Maqluba
USA
non-boring story line? check
great OST? check (one of the best)
chemistry between actors? check (sizzling in some cases)
hilarious and embarrassing events? check
a beautiful love formation? check
actors acting their butts off? check (especially Shin Dong Wook's butt...um I mean acting butt...um I mean acting chops)
angst but not jump-off-the-cliff angst? check
a totally different way to tell a story (editing etc)? check (I haven't seen a drama do what it does to the story and not make it confusing but actually add to the awesome-ness)
man I love this drama!! definitely a must watch!!
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One reason I love jdramas so much= the funny...and this show gives you plenty of it...I've re-watched it so many times and I STILL crack up every time:D
and its not just random funny things happening like in HanaKimi..there is an actual storyline and its not TOTALLY off the wall. It also helps that the girls are bada$$ and all of the parentals are cool and funny and the melodramatics aren't tooo...melo?...
Its not repetitive, the main two actors have chemistry, and I personally didn't think it slowed down... I think if you watch something like HanaKimi and then watch this show you might think its slower because they do add background stories to each character...but com'on! its only 10 episode and if not for anything else watch it to stare at the pretty that is Narimiya Hiroki and Hongo Kanata :)
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whatever you do, if you decide to watch this movie...do NOT... I repeat... do NOT read up about it before you watch it. I randomly saw this movie online the other day and loved it and was so so glad that I didn't read up about it because I woulda definitely hit a spoiler... there's a twist in the story that made me do a 180 but had I read the reviews/comments I definitely woulda been spoiled, and woulda missed out on that...this movie is Beautifully made (its on an island most of the time and the scenery is so beautiful) and the acting/cast did so well (I didn't know either actor but now they're definitely on my radar!) and its a great story!
I highly recommend watching this film..even if you don't like Taiwanese/Chinese film/dramas, this one seemed a little different to me and I found it to be quite good (great even!)
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I was very excited to watch this movie because I really liked all the main actors and it looked beautifully made but in the end I was left with somewhat of a disappointment.
Kekio was dull, Osamu didn't do the "I'm cool and mysterious" thing well enough, Aya and Kento looked great but their story line wasn't polished off well (I was more interested in them than the leads' story) and Yusuke was the saving grace of this movie cuz his acting was the only convincing thing here.
I don't mean to bash the movie, I enjoyed the movie enough to say I don't regret watching it, but I feel like had this movie been made into a drama instead it would have been for the better. I felt like it started off very well but then it plateaued and then kinda dropped near the end storyline-wise. I wasn't convinced with anyone's feelings or actions towards anyone else so to me the last 1/4 of the movie wasn't as heartfelt as it could have been. It felt like for the second half of the movie we got little spurts of everything and so I didn't feel the connections between any of the characters.
The music and the color schemes were beautiful (visually it was very pleasing) and its always nice to see beautiful actors doing their thing on camera but that's not enough to get me to re-watch it unfortunately... unless they do a spin-off with the other characters other than the main ones and turn it into a drama, with extra melodramatics and angst lol.
But like I said I don't regret watching it so I guess I would say "watch it if you've got and 1 3/4 hour to kill and like these actors just don't go in with too high expectations like me:)"
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I have to say this drama is a hate/love one for most who watch it and I fall in the LOVE side. The things that bugged me in the first 2 episodes quickly got fixed/removed (like her daydreams) and from then on I was hooked. This drama has a very lighthearted and BASIC story line people so don't expect great turmoil and over the top romance. Its a simple love story that can truly happen..no crazy twists that make you go "only on TV".
What really hooks me in this drama is the cute/embarrassing moments that happen to Oh Ha Ni that make me cringe and giggle and hide behind my blanket for her sake. I love love that feeling in rom-coms and this drama has so many of them!! Jung So Min plays Oh Ha Ni so perfectly, if it weren't for her I'm sure I wouldn't have continued on with the drama.
I love a good drama like everyone else but I love me some silly too and this drama does silly without being stupid-silly (a fine fine line that's usually crossed making me drop a drama). It may seem crazy from our point of view that this girl is non-stop stalking our poor Baek Seung Jo but just when you think she's going too far, she holds back and restrains herself and just when you think she's gonna get over him, he shows her signs of hope and she's back to her obsession again.
I know a lot of people seem to hate it for the silliness and some people can't seem to get over the differences in PK versus ISWAK but all I can say is if silly bugs you and if normalcy bugs you then this drama may not be for you. I think its because I like J-dramas so much for the silliness and this drama was supposedly a straight adaptation of a Japanese manga that I am used to and enjoy that silliness. If you didn't like ISWAK don't ignore this drama because I couldn't watch past 4 episodes of ISWAK (I tried so many many times but I can't get over how weak the female character is in that one) and I still love this drama.
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I usually drop things quick if I dont think it was done well but this show picks up quick (esp since the episodes aren't that long) and I embraced the chunny-ness (cheesy-funny-ness?)
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