Okay so this was one of the shittiest movies I have ever watched since the day I was born. The fact that this shit is so hyped to the point that I was convinced to watch the live action movie and even considered to watch the anime (Which has 76 episodes or so for fucks sake) and the anime movie, is just...tragic to me lol I mean if others view this crap as good and enjoyable, I guess sure that's their right but to me it was just gross as hell. It totally felt as if the writer was trying their best to win the award of most toxic romance plot in human history by how many fucked up things they added to the story.
1- We got the creepy and crazy parents. I mean they want to get divorce and remarry? That's cool and all, power to them, they don't need to force themselves to be miserable if divorce gonna make them happier. They are friends with the other couple and very chill around them? That's also fine, better than everyone hating each other I suppose. Now the issue is: Them basically forcing the whole "lets live together in the same fucking house and act all lovey dovey and happy go lucky in front of our damn kids" part and the fact that the kids couldn't really do anything about it.
Like no matter how open minded and chill you are, there is no way you will be open minded enough to be okay with daily watching both your parents act all romantic and cheery with other people in front of you...and to make it worse, the other couple tries hard to act all close with the FL/Miki even after she made it clear she wasn't okay with what was happening. I'm not saying they should be cold with her, but not try so hard to shove themselves down her throat, she clearly needed some time to accept the whole thing, but they went overboard with trying to make it all seem normal that it became creepy to death.
If I was in the kids' place at that point I would be like "You do you and all, but let me live alone in a dorm or whatever till I become an adult and then find an apartment or something, I'm not gonna force myself to handle seeing you all be creepy in front of me, so leave me alone and do what makes you happy away from me. Don't shove your desires down my throat please" cause I do believe the parents deserve to be happy, but they also should be mindful of their kids opinions and needs.
Also the fact that (Was it the FL's mother) one of the wives told the FL to not fall for Yuu when they just moved in and I was like really? Is that something you should be saying to your daughter? Like it's both insulting and gross thing to say.
And the fact that the parents are so chaotic, Yuu reached a point were he thought his father wasn't his real father and all that drama...imagine being so irresponsible and odd that your kid thinks he isn't really your kid, that's just depressing.
2- The whole romance between the two leads was utterly gross, first of: Why are Asians obsessed with plots about incest (I know in this movie's case they aren't related, I'm talking overall) and step/adoptive siblings love stories????!!! Like why? Why do they need to be related somehow or have their parents married to each other? Can't the leads just treat each other like normal siblings and move on? So just cause you live with another person of opposite sex (Or same sex in BL's shows case), it means you must want to fuck at some point?! Are they are animals?!
To add insult to the injury, later they suspect they might actually be related by blood, and what do they do? Face their parents saying "Oh, we know we might be related, but you know what? Fuck it, we will still date cause that's love!" like really?! Also when the hell did their "true love" reach that level where it's so strong to the point they don't care about being siblings?
They interacted for like a month? Maybe less and then they are willing to die for each other out of the blue?! That was so forced, it became laughable honestly, and it only reminded me that they are just retarded teens (I know not all teens are retarded, but they are always retarded in these shows for some reason) so of course they will be immature as heck...I'm sorry but I wasn't sold on their romance bullshit. But I guess since their parents are mentally ill, the kids will also have issues obviously.
There was also a scene were Miki supposedly was passed out in the nurse office and then Yuu comes in and decides to kiss her while she pretended to be sleep, that was after the other dude publicly confessed his feelings to her, and well...that also bothered me a lot. Kissing someone, who isn't even your lover when they are unconscious is just...not a good thing to do. Then after she falls for Yuu, there a moment when he is like "I don't like you anymore, so leave me alone" all of a sudden...so to cut it short, I hated both the leads. They both were annoying to me.
3- Now for the third disgusting and problematic subplot romance, the one between Miki's retarded friend and her teacher. Like why did they add that as well? As if the plot wasn't already filled with tons on issues they decided to challenge themselves even more by adding a messed up romance between a minor student and her damn creepy teacher.
I don't care how awful Miki's friend life story/past/family is, that doesn't mean she should go chase after adult creepy men who also happen to be her fucking teacher, and that damn teacher should have his teaching license taken away and should be thrown in jail, like how can you view your minor students like that, she isn't even a college student (Which in that case would be way less disturbing, although personally I also would never date my college teacher, even if they aren't that old, but at least college students are adults so it less illegal), nope a minor!
So everyone in the plot had serious mental issues and we were supposed to view the plot as romantic, cute, and funny somehow...
Now for other things that I disliked about the movie: 1- Camerawork was kinda odd. 2- Movie was way longer than it should be for such a plot. 3- acting was meh at best, especially the FL, her acting was stiff as a mannequin half of the time. 4- The ex girlfriend of Yuu was obsessive and annoying, and her existence didn't serve the plot at all.
So to cut it short, now I won' bother with the anime at all, and decided to give this movie 1/10 (Only because you can't actually give a 0 rating in this website for some reason). I know it's fiction, but it being a fiction doesn't excuse the plot being disturbing and sick. Just like having a fiction plot about a rapist and their victim being all romantic and cute shouldn't be viewed as okay just cause "it's fiction".
I'm cool with the inclusion of forbidden and dark elements in romance, but only if it's done for the purpose of teaching a lesson about how this type of shit shouldn't be okay and should never exist in real life, not romanticize the shit out of it and make it forcibly cute.
I understand your points, but this drama is the first of the Reply series, this wasn't made to "earn profit/milk…
Wait, this was before 1988?! Oh, I understand, but still doesn't mean that the writing issues and shallow characters aren't to be criticized. I have watched many dramas with shit budgets and idol/rookie/not very well knows actors and yet they had 10 times better plots and an amazing characters and acting even though they weren't experienced. I have even watched animes that were animated and made by independent individuals/very small and non-well known companies and yet they were golden shows both when it comes to animation and the story. I just wanna say that if something is really good, then everyone will be able to see that it's good no matter what. Having a decent writing is the least they could do even if the budget/outfits/acting/cast aren't at their best, to convince people to watch more of their stuff and invest in them. They shouldn't just waste the faint amount of money they have in something basically worthless.
God made Ha Jong Woo’s lips and threw away the mold. They’re so magnificently distracting I have no idea what’s…
Am dying by the fact that everyone here either came for Leo or Jong Woo's lips. Personally I came for Leo since I love VIXX, but Jong Woo's lips were another reason for me to not skip scenes lmao
Is it just me or does the voice of Kim Jung Hyun not match his face? Lol
Why? Is it so soft? Since he has a kinda sharp and serious facial features you expected him to have a deeper voice? If that's the case then I do agree. I remember the first time I listened to VIXX songs (Kim Jung Hyun/Leo is a member in that Kpop group) and I was a bit surprised by his very soft and smooth voice since I thought he would be a rapper or something instead of a vocalist lol overall his voice is beautiful so it's not an issue anyways.
https://myasiantv.pe/show/reply-1997 this is my favorite Asian dramas/movies website. To be fair I actually downloaded the episodes then watched them with PotPlayer media player which allows you to speed up the video up to 12x speed and allows you to control the size of it's window (You can make it's window as small as you desire which means that you can watch stuff while doing other things when using PC.
This drama started out pretty interesting and I appreciate that it didn't have the typical misunderstandings, annoying love geometry shapes, overly dense/shy/naive FL with zero personality nor ability to defend herself, overly rude and stuck ML, irritating selfish parents/family, crazy sociopathic exes or second leads, Toxic friends of main leads, overdramatic plot and endless angst we see in most Asian romance dramas. It also was about two adults with very cool jobs, and both of them are passionate about said jobs, which is a great change from teen rom coms they keep suffocating us with most of the time.
The leads are gorgeous, both Yang Yang and Dilraba have stunning visuals (Especially Yang Yang, like seriously how come a dude is that pretty?! I can't get over his face even though I watched many of his dramas but I still get startled by his looks till this day lmao), and they fit each other pretty good. Their chemistry was decent, and overall both their characters were good. I especially like that FL is straightforward and brave, she never hesitated to pursue her love for ML and basically confessed to him twice. She also didn't fear acting lovey dovey with him in public which is great. ML is very smart, handsome, and everyone views him as ideal man, but all that did not make him arrogant to death. I did gets irritated by his when was acting too insecure, but his fixed that later. They both supported and cared for each other, also respected each other passions and jobs.
But although of all the positive things I said about the drama...I still felt bored to death lots of times and had to fast forward the last 12 episodes honestly cause by episode 20 I was really suffering to finish the drama. Even though the romance started from episode 21 I found myself barley interested and just wanted to see how the drama will end, the romance and fluff moments during these 12 episodes were decent, but not great enough to make me get that excited. I also wish they made the drama has a 20 episodes maximum cause they wasted a shit load of scenes and screen time on boring plotlines (The gaming and aerospace to be exact), I love games and gaming (Not a professional gamer though), but that game looked like shit and didn't deserve all that screen time on it. It was still a little bit more interesting than the aerospace part to me at least.
The aerospace stuff are awesome, it's a nice job/major and all, but I couldn't give a fuck about it cause I'm not really into these sort of things (Surprisingly I watch many Sci Fi stuff and I do dig that concept/genre, but in real life without fantasy/fiction aspects it's not that enjoyable to watch for me) so I struggled to understand what was going on and didn't care enough to understand. I either almost fell sleep during these moments or got impatient and skipped them lol to be fair it was clear they put lots of attention to making the information related to it as realistic as possible and I did hear that people who do actually do these aerospace stuff in real world said that everything they done in the drama was real and detailed...etc so that's cool!
Humor wasn't bad, but wasn't that hilarious. Their fluff moments got repetitive and bland at some point. The group wedding thing was a bit of a surprise, but it was unique and there is nothing wrong about it at all and it's perfect for people who can't afford having an expensive flashy wedding of their own. If they marry with close friends/co-worker that might make the mood even happier too. Personally I would never do such a thing if I wanted to get married myself since I would never bother share the spotlight with someone else in such an important day lol, but I fully understand the FL's point of view and I agree that type of wedding was good for them. Glad that the fans on social media supported them instead of acting like possessive maniacs.
The ending was sweet and logical. Their kisses were good, Dilraba didn't shy away from kissing back. I hate how rare good kisses are in Asian dramas (I despise the fake ass dead fish kisses they be torturing us with mostly in other shows!) In the end I suffered to decide what rating should I give the drama. There are lots of great things about it, but also the huge boredom and dragginess factor bothers me which is why I couldn't give it 9-10 rating, but it was still a very healthy and sweet drama so...well it was worth the watch overall.
I keep wanting this story to move forward and they keep rehashing the same stuff over and over again. Now, we're…
I also don't feel the great chemistry, there is a little bit of chemistry but it's not that strong enough to make me convinced into or care enough about the romance. So far only reason I keep watching is to know what will happen to Johan and Gungtan and that's about it. They are the characters I'm truly interested in, but yeah this season the plot got way messier and the best part of the plot was the one revolved around Johan and his brother.
Can someone tell me why this drama got tons of 10/10 ratings?! Like why? There was nothing 10/10 worthy about it apart from the cast visuals and bodies for real, everyone were hot, especially Dong Wook (I find it amusing that most of the main cast had their real names as their characters names lol), like dude is so fucking gorgeous and I loved his hairstyle and fashion style as well, even his voice was nice (Not gonna lie I only bothered finishing the drama to keep seeing his face and that's about it, otherwise I would drop the drama after like episode 4 or 5). Most of the other actors/characters had ugly outfits and hairstyles, especially the girls.
Now about the characters:
Both the guys and girls were shit to me honestly. The guys were too creepy, annoying, irresponsible, immature, childish, unfaithful, and overall unbearable playboys, who only cared about their dicks. Basically typical painfully toxic male characters they liked to constantly use in Kdramas made in 2000's. Dong Wook was a self centered prick, Philip was a literal asshole, Royohei was boring and just existed, and Jun Hwan was a walking cancer. Even Su Kyung's brother was stupid and creepy as hell!
The girls had zero personality traits apart from them wanting to catch some guy to marry and keep in a cage forever. Like I literally know zero things about them apart from how exteremely desperate and horny they are for men. The ones that pissed me off the most were Yu Jin with how retarded her way of talking and behaving were, I get she was supposed to be the naive, dense, spoiled girl who didn't have that much experience in relationships...etc but they didn't need to make her be that over the top and act like she is mentally disabled at times. The other woman with glasses who works with the Yu Jin was also cringe to death! Other girls were either literal whores or just stupid and shallow to the core.
About the plot: It was lame, super lame. They are all working adults who are in their late 20s to early 30s yet they acted and thought like dumb high school or college brats. None of them acted their age at all.
There was also many moments that were supposed to be romantic or funny, but to me they were super disturbing and scary. For example the scene when Jung Hwan meets one of the girls in that Karaoke place and starts clinging to her, calling her pearl, then goes to her cousin's wedding and start telling everyone how that she is working as a hostess or whatever, basically ruining her reputation and the wedding, and he chases her everywhere like a maniac even though it's clear she feels uncomfortable around him. Was that supposed to be funny for real?! Dong Wook agreeing to marry Yu Jin when he doesn't really like her to begin with was also very disturbing.
Also many dialogues and things the (Mostly guys) characters said were super cheesy and awkward. Main leads took forever to become a couple and there was the whole bullshit about ML hearing FL's thoughts and FL seeing him in her dreams...blah blah then they decided they were in love in the speed of light. So all couples were garbage to cut it short and romance was ass!
The music/OSTs were decent.
Like seriously if it wasn't for the good cast, their stunning visuals, and good acting I would give this drama a 1/10.
1- We got the creepy and crazy parents. I mean they want to get divorce and remarry? That's cool and all, power to them, they don't need to force themselves to be miserable if divorce gonna make them happier.
They are friends with the other couple and very chill around them? That's also fine, better than everyone hating each other I suppose. Now the issue is: Them basically forcing the whole "lets live together in the same fucking house and act all lovey dovey and happy go lucky in front of our damn kids" part and the fact that the kids couldn't really do anything about it.
Like no matter how open minded and chill you are, there is no way you will be open minded enough to be okay with daily watching both your parents act all romantic and cheery with other people in front of you...and to make it worse, the other couple tries hard to act all close with the FL/Miki even after she made it clear she wasn't okay with what was happening. I'm not saying they should be cold with her, but not try so hard to shove themselves down her throat, she clearly needed some time to accept the whole thing, but they went overboard with trying to make it all seem normal that it became creepy to death.
If I was in the kids' place at that point I would be like "You do you and all, but let me live alone in a dorm or whatever till I become an adult and then find an apartment or something, I'm not gonna force myself to handle seeing you all be creepy in front of me, so leave me alone and do what makes you happy away from me. Don't shove your desires down my throat please" cause I do believe the parents deserve to be happy, but they also should be mindful of their kids opinions and needs.
Also the fact that (Was it the FL's mother) one of the wives told the FL to not fall for Yuu when they just moved in and I was like really? Is that something you should be saying to your daughter? Like it's both insulting and gross thing to say.
And the fact that the parents are so chaotic, Yuu reached a point were he thought his father wasn't his real father and all that drama...imagine being so irresponsible and odd that your kid thinks he isn't really your kid, that's just depressing.
2- The whole romance between the two leads was utterly gross, first of: Why are Asians obsessed with plots about incest (I know in this movie's case they aren't related, I'm talking overall) and step/adoptive siblings love stories????!!! Like why? Why do they need to be related somehow or have their parents married to each other? Can't the leads just treat each other like normal siblings and move on? So just cause you live with another person of opposite sex (Or same sex in BL's shows case), it means you must want to fuck at some point?! Are they are animals?!
To add insult to the injury, later they suspect they might actually be related by blood, and what do they do? Face their parents saying "Oh, we know we might be related, but you know what? Fuck it, we will still date cause that's love!" like really?! Also when the hell did their "true love" reach that level where it's so strong to the point they don't care about being siblings?
They interacted for like a month? Maybe less and then they are willing to die for each other out of the blue?! That was so forced, it became laughable honestly, and it only reminded me that they are just retarded teens (I know not all teens are retarded, but they are always retarded in these shows for some reason) so of course they will be immature as heck...I'm sorry but I wasn't sold on their romance bullshit. But I guess since their parents are mentally ill, the kids will also have issues obviously.
There was also a scene were Miki supposedly was passed out in the nurse office and then Yuu comes in and decides to kiss her while she pretended to be sleep, that was after the other dude publicly confessed his feelings to her, and well...that also bothered me a lot. Kissing someone, who isn't even your lover when they are unconscious is just...not a good thing to do. Then after she falls for Yuu, there a moment when he is like "I don't like you anymore, so leave me alone" all of a sudden...so to cut it short, I hated both the leads. They both were annoying to me.
3- Now for the third disgusting and problematic subplot romance, the one between Miki's retarded friend and her teacher. Like why did they add that as well? As if the plot wasn't already filled with tons on issues they decided to challenge themselves even more by adding a messed up romance between a minor student and her damn creepy teacher.
I don't care how awful Miki's friend life story/past/family is, that doesn't mean she should go chase after adult creepy men who also happen to be her fucking teacher, and that damn teacher should have his teaching license taken away and should be thrown in jail, like how can you view your minor students like that, she isn't even a college student (Which in that case would be way less disturbing, although personally I also would never date my college teacher, even if they aren't that old, but at least college students are adults so it less illegal), nope a minor!
So everyone in the plot had serious mental issues and we were supposed to view the plot as romantic, cute, and funny somehow...
Now for other things that I disliked about the movie:
1- Camerawork was kinda odd.
2- Movie was way longer than it should be for such a plot.
3- acting was meh at best, especially the FL, her acting was stiff as a mannequin half of the time.
4- The ex girlfriend of Yuu was obsessive and annoying, and her existence didn't serve the plot at all.
So to cut it short, now I won' bother with the anime at all, and decided to give this movie 1/10 (Only because you can't actually give a 0 rating in this website for some reason). I know it's fiction, but it being a fiction doesn't excuse the plot being disturbing and sick. Just like having a fiction plot about a rapist and their victim being all romantic and cute shouldn't be viewed as okay just cause "it's fiction".
I'm cool with the inclusion of forbidden and dark elements in romance, but only if it's done for the purpose of teaching a lesson about how this type of shit shouldn't be okay and should never exist in real life, not romanticize the shit out of it and make it forcibly cute.
I just wanna say that if something is really good, then everyone will be able to see that it's good no matter what.
Having a decent writing is the least they could do even if the budget/outfits/acting/cast aren't at their best, to convince people to watch more of their stuff and invest in them. They shouldn't just waste the faint amount of money they have in something basically worthless.
The leads are gorgeous, both Yang Yang and Dilraba have stunning visuals (Especially Yang Yang, like seriously how come a dude is that pretty?! I can't get over his face even though I watched many of his dramas but I still get startled by his looks till this day lmao), and they fit each other pretty good. Their chemistry was decent, and overall both their characters were good. I especially like that FL is straightforward and brave, she never hesitated to pursue her love for ML and basically confessed to him twice. She also didn't fear acting lovey dovey with him in public which is great.
ML is very smart, handsome, and everyone views him as ideal man, but all that did not make him arrogant to death. I did gets irritated by his when was acting too insecure, but his fixed that later. They both supported and cared for each other, also respected each other passions and jobs.
But although of all the positive things I said about the drama...I still felt bored to death lots of times and had to fast forward the last 12 episodes honestly cause by episode 20 I was really suffering to finish the drama. Even though the romance started from episode 21 I found myself barley interested and just wanted to see how the drama will end, the romance and fluff moments during these 12 episodes were decent, but not great enough to make me get that excited.
I also wish they made the drama has a 20 episodes maximum cause they wasted a shit load of scenes and screen time on boring plotlines (The gaming and aerospace to be exact), I love games and gaming (Not a professional gamer though), but that game looked like shit and didn't deserve all that screen time on it. It was still a little bit more interesting than the aerospace part to me at least.
The aerospace stuff are awesome, it's a nice job/major and all, but I couldn't give a fuck about it cause I'm not really into these sort of things (Surprisingly I watch many Sci Fi stuff and I do dig that concept/genre, but in real life without fantasy/fiction aspects it's not that enjoyable to watch for me) so I struggled to understand what was going on and didn't care enough to understand. I either almost fell sleep during these moments or got impatient and skipped them lol
to be fair it was clear they put lots of attention to making the information related to it as realistic as possible and I did hear that people who do actually do these aerospace stuff in real world said that everything they done in the drama was real and detailed...etc so that's cool!
Humor wasn't bad, but wasn't that hilarious. Their fluff moments got repetitive and bland at some point. The group wedding thing was a bit of a surprise, but it was unique and there is nothing wrong about it at all and it's perfect for people who can't afford having an expensive flashy wedding of their own. If they marry with close friends/co-worker that might make the mood even happier too.
Personally I would never do such a thing if I wanted to get married myself since I would never bother share the spotlight with someone else in such an important day lol, but I fully understand the FL's point of view and I agree that type of wedding was good for them. Glad that the fans on social media supported them instead of acting like possessive maniacs.
The ending was sweet and logical. Their kisses were good, Dilraba didn't shy away from kissing back. I hate how rare good kisses are in Asian dramas (I despise the fake ass dead fish kisses they be torturing us with mostly in other shows!) In the end I suffered to decide what rating should I give the drama. There are lots of great things about it, but also the huge boredom and dragginess factor bothers me which is why I couldn't give it 9-10 rating, but it was still a very healthy and sweet drama so...well it was worth the watch overall.
Now about the characters:
Both the guys and girls were shit to me honestly. The guys were too creepy, annoying, irresponsible, immature, childish, unfaithful, and overall unbearable playboys, who only cared about their dicks. Basically typical painfully toxic male characters they liked to constantly use in Kdramas made in 2000's. Dong Wook was a self centered prick, Philip was a literal asshole, Royohei was boring and just existed, and Jun Hwan was a walking cancer. Even Su Kyung's brother was stupid and creepy as hell!
The girls had zero personality traits apart from them wanting to catch some guy to marry and keep in a cage forever. Like I literally know zero things about them apart from how exteremely desperate and horny they are for men. The ones that pissed me off the most were Yu Jin with how retarded her way of talking and behaving were, I get she was supposed to be the naive, dense, spoiled girl who didn't have that much experience in relationships...etc but they didn't need to make her be that over the top and act like she is mentally disabled at times.
The other woman with glasses who works with the Yu Jin was also cringe to death! Other girls were either literal whores or just stupid and shallow to the core.
About the plot:
It was lame, super lame. They are all working adults who are in their late 20s to early 30s yet they acted and thought like dumb high school or college brats. None of them acted their age at all.
There was also many moments that were supposed to be romantic or funny, but to me they were super disturbing and scary. For example the scene when Jung Hwan meets one of the girls in that Karaoke place and starts clinging to her, calling her pearl, then goes to her cousin's wedding and start telling everyone how that she is working as a hostess or whatever, basically ruining her reputation and the wedding, and he chases her everywhere like a maniac even though it's clear she feels uncomfortable around him. Was that supposed to be funny for real?!
Dong Wook agreeing to marry Yu Jin when he doesn't really like her to begin with was also very disturbing.
Also many dialogues and things the (Mostly guys) characters said were super cheesy and awkward.
Main leads took forever to become a couple and there was the whole bullshit about ML hearing FL's thoughts and FL seeing him in her dreams...blah blah then they decided they were in love in the speed of light.
So all couples were garbage to cut it short and romance was ass!
The music/OSTs were decent.
Like seriously if it wasn't for the good cast, their stunning visuals, and good acting I would give this drama a 1/10.