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There's no reason a European should be expected to have perfect English though?

The other two Europeans also showcased various struggles with the language, as you wrote, and one (her boss, from the same nation) kept trying to say French-y things to her.

And yeah, I quickly started hunting for a better subtitles file – there is one on OpenSubtitles now, which has the majority of the English subbed.

(that means edit rather than apologize :D)

It's a bit peculiar to ask this 11 years later, but what *is* the ending's "crucial point"?

Especially in the first half hour or so there's so much going on at once that it warrants watching a few scenes multiple times. Some great filmmaking on display, even if the parts of the story could ultimately be fleshed out more or infused with more clarity. (See comments below w.r.t. that.)

Two naked people in the great outdoors.

Yeah, maybe KR lip reading is needed? If, of course, there's even anything clearly said there.

I thought the endings were really stupid *and* poorly executed in both CLoY and Reply '88.

Currently my award for worst EP1 goes to SBS' It's Okay, That's Love (which I otherwise like).

There are some references, and things like Sung Dong Il & Lee Il Hwa playing 'the parents of the protagonist' Sung Dong Il & Lee Il Hwa.

Most problematically:
- The girls' grandparents just disappear from the story entirely. At 40 minutes, grandma tells kid1 to feed kid2, and at 55 minutes grandpa (alone!) seems to be departing with livestock. After that, there's a break in, bird onslaught, poisoning attempt, leaving the house with mysterious money to run away, etc. No grandparents!
- At the end, the bleeding king-demon-stars teleports from one car into the other, silently and all. How does he do that?

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Why does Twin Sister even die? Because she achieved her dharma?
Is she 'a demon', or to counter the Big Evil?
How does the onset of puberty suddenly make her more human and also capable of speaking?

What's the point of ordering the four adopted clowns to die one by one? It prevents a fruitful law enforcement investigation, but otherwise? Is there a prophetic point to it?

How does the Big Evil overcome death anyway, assumably in his 30s? Does he get corrupted by power later on, or is he evil to begin with?
[Perhaps the Tibetan monk's prophecy makes "his eyes change" (and thus his soul become the evil snakerino).]
Is anyone actually the 'Maitreya'? The scriptures as prophecy source are obviously authored by the Big Evil, so they can't be taken too seriously.
[I guess the Twin Sister is the real Maitreya, and turns the demon-king into a force of good, at which point he "does not fear elephants" and is shot for that.]

I guess it made a lick of sense, but not that much more.

All the characters somehow seem pretty rich anyway (Lotte going overboard with the scene design?) so why do they need to steal to make a living?,

the story doesn't make the most sense,

the filmmaking isn't that fantastic (in the club scene early on: completely meaningless ultra-closeups of a beer bottle and a ringing phone),

ML's back story / emotional angle is badly glued in at random points,

the bad guy is just over the top evil and quite boring that way,

and like an IMDb reviewer wrote, Lee Ji Hyuk isn't just the Danny Ocean of this movie but he's Ocean's Eleven all rolled into one person — his two team members have very, very little to do in the actual heisting.

The warehouse scenes all kinda make no sense given how Park Hee Soo's unnamed goons just stand around doing absolutely nothing, how they let the three "betrayed" swindlers live, how ML teleports into a disguise & into a moving car....

And how ML, impersonating Jang, gets into a four way telephone conference with the two people above Park Hee Soo in the scene when Park Hee Soo is "at Jang's villa" (lured by Kwak).

No, the painting doesn't appear. I guess it's very common for intros to be produced separately and include content you wish was in the show, but it never appears.

In my subtitles, Ji Chul was sort of clearly the brother of Ji Hye, with his wife attributing similar faults to them early on.

I found the production substantially prettier than the first one.

The plot's kind of a mess in both movies.

Earlier she had an inner monologue that she only wants to see him again when they can speak without negative feelings from the past, and he basically repeated this back at her, to show how telepathically aligned they are or something.

And yes, more 'fluffy love' would have done the last hour(s) a whole lot of good.

If you don't enjoy it after that many hours, drop it.

Well, they wasted time on not forgiving, the whole silly fight to the death, the coma ordeal, "do I leave to Germany or not?", "let's not go cry to dad but go cry to mom and then after 5 minutes dad has to come drive out there and pick me up" and so on... it effectively wasn't better than amnesia.

I thought she was perfectly fine in the role, and other actresses wouldn't have done much better.

There's only once she does a completely unnecessary "crying baby" face. Other crying scenes were decent.

I'd call it a happy ending, for ML/FL as well as most side characters. It's just lacking the happy fluff at the end. They had more than enough time budget to film some of that.