Good leads but what's with the story writing? So boring! The investigation team are all straw figures, why do…
only three episodes is still 3 h 30 min. That's a lot of time for a drama to convince me- unfortunately this one hasn't. The characters fail to make for a good story (no matter which genre). But I appreciate you think otherwise.
Good leads but what's with the story writing? So boring! The investigation team are all straw figures, why do…
I realise the romance is not the main subject ;) What I was referring to was rather the prospect that the investigators actually have potential for a happy ending beyond solving the case. And I am not saying the mystery is not good. I am saying that the characters do not shine favourably on the story. It seems that the only one with common sense is our little genius and everybody else keeps busy gawking at him. What's the point of calling this an investigation drama? Sorry, really not for me.
Good leads but what's with the story writing? So boring!
The investigation team are all straw figures, why do they even exist? They do not contribute to the story, they don't have personalities and their general impression is one of absolute uselessness.
I was actually looking forward to an investigator team genius/police with some nice romance, but if the result is all mystery and detective aspects are being sacrificed on the altar of romance I'd rather not have any romance thank you very much.
So disappointing.
I was really looking forward to this :)
Finally watched it - and I really liked that it wasn't a one-to-one copy of the Manga. However I was a little disappointed with Yuni's characters. She's not portrayed as smart or intelligent for that matter. She is childish and has completely failed to grasp the concept of independence...
(Whoever says: I don't need friends, I have a boyfriend) def needs get their priorities sorted...
Anyway same goes for mister Smexy teacher - however things that proving love is to marry someone is def on the wrong track (and whoever things love needs to be proven to be real doesn't deserve it)
So apart from these little childish hickups I really enjoyed the movie. I thought it would be a little more an the forbidden side topic wise, but still...
def a sweet watch!
don't know whether this is awesome and original or really horrible. So I get everybody loves room 709 haha... no wonder! if I see one more clichéd romcom I think I am going to scream... but what's with the other rooms? How is it entertaining to watch another more condensed version of the Korean toilet fixation issue? Or all the other little ways in which Korean women tend to treat their partners that would have caused me to ditched her ages ago?!
I am rather disappointed. The cast was overwhelming but it lacked tension. Don't get me wrong it was pretty obvious where script and director intended tension but it never got throught to me... I was rather bored and couldn't fathom how the title 'obsessed' was validated. I mean ok, forbidden lovers, despair, etc. but obsession looks a little different to me. Being dumped and not being able to let go is also not obsession, being dumped and shooting yourself is even less obsession... I don't knwo why this sets during the Vietnamese War, how does this setting contribute to the plot? Why hint at the Colonel's mental instability but not expand on it? Did they set this during this time for the sole reason to ship him off after the scandal got out? And why would a celebrated war hero be so dumb as to miss his own heart during suicide?
I was really looking forward to this. The positively scandolous turn of a actor to more explicit content. I was really curious as to how well he would do, since I always thought SSH a really good actor. well bottom line: not the best sex scenes in kdrama land, not the best chemitry in kdrama land and certainly not the best plot in kdrama land.
I am glad that he dared to try a new direction he didn't do too bad, I think it would have been better, had there been more chemistry with the female lead. I hope his next project will be with a better costar
I thought I was getting too old for romcom drama adaptations. But I really do like Mayu Shinjo and this one was not one of these exaggerated School / gender bender genres. Still a bit over the top but fair. A bit boring as well (story wise, nothing much happens. No suspense... no drama...) but I thought it was quite cute. I didn't skip through the first half (which I think was the better half), then it became a bit stereotypical and too unrealistically cheezy. Akira's role got marginalised in the second half, aswell I didn't like that much. And it is all very superficial, we know practically nothing about Akira or any of the characters. That's a shame. And please don't get mislead, Akira does not run around in a dress all the time. Which I am quite thankful for, because the Gothic lolita style everone is wearing is a bit much for anything outside the pages of a manga.
oh for heavens sake... 'don't tell her about it' is not the go-to solution whenever there is a problem. Gosh the lack of sensible discussion in this drama drives me up the wall. No amount of cute can compromise for this...
Well, it's not as good as the j version. But it's entertaining enough. It feels like they put less passion into making this movie. It feels more superficial then the j version. Like all topics were not developed as well as in the original..
10/10 really spectecular action, beautiful story, top notch actors...
but... how did he manage to be a wanderer for 10 years, when he so easily gets involved with other people's business and opium wars? oO
Oh lord, this sounds wrong on so many levels...
You do not make a weird romance out of MPD. That's a fucking illness and cause enough for inflicted to commit suicide. Hell it even says rom/com in the tag.
okay, so you probably have to approach this as a sort of switch rom/com and just consider his personality going back and forth as a humorous trait of the character... (erm no?) And worst off all, whatever personality is currently dormant, he's not off screen falling in love the 2nd fem lead (or worse, he may), but he still inside and it's unlikely that there is miraculous healing at the end, because MPD is not curable.
And then there is the open position of the fem lead. Usually I'd say HB can play with anyone and that is true, but that doesn't mean just anybody should play alongside HB. Please find a mature actress. No idol.
Can I ignore all that for you HB? T_T
This is such a 'awwww' movie and its hilarious! XD
Curious... I just saw you comment on my 'Boss&me' comment, and now I am here at one of my fav movies and yours is the latest comment. haha such coincidence. I've first seen f17 years ago, really way before I was even into asian films. And I have always loved it. Slightly exaggerared but so hilarious. I just wanted to rewatch... where did you watch it?
So divided about this. It's a really really really sweet drama, but Shan Shan is increasingly annoying me. Not your usual female lead annoying, but annoying in that I don't get the feel she is in a realtionship... I don't feel there is progress... :( oh no! but it's so cute.
Hey guys, great give away again! This is the first time I've heard of tuttle pubshing, their publications are great selection, for anything Asian-related. And I see they even have stuff on Arabic... so cool.
If I won, I'd choose a copy of Chinese for beginners. Good luck to everybody!
OMG !!! ... I thought the actress that played his wife looked familiar ! ... I did not recognize her ! ... It's…
Mind you I still have to watch the whole film (haven't even gotten to the explicit parts). Still waiting for halfway decent subtitles. T_T I refuse to submit myself to the maschine translations. Atm they look like google translate was sick on them... >_>
I really should brush up on my Korean, it's the same with 'a fatal encounter'... it's always the movies that receive so little subbing attention.
OMG !!! ... I thought the actress that played his wife looked familiar ! ... I did not recognize her ! ... It's…
haha tbh I like Jo Yeo Jung much better than the lead actress. Though that's just a personal sentiment ;)
I didn't know it was the same director, but once you know one does notice certain similarities *coughcough*
The investigation team are all straw figures, why do they even exist? They do not contribute to the story, they don't have personalities and their general impression is one of absolute uselessness.
I was actually looking forward to an investigator team genius/police with some nice romance, but if the result is all mystery and detective aspects are being sacrificed on the altar of romance I'd rather not have any romance thank you very much.
So disappointing.
Finally watched it - and I really liked that it wasn't a one-to-one copy of the Manga. However I was a little disappointed with Yuni's characters. She's not portrayed as smart or intelligent for that matter. She is childish and has completely failed to grasp the concept of independence...
(Whoever says: I don't need friends, I have a boyfriend) def needs get their priorities sorted...
Anyway same goes for mister Smexy teacher - however things that proving love is to marry someone is def on the wrong track (and whoever things love needs to be proven to be real doesn't deserve it)
So apart from these little childish hickups I really enjoyed the movie. I thought it would be a little more an the forbidden side topic wise, but still...
def a sweet watch!
I was really looking forward to this. The positively scandolous turn of a actor to more explicit content. I was really curious as to how well he would do, since I always thought SSH a really good actor. well bottom line: not the best sex scenes in kdrama land, not the best chemitry in kdrama land and certainly not the best plot in kdrama land.
I am glad that he dared to try a new direction he didn't do too bad, I think it would have been better, had there been more chemistry with the female lead. I hope his next project will be with a better costar
but... how did he manage to be a wanderer for 10 years, when he so easily gets involved with other people's business and opium wars? oO
You do not make a weird romance out of MPD. That's a fucking illness and cause enough for inflicted to commit suicide. Hell it even says rom/com in the tag.
okay, so you probably have to approach this as a sort of switch rom/com and just consider his personality going back and forth as a humorous trait of the character... (erm no?) And worst off all, whatever personality is currently dormant, he's not off screen falling in love the 2nd fem lead (or worse, he may), but he still inside and it's unlikely that there is miraculous healing at the end, because MPD is not curable.
And then there is the open position of the fem lead. Usually I'd say HB can play with anyone and that is true, but that doesn't mean just anybody should play alongside HB. Please find a mature actress. No idol.
Can I ignore all that for you HB? T_T
If I won, I'd choose a copy of Chinese for beginners. Good luck to everybody!
And bloody matching jammies? >_>
I really should brush up on my Korean, it's the same with 'a fatal encounter'... it's always the movies that receive so little subbing attention.
I didn't know it was the same director, but once you know one does notice certain similarities *coughcough*