Melo Movie

This would have worked as a movie!

Dropped around ep 5. i cant watch any longer. It feels like a chore I'm forced to do when I'm all snuggled up in my bed, like your relatives drop by to hang out and you are required to join the crowd. Such an inconvenient and lengthy situational instance.

Visually beautiful and really good setting and backdrops though. In terms of characters and plot, pacing all exhausting. I think they should have focused more on carving characters out, we did get their through process which feels like they were reading a script technically right! Like surfacing their struggles or way of living rather than showing how each personality contrasted from one another or their choices. I'm mainly talking about the first couple cause my beef is with them with the story mostly covering their side.

Their banter so dull and often times feels repetative. The few scenes are not long enough to connect with someone, I'm not them so I can't decide that yup! As for the chemistry its non-existent. I know this is a "melo" but, for a build up of the turmoil of emotions, bitter conflicts in their relationship there is a need for a concrete romantic story that makes you want to consider that they deserve to have a second chance in love come on even the first time they briefly got together feels abrupt and forced too. The time skip was too big and the characters are now assigned job titles and are well....settled a bit i guess, again just cutting down on a lot of process that could have given us an outlook on how they got to where they are now.

Everything feels redundant and contrived, nothing natural nor is the pain or the trauma, the ups and downs of people in 30s trying to reach their dreams and manage relationships with a vision of melo-romance(?) Idk the description was kinda like that. Anyways it fails majorly, this is a wasted potential with a sloppy direction, characters that lacked depth and no emotional connection and plot is just a plain dried bread sitting on counter for too long.

Osts and the cinematography is good, the casting stellar in terms of visuals too but its all nah-nah-uh for me with how bad it's going. I do like Kim jae-wook and love him here with the mullet and playing a considerate, consumed in guilt/helplessly dependent yet is a good companion, optimistic and a reliable bro to gyeom role. Also the director was an interesting chummy character.

5/10 or maybe 6/10.

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it was like reading a book for me

most kdramas are just kdramas for me, its a story its a series and i enjoy watching them. however, something about this drama made me feel like i was reading a book about how life is. maybe it was the filmography maybe it was the lines but something about this drama was on a different level of profound and beautiful to me.

before watching, i had no knowledge of what this would be about except on the great casting. hell, i thought this was actually a movie and not a series. while watching, it felt like a little bit of everything: romance, angst, slice of life, and grief. which is what i liked the most about it. it was perfectly a balance of everything we experience. this kdrama was the epitome of what life is and that's what i loved about it. it felt so Real that watching it was just a nice refreshing feeling for me. nothing was exaggerated and you know, how the characters approached everything in this story felt so again, real. it was human.

honestly, nothing particularly stands out in this kdrama. nothing is unique and nothing is special but i feel like that's whats makes it so beautiful for me. nothing is grand yet in small pieces i find something beautiful.

again, it felt like reading a book. like how books would allow me to reflect on things, this drama made me reflect too. it made me gain perspective on life and idk... it just feels nice to watch these type of kdramas that remind us that reality is reality and while there is pain, there is also happiness and beauty in it.

my favorite lines from this were
"life seems to have a fixed amount of happiness. in other words, there is also set amount of misfortune"
"so now i'm going to live every moment to the fullest. because life isn't a movie but a reality"
"life is a beautiful, magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish"

overall, i loved this kdrama a lot and it will forever hold a place in my heart. as i said the story isnt even grand yet when i look at this kdrama as a whole, it was a perfect and beautiful kdrama for me.

would love to commend choi wooshik especially for perfectly representing gyeom who allowed me to see that life has indeed a fixed amount of happiness but nothing is bad about it because it is again, just life.

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waste of time... I was expecting much more

I am really disappointed. I was so looking forward to this drama as Woo Shik is one of my favorite actors. It's so boring. I forced myself to finish it as I had no other option because I watched it on the flight.

Also, the story is very realistic, but it seems absurd that he did not even text her about what was happening, and the lack of communication is frustrating. I hoped it would get better after a few more episodes, but no. Ten episodes never felt so long.
The brothers' story was very sad to watch, but that is it. I did not care about the main couple, and the chemistry was missing. To be honest, it was a wasted 10 hours.

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feels like one long movie

you know the feeling movies give you? like there is this special feeling that it's gonna end soon and it actually does but here we have the feeling but not the ending fast part. I really loved it and it was really nice the storyline was really good but it sometimes got me boring but overall it's really nice I really loved his relationship with his brother I think that was my fav part and how there is actually some meanings behind it and depth I found it really really nice and it made me cry I always thought his brother is boring or weird for not having any interests or his own personality but finding out that he decided to make his brother his only goal made me cry and it was so emotional for me. my second fav thing was the main couple I loved them and I love how they were different but still went so good tgt they were so cute. my third fav things would be her relationship with her parents I was really annoyed about the father dayghter relationship I thought It was all so much and she was overreacting I mean I completely understand how she was feeling after all she was still a kid but I felt like the dad could've done better and wasn't absent sm and she could've understood him better and I loved how at the last episode she just realised that she has a mother and started acknowkging her and her love for her. now the second lead couple were my least favourite thing they actually annoyed me SO MUCH everytime they were on screen I was like UGH I love both actors so much but they were so incompatible she's such a baddie and he's lowkey a loser who is so insecure and his ego is big like how can u love ur self and hate ur self so much at the same time IM SO GLADDDD they didn't end up together OK thanks guys BTW THE MUSIV WAS SO GOOD THE OST ATEEE

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story line chemistry and character

male lead and female lead had no Chemistry in end they should that male lead only watch movie to spend time with his brother like wth- whole point of movie was that male lead is in love with movie.....the female lead was nice the comedy was good but the second couple the female second lead was annoying and weird i didnt like her character at all the male second lead was fine he was nice..... chemistry between male lead and his brother was good I love the way they potrait their relationship i love every scene of them both together i would watch it again only for his brother

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clever, witty, tender and full of LOVE!!!

"The light in the darkness. That's what movies were to me. Inside a simple, square shaped light, anything was possible. It made me feel as if I could do anything. But the world outside of movies...was always harsh and burdensome. There were no well crafted plots or heartwarming lines. Life was just lonely and desolate. That's when someone showed up. Kim Mubee."

Melo Movie has a perfect setup, starts things off with a romance that quickly withers before blooming. It's a simple but stunning story about love: romantic, brotherly, platonic, the love that shapes us, the love we take for granted, the love we have to let go of. There's also grief, plenty of it, warmth, and compassionate understanding. The writing is both razor sharp and beautiful. It is also visually appealing: pastel and neon brightness matching its overall sunny tone.

The cast is superb as well, particularly Park Bo Young in a new kind of role. She sometimes felt burdened by her cheerful image. I can't wait to see her take on more challenging roles.

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Slow and smokin'

There's a moment in the film where Mu Bi reflects on her father's film making career: his films were really boring and she wasn't quite sure with his story telling exactly what he wanted to say.

I feel this summed up this drama quite well. I wasn't quite sure what it wanted to say and at times I lost interest and stopped watching it. It had enough going for it for me to see it through but by end of it all, I still wasn't sure what it was that I had just watched.

I guess it's roughly themed around second chances, those that work out, those that don't, and those that are taken from you. I'm guessing the overall theme was something like , life is a journey and each person must live it their own way. Actually, I think one of the characters says something like that and it becomes a poignant moment of realisation that we are not responsible for everything that happens to other people.

I love the actors, they all did a great job. The chemistry between the second leads feels sparky, the main leads, it feels a little flat, I wasn't convinced despite both being great actors.

My big pet peeve of this drama though has to be the product placement. There was a lot of vaping, a lot of smoking. I was really shocked, in my country you can't portray young people smoking to look cool - it's considered really inappropriate. Same with the drinking - there's a couple of times where the beer label is really obviously flicked to the camera so we can notice the brand.

I guess I'm a bit old fashioned in that I don't like the alcohol or smoking industry trying to subtly influence young people to drink or smoke.

Overall, it's a pleasant enough way to spend the evening and enjoy some well known faces. Go in with low expectations and you might find yourself enjoying some of the slower and sweeter moments as well as the overall relaxed vibe.

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