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TRAGIC...

It's tragic how much time I've lost watching this show. I mean, you know what's weird? I really LOVE fantasy with romance like this show, but somehow, for a weird reason, I didn't like this one.

I can think of two main reasons:
1 • Villain is kinda dumb and his reasons were shallow
2 • The story by the end turned out to be very... tiring to watch.

This shows started way too good, with a promising plot, an interesting romance and good acting. But the thing is (I guess I'm not the only one that thinks like that) but as the story goes on, their romance from 1500 years ago becomes more interesting than the one from this century, I mean? Why?
Idk, just them from the past are more an interesting couple than the ones from the present. Idk

Anyway! I finished the last two episodes in less than 2h bc I was just skipping most of the scenes, really, it was so easy to tell how it was going to end and all the things that would happen, anyway, I think the ending was very easy to guess and lazy written.

Humm... The villain was so, but so so so so shallow that I think if he didn't existed it wouldn't make any difference to the show. I can't pity him or even hate him, he's just so "meh". Very easy to read too.

The only reason I watched it to the end was the ML lead, I really liked this actor's acting, and he's hot

By the end, I couldn't care less if the couple would stay together or not, I was just "gosh, how much do I still have to watch?" lol.


ANYWAY! I'm really bad at writing reviews in English so I'm finished it here saying just one more thing about this show: If you're looking for a GOOD fantasy romance to watch, this show, isn't for you.

I'm really sad deep inside since I really loved this kdrama at the beginning I thought that it'd become my next favorite one but it turned out to be one that I'll never watch again



Hopefully this review help you to think if you'll gonna watch it or not

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Mafia series

I was expecting more given it's hype but yeah it's good I suppose. VegasPete is really problematic and seeing people normalize it just because Pete acceptes how Vegas acts is weird, it's not because Pete "is ok" with it that it isn't toxic and terrible but yeah you can't really expect a healthy relationship in the mafia so...

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I don't even know what to say

I mean, the rich boy has daddy issues and is dumb and the poor boy doesn't have parents and is a really good student, four clichès in one. I love Perths acting, it really reminds me of Khaotung, but Chimon on the other hand starts to feel forced at some point, like he didn't want to be there. They're chemistry is fine, but again Chimon's acting feels forced. I feel like this could have more potential.

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I was disapointed

I know Yoo Han was kidnapped but before watching I thought I'd just watch Yoo Han and Yeon Woo being all lovey dovey but anyways I did have fun watching this season.

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It had potential but it didn't deliver

The plot was very predictable, which is not a bad thing. It had a lot of potential to be great, to go deeper and really develop the relationship between the two main characters. Sadly, the execution is where the series fell short.

The pacing was very confusing. I was never sure how much time has passed between the scenes, how long have the characters knew each other, etc. It made the story progression and any possible relationship development hard to follow and understand. There are also some plot holes that leave a lot either unfinished or without any prior explanations. And all that just added to how patchy the series was.

Kang In Soo & Yoon Sang Yi: I didn’t really believe their love. I think it has a lot to do with how patchy it all was. They simply weren’t given enough time (on screen) for them to make their love easily understandable, believable. Separately, I found each of them very sweet. Yoon Sang Yi is a little awkward and gets tongue tied when he is close to his crush. It is endearing. Kang In Soo seems closed off and is someone who doesn’t necessarily trust easily. At the same time, it seems easier for him to connect with people through music.

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I LOVE THIS!!

They're so cute, ep 5 had me crying my eyes out tho.

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2023's best show and for indian audice ( banao to asa show banao warna rhne do?)

This will be 2023's best show I watched I thought My Demon was going to be the best show but now after watching this I'm totally sour this is the best show for 2023 I don't know why people give him less rating than 10, this show gives Super Chilling action and also differents story that keeps entertaining his audience.
this show is perfect for fans of action, thriller, and fantasy genres.
creators did an excellent job of how they show the element of life and death it gives a very different view of what death is like.
It makes a thrilling and engaging viewing experience. each cast gives a memorable performance for their role you will love it.

overall this series a pervoking and keeps you on the edge of your seat.

I know I did not do a very good job reviewing it but all i want to say is you won't regret it,
it's a must-watch

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An ambitious firework without a foundation.

To save Earth from colliding with Jupiter, a group of young people must work together to save humanity. Despite an enormous ambition and budget, the film is let down by one-sided characters and sometimes excruciating dialogue.

The Wandering Earth is by far the biggest science fiction film made in China. Based on the book of the same name, with a production budget of $45,000,000, this is a major milestone in China's film industry.

In the near future, the Sun has begun to expand, and within a few years all life on Earth will cease to exist. Humanity then hatches the idea to build 10,000 giant mountain-like engines that will cover half the earth's surface, and turn the earth into a giant spaceship that will then fly away from the sun in search of a new source of energy. I'm not making this up.

During the flight from the sun, the surface of the earth is frozen and all the people have been moved to underground cities, but one day two young people want to sneak up to the surface and experience it for the first time since the expansion of the sun started. Suddenly, they are drawn into a rescue mission, when Earth's engines stop working and must be repaired before our planet ends up on a collision course with Jupiter.

This film is ambitious. Incredibly ambitious. We get to see everything from gigantic, detailed space stations, to frozen cities, to pictures of planets that could just as easily be beautiful paintings. It's noticeable that a lot of time and money has been spent on the production value, and it makes the whole film feel bigger than many other disaster films we've seen in Western films in recent years.

There are exceptions when it comes to special effects though. Unfortunately, the characters spend a lot of time driving around in cars, and the car chases look like they're from any playstation game from 2004. It's immediately apparent that it's 100% made in a computer, and it's eye-popping when you see it.

As ambitious as the film is, it is action-packed. It feels like they have moved away from the classic structure with three acts, and instead went straight to the third act. You start the film with a disaster, and from the fast start the film doesn't want to slow down. It is certainly something that is common in disaster films, but it would have been nice to have a couple of scenes where you can catch your breath. However, the film gets better in the second half, when the main characters come together and are given a mission that is easier to follow.

What brings this movie down is unfortunately the characters. One character is supposed to be a typical humor sidekick, but just comes across as a screaming, annoying form of Jar Jar Binks. Another should be the restrained protagonist who only sees darkness and negativity. It is hard to care about them when they are so one-sided and exaggerated in their behavior. Then add that the supporting characters spend a lot of time in their spacesuits, which makes it difficult to keep track of who is who.

Something else you could have put more love into is the dialogues. At times you might think that a beginner has written them. When our main antagonist tells his sister about the 10,000 engines and why they exist, it's clearly a conversation that exists for us as the audience to get that information. The sister of course already knows this, as it's the reason they've been living underground for 10+ years.

Unfortunately, I'm having a hard time getting into The Wandering Earth. After a bad start with subpar special effects and hard-to-love characters, I can't appreciate the huge spectacle that the second half of the film offers. It's ambitious, lavish and brave, but when I don't get a sensible human entry point, it stops at superficial fireworks instead of something deeper.

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A battle you won't soon forget.

The opening film at the Berlin International Film Festival took a full 9 years to complete. Veteran perfectionist Wong Kar Wai is putting in the finishing touches, spending so much time on In the Mood for Love that the staff behind the Cannes festival worried that the film would not be able to enter the competition where it was scheduled to have its world premiere in 2000.

The year is 1936 in southern China. Gong Baosen (Wang Qingxiang) has passed his glory days and is about to retire. It is celebrated according to tradition at the Gold Pavillion brothel where Baosen challenges a younger man with the potential to take over the title of kung fu master. Ip Man (Tony Leung Chiu Wai) - Who in real life tutored Bruce Lee and trained in Wing Chun - Accepts the ordeal and takes over as the film's centerpiece.

War breaks out in Foshan between China and Japan and in the meantime Gong Baosen is murdered by his disciple Man San. Before leaving Earth, he wishes his daughter, Gong Er (Ziyi Zhang), to renounce a life in the world of martial arts, live in peace with a man by her side and not seek revenge. But can she resist the temptation with her father's fighting spirit in her blood?

The Grandmaster is told as a memoir with an eye on the past where the fourth wall is broken, jumping between romances and civil wars. The film spins on for two decades with clanging swords, pattering rain and kicks left and right. Sound, special effects and saturated lighting work together to form a kaleidoscope. Clouds of smoke and the sound of lovely strings in the background are earlier characteristics that can of course also be found in this work.

One could go on forever about the precise technical skills that make one drool with fascination. There is no doubt that the material has been handled with precision and the stylistic beauty is both a credit to the direction and script by Wong Kar Wai, as well as the impeccable work of cinematographer Philippe Le Sourd and William Chang Suk Ping who edited all of Wong's films. The camera records every little detail and every frame is a photograph or a painting.

The product is a film that, due to its dedicated cast, probably offers the most sensational and beautiful fight sequences ever seen. It provides a crash course in martial arts etiquette, different styles and holds, as well as the history of the Chinese nation with conflicts between the south and the north.

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Polymonogamy: The Prequel

The way they handled things was just all over the place. This loathsome love triangle infested its core amidst everything else. Forcefully pushing it in our throats around every single detour. It got trashier the longer it kept going. The drama was covered with palace politics, as always, but it was impossible to care about anything because they just obsessed over who's in love with whom, overshadowing anything the drama tried to offer. The pacing followed through in that regard—slow moments that dragged on forever for what could have been a quick tale. The drama fell way short of establishing a watchable narrative. It was like biting into a cookie and finding out it's all crumbs.

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Well made and shocking.

Director Zhang Yimou does not shy away from horrors. He avoids pushing our noses into the violence, The Flowers of War is after all a drama and not a splatter film. And it is a drama, a well-made and thoroughly well-acted one.

Christian Bale notwithstanding, The Flowers of War was not made with American money (and apparently only the second all-Chinese film ever with a Hollywood star in the lead role), which may explain why it never made it to cinemas in Sweden. Because films that are not Swedish or English rarely do. It's certainly not a masterpiece, I don't intend to go that far, but surely there would have been room for a larger audience.

In The Flowers of War, Christian Bale plays a not-quite-clean funeral director, John Miller, who goes to a Catholic church in Nanjing, China, to take care of the dead priest there. But it is not very simple, because it all takes place during the so-called Nanjing Massacre, and there is chaos both on the way to and in the church. Where there is also only a group of children, with one exception consisting of girls, left. The not-quite-clean-haired undertaker decides to stay for a while, he has to get paid, and soon finds himself in a protective position he never asked for.

A history lesson might be in order, if you, like me, have never heard of the massacre in question. There was a six-week period after the then-capital of China, Nanjing, fell into Japanese hands, during a Japanese invasion of the country in 1937 (the Second Sino-Japanese War), when invading soldiers in the most heinous ways raped and murdered mostly Chinese civilians in and proximity to the capital.

Director Zhang Yimou (who has, among other things, fairly well-known Hero and Flying Daggers to his name) does not shy away from horrors. He avoids shoving our noses into the violence, The Flowers of War is after all a drama and not a splatter film, but it is somehow, in or out of picture, ever-present. From the initial attack to the aftermath of inhuman acts. Efficient. Nasty.

And it is a drama, a well-made and downright well-acted one, and without checking numbers I'd venture to guess that it was made on a sizable budget. Then it's a bit of a shame that it falls a few times along the way. There are no deep pits, but various small shortcuts in the story and one or the other forced emotional moments can still disturb. Although it's clear, by all means, it's still a lot better than the average modern Spielberg film.

Comments regarding Christian Bale's effort should be redundant, at least if we assume that people generally think his efforts are shitty. And I belong to these general types.

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mindless bore and waste of time

The entire drama is an unbearable mess, and the only reason I finished it was because I was basically hate watching it halfway through to see how long they could keep up being so ridiculous. The "relationship" starts off too suddenly, and there's no depth or chemistry to it. The female lead is absolutely brainless, spineless, and painfully cringey with the personality of a pillowcase. There are no interesting plot points or any relationship progression or conflicts, and there's absolutely no point to watching this unless you're into watching sexy, perverted Dori Sakurada next to whining child montages.

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I found a masterpiece

I've just finished it, and I'll just describe in one word this whole wonderful journey. Unforgettable. From the first episode to the last, I was breathless. This series is a masterpiece.

Worth giving it a chance!!!

Although the ending confused me a bit, I loved it. It may be a sad ending, but I won't say I was disappointed. Yes, I experienced quite a few emotions during the last episode, and yet I wouldn't have imagined any other ending for all of them.

Congratulations to all the Journey to love team!!

All the actors gave their best and it has shown in the result.

I just expect Liu Yuning to work with Liu Shishi again because they have incredible chemistry on the show and I would love to see them together again.

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Omg!!

Wow what a story this one turned out to be. !!! Never seen one like this before and not done yet. Kudos to the person who wrote this! In the world of potion , poisons, and elixirs. Uh yeah what could go wrong. !!! I love this ML... I've tried to watch everything he is in ... and he is GOOD ... the acting in this one I'm pretty sure not just any guy could pull this off. Amazing job, and brave of him too to do it w so much class. So the FL also does a nice job not so challenged but I had a hard time liking her at first. I can't do spoiled baby girls too well. Boring. But her role grew and changed and really got better in time. Losing her family. I didn't know if I was going to get through that myself. Lol. So sad. ?. Anyway I highly recommend if you like romance, but the unusual, a really different type. Right up there w Lost You Forever in level of high drama, really pulled you in and took you for a great story ride ... thank you everyone who was on this one. It's up in my top 5 so far as it just kept spinning a really great tale. I haven't seen the ending so hopefully it doesn't break my heart. Ugh. You begin to feel like part of the family while watching some of these. I love the classy approach on most of these dramas.

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