Reviews

Beautiful Vampire: missing a plot

When a Vampire/Make-up Artist with strong olfactory memory encounters a person who smells like a love from the past... a lot should happen. But the FL and ML don't have much to do—or much reason to interact—so a few things happen and, surprisingly, repeat. It all feels a bit forced and empty.

Frankly, I watched it for Song Kang, but it was too early in his career and the complexity and layering of emotion were not yet present. The script was too thin for him to invent any depth.

For those who don't need much of a plot to stay engaged, this might work...but it didn't for me.

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A Watchlist Gem I Finally Opened ?

Finally watched Forgotten today and honestly… I didn’t expect to love it this much. 😭

This movie was on my watchlist for a long time. I had been planning to watch it for so many days, but kept delaying it for no reason. Today I just thought okay, let’s finally watch it and yeah… I’m really glad I did.

Giving this a 10/10❤️

What I loved the most is how the movie starts pretty normally but slowly builds this strange and uncomfortable feeling. Nothing feels completely right, but at the same time u don’t know exactly what is wrong. The atmosphere, the house, the night scenes, the silence between characters… everything adds to that feeling.
The acting was honestly amazing. Especially the way the characters react to small things. Jin-seok’s expressions, confusion and fear felt very natural. You can actually feel his mind becoming more and more disturbed as the story moves forward.

And the story is definitely the biggest reason I loved it. The movie keeps giving u small pieces of information and makes u think you’ve figured it out, and then suddenly something happens which makes u question everything again. 😭

The twists are sooo well placed. It doesn’t just throw random twists at u for shock. Most of them actually connect with things shown earlier, which makes the movie even better when u think about it afterwards.

I also really liked the pacing. It takes its time in the beginning, but I never felt bored because there was always this feeling that something was coming. And once the movie really starts revealing things, it becomes difficult to stop watching.

The small details are probably what I enjoyed the most. The phone calls, the conversations, the behaviour of the characters, the little changes in Jin-seok’s understanding of things… everything slowly starts adding up.
And the action was really good too especially the intensity in the later parts. It didn’t feel unnecessary and actually fitted the story.

What I really liked about Forgotten is that after finishing it, u can actually go back in your mind and look at earlier scenes differently. Some moments that seemed normal suddenly feel completely different once u know what’s actually happening.

And yeah, after a long time I found a movie that actually gave me that “I need to know what happens next” feeling. 😭

No unnecessary romance, no boring side story, just a solid mystery/thriller with great acting, atmosphere and twists.
Really loved the story, loved the acting, loved the twists and honestly just loved the whole experience.

Still thinking about it after finishing… and that’s always a good sign.

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The film is about how a girl, after a long violence from her relatives, found the very straw she grabbed so tightly.

It shows what consequences can be after the experience - what are the injuries and disorders. And how one person can turn your life upside down.

What hooked me the most was that the girl had clear symptoms of sociopathy. Although at such a young age, similar manifestations are more correct to classify as a behavioral disorder. And if nothing had happened, all this would have turned into a much worse outcome.

At the end it is shown that they did not turn away from the girl, even after learning the whole truth. And this is a good outcome for her.

There is also a line of the boss - a woman who also has injuries and problems with work and personal life. Even so, she didn't turn away, but became that very straw.

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Don't waste your 1hr and 40mins

the entire movie lacked a stable/good plot and it felt like the entire first half of it was solely to objectify women... as a professional horror movie watcher, i wouldn't really label it as a horror movie. the only thing remotely creepy was engfa's makeup after she became a ghost but other than that, it was just all the characters screaming at and beating each other up 😭 i feel like there were just a bunch of random sex scenes for no reason and it didn't really correlate to the movie. i feel like they could've just put (at max) one and left it at that. the only parts of the movie i actually enjoyed were the comedic scenes but thats about it...

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A painfull but beautiful story

A well produced movie. It was a painfull but beautiful story that showed the growth of the selfish Kyoichi and the pain Wataru went through. I like the last scene where Kyoichi was the one waiting on the chair.
It was nice to see a versatile couple, this was my first BL without the usual top/bottom couple. So that was very refreshing.
The visuals were ok, the music was only background music and it was ok.

The actors did a amazing job and they had great chemistry. The kisses were good, the NC scenes very explicit but good. A lot of people say it's almost porno, but i didn't think so.

This is really a film you should watch!

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Ah là là, on la laisse vivre paisiblement svp !

When we thought Aunty Yvonne found her people, a choosen family that accepts her for who she is, they stabbed her back stealing her chance to finaly live well.

WHY DO WE HAVE TO SIT PERVERSLY WATCHING HER GO THROUGH HELL AND BEYOND !

What do we get from this ?

This movie really lost its chance to serve a greater purpose.

We know damn well that the world we live in and the world she lives in despise her but by the end we understand that the movie wants to see her suffer as well.

I like tragedies, dont get me wrong, but its not what it is, there is not even pity for her, this movie was made for no other purposes but to torture its main caracter, its so lazy and disapointing.

Aunty Yvonne, my heart breaks for you dear, I am so so sorry that this world was cruel to you.

I want to create a world for you where you are loved, you deserve so much more.

I am so frustrated that we have to daydream a world where we are not hated for who we are.

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A feel-good Xmass/New Year season movie with LOTS of great actors

The story here is very Hwoody, lots of ppl find their true friend/business partner and do business, or find their true love and happiness, start dating or marry during Xmass and New Year season. This is a classic "feel good" movie. On the plus side, it is not cheesy, and it is done well and tastefully, ppl go through real problems before they come together, and they overcome the problems and get closer.

The most fun part here is the actors!!!! there is a WHOLE BUNCH of really good and rather famous actors in here, so it is a pleasure to see them

None of the roles here are "bad", all characters are "from real life" and rather quirky but likeable. The acting made the roles really fun to watch. Thanks to the director for letting the actors ACT. THis movie was made before the poker face era...

It was sooo fun seeing ML from Tastefully Yours - wow what a great performance, ML from Spirit Fingers - nice acting here!, Grim Reaper - imo his best role I have seen so far, the best "expressing" - nice! and his love, the Maid, was amazing too! I swear I have seen her somewhere else but cant pinpoint... , ML from Walking on Thin Ice - amazing as usual, and has this most complex character - I love his roles, always different and creative, he is one of my fav actors! and bc of him, I decided to watch this movie
and ML from Undercover High School - wow if it is him singing, he has a really great voice, and I think his Manager is one of the dudes from Low Life etc
everyone so uch younger

and even FL from Practical Guide to Love was not her usual terrible acting, here it meshed well and she expressed more, FL from King the Land was present on screen a tiny bit and did a lot better job, more livelier than in King the Land and BonApettit Your Majesty, and the hopeless only-poker-face ML from Beyond the Bar got a tiny few very limited expression scenes but even he could convey some tiny emotion.

The last scene is a great example of why this drama feels so Kwood rosey glasses and how a drama can use even the worst actors - the two worst actors here just meet by chance in a hallway and exchange a few simple short meaningless shallow polite chit-chat sentences and he says go out with me, and then we have 3 minutes of flashbacks of them like 20m apart.... . Very simple. No complexity, no emotions,nothing to really act. Just put two bodies there and end on a very super artificially sweet unreasonable totally out of blue "happy end".

The complex roles and plots are given to actors who can handle it, like ML from Walking on Thin Ice and the Maid actress

This is a fun movie. All these actors were allowed to ACT, to EXPRESS and that is the best part and the most worthwhile part of this move, and that's why I gave it 8.5/10 and not something less

THis movie is just a great chance to see lots of good actors in one place, allowed to express.

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Killed me with kindness

It started with a harmless 90s aesthetic and Byeon Woo-Seok’s sweet smile, and it ended in the cold, minimalistic, soulless 21st-century days with me bawling my eyes out. This film perfectly encapsulates the feeling of being born in a hopeful era, only to have your innocence taken away by life’s unbearable weight of reality.

If you’re an anxious person like me, you might want to look up the ending beforehand. I usually dislike spoilers, but somehow midway through this film I was like, “ok, I need to know if I’m gonna like the ending or else I won’t be able to keep going.” Then you can imagine my shock when I found out what happened. Thank goodness I learned of it before; otherwise, I would have been completely destroyed.

Spoilers ahead:

Yeah, he dies at the end. Was it really necessary? I don’t think so. I think the film had already made its point clear enough with his moving away. Their love had all the lightness and the overdramatics of adolescence. And like all good things, it eventually had to end. In my view, it would have been enough to see them slowly drifting apart as life got in the way, but remembering their time together with fondness, as happens in real life. This doesn’t ruin the film, though. The last scene is beautiful, and I cried even though I knew what the ending was before I got there.

This is a coming-of-age story, a love story, a nostalgic story. And I enjoyed every minute of it.

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