damsel in a dress

Well, I DO feel that LMH's shirt is the universal, internationally recognised association-shirt of boys in High school (when not wearing uniform.) :D

I am not a fan of Park Shi Hoo so I avoided this drama for quite some time. But now I've started it and although I still don't like him much, the romance is worth watching. I find the historical part not as well done as in other dramas. The intrigue feels artificial, the actors are not cunning.

He looks so different with full hair in the final episode XD *totally caught me off guard*
The haircut makes them look so fierce!
He could never pull off the emperor with that shock of cute hair ;)

Thanks for the friend req :)

thanks for the friend req!
I've seen from your list that you like romcoms and are a friend of MGG. Then maybe you want to check out Arang (though I don't know whether you will like the historical component, that's not everybody's cup of tea). Or Skip beat! The latter is a typical romcom. Very nicely done (a little like You're beautiful maybe, just without the gender bender) :D

Howl's Moving Castle is based on a novel by Dianna Wynne Jones and although the artwork by Hayao miyasaki is stunning the storyline is much better developed in the novel. So if they stuck with the novel plot you could make a very good romcom from it!

If someone made Escaflown into a drama maybe they would finally incorporate every fangirls secret dream and change the ending! T_T But you would probably need an bottomless budget to make a decent flying fortress- so maybe just don't

will you please mark things like that as spoilers. Because I did not know about the ending. thankyouverymuch :(

I've actually seen quite a lot of his works and I think he is very talented. He's multifaceted and can portray many different personalities and emotions.
I think I liked him best in Arang (but that may just be, because I also enjoyed the drama a lot as a whole).
I did not finish Iljimae (it wasn't that appealing and too slow paced for me), but he did some good acting in it.
The King and the Clown was a brilliant work and I admire him for playing a role like that.

agreed.

They could have ended it in ep 11- why more?

Thanks for the friend req :D

This was actually one of the better japanese romances. I enjoyed it a lot. Many people find it slow paced, and I can see where they are coming from, because I often have the same problem with j-romances (at least the more serious ones). But this was really well done. The pauses were necessary for all the unspoken things to be said. Does that make sense? I felt really caught up in this. The acting was really good. The leads had amazing chemistry. Must watch :)

Did the camera-guy not have a tripod? What's with all the shaking? I get all dizzy @_@

Agreed. I really want to like this version best (and don't we all know why? *cough*jiro*cough*) but it just legs behind the kversion. I thought the korean script was more refined, better developed. If you know the korean version and watched this later some parts feel really cut down and my mind automatically inputs the information from the korean script.

I major in linguistics. I don't have the results yet. I may have failed yet ;) But thanks.
I always thought I could start a career as a director *coughcough* ahh the possibilities :D

I am not familiar with the (american? or any other really XD) med schools systems. 4 years is pretty far in right? Oh I know that too well. Just finished my dissertation and almost didn't make it for watching too many dramas. I should have done a paper on drama addiction ;)

Love your profile pic btw. You studying to be a doc?

XD good guess. Indeed I was referring to Frozen Flower. But not only because of the sex but also because of the castration. That caught me off guard. Not really suitable stuff for all ages.
I've not seen any of the horror movies (because that's not my genre) but I bet quite a few of them could do with a rating as well. Though I suppose you know what you are in for with a horror movie. ^^
We'll just have to wait and see what comes of it :)

I feel a bit sorry for the actors if so many people go around making apologies for them for being in such a movie. I know some people carry this pristine image of their favourite actors, which presents them as incarnations of innocence. I really liked what the director did here, bringing up all these raw emotions and intense relationships. And the actors did a great job here (because I think it must be bloody difficult to act this sort of thing with a bunch of crew members standing around) . They should be respected for that :D

Seriously, everyone is so shocked >_>
Yes, a lot of very explicit scenes were involved. By the by, the slaughtering was also rather explicit and bloody but no comments on that?
Please just don't watch it, if you don't like this kind of thing, though I accept that the lack of forewarning given might lead to misunderstandings.
This is a really good movie. The acting is stunning and heart wrenching. It does not deserve this sort of controversy.