At first it seems like the big brother is just latching onto his little brother to take advantage of him but it turns out he’s sick and wants to make sure his little brother can take care of himself before he dies.
For me: No Other Choice (not watched, because I've loved the book and i'm scared to be disappointed)Decision to…
Thanks for sharing. In hindsight I bumped my Cyborg score a little bit. I haven’t read the book but I think you should still watch this since you’re clearly a fan of PCW. It’s a pretty straightforward story so I can’t see any deviations from the source being too offensive and it’s beautiful to look at and well-acted at the very least.
Dropped towards the end of episode two. The writing is awful. The actions and motivations of the characters don't…
Episode 1: The ML is a veteran elite bodyguard and we just watched a montage of him training and getting back into shape, including a demonstration of his great fighting ability. Then he gets the shit kicked out of him by a mere journalist. There's no explanation of the journalist's ability to fight or rig a remote-detonated smoke bomb.
Episode 2: The bodyguards both turn their back on the woman they're supposed to be protecting, but she's still only a foot away from each of them. She sneaks away from them unheard and is totally out of their sights when they turn around a couple of seconds later, despite the fact that she was wearing heels.
Dropped towards the end of episode two. The writing is awful. The actions and motivations of the characters don't make sense and everything that happens feels contrived. Don't watch if you're looking for a logical crime/police drama.
This sucked. Started off kind of interesting but quickly went nowhere. The main character just runs around screaming all the time and it’s annoying af. Dropped halfway through episode 7 and it was already a slog by that point. I’m glad I caught the Oldboy hallway homage before I turned it off though. What was with the fugly-ass hippie Dracula? I’d love it if someone counted how many people were in the hotel at the start and compared it to the death count and how many people there are in later scenes. It seems like hundreds of people are killed but there’s always a huge crowd of people remaining lol.
This was fun, funny, and there were some emotional parts. I didn't totally buy the main character's actions though…
She's meant to be an intelligent, professional, ruthless lawyer that doesn't let emotional, yet she totally freaks out when she wakes up in the temporary life that she just agreed to live. Then she continues to go against all of the agreements she made beforehand. Surely a lawyer would be better at keeping agreements? The heaven transit guy being her dad was so lame. They had no emotional connection or positive interactions throughout the whole movie, what was the point of that?? What was the moral of the story? That all women yearn to be housewives and can't truly be happy if they're single and childfree? I'm not surprised it was written by a man. Since that's what they went for though, I wish one of them had have said something at the end like they recognised the other from somewhere before it cut to black (they did go to college together).
This was fun, funny, and there were some emotional parts. I didn't totally buy the main character's actions though and I thought the ending could have been better. The main cast were all great. 7/10
Dropped at 00:40. Visually stunning but lacklustre everything else. Couldn't suspend my disbelief any longer. Don't watch this if you have any knowledge of space or science or military.
At first it seems like the big brother is just latching onto his little brother to take advantage of him but it turns out he’s sick and wants to make sure his little brother can take care of himself before he dies.
I haven’t read the book but I think you should still watch this since you’re clearly a fan of PCW. It’s a pretty straightforward story so I can’t see any deviations from the source being too offensive and it’s beautiful to look at and well-acted at the very least.
Episode 2: The bodyguards both turn their back on the woman they're supposed to be protecting, but she's still only a foot away from each of them. She sneaks away from them unheard and is totally out of their sights when they turn around a couple of seconds later, despite the fact that she was wearing heels.
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The heaven transit guy being her dad was so lame. They had no emotional connection or positive interactions throughout the whole movie, what was the point of that??
What was the moral of the story? That all women yearn to be housewives and can't truly be happy if they're single and childfree? I'm not surprised it was written by a man.
Since that's what they went for though, I wish one of them had have said something at the end like they recognised the other from somewhere before it cut to black (they did go to college together).
7/10