasing ups-and-downs of Tessa Young and Hardin Scott’s relationship from any semblance of structure. Starting with a sensible climax for the last entry and hanging up its hat without resolving any of its new plot threads, the franchise’s footage seems to now spill over from entry to entry with no rhyme or reason. As such, the fifth film is now mandatory viewing, if only because one can never be happy before confirming this story is over for good.

NEXT UP: THE 2022 AARON FOR BEST DIRECTOR!

[milliondollarbaby87]

Umma (2022) Review

Amanda and her daughter Chrissy live a very quiet life on an American farm but everything is about to be turned upside down when the remains of her estranged mother arrive from Korea. ⭐️⭐️ Continue reading Untitled

[rye-views]

Umma (2022) dir. Iris K. Shim. 7.3/10

I would not recommend this movie to my friends. I would not rewatch this movie.

An uncle who we don't even recognize comes to our home and starts berating us? No thank you. I am not having an abusive mom haunt me after her death.

Idk, but the beginning bw Chrissy and her mom just didn't seem like a mother-daughter relationship. I just feel like Amanda could be better to her kid in general. I feel like this makes Korean culture seem more foreign. Even for a Korean American, the Korean seems foreign. The uncle doesn't even have a Korean accent. This is so traumatizing for the whole crew.

Why in movies do we never rinse our mouth after brushing our teeth? Who knew a nine-tailed fox could be so small?

[wedgeantill]

2024 Halloween Marathon ↳ Umma (2022)

[editfandom]

Chrissy - Umma, 2022

[cravingdemise]

Watch Umma (2022)

[lesbianmaxevans]

I've been watching a ton of movies this year, so my faves for the first 6 months

Monkey Man (2024) / The Crow (1994) / Huda's Salon (2021)

Clearcut (1991) / Habibi (2011) / I Saw the TV Glow (2024)

They Cloned Tyrone (2023) / Divine Intervention (2002) / The Fall (2006)

Pomegranates and Myrrh (2009) / Abigail (2024) / Femme Fatale (2002)

Mississippi Masala (1991) / Il Mare (2000) / Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (2022)

Umma (2022) / Army of Thieves (2021) / Runs in the Family (2023)

Lingua Franca (2019) / No One Will Save You (2023) / The Bad Guys (2022)

[beasiannow]

K-pop music, Korean dramas, Korean barbecue, you know you love it!

Now you can really get to know all that far better!

Know what all the lyrics of the songs mean, AND be able to sing along.

Never have to depend on English closed captions again. Don't read the stories; dive into them and get all the true deeper meaning.

Finally, understand kimchi for the wonder it is.

How?

Forget about those amateurs out there with their salons and their tiny, tiny little robots and long convoluted processes.

Come to 한국 그래! (Korea Yes!) and we will turn your appreciation and understanding of all things Korean up 10, 25, 75 percent more, and all in less than an hour. (So fast that two-thirds of the 54 minutes it takes is recovery time from the shock to the system of how quick it all is.)

You'll talk in Korean, You'll think Korean, You'll understand Korean.

How about an example?

Here we have Miriam Hilda O'Rourke, a senior at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, totally hating her look for the 2022 homecoming festivities.

“I just can’t get things together like I want them.” she said, “and my hair seems to have a mind of its own and won’t cooperate!”

And Here’s Ms. O’Rourke in the 한국 그래! (Hangug Geulae! - Korea Yes!) Subatomic Quantum Differential Para-Aether Recombinator (it would take a scientist to explain it.) Having her innate “Koreanese” brought from. .0034% to 23.55%

And here she is, what an improvement and not a hair out of place! And quite the impression she made too. (and only the very slightest and charming Korean accent.)

Mind you she also made a more than slight impression when she got home and her mother reacted to her new look.

A very dominating woman is the elder Mrs. O’Rourke.

Would she brow beat Miriam into undoing all the changes we had gifted her with? (no refunds!)

We had a better idea, put Miriam back in the SquDPAR and upped her to 55% Korean while at the same time making her a no-nonsense 56-year-old Korean domineering boss lady.

She ended her mother’s demands and complaints (while doing nothing for Mrs. O’Rourke’s, or for that matter, Miriam’s confusion, as officially she was now four years older than her mother.)

Coming back to Hangug Geulae, we fixed that in quick order.

Mind you, as there is no going back from a raised percentage, we sit her in the booth, dialed her back to 22 years old and then up to 105% Korean, and everything was good.

The new Ms. Ryuk Mi-Hie could not have been more surprised.

This naturally made Mi-Hie worried owing to the fact that she now found speaking Korean far more comfortable than her now, second language of English. “What will my mother say now?” she worried. “Don’t worry.” we told her “Hangug Geulae thinks of everything.”

When the former Miriam O'Rourke got home, she found this to be true as we had sent one of our Mobile Pods there before she arrived, and her mother, Diane O'Rourke, was now Ryuk Da-Eun. (the change was so successful When we took her from Diane to Da-Eun we even got her to stop asking "Where in China is Korea?")

Hug your Umma like a proper Korean girl Mi-Hie!

As for what would happen when Mister O’Rourke, who we were told was off in the middle of a two month long business trip in Europe we don’t know, and as our contract with the Ryuk’s is over, don’t care.

We hope he likes bibimbap, kimchi, and red rice cakes.