strawgal

I have been watching The Boys on Prime, where there is man having a relationship with an octopus, womens boobs out all over, and the last episode I watched the man could divide himself, but he just happened to be full frontal nude, which was a bit yuk, and added nothing to the plot. Shock value?
Then there is last weeks episode of House of The Dragon, where one scene is in a brothel, which annoys me because the show runners use that sort of scene as a filler,
Most of the skin you see in this type of drama is nothing more than you would see in sports, and a lot more, thinking of Olympic men's diving.
In this they are trying something different, I am just happy its got a plot like The Stand In, and seems to be set in a realistic situation.

https://raindance.org/festival/ Its based in the UK , https://raindance.org/festival/indie-film-forum-2024/ This is where new ideas/directors get a showcase.
It may not be a big festival but its a chance to get ideas, learn and find like minds. Everyone has to start somewhere.
This UK likes the quircky and the unusual, some perhaps the panel where looking for someone with an origanal idea.
Not everything has to be an obvious smash hit, or well liked to have value. The director Roger Corman died recently, the King of the B movie, who gave other film makers ideas and supported them to make their own as a producer, including Francis Ford Coppola.

This shouldn't work but I think the underplaying of the ML sells it. I never get the trope of the cheerful female lead, but this one is the least irritating, so far.

Dropped it after two eps. Not sure what genre its supposed to be, its not funny and has a very simplistic attitude to medicine, so not very informative.
The best bit seeing Kwak Sun-young playing an introvert. Yes the ML is very handsome in a bland way but as written and acted he is no House, just a very immature man IMO.

Very impressed. Seems to have a proper plot, good production values, direction, and the surrounding charectors and actors are good. Ping I always thought was a good actor and its developing his range, Mean perhaps not so much, perhaps later on.
Frank, has actually gets to act properly.
If you do not like skin do not watch, but I have seen more in the local park/beach.

My WTF was the reaction to a cardiac arrest at the start, Big concert there would be a full paramedic team with a defib, and they usually work on them for an hour at least.

Oh dear, someone needs a nap.

Its a good point of view, but look at something like Bridgerton, a women of thirty seven Nicola Coughlan playing a woman in her twenties, accomplished actor, funny and looking at the coverage she is getting she its about her, and the products she promotes will sell to women.
I always think that British actors are very much like Korean actors, its about the work, and they do not earn as much as US actors. The main difference I think is how the fans treat them, UK actors mainly are treated with respect, and not as a comodity, and when they are interviewed female actors will often redirect the interview. Kate Beckinsale and Helen Mirren are masters of making the often male interviewer look a absolute a-hole.
I think as a whole Korea has trouble with women not conforming to the cultral stereotype, not just in drama.
In MSM media male actors have always got more attentsion, and have been paid more, so someone like Nicole Kidman have had to produce their own projects. Margo Robbie produced Barbie, which made nearly $150bn.
I think eventually a female K pop singer will have enough control to break out of the system mold, its having the drive to do it.

My sister is ten years younger than her husband, my friends husband is twenty years older than her, my husband is five years older than me and I met him him when I was nineteen, all long lasting marriages of many years.
I can not imagine being with a man the same age as me, they take enough 'training' as it is.

To be fair, and I have watched both, they are not two every ones taste. It a bit like a snail race, you know where they are going, and they will eventually get there, if they do not get side tracked, but sometimes you just think its painfully slow and can they get a wiggle on. A meaningful relationship does not have to take so many eps, with hardly a laugh in view.

To be fair, and I have watched both, they are not two every ones taste. It a bit like a snail race, you know where they are going, and they will eventually get there, if they do not get side tracked, but sometimes you just think its painfully slow and can they get a wiggle on. A meaningful relationship does not have to take so many eps, with hardly a laugh in view.

Completed in two days, glad I waited. Nothing is perfect, but the quality was high even if it was a bit of a formula, and I enjoyed far more than CLOY. There is something very comforting about this sort of drama, that why they are so popular, like Marry My Husband and Love, Marriage, Revenge.
It is was its is.

You deserve an award for perseverance.

Probably its said in the context that Robert Downey Jr who won and Oscar this year was well known in his previous for drug and alcohol misuse, yet he was still involved in major projects at the time of his addiction. No one wants anyone to misuse drugs, but I have a friend who is on prescribed opiates for leg injuries, bone pain is one of the most difficult to treat, and it persists long after the bones have 'healed', and can cause long term MH issues.

I think he suffers from Brad Pitts problem early on, being cast for how he looks, and not often allow to step out of that mould, and he has been very successful on Netflix in that mould. Its also seems to be forgotton that actors can only choose from roles they are offered, and its not until they have enough money a clout that they get to pick perhaps less well paid interesting projects, to widen their range. Like alot of female actors he his only allowed to be pale and perfect, although I think he is great in Sweet Home.
Even well established actors often make mischoices, did anyone watch The Island, it must of looked good on paper, but even Kim Nam-gil couldn't save it, I will watch almost anything he is in, and I dropped it after 5 eps.
If think the amount of output needed over all formats means there is a lot of recycling of plots and themes, do we need a another fanstasy historical/modern drama, so its down to good screen writing and direction, which actors have no control over, to raise them above the rest.

To be fair they cover a lot of streaming hours, and even Disney has turned out a lot of rubbish. They are able to give money for projects where you think WTF, like Tiger King. Show a lot of original non English language drama, I will watch anything with subs, so it gives other countires filmakers a chance of a bigger audience. I only watched K drama at the start through Netflix, we watch a lot on Prime as well now.

This Is My First Life, is just aww, cute but real.

The are many sorts of revenge, The Glory takes it to its extreeme. In real life you find their weak spot and if you can exploit the system, so you are not directley involved to, 'drop them in it', Sigh, so satisfying.

To me its just lazy writing, and I do understand plot devices. The fact that it was on Netflix meant it was slightly taylored for and international audience, so they had perhaps more physical contact than most K drama. It just makes me really sad that, the screen writers to not depict women as three dimensional charactors, they tend to be bad, mad or vacuous, and incapable independant thought.
Just finnished Doona, which although she is a bit self centred,( but why is the OK in ML's), she is trying to shape her life.

I actually think it would have been a more interesting story, if the FL in DWY had been a been slyly plotting her rivals downfall, in stead of using spells which she didn't really beleave in, or know that worked. It may be a plot device and appear cute, but you can do both, as plan B.
As a product I see it as an 8.5, like bad chocolate, sweet at the time but not realy memerable. I did think it gave Rowoon a chance to extend his range, the lead actress did the best with what she was given.
You can appreciated parts of something, and look at the craft/content but not perhaps be so keen on the whole result.

Good idea, spoiled by making most of the charectors, mainly female completely stupid, and pretty nasty at times. FL had only two expressions, and a brain the size of a pea. Who writes this in2023?
Aside, does no one use google etc, to do research? I can find out information, with a click, historical data, company records, ....